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Subject: Can Of Worms.  (News digest)
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Date: 8 Nov 94 19:14:54 -0600

Here is a great file I got from a information pack rat.  It is
interesting searching for your home state, or words like police
judge, or other public officials that have been arrested for drug
crimes.

Archive this one!  I did.  It's on hemp.uwec.edu's gopher under
pub/drugs/war-on-drugs/can-of-worms (split in parts or whole)

-- Danny

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WORMSCAN.TXT Updated: 941103

(c) Copyright 1994, by <[e-mail]>, proliferate freely.

What had at first seemed to be merely a can of worms has,
upon closer examination, proven to be a barrel of vipers.

No attempt has been made to note every news item.  These are
simply those cases which have come to my attention in the
everyday news.  Note that many sources are radio news reports,
and thus the spelling of many names is undoubtedly bogus.

Additions, comments, criticisms, clarifications, or corrections
(even mispellings and typograhpical errors) should be directed
to: David P Beiter, 1/2 Fast Rd, Ritner, KY  42639
606/376-3137.  [e-mail]

All items are Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, United States
of America, unless otherwise specified.

Sources include:

The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, KY.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY.
WFLW, WKYM & WMKZ, radio, Monticello, KY.
WSEK & WSFC, radio, Somerset, KY.
WBBM, radio, Chicago, IL.
WBKY, WUKY, radio, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
WEKU, radio, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
WKYU, radio, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
WHAS, radio, Louisville, KY.
WLAP, radio, Lexington, KY.
KET = Kentucky Educational Television rebroadcast of WKYT, WLEX, Lexington or
      WHAS, WLKY, WAVE, Louisville or WTVQ, Hazard. local news.
CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CNN = Cable News Network radio news.
KNN = Kentucky News Network & KYnet = The Kentucky Net.

All times are Central Time, even if the broadcast originates in a
different time zone.  Dates (YYMMDD) in the header are generally
the date of the news item, not the date of the action.


810000.  Marion County, KY.  Officials in the Kentucky state
government became suspicious of cash excesses in banks in Marion
County, KY.  An investigation led to the purchase of the Bank [of
Lebanon?  (Marion County Seat)] by a cabinet official [The
Kentucky State Secretary of Commerce?] Needless to say, no
evidence of marijuana cultivation or other illicit activities was
uncovered.  Al Cross, reporter for The Courier-Journal, personal
communication.

820000.  Hart County, Kentucky.  Bowling Green, KY.  "Thirteen
arraigned in marijuana case" in Bowling Green, KY after raids on
Hart County KY marijuana fields on 26 July.  Donnie Nunn, former
Hart County KY Sheriff, Joe Dunagan, and Tm Chaney, all of Horse
Cave; Hulen Russell, Charles Richardson, Jr, and Gary Coffee, all
of Hardyville; James Stanon [Stanton?], of Munfordville; James
Benningfield of Magnolia; Freeman Swartz of Summerville; and
Randall Skaggs, Neal Lnu, James K.  Mattingly, and James N.
Mattingly, of Lebanon.  Also Nunn, Stanton, and Russell were
indicted on charges of attempting to bribe two State Police
Officers, Ron West and Robert Sheldon, and Hart County Sheriff
Daymond Humphrey.  22,500 marijuana plants in five locations in
Hart Co were confiscated on 26 July and 8,000 on 29 July at
another Hart Co site.  At the time, this was the biggest
marijuana raid in Kentucky history, valued at over $12 million.
Newspaper clipping, Hart Co?  Jane Paquin, a neighbor to the
largest fields, personal communication.

841100.  In November 1984 FBI agents in Florida intercepted a
shipment of 760 pounds of cocaine from Honduras and arrested a
top-ranking Honduran officer, Jose Bueso Rosa, for his role in a
plot to overthrow and murder the President of Honduras, to be
financed by $10 million from the drug deal.  And from 1982 to
1986 a drugs-and-arms network which supplied the contras operated
out of Honduran airstrips, according to Jose Blandon, former aide
to Manuel Noriega, and ABC News.  After Bueso was convicted,
Oliver North and six other Administration officials pleaded for
leniency in sentencing him.  They were willing to overlook
Bueso's association with drug smugglers because of his valuable,
unspecified services to U. S. policy makers.  The DEA denies
that it showed similar leniency toward the contras' patrons when
it closed its office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras between 1983 and
1988.  The Nation, May 7 1988, p634.

850912..  Andrew Thorton III, retired Lexington, Kentucky Police
Department Narcotics Officer, crash landed via parachute in
suburban Knoxville TN with 79 pounds of cocaine.  Several other
duffle bags of cocaine were found in the Chattahoochee National
Forest, totalling approximately 400 pounds.  ref:multiple news
reports.  See 870112, 871123, 890225, 900820, 930409, Sally
Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Doubleday, 1990.

860220.  Rumors abound that the FBI had caught Joe Conn, former
Wayne County, KY Sheriff; Ralph Miniard, Monticello, KY Chief of
Police; and Don Richardson, local gas station operator.  They are
alleged to have been caught loading marijuana into an airplane
owned by Nick Cooley, a local coal tycoon.  This rumor sounded
fresh, but there is also a rumor of letting Joe Conn serve out
his term as Sheriff, which would put it as last year.  Present
Sheriff Jim Hill would neither confirm nor deny, but eventually
admitted that he had heard the rumor.  He was not happy about my
questioning.

860319.  Brenda Sexton at The Wayne County Outlook says that they
tried three times to check out the Joe Conn rumor at Federal
Court in London, KY, but all were negative.  She did not know the
source of the rumors.  [It may have been the local radio
station.] Jim Hill, present Wayne County Sheriff, seemed very
agitated when I questioned him, did not want to talk and ran out
of office.  On 860809 Donald Jones says that Conn, Miniard, and
Richardson were caught off-loading in northern Kentucky.  Carl
Jones says that were caught on-loading at Somerset airport.
Other sources have said that Joe Conn was caught transporting
marijuana three times, locally (McCreary County), northern
Kentucky, and in Georgia.

860324.  Marion Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, is
arrested for extorting a one million dollar bribe from a cocaine
smuggler (also an FBI agent).  This was for airport landing
rights in Morgan Co KY.  Several other officials were arrested
for assorted corruption: former Morgan County, Kentucky
Judge-Executive Gene Allen; Allen's son Steve; Morgan County,
Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton; Coal Baron Titus Frederick; former
Kentucky District Judge James H Noble; former State Senator and
former State Trooper Lester Burns, Jr; and physician, Dr Bill
Davis.  ref: "Operation Leviticus" of the FBI.  They weren't even
looking for drug smuggling!  The FBI thought they were looking at
coal money!!

860330.  The Whitley County Kentucky Sheriff, one other KY & 3 TN
Sheriffs are arrested for drug trafficking.  Assorted newscasts.

860619.  Kentucky State Police Detective, 19 year veteran of The
Force, Joseph Greenwall (Greenwald), age 41, of Loretto, Marion
Co KY is arrested for extorting $5000 to protect marijuana
growers, after a two month investigation.  Arraignment is set for
27 June.  Ref: WLEX, CNN News.

870700, Playboy, p47.  NORML (National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws) has a list of approximately 300 public
officials who have been involved in drug crimes in the past three
years.

860700.  Personal communication, John Ruehle, a Dade County, FL
resident.  He states that per capita drug trafficking arrests are
greater among police than among the general population in Miami
and/or Dade Co FL.

860811.  76- 86?  Boston, MA.  Federal Grand Jury indictments
have been handed down for 10 police officers, including 2 current
police chiefs & 1 former chief, including Gerald Clemente, 52,
retired Captain of Metropolitan District Commission & Thomas
Doherty, 45, former Medford Police Lieutenant, for police exam
theft & rigging of scores.  This was used to maneuver
conspirators into key positions to cover for crimes.  These
include a $1.5 megabux bank robbery at Medford, MA & cocaine
trafficking from Tennessee in 84.  Thomas Doherty shot Joseph
Bangs, retired MDC police sergeant, 4 times but did not kill
him.  Bangs then squealed.  Various police are accused of
assorted robberies, drug trafficking, IRA gun trafficking.
Newsweek: August 11, 1986 p 24.

84-86.  Flint MI.  14 MI police officers indicted on drug
charges.  Sinsemilla Tips v6#2p16.

86 TN.  East Tennessee Sheriffs' report.  Scott County Tennessee
Sheriff Marion Carson & deputy Wayne Caldwell are charged by a
Federal Grand jury with conspiracy & selling methaqualone,
marijuana, cocaine & diazapam.  Claiborne County Tennessee
Sheriff Billy Wayne Smith & Juvenile Court Referee R. Jackson
Rose pleaded guilty to conspiring to take payoffs to protect
gambling operations.  Since 82, The Sheriff of Cocke Co, TN Bobby
Stinson; The Sheriff of Roane Co, TN Gillis Narramore; The
Sheriff of Union Co, TN Paul Hill; and The Sheriff of Anderson
Co, TN Dennis O Trotter also have been arrested for drug
trafficking.

860812, Minneapolis, MN, CNN, 11:35 PM..Small amounts of speed,
marijuana, and LSD were found in various police cruisers.
Marijuana was also found in the central garage locker.  Speed was
found hidden in a steering wheel.  Apparently the illegal drugs
were for personal use, not resale.  Chief Bozo says that he is
still opposed to drug testing for cops, but not for ordinary
citizens.

860813, Mexico.  Victor Cortez, DEA agent in Guadalajara was
tortured by 11 Mexican state police officers in an attempt to
gain information on collaborators.  Ref: Newsweek Aug 25, 86,
p42.  The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug 86, p2.

860909, Monitor Radio.  26 Sheriffs in GA & TN have been
arrested & convicted for drug trafficking.  Ryan Freemantle,
author, The Fix

860924, New York, NY.  In the 77th Precinct of Brooklyn, NY,
thirteen cops have been arrested for shaking down drug dealers,
and reselling drugs, mostly crack.  Ref: CNN News, WBKY, 11:30PM
CDT.  Paul Harvey, 9 Oct 86, quotes Newsday, as saying that
thirteen cops sledgehammered their way into drug dealers' houses,
stole drugs & money, and resold drugs.

860929, Plainfield, NJ.  Surprise urine tests of all police &
firemen in May yielded 20 positive for marijuana and/or cocaine,
including 2 cops.  On 16 July, the suspended firemen filed in
federal court.  US District Judge H Lee Sarokin ruled that "mass
roundup urinalysis" violated constitutional prohibitions against
unreasonable search & seizure.  Ref: Newsweek, Sep 29, 1986,
p18.  But of course it's not unconstitutional nor unreasonable
for mass urinalysis of schoolchildren.

861002, San Antonio, TX.  There is a loss of credibility of the
police department.  There have been assorted scandals, such as
Cop Smith (murderer, arsonist) being shot by cop Ferrell Tucker
for knowing too much.  A 34 year veteran, unnamed, was arrested
on drug charges.  Ref: CNN, WBKY, 2 Oct 86, 3:30pm; 31 Oct 86,
11:25PM

861007, Pikeville, KY.  Not a drug story, probably.  Pike County
Kentucky Sheriff Charles "Fuzzy" Keesee "misplaced" $300,000 in
tax collections during his previous administration.  The
Courier-Journal, p1

861007, Louisville, KY.  The Jefferson County Commissioner, Carl
Brown, is charged with distribution of marijuana and cocaine.
The Courier-Journal, pB4

861010, London, KY.  Morgan Co Judge-Executive Gene Allen has a
motion to dismiss charges of conspiracy for murder of VA man in
Morgan Co drug ring.  WBKY

861011?, Whitley County, KY.  Larry R Patrick of Williamsburg is
convicted on conspiracy to import cocaine.  He was found guilty
of scheming with former Scott Co, TN, Sheriff Marion Carson &
Deputy Wayne Caldwell.  The Wayne County Outlook p22, from The
Whitley Republican.

861018, KY.  See The Courier-Journal, pB1 for Kentucky State
Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell & Kentucky
State Trooper Gerald Griggs were arrested for cocaine
trafficking.

861022, London, KY.  Gene Allen (Morgan County Kentucky
Judge-Executive) & Gerald Griggs (State Police Trooper) are
convicted of "murder for hire".  Marion Campbell (Kentucky State
Police Commissioner) testified that they were part of a
counter-investigation so secret that no written records were ever
kept of their findings, but this was not convincing to the jury.

861024, Miami FL.  Seven cops are on trial for selling $5
million (15M$, DH, 2 Nov 86) of cocaine stolen from smugglers.
CNN News, 3:45PM

861110, "Inside the DEA", Reason, Dec 86, p23-29.  A compendium
of DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) corruption reported by
Dale Gieringer, Decision & Ethics Center, Dept of
Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford Univ.

861111, New York City.  There is a New York City Police
"slowdown" (strikes are illegal) to protest investigation of
police corruption.  CNN News, WBKY, 11:40PM.  See 860924

13 Nov 86.  London, KY.  "Corruption probe: Half of cases
resolved" by Assistant US Attorney James E. Arehart.  Gene
Allen, 3 time Judge-Executive of Morgan County, Kentucky was
convicted of conspiracy to murder.  Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State
Police Trooper was convicted in the same murder for hire scheme.
Both were represented by Kevin Charters of Lexington, KY.
William Titus Frederick, coal operator and businessman, of West
Liberty, KY pleaded guilty to manufacturing marijuana.  Benny
Neely, London, pleaded guilty to transporting stolen heavy
equipment across state lines.  Norman B.  Williams III, of
Detroit, MI pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen car across
state lines.  Dr.  Billy Davis, Urgent Care Center of Burnside,
KY pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud two insurance
companies of $1.1 million for a phony traffic accident.  Lester
H.  Burns, Jr, former Kentucky State Senator & attorney,
Somerset, KY, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen money ($1.9 million
stolen from the Dr. R. J. Acker robbery & murder) across state
lines.  James H. Noble, former Kentucky District Judge,
convicted of obstruction of justice and yet to be tried in the
insurance fraud conspiracy.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell,
Kentucky State Police Commissioner, to be tried on Jan 5, 87, for
extortion for allegedly taking money for protecting
drug-trafficking activities.  Roger Benton, Morgan County
Kentucky Sheriff, accused of conspiracy of drug-trafficking.
Lexington Herald-Leader, Nov 13, 86, pA1, A16.

861113, Knoxville, TN.  9 cops arrested in the Charles Walker
cocaine trafficking ring.  Knoxville TV.

861118, Miami, FL.  1300 pounds marijuana was stolen from police
headquarters evidence storage.  This theft is thought to be an
inside job.  The marijuana was valued at $4 million.  That's
$3000 per pound.  This is the 4th major theft of drug evidence in
last few months.  CNN News, WBKY (Lexington, KY) 11:45PM.  Also a
Columbian cocaine ring was indicted, but the indictees are safely
in Columbia.

861120, London, KY.  Lester Burns, Jr, 55, (attorney, former
Kentucky State Police trooper, former Kentucky State Senator)
pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy with Dr. Bill Davis
to defraud two insurance companies by faking a vehicle accident.
He also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen money from the Dr.
Roscoe Acker robbery & murder.  Charges of conspiracy with former
Breathitt District Judge James Noble (recently convicted of
perjury in Federal Court in Lexington) to defraud an insurance
company were dropped.  The Assistant US Attorney was James
Arehart.  The Judge was Eugene Siler, Jr.  The Wayne County
Outlook, 20 Nov 86, p18.  From The Sentinel-Echo.

861126, Somerset, KY.  The younger brother of David Dick,
Kentucky State Police, was arrested last month for cultivating 78
marijuana plants.  The police missed a quarter acre plot.  James
Dick, older brother, was recently arrested on drug charges.
Personal communication, Dallas Hammond.  Trooper Dick was finally
apprehended 901104, see 901108.

861200.  Lester Burns, Jr., former Kentucky State Senator, former
Kentucky State Police, disbarred.  Now former attorney.

861212, London, KY.  Gene Allen, Judge-Executive of Morgan
County, Kentucky is sentenced to 5 years for conspiracy to
murder.  Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State Police, had his sentencing
delayed.  Titus Frederick, coal baron, was let off in return for
testifying against Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky
State Police Commissioner, in his trial for conspiracy to
distribute illegal drugs.  Ref: KET, WLEX

861216, London, KY.  Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State Police, is
sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder
in "Operation Leviticus" drug deal.

861222, Louisville, KY.  Carl Brown, Jefferson County
Commissioner, is arraigned for something, and sent to
Missouri [?], for psychiatric evaluation.  Brown is to be
arraigned later on drug distribution charges.  His left hand was
severely swollen and ace bandaged, but no explanation was given.
He also looked very woozy and inattentive.  KET, Louisville.

8612??, London, KY.  Sherry Lorraine Hodge pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to transport stolen money across state lines in the
$1,900,000 (that's 1.9 megabux) Acker robbery & murder.  Hodge
says that she gave $300,000 to C. Gene Foust, 49, Detective
Sergeant and Head Narcotics Officer and 21-year veteran of the
Oak Ridge Tennessee Police Department.  The Head Narcotics
Officer was to invest it "to make more money for me." Mrs.
Hodge's attorney is Robert Wilmott of Lexington KY.  Formerly her
attorney was Lester Burns, Jr, former Kentucky State Senator,
former Kentucky State Police, of Somerset KY, who pleaded guilty
to receiving stolen money from the robbery and is now disbarred.
The Judge is Eugene Siler, Jr.  Co-transporters of stolen money
are Anna Louise Farley (mother of Donald Terry Bartley), Sharon
Joyce Wilson, & Barry Wilson who helped Hodge transport
$1,200,000 from Florida to Knoxville, TN after the arrest of her
husband, Benny Lee Hodge.  Donald Terry Bartley, Roger Dale
Epperson, and Benny Lee Hodge are to be tried May 1987 for
robbery & murder of a Jackson County, KY couple, and also face
unspecified charges in other unspecified states.  The FBI
searched the home of C.  Gene Foust on 2 Dec 86.  Wayne County
Outlook, 24 Dec 86, p19.  From The Sentinel- Echo.

861231.  Lester Burns, Jr is ordered to return $175,000 to Dr.
Roscoe Acker.  This was his attorney's fee for the defense of the
murderers/robbers.

870112, Boston, MA.  David McCuen joined Wilmington police in 73,
and was promoted to sergeant in 78, after paying $4000 for a copy
of the sergeant's exam.  Several hundred individuals eventually
were involved.  Many individuals were placed into positions to
promote the organized crimes of the Police Department.  Chief of
the scam was Gerald W Clemente, who did a $1.5 million bank
robbery and other burglaries to finance drug deals.  Margo
Monaco, Boston, National Public Radio.  See also Newsweek, 11 Aug
86.

870112, Lexington, KY.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky
State Police Commissioner, and Roger Benton, Morgan County
Kentucky Sheriff, are on trial.  Houston McNeal, two years a
undercover FBI agent, testified that he had made payments of
$5000 a month to Campbell, Benton, and Titus Frederick for
landing rights at the West Liberty, KY airport.  (It is unclear
if this was each or total.) KET, WLEX

870113, Lexington, KY.  In the Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell,
Kentucky State Police Commissioner trial, Campbell is represented
by William Johnson.  The Trial apparently started 9 Jan 87.
Houston McNeal, two years an undercover FBI agent from Virginia,
testified that he had made installment payments to Roger Benton,
Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff; Gene Allen, Morgan County
Kentucky Judge-Executive; and Marion Campbell, Kentucky State
Police Commissioner, for assistance in drug trafficking.  McNeal
said that he met Campbell on a dark backroad, where Campbell
thanked him for the money.  A tape recording of Campbell taking
payoffs from McNeal was played.  WBKY (Lexington, KY)

870114, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner
Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Titus Frederick, coal
baron and marijuana manufacturer testified that in a meeting at
Frederick's house in 1984, three-time Morgan County Kentucky
Judge-Executive Gene Allen and Marion Campbell had asked him for
contacts in the marijuana and cocaine business.  Lester Burns,
Jr, former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky State Police
Trooper, former attorney (now disbarred) bankrolled the
operation, and Marion Campbell was in charge of security at the
Morgan County airport.  Their business grossed about 3/4 of a
million dollars a week in cocaine.  Houston McNeal, undercover
Virginia FBI investigator, testified that Campbell said that he
was receiving payments from undercover agents.  It is unclear
whether Campbell thought that they were FBI agents or drug
dealers.  Or both.  WBKY.  KET, WLKY(?)

870115, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner
Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Steve Allen, son of the
Morgan County Judge-Executive, testified that he saw a $90,000
cocaine sale in November 85 at the house of his father, Morgan
County Kentucky Judge-Executive Gene Allen.  In this transaction,
Gene Allen was paid his share plus a share to pass along to
Marion Campbell.  Gene Allen, Morgan County Kentucky
Judge-Executive and convicted murder conspirator, testified that
he has known Marion Campbell for 25 years and Morgan County
Sheriff Roger Benton all of his life.  He met several times in
late 1983 with Marion Campbell, Titus Frederick, and Lester
Burns, Jr to import cocaine from Okalachee, FL.  Campbell was
said to want the money for his retirement fund.  Titus Frederick
testified that Gene Allen and Marion Campbell had pushed him to
find a cocaine connection.  WEKU, KET, WLEX

870116, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Gene Allen,
former Morgan County, Kentucky Judge-Executive who has been
convicted of conspiracy to murder, was cross examined.  He has
changed his story because he got religion in jail.  In his trial
in September 86 he claimed that he and Campbell were running
their own investigation of drug corruption, without telling
anyone else and keeping no records of what they had discovered.
He passed money to Campbell once by laying an envelope full of
money on the dash of Campbell's truck, and once on the truck
seat, but never actually in Campbell's hand.  KET, WLKY, 10:07PM

870121, Miami, FL.  Seven Miami cops are given a mistrial in a
case of racketeering and drug corruption.  The reasons are
undisclosed.  See 24 Oct 86, 16 Jan 87

870123, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Jack Evans,
Kentucky State Police, testified that he had talked with Campbell
thrice about the trial, and got the idea (but was never told
openly) that Campbell wanted him to perjure.  WBKY

870126, "Is There a Contra Drug Connection?", Newsweek, p26.
Gary Betzner, 45, a crop duster pilot from Arkansas, says that he
imported Columbian cocaine thru contra airstrips in Costa Rica
with George Morales, a Columbian emigre with an aircraft
chartering business.  Both claim that they had the full knowledge
and assistance of CIA and DEA.  A third witness, unnamed, claims
to have seen Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with
cocaine in Barranquilla, Columbia in 1985.  So cocaine
trafficking is OK if it supports revolution in Nicaragua.

870126, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell & Roger Benton
trial, Louie di Falais, US Attorney & apparently part of the
"Operation Leviticus" investigation, testified that in two years
of investigation of Marion Campbell, Campbell gave no indications
of ever conducting his own investigation.  The Chief of Police of
West Liberty, the Morgan County Seat, said that he knew nothing
of the two years of drug traffic thru the West Liberty airport.
Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County, Kentucky, has a previous
conviction for bootlegging.  KET, WTVQ

870127, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch Campbell & Morgan County
Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton trial, Roger Benton testified that
he went along with the drug trafficking in hopes to make some
arrests and stop the drug operations.  WBKY

870202, Miami, FL.  Seven cops are given a mistrial in their drug
racketeering trial.  Thus they did not rob a boat and drown the
owners and sell the cocaine.  Roman Rodriguez, Ricardo Aleman,
Rodolfo Arias, Osvaldo Coello, Arturo de la Vega, Armando
Estrada, & Armando Garcia, are the fortunate cops.  They managed
a fine lifestyle on a $30,000 per year salary.  The Judge was
Kenneth Ryskamp.  The holdout juror was William Rountree.
USN&WR, Feb 2, 1987, p28.  See 880105 & 880106 for a recant.

870204, Lexington, KY.  Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger
Benton says that he will appeal his conviction on drug
trafficking charges on grounds that his trial should have had
nothing to do with the trial of Marion "Butch" Campbell.  He
obviously thinks that Campbell will be found guilty.  This came
after one verdict was reached but not announced.  WKYT/KET

870205, Lexington, KY.  Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County,
KY, is found guilty on all counts, three counts of extortion and
two of drug trafficking conspiracy.  He faces a maximum sentence
of 80 years.  WLAP (Lexington, KY), 2PM

870206, Lexington, KY.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky
State Police Commissioner, is acquitted on four counts of
extortion and given a mistrial on one count of conspiracy to
traffic in marijuana and cocaine.  WLAP

870206, Comment on Kentucky, KET.  Three reasons are given for
Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch"
Campbell's acquittal on charges of extortion and drug
trafficking.  1) Gene Allen, Morgan County Judge-Executive
changed his story from his trial where he was convicted of
conspiracy to murder.  Formerly, he had said under oath that
Campbell was conducting his own investigation.  The new story is
that they were indeed trafficking in cocaine.  2) Allen said that
on four occasions that he gave payoff money to Campbell, but
never directly.  Allen was the only solid witness against
Campbell on this, but he is a self-confessed perjurer.  3) In a
taped meeting with an FBI informant, Campbell thanked him for
"information".  The prosecution said that this was code word for
protection money; the defense said that this was just normal
information.  The FBI never actually got Campbell on tape
accepting payoff money.  The jury was leaning towards acquittal
on the drug trafficking conspiracy charges, with at least two
holdouts.  Prosecutor Arehart wants a retrial.  I'm sure that
none of the jurors would have been in the least bit concerned
about their personal safety after finding the State Police
Commissioner guilty of drug trafficking!

8702??.  There are various news reports of a retrial for Kentucky
State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell on
charges of trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, but no date was
given.

870223, Washington, DC.  "Contra Drug Inquiry Stirs Growing
Interest", by Keith Schneider, The New York Times, Tuesday,
February 24, 1987, pA22.  U. S. Senator John Kerry, Democrat of
Massachusetts, a committee member on the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has witnesses and evidence that a private network had
been organized by the National Security Council [NSC] and the
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] to provide military equipment
to Contras in Nicaragua.  The investigators said that they also
believed that the same network was shipping cocaine and marijuana
back to the United States.  Federal officials, of course, deny
this vicious rumor spread by Communist sympathizers.

870313, Lexington, KY.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner,
Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell is scheduled for retrial on 11
May 87 for conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and marijuana.  But
11 May 87 will come and go with absolutely no mention on any
newscast that a Butch Campbell had ever existed.  Morgan County
Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton is denied a retrial on his
conviction for extortion and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Various radio reports.

870322, Richmond?, KY.  Kentucky State Police crime lab director
Glen Morgan Baxter is accused of falsifying hundreds of tests,
including his own qualifications.  WBKY, 11PM.

870326, Lexington, KY.  Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff Roger
Benton is sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000
on three counts of extortion and two counts of conspiracy to
traffic in illegal drugs.  KET

870331, Louisville, KY.  Jeffrey Miles of 2401 Coolridge Ave,
Okalona, age 24 or 25, is shot and killed by Louisville cop, John
Rucker (Rutger) in a raid on Miles' home.  Miles' crime was to be
living in an apartment inhabited two years ago by a suspected
drug dealer.  (The correct address was available in the phone
directory.) The murderer was sentenced to paid leave and
consultation with the chaplain.  KET

870402.  James H Noble, Kentucky District Judge, Breathitt
County, Kentucky previously convicted of obstruction of justice
for offering to lie in the witness stand for Lester Burns, Jr in
a mail fraud trial, is temporarily disbarred.  Judge Noble was
sentenced to two years on the obstruction of justice conviction.

8704??, Wayne Co, KY.  More unconfirmable rumors that Joe Conn,
former Sheriff of Wayne County, Kentucky, is in prison for drug
trafficking.  Dallas Hammond says that Joe Conn was jailed about
five months ago.  Reportedly the FBI caught him near
Wayne/McCreary line with 18 wheeler full of marijuana headed for
the airport in Pine Knot, KY.  Harold Tucker says that he was
told by Roosevelt Jones that Joe Conn was in prison on drug
charges, but could not confirm the details of the reputed
arrest.  These are unconfirmed rumors only.  Nobody has any hard
news.

870429, Jeffersontown (Louisville), KY.  Policeman John Rutger is
indicted for second degree manslaughter and suspended from the
police department.  This is for "accidentally" shooting Jeffrey
Miles for the crime of living in an apartment inhabited two years
ago by a suspected drug dealer.  WHAS.  See 870331.

870511.  This is the supposed retrial date of Kentucky State
Police Commissioner (now retired) Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell
on charges of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and marijuana.
There was absolutely no mention of this unevent on several
Kentucky radio newscasts.  See 870313.

870515.  Lester Burns, Jr., former Kentucky State Senator, former
Kentucky State Police, former attorney, is sentenced to eight
years in prison, four each for receiving stolen money from
Epperson's Acker robbery/murder, and for conspiracy to defraud an
insurer.  Burns will be eligible for parole in two years.  WBKY.
See 860324, 860716, 861113, 8612??, 861231, 870114.

870518, Ocean County, NJ.  Fifteen people are arrested by DEA at
the home of a local policeman.  No information was given of what
they were doing to merit this attention.  Phone conversation,
Margaret Stiles.

870520.  The plane used by the Brother-in-law of Alphonso
Collero (of Nicaragua Contras) to transport drugs was then used
to transport supplies to the contras.  This was the testimony of
Robert Owen, "The Courier".  25K$ in travelers checks were given
to DEA by Alphonso Collero.  MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour

870524, Steve Waddams, Sunday Morning, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation), quoting Daniel Sheehan of The Christic Institute of
Washington DC.  "The Secret Team", started as a CIA Cuban
anti-Castro operation, which funded itself by drug trafficking.
In about 1966, Richard Secord under CIA auspices, bombed the
opposition of Vang Pao, their pet Opium Emperor of Laos.  "The
Secret Team" was importing 600 pound loads of cocaine from Costa
Rica while supplying Nicaraguan contras.

870630.  In secret testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings, Ramon
Milian-Rodriguez testified that he sold to Felix Rodriguis
$10,000,000 (ten million dollars) of cocaine for CIA contra
funding.  WSFC, (ABC)

870709.  US Attorney General Edwin Meese tries to prevent a House
of Representatives Committee from questioning three federal
prosecutors in Miami, FL concerning CIA drug and gun smuggling.
A House subpoena is issued.  CNN, AP

8709??, American Information Network Freedom League Newsletter,
p6, quoting Daily News Digest, POB 39027, Phoenix, AZ 85069.  Lt
Col Bo Gritz testified before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, International Narcotics Control Task Force, Larry
Smith (D-FL) Chairman.  Gritz has 40 hours of video tape with
General Khun Sa of Burma, the recognized opium kingpin (700 tons
in 86, 900 tons in 87) in the Golden Triangle.  Khun Sa "charged
American officials, both past and present, with being the chief
buyers of drugs produced in that part of the world." Also he
claims that he wants to stop drug trafficking, but that the US
government won't let him.  Khun Sa said that individuals in CIA
are some of his best customers.  He offered support to DEA to
alert them of drug movements, but this was rejected at the
headquarters level.  Theodore Shackley CIA agent in Laos from
1965-1975, was involved with Mao Se Hung (leading drug smuggler)
and Santo Trafficante (Florida Mafia boss).  Khun Sa says that
Richard Armitage (then in the US Embassy, now Assistant Secretary
of Defense) financed drug smuggling in VietNam, then in Bangkok
from 1975 to 1979.  CIA agents Daniel Arnold and Jerry Daniel
trafficked weapons and drugs with Khun Sa.  Gritz claims that
there is a parallel US government which started with the "Phoenix
Program" in VietNam twenty years ago.

870905, The Nation, p189-192.  "How the Drug Czar Got Away", by
Martin A. Lee.  The gist of the story is that the USA is more
interested in implicating Nicaraguan Sandanistas in drug running
than in prosecuting smugglers.  Also the US Government funded
contras with drug money.  Jorge Luis Ochoa of Columbia was
captured in Spain.  The DEA (at least one agent was also member
of Lieut Col Oliver North's team) offered to have extradition
bungled if Ochoa would implicate the Nicaraguan Sandanista
government in cocaine trafficking.  Ochoa refused.  After 20
months, Spain decided that USA was seeking to use Ochoa as a
political instrument and denied extradition to USA.  Ochoa had
fled to Spain in June 1984 after being implicated in the
assassination of Lara Bonilla, the Columbian Minister of Justice
who had crusaded against his country's $5 billion per year
cocaine trade.  Alder Berriman Seal (Barry Seal) said he flew
1500 kilograms of cocaine from Columbia to Managua for Ochoa.
The story quotes The Wall Street Journal as reporting that four
imprisoned drug pilots who knew Seal said that Seal was part of
contra supply network, delivering weapons and drugs.  Seal also
took secret photos of Sandanista soldiers loading cocaine on his
C-123 transport (the same plane as shot down with Eugene
Hasenfus).  Ochoa contributed money to contras.  Ramon
Milian-Rodriguez told Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics
and International Operations that he had funneled $10 million to
the contras thru former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez in 1983.
James Kible, Madrid Spain based DEA agent assigned to Ochoa case
and another DEA agent, Victor Oliveira were caught while boarding
a plane for Switzerland at Madrid Barajos Airport with $5 million
in cash, supposedly for North's contra-aid team.  The records of
these arrests have been disappeared.

870912, 11:01 PM, WBKY.  A drug bust in Owensboro, KY, in June
1986 lead to conviction of a staff officer and 6 other officers
of the Philadelphia, PA, Police Department for drug
manufacturing.

870913, Clay Co, KY, 3:20PM, WBKY.  Cooms?  of Clay Co, KY,
busted for marijuana production two weeks ago, says that the
police should be spending their time chasing criminals, not pot
patches.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner Elkins replies that
there is nothing under the law to make them do so.  This may be
the same as J. C. Lawson, see Sinsemilla Tips, Fall 87, p24.

870921", Time, p33.  Jamie Herrera Nevarez, 60, the "Drug Lord of
Durango" Mexico and former policeman, was arrested by Mexican
police for US DEA.  He ran $200 million heroin pipeline into
midwest USA.

8709??, CIA Drug Connection, The Christic Institute, 1324 North
Capitol Street, NW, Wash DC 20002.  [phone].  Lawyers from
The Christic Institute were retained by Tony Avirgan and Martha
Honey, reporters wounded in the May 30, 1984 terrorist bombing in
La Penca, Nicaragua.  John Hull, CIA contract operative in Costa
Rica, has a ranch which is used as airstrip for arms and drug
running for Nicaraguan contras.  The cocaine was supplied by
Columbians Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, partners of Carlos
Lehder.  Francisco Paco Chanes was the connection on US end.
"The Secret Team", including retired Air Force Maj Gen Richard
Secord; Albert Hakim, international arms dealer; Theodore
Shackley, head of covert operations during Vice President George
Bush's term as Director of the CIA; Thomas Clines, Shackley's
deputy; and retired Army Maj Gen John K Singlaub, backed Vang
Pao, a major opium trafficker, in Southeast Asia, 1965-75, using
the resulting money to train Hmong tribesmen.  The heroin
connection in USA was Mafia "Don" Santo Trafficante.  The opium
business banked with Nugen Hand Bank of Australia.

870917, Washington, DC.  6000[?] drug trafficking cases dismissed
as a result of a FBI investigation of police stealing from drug
dealers during arrests.  CNN 4:43AM.

870919, The Nation, p254-274.  There is a spat between Daniel P
Sheehan of The Christic Institute and Jonathan Kwitny, author of
_The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and
the CIA_, published by WW Norton, over the extent of USA
complicity in Nicaraguan contra drug smuggling.

8710??, American Information Network Newsletter, p2.  There is
more on the Bo Gritz/CIA/heroin connection.  The operation is
said to have been at its peak in 1975 & 76 under George Bush.
CIA agents Theodore Shackley and Richard Armitage (now Acting
Assistant Secretary of Defense) as The Far East Trading Company
were involved in heroin smuggling with Mao Se Hung.  H Ross Perot
found the same drug connections and was told by Frank Carlucci
(National Security Advisor) to stop pursuing the connection to
Richard Armitage.  Last year 700 tons of opium were exported from
Burma and this year's crop is 900 tons.  There is also a
statement by Lance Trimmer about two trips to the lair of Khun
Sa, opium smuggler and chief of his own 40,000 man private army
in Burma.  By Don Bell, POB 2223, Palm Beach, FL 33480.

871019, Louisville, KY.  Tringle, a Louisville Kentucky narcotics
officer wrecks his undercover cruiser at high speed while off
duty.  A cooler full of liquor was found in the vehicle and
officer Tringle was found to have a blood alcohol level of 2.5
(said to be too drunk to stand up).  KET, 32.  [That's gotta be
0.25 blood alcohol!]

871111, Bowling Green, KY.  KET, WAVE.  John Rucker is found not
guilty in the murder of Jeffrey Miles.

871112 12:09AM, Chicago, IL, WBBM radio.  Eugene Harnalski,
Chicago cop, left his badge and service revolver as collateral
for a drug buy.  Now he is on trial for racketeering, so
apparently he was not supposed to do it.  This came out in the
testimony of the drug dealer [named, but not remembered].

871123.  Congressman Carroll Hubbard asks FBI to investigate the
involvement of Henry Vance (Lexington bigwig recently convicted
of supplying the gun used to kill the prosecutor in a drug case
in Florida) in wholesale cocaine and marijuana trade in western
Kentucky.  Hubbard states that major drug smugglers are using
local airports, including Bowling Green, KY.  On 930416, Comment
on Kentucky, Bonnie Kelly (the shooter) is the wife of Mike
Kelly, Lexington cop.

871130, Time, p29.  Mike "Mad Dog" Roark (so named for his fierce
pursuit of drug dealers while outfitted in combat fatigues and
packing a pistol) prosecutor and mayor of Charleston, WV pleaded
guilty to six counts of cocaine possession.  Does this sound like
any local officials you know?  See 880114.

8711??, "The Contra-Drug Connection", The Christic Institute,
1324 North Capitol Street, NW, Wash DC 20002.  [phone].
$2.  12p.  Extensive documentation associates several of Oliver
North's team with large-scale drug trafficking to finance covert
wars in Cuba, Southeast Asia, and Central America, for over two
decades.  Plane loads of cocaine from Columbia, supplied by Pablo
Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, were flown to John Hull's ranch in
northern Costa Rica.  Three pilots say that they delivered
weapons to John Hull's ranch and returned to USA with cocaine and
marijuana.  Cocaine was also smuggled from John Hull to Miami in
frozen shrimp, shipped to Ocean Hunter, Inc and Mr. Shrimp, Inc.

880105, CNN News.  A Los Angeles Federal Grand Jury indicts nine,
including three Mexican police officers for the murder of DEA
agent Enrique Camerara Solarez [sp?] in Guadalajara, Mexico three
years ago.

880105, CNN, 3:13P.  I only caught the last part of the story.  A
Miami cop acquitted in the case of the murder and rip-off of
three drug dealers recants.  On tape he says that he is sorry and
that he disgraced his badge, but that there are thousands of
honest police.  [Maybe even several thousand honest police, if
you were to look over the entire country.] Miami officials want
an end to investigations of this case, as it is showing their
wonderful city in a bad light, among other reasons.

880106, "As It Happens", CBC.  In "Miami Vice", a phone interview
with Paul Miller, Special Agent, FBI, he states that there were
three or four rip-offs of boatloads of cocaine by Miami Police
from about May 85 to Summer 85.  In the case where three drug
smugglers were drowned, eight officers rushed the boat and the
victims threw themselves into the sea and drowned themselves.
The investigation is probing a conspiracy to kill witnesses.  So
far, nine have pleaded guilty, four more are cooperating, two
more are on trial, two more are fugitives, and twenty more have
been suspended from The Force.  See 861024, 870121, 870202.

880109, The Nation, p6.  Chapter 23, page 371, footnote 84 of the
Iran/Contra report.  In 1986 Fawn Hall asked DEA agents to meet
with Michael Leeden.  Leeden had a $30,000 contract with
Continental Airlines to find out how to stop the DEA from seizing
their airplanes when cocaine was found aboard.

880114, Charleston, WV, WHAS.  12:04P "Mad Dog" Roark, mayor of
Charleston WV, plea bargains guilty on six cocaine charges,
twenty-four others were dropped.  Mad Dog was sentenced to 179
days in jail, three years probation, and a $5000 fine.  See
871130.

880202, Lumberton, NC.  An American Indian takes hostages to
publicize the actions of the local sheriff.  A radio tape by this
hostage taker starts with the accusation that the sheriff's
department was involved with drug trafficking, and then went on
to complain about the killing of a Black and two Indians by the
sheriff.

880204.  General Noriega of Panama is indicted by a Federal Grand
Jury in Miami FL on thirty counts of assorted drug trafficking
charges, taking millions of dollars in payoffs from The Medellin
Cartel, racketeering, conspiracy with Oliver North to fake a
shipment of arms from Nicaragua to El Salvador [on the Pia Vesta,
which Noriega seized and kept the arms], obtaining chemicals for
and protecting cocaine labs, providing airstrips for drug
smuggling, providing refuge for drug traffickers, etc.  Leon
Keller is the Federal Attorney.  Also more indictments of Noriega
are opened in Tampa for conspiracy to import one million pounds
of marijuana.  Testimony was given by pilot Floyd Carlton and
Panamanian Consul General Jose' Blandon.  This was reported by
Alan Tomlinson, NPR.  On top of that, Noriega has been on the CIA
payroll since 1966 at $200,000 per year.  Senator John Kerry
chaired a hearing on Noriega, with Jose' Blandon as star
witness.  Blandon says Noriega made $80 million per year in drug
trafficking and another $20 million for emigration papers at
$4000 per head, allowing Cubans to claim to be Panamanians for
migration to USA.

880205, Cincinnati, OH.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner
Marion "Butch" Campbell is appealing in Federal Court the
government plans for a retrial on drug trafficking conspiracy
charges.  Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Benton, convicted on
conspiracy to murder witnesses to drug trafficking, is still not
in prison.  KET

880208, USN&WR, p28.  The Medellin Cartel controls 80% of cocaine
imported into the United States.  Fifty Columbian judges have
been murdered by the cartel in the past five years.  Columbia is
unable [or unwilling?] to control the drug business.

880213.  An article in The Boston Globe by Stephen Kurkjian and
Mark Hosenball reports on the Senator John F Kerry hearings.
"About a dozen Nicaraguans who back the contras have been
prosecuted in the United states for drug-related felonies."
Michael B Palmer, 41, of Florida indicted in June 1986, walked
away from an airtight drug smuggling case because a Detroit
federal prosecutor dropped it in the "interest of justice".
Palmer was alleged to have flown marijuana into US from Columbia
from 1977 to 1986.  In 1985 & 86 Palmer flew humanitarian aid to
Central America for the State Department.  Leigh Rich testified
that the marijuana smuggling group headed by Palmer grossed
billions of dollars.  Customs, at the request of the CIA, did not
search the planes.  The plane was registered to Vortex, Inc, a
State Department and CIA contractor.

880306, Minneapolis Star Tribune, p17A.  An article by Daniel
Siegel and Jenny Yancey reports on the Senator John Kerry, Senate
Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearings.  Ramon Milian-Rodriguez,
Medellin Cartel money launderer, said that he gave money,
including $10 million in cocaine profits, to Felix Rodriguez
between 1982 & 1985.  The cocaine was flown from Columbia to the
John Hull ranch in Costa Rica.  Weapons for contras were flown to
the Hull ranch and cocaine was flown back on return trips.  Pilot
Gary Betzner returned with 1000 kilo of cocaine.  Pilot Michael
Tolliver said that he flew 25000 pounds of marijuana into
Homestead Air Force Base, Florida.

880330, In These Times, p 11.  An article by Anne-christine
d'Adesky gives a partial list of Caribbean officials alleged to
have smuggled [illegal] drugs thru their respective countries.
From the Bahamas, Prime Minister Pindling, top customs official
John Rolle, and conservative political party leader Sammy L.
Miller.  From Haiti; Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Williams
Regala, Army Chief Gen Henri Namphy, Chief of Narcotics Carel
Occel, Police Capt Gregoire Figaro, civilians Joe Namphy (brother
of Gen Namphy) and Alexander Paul (brother of Col Paul) were part
of group of Haitians who smuggled cocaine from Columbia to South
Florida via Bahamas and Dominican Republic.  Cuba; Fidel Castro
and Raul Castro and several navy officials are alleged to have
smuggled cocaine from Columbia to Florida via Cuba.  On Mar 16,
1988 US Attorney Leon Keller (who indicted both Noriega and Paul)
told two congressional subcommittees a that a recent drug seizure
produced evidence of official Cuban and Haitian involvement.
Also Jamaica, Turks and Caicos, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama.

880405, Honduras.  The Nation, May 7, 1988, p634.  Ramon Matta,
suspected drug kingpin and friend of several top Honduran
military officers, is captured by US Marshals.  The Honduran DEA
office, closed between 1983 & 1988, is reopened.

880413, In These Times, April 13-19, 1988, p5.  Maj Gen Richard
Secord is suing Leslie Cockburn for $38 million for the loss of
"business opportunities", such as the gun and drug smuggling by
the CIA in Central America.

880507, The Nation, p634.  Here is a summary of the Bo Gritz
story.  In 1986, Gritz went to Burma with White House blessings
to meet with the drug warlord Khun Sa, who supposedly had
information of MIAs.  Khun Sa said that he wanted to end the
opium and heroin traffic in his territory and to expose U. S.
officials involved in the drug smuggling.  Gritz claims that he
took this message to the US government and was told by Tom Harvey
of the National Security Council (NSC) that "there is no interest
here" in the Khun Sa overture.  In May 87, Gritz, with Lance
Trimmer, a private detective, again visited Khun Sa in Burma.  In
a recent letter to George Bush, who heads the National Narcotics
Border Interdiction System, Gritz maintained that Khun Sa claimed
that he had once engaged in narcotics transactions with Richard
Armitage, now Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Theodore
Shackley, the former director for operations at the CIA, and
other US officials.  George Bush was head of the CIA in 1976 when
Khun Sa said that he was selling drugs to top CIA officials.
Gritz says that, strangely, nobody in the US government is
interested in investigating this.

880601, Philadelphia, PA.  Seven Philadelphia PA cops have been
arrested with $150,000 for drug trafficking over the past two
years.  Mutual News, WSFC.  This may be the same seven involved
in drug trafficking in Owensboro, KY.  See 870912.

880608.  Arms broker Richard Brenneke publicly charges that
George Bush's office directly supervised the contra arms network
which was funded by Columbian drug money in association with the
Israeli Mossad.  The Washington contact was Donald Gregg, Bush's
national security advisor.  In These Times, Jun 8-21, 1988, p7.
/Is this the same Donald Gregg who in now the US Ambassador to
South Korea?  9101.

880905.  Detroit, MI has at least 100 police officers under
investigation for ties to the drug underworld.  However, Chief of
Police William Hart insists that His Force is free of systemic
corruption.  Newsweek, Sep 5, 1988, p37.  /Chief Hart was finally
arrested and charged with embezzlement of 2.5M$ from the Police
Department undercover narcotics fund on 910213.

881003.  Elaine Shannon in _Desperados_ says that in June 1984,
Oliver North, in an effort to expose alleged links between the
Sandanistas and drug dealers, leaked information which exposed
Barry Seal who was infiltrating The Medellin [cocaine] Cartel.
U. S. News & World Report, Oct 3, 1988, p13.

881122.  Two Los Angeles DEA agents are arrested for hiding money
in Switzerland.  CNN 11:05PM.  Another DEA agent, Darrell
[Daniel?] Garcia who bought a $500,000 home, is still at large.
These three agents had amassed $600,000 in drugs and laundered
money in the past 4 years.  Two drug dealers under investigation
were tipped off by these Agents of Justice.  CNN 3:13PM 25 Nov

881128.  Drug agents nationwide have been staging phony drug
busts on their own agents for years in an effort to gain the
confidence of the "real" drug smugglers.  CNN radio, 3:43PM,
quoting The Houston Chronicle.  Sinsemilla Tips, V8#3p21.

881129.  Marvin Washington, Lexington Fayette County Kentucky
police officer for the past eleven years, is arrested for armed
robbery and possession of illegal drugs.  Officer Washington
accosted at gunpoint two restaurant employees attempting to make
a night bank deposit.  He was also found to be in possession of
cocaine.  KET.  Lexington.

881201.  Monitor Radio.  A retired New York City policeman was
arrested in The Great Mafia Drug Bust.

881205.  Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is investigating
allegations that the "Justice" Department deliberately stymied a
Senate inquiry into contra gun and drug smuggling in the spring
of 1986.  U. S. News & World Report, p16.

890114.  John Hull is arrested by Costa Rican authorities on
Thursday, 12 Jan 89 on charges of arms trafficking, drug
smuggling, and espionage.  Warrants were obtained in part from
information from George Morales, drug smuggling pilot for the
CIA.  Hull steadfastly claims that he is a simple farmer and is
not a CIA operative.  His salary from the United States National
Security Council (NSC)is $10,000 per month.  WBKY, 4:15 PM
/Farmer Hull has skipped bail an as of late 1990 is reported to
be hiding with his 20 year old female companion in Nicaragua.

890100.  Clay County, KY.  J.C. Lawson is arrested.  A vendetta
is specifically denied by the cops.  This is the fellow who had
the nerve to suggest that the police spend their time chasing
murderers and thieves, rather than pot patches.  KET.

890130, Adelaide, Australia, Insight, p35.  Detective Inspector
Barry Moyse was head of the police drug squad and was known for
his high profile attack on narcotics use.  In late 1987 he was
convicted of trafficking in heroin he had taken from the police
property room.

890123.  Newsweek, p 60.  The Surgeon General's Report states
that the annual death toll in the United States from cigarettes
is 390,000.  By 1992 the figure has risen to 450,000 deaths per
year from tobacco consumption in the US.

890220.  Newsweek, p8.  The Bush administration and a bipartisan
group of congressmen are quietly pressuring Costa Rica to release
an American farmer [sic] jailed there on drug charges.  John
Hull, whose ranch near Nicaragua's border figured in Oliver
North's contra-supply network, was charged last month with
cocaine smuggling.  The U.S. Embassy has protested his arrest,
and 19 legislators - including Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, a
critic of contra aid - are urging the case 'be concluded
promptly ...  in a manner that will not complicate U.S.-Costa
Rican relations.'

890220.  On a Crime in Kentucky program, it was mentioned that
90% of prison inmates in Kentucky are imprisoned for either drug
or alcohol charges.  KET.

890225.  Lexington, KY.  Fayette County Kentucky Sheriff Lonas
Taulbee and five others are indicted on cocaine trafficking
charges.  WSEK 11:14AM 25 Feb 89.

890231.  WBKY, 8AM.  KY News Net.  Lexington, KY.  Fayette County
Sheriff Lonas Taulbee resigns effective 14 April.  He was
convicted and sentenced to 5 years for theft and malfeasance.  He
is yet to be tried for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

890417.  The Nation, p 512.  Guillermo Tabraue received $1400 per
week from CIA and did $75 million in marijuana and cocaine
business between 1976 and 1987, supposedly with the blessings of
the CIA.

890419.  WFLW, 9:58AM.  also ABC.  The Everglades fire of about
two weeks ago was started by the burning of the records of a
Miami cop arrested for cocaine smuggling.

890508.  The Nation, p619.  "Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign
Policy", a report of the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics,
Terrorism and International Operations released April 13.  It
concludes that US knowingly used several drug traffickers in its
contra supply operations.  Four companies owned and operated by
narcotics traffickers, SETCO Air, DIASCA, Frigorificos de
Punterenas, and Vortex were selected by State Department.  John
Hull accused of preparing false affidavits for US Attorney Leon
Kellner.

890508.  Cleveland, OH.  Newsweek, p26.  Arthur Feckner, drug
wholesaler, helped capture his supplier and 100 pounds of cocaine
in 1985.  Feckner was then allowed by Cleveland police to sell 13
pounds of cocaine for $452,000 [$35/gm].  An internal police
inquiry had enough evidence to indict five officers.  A judge
ruled that state law permitted police drug sales if they were
claimed to be in pursuit of a dealer.  Present Police Chief
Howard Rudolf was head of narcotics department at start of
Feckner affair.

890810.  WKYM.  Judge Eddie Lovelace files suit against a Russell
County KY radio station for reporting on 24 July 89 that he was
suspended for 6 months for interference with the Clinton County
marijuana cultivation case against Clinton County Court Clerk
Lloyd Stockton.  Believe it or not, it is illegal to mention that
a lawyer has been reprimanded!

890815.  WBKY, 12:35PM.  Edward O'Brien, DEA agent, was arrested
at Logan airport in Boston Massachusetts with 62 pounds of
cocaine in his suitcase.  DEA Agent O'Brien is described as
being "high ranking and decorated", as well as a cocaine
smuggler.  /Newsweek Aug 28, 1989.  Edward, Paul, and John
O'Brien, brothers, were all arrested.  This is the fourth DEA
agent arrested on drug charges this year.

890830.  KY News Net.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell wins!  On
a final appeal, Judge Carl Forrester rules that evidence is
inadmissible for a retrial.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner
makes a good front for cocaine smuggling.

890907, WTVQ.  Jackie, son of [Bill Robert ?], Owsley Co, KY,
Judge-Executive arrested on TV for FBI & CBS for marijuana
cultivation.

890925.  Insight, p 44.  Democrat Rep. James A. Traficant, Jr.
received $108,000 in bribes from organized crime in the 1980 race
for Mahoning County, Ohio Sheriff.  The 6th US Court of Appeals
sez that the bribes are taxable.

890928.  WFLW.  Clinton Co, KY.  Judge Eddie Lovelace has his
suspension for protecting the local marijuana industry reduced
from 6 months to 45 days.

891218, Newsweek, p 30.  Detroit, MI, top police officials are
accused by FBI of stealing more than $1 million intended for "buy
and bust" operations against competing drug dealers.  /Similar
charges were also made in Sep 88 and Feb 91.

900118, WHAS, KNN.  Christian County KY Sheriff William Dillard &
chief deputy & others arrested 17 Jan 90 on Federal indictment
for cocaine distribution & accepting bribes to protect cocaine
distribution after 1 year FBI investigation.

900226.  Insight, p 37.  Murder indictments are handed down for
Manuel Ibarra Herrera, former chief of the Mexican Federal
Police, and Miguel Aldana Ibarra, his deputy and former Interpol
director for murder and narcotics trafficking in the death of DEA
agent Enrique Camerena in 1985.  The kidnapping and torture of
Camerena was to find out how US officials had learned of the ties
of members of then-President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's
Cabinet to drug payoffs.

900305.  Paul Harvey.  The East Wendover, UT, police chief and
his wife are arrested for drug trafficking.

900400.  Acres, USA p 21.  Iran paid our conspirators for part of
the contra arms deal with heroin & morphine.

900403.  WDCL.  Bowling Green, Warren Co, KY.  Jailor Bunch & 7
deputies indicted on many charges including drug dealing at the
jail.

900414.  WHAS.  John Roger McDonald, age 22, dispatcher at
Bowling Green KY State Police is accused of stealing an
undisclosed amount of cocaine from evidence.

900425, KY News Net.  John Roger McDonald is accused of stealing
200 to 300 grams of cocaine in several thefts over 5 months from
State Police Evidence.

900613, Paul Harvey.  Bronx, NY cops hold a "job action" to
protest probes of corruption in the police department.  They
write no parking tickets.

900615.  WEKU.  Lexington, KY Fayette Co, KY Sheriff Taulbee loses
appeal on theft & malfeasance and is sentenced to 5 years.

900616.  KNN.  Versailles(?), KY.  Danny Allen Murphy is charged
with suffocating his wife in 85.  Also on trial next month on
Federal drug charges.  His occupation is given as
Lexington-Fayette County Police Officer.

900623, Western KY Univ Radio.  Dillard, Christian Co, KY Sheriff
is convicted of cocaine trafficking and taking a $5000 bribe from
the Feds.  Found not guilty on some other charges.

900717.  KNN.  Vine Grove, Hardin Co, KY.  Police Chief Abshire
pleads guilty to cocaine possession.

900727.  WSEK.  Whitley Co, KY.  Former Whitley County
Judge-Executive Archie Powers and Clifford Silers plead not
guilty to cultivating 849 marijuana plants in 2 plots.

900816.  WSEK, WKYU.  Eastern Kentucky.  In "Operation Walking
Short", the FBI produces a 42 count indictment of Kentucky law
officers for conspiracy to extort and protect illegal drug
traffickers.  Arrested were: John Mann, Sheriff of Lee County,
allegedly the master-mind, who took $38,500 in bribes from FBI
agents; Lester Dickerson, Sheriff of Wolfe County, Billy
MacIntosh, Sheriff of Owsley County; Dean Spencer, Sheriff of
Breathitt County; Wilson Stone, Deputy Sheriff of Wolfe County;
and Omer Noe, Police Chief of Beattyville.  Two FBI agents
masqueraded as big Chicago "businessmen", in the business of
importing marijuana and cocaine.  They got a business license to
air-drop and outship their products from backwoods airstrips.
This is supposedly the biggest [bigger than catching the Kentucky
State Police Commissioner doing 3/4 million dollars per week in
cocaine trafficking??] bust in Kentucky.  Several newscasts
emphasized that this is no reason for good citizens to question
the integrity of their police; other radio stations issued an
appeal for their good citizens to report such activities to the
FBI hotline.

900820.  KET.  Lexington Police Officer Dan Murphy is on trial
for distribution of marijuana, and weapons charges.  Judge
Forrester will decide if the jury should see Murphy's Jessamine
County fortress/plantation/home.  The charges are worth 30 years.

900822.  KET.  Lexington Kentucky.  Danny Allan Murphy, former
Lexington Kentucky Police Officer is convicted on marijuana
distribution and machine gun charges.  He is yet to stand trial
for murder in Jessamine County.

901011, Christian Co, KY.  Christian County Kentucky Sheriff
Dillard is sentenced to 9 years in prison for selling cocaine &
stealing $12,000 from the government.  KNN

901018, PBS Frontline, "When Cops Go Bad", WGBH, Boston, MA.
Discussed the Miami FL case (see 7 previous entries from 24 Oct
86 to 19 Apr 89) of organized gangs of Miami police stealing and
selling boatloads of cocaine.  In the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department, $1.4 million was skimmed by the
departmental drug squad.  Approximately 30 indictments were
rendered, including Jim Bouden and Dan Garner.  This source of
revenue spread from the the Los Angeles Police Department to the
Feds.  DEA agents Daniel [Darrell?] Garcia, Wayne Countryman, and
John Jackson liberated 150 kilograms of heroin and sent it to New
York by FedEx for sale.  Two have plead guilty, and the third is
on trial.  50% of police corruption cases in the US are drug
related, according to the FBI.  32 DEA agents have been the
target of internal investigations this year, 54 Federal agents
[does that include the DEA agents?], 40 State Police, and 327
local policemen.  There are approximately 17000 local police
departments in the US.  In Sea Girt, NJ, pop 2500, 20 local
people were arrested in a drug dealing ring.  These included 3 of
the 12 police, Sgt Joseph Beaumont, Lt Robert Hindman, and Capt G
Calusleri.  School officials don't know how to explain to the
children how these cops could preach their drug speech while
dealing at the same time.  There is a Justice Dept study of
police corruption.

901022, London, KY.  Lee County KY Sheriff Jonathan Mann is being
held without bond in the Laurel County jail.  He is charged with
19 counts of drug trafficking and extortion, and taking $85,000
in payoffs from drug traffickers posing as FBI agents.  He is
running the Sheriff's Office from jail, having appointed his wife
as administrator.

901029, WTHL.  The drug trafficking trial of DEA agents Daniel
[Darrell?] Garcia, Wayne Countryman, and John Jackson is
scheduled for next month.  Witness Stewart testified on videotape
that that for three years he sold drugs supplied by these DEA
agents, shared two million dollars in profits with them, and took
lavish vacations with their families.  Witness Stewart testified
on videotape because he was not expected to live long enough to
testify in person.

901108, Somerset, KY, WFLW & WSEK.  Ten year veteran Kentucky
State Police Trooper David Dick was issued a criminal summons
(not arrested) as the result of his superiors finding marijuana
less than two ounces in the trunk of his cruiser Sunday.  He
claimed that this was leftover from an arrest and that he had
forgotten about it.  On Monday he resigned, according to Pulaski
County attorney Fred Neikirk.  On Thursday he pleaded guilty, was
fined $25, and immediately had his conviction voided.  His
attorney was Larry Whittaker.  Trooper Dick has been rumored to
be involved in marijuana production and marketing for several
years.  See 861126.

901207, Lexington, KY.  Former Fayette County Kentucky Sheriff
Lonas Taulbee loses an appeal on conspiracy to traffic in
cocaine.  His grounds were that since he got caught before he was
actually able to have the cocaine planted in the car of his Chief
Deputy, he obviously was not distributing cocaine.  Appeals on
the charges of theft, misfeasance, and malfeasance for stealing
from his office also failed.

910108~, St Regis, suburb of Louisville, KY, KET?  St Regis
policeman Bersot is accused of planting drugs & guns on David
Trigley(sp?).  Trigley's crime was to date the cop's ex-wife.
Captain Eppeley deplored the accusation.

910213, Detroit, MI, NPR.  William Hart, the Police Chief of
Detroit, MI, is accused of embezzlement and tax fraud for
diverting 2.5M$ from the Police Department undercover narcotics
fund to his own private businesses.  Chief Hart is sentenced to
suspension with pay.  The Mayor deplores this racist attack on
the Black community.  /Similar charges have previously been made
in Sep 88 and Dec 89.  On 920827 they made it stick, 10 years'
worth.

910306, IN, KET.  Barbara Grier (or is it in Grier, IN?) is
listed in serious condition after the cops invaded her house to
arrest her boyfriend.  The shot was meant for the dog, but
missed, hitting her in the stomach.

910522, Detroit, MI, Paul Harvey.  10 cops and the niece of the
mayor are arrested in an Detroit, MI, FBI sting.  They thought
that they were taking payoffs from the real drug dealers.

910530, Cleveland, OH, KYnet.  30 police officials are caught in
a FBI sting on drugs and gambling.  This was reported by a
Cleveland TV station, but no officials will make any official
statements.  MacNeil/Lehrer said that 47 cops including 30
current police officers, 4 former officers, and 13 others
provided security services for illegal gambling and incidentally
drug distribution, over two years.

910619, Frankfort, KY, KET.  5 marijuana plants were found
growing in an apartment owned by KY drug czar Faulkner.  This
time they believed the landlord when he said that he did not know
of this activity and had no way of knowing.  60 more plants were
found in another Frankfort indoor harvest.

910712, London, KY, KYnet.  In the trial of Jonathan Mann etc,
evidence showed that informant David Richardson was paid $77,000
by the FBI for salary & expenses.  His previous career was a
marijuana dealer.

910716, London, KY, WSFC.  John Quinn (or maybe Flynn?) of
Lebanon, OH is Jonathan Mann's attorney.  Mann has had a
jailhouse conversion, and now has found God, who should forgive
all his sins.  Mann gave an interview to a Lexington newspaper,
but this was declared insufficient to grant a mistrial.

910718, London, KY, WKYM.  In the Mann et al trial, David
Richardson is alleged to have killed fellow agents Doug & Brenda
(Davidson?).  But he passed a FBI lie detector test, and that's
that.  These allegations are adjudged to be irrelevant and not
admissible as evidence.

910719, Nicholasville, KY, KYnet.  Former Lexington cop Murphy
pleaded guilty to suffocating his wife and was given 20 years.

910731, London, KY, WSEK.  Jonathan Mann etc trial prosecution
finished.  James [not David] Richardson of Owsley Co given as the
marijuana dealer who cooperated with the FBI.  The judge is
Siler.

910816, London, KY, KNN.  Late today a verdict was delivered in
the drug conspiracy trial of Lee County Sheriff Jonathan Mann and
Associates.  I think that 5 of 6 were convicted on one count of
conspiracy to distribute cocaine, but reports are very unclear.
Sheriff Dean Spencer of Breathitt Co was the odd man.  Five were
convicted of conspiracy of extortion, and three were convicted of
conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

910821, Gridley, IL, Paul Harvey News.  Judge Mark Dalton was
found by Federal Drug Agents to have a commercial marijuana
garden in his back yard.

910826, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  The Robert Foley, age 56[?], of
Harlan, alleged to have recently killed two brothers (& Harry
Lynn Vaughn) and dumped their bodies into Sinking Creek is a FBI
informant, according to an Ohio lawyer.  A Federal judge issues a
gag order on the subject.  Foley's father and wife are arrested
and alleged to have intimidated witnesses.

911029, Laurel Co, KY, KNN.  Robert Foley, 39, is arrested &
pleads not guilty for the murder of four people found entombed in
an abandoned septic tank since 1989.  This was on a farm at Bald
Rock, Laurel Co, owned by his father, and formerly owned by
___________, also alleged to have been murdered by Foley.
Victims include Kimberly Bowersods (?) 20, of Ohio; and Calvin
Reynolds, 22, of Laurel Co, KY.  See also 910826 for rumor that
Foley is a FBI protected informant.  Note that Foley had aged -17
years during this unfortunate incident.  See 940404.

911101, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  Ron Pool, FBI handler for
"Operation Walking Short", the Jonathan Mann case, attempted to
influence Judge Watson to release Robert Foley on murder charges.

920130, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  Robert Foley was being handled by
FBI agent Ron Poole at the marijuana arrest of Larry Vaughn.

910924, Lexington, KY, KNN.  Gregory Drake Wahl, a Fayette County
Sheriff's Deputy, was arrested Monday for selling 1/4 pound of
marijuana within 1000 feet of a school.

911002, Clinton Co, KY, WMKZ, WKYM.  Following a two year
undercover investigation, the FBI arrested David M Stonecipher,
47; John Henry Cravens, 45; Anthony "Tony" Seratto, 39; and was
attempting to find Paul A Brown; on charges of conspiracy to
distribute marijuana.  The break came with a $14K sale by
Stonecipher the previous Tuesday & Wednesday to a KSP agent.
This Duvall Valley operation was a marijuana clearinghouse,
exporting to GA, OH, IL.  The FBI does not usually investigate
mid-level drug dealers, but this was an exception.  Capt Gary
Lusher of the Bowling Green SP and Terry O'Connor of the FBI
publicized the bust.  Seratto is an 14 year veteran of the Albany
police, and was charged with use of a firearm in a drug offense,
an well as conspiracy.

911030, Breathitt Co, KY, KNN.  After a two month investigation,
Mike Goff of the Kentucky National Guard working in The
Governor's Marijuana Task Force, is among 31 arrested for
marijuana trafficking.

920504, The Nation, Alexander Cockburn, p582.  A drug & gun
trafficking operation thru Mena in western Arkansas was protected
by Federal officials.  A 1983 IRS drug smuggling & money
laundering investigation by the Arkansas State Police, prime
investigator Russell Welch, uncovered CIA connections, and was
warned off by the FBI.  Arkansas state agencies brokered loans to
associated companies and interfered with investigations.  Terry
Reed was a pilot & contra trainer.

920509, Presidio Co, CA, Paul Harvey.  The former Presidio County
CA Sheriff is busted for cocaine trafficking.  But there is no
Presidio County in California.  But Sheriff Rick Thompson of
Presidio County, Texas, and his business partner Robert Chambers
(a Senator?) have been sentenced to life in prison for cocaine
smuggling according to Frontline, "What Happened to the Drug
War?", 930206.  I was really impressed by Sheriff Thompson's
television adv for his tollfree drug smuggler hotline, 800
BE-ALERT.  Apparently they were caught when another business
partner reported them to the real cops.

920617, Florida, KNN.  Florida Sheriffs have been shaking down
people for multi millions of dollars under the guise of drug
forfeiture.  The people were never charged, but they never
complained either.  The rat got out of the bag when a woman was
relieved of her Federal hurricane relief check.  Rumors have it
that this is a common practice everywhere.

920806, Kentucky, WMKZ.  "Operation Walking Short" continues.
Former Lee County Sheriff Jonathan Mann is accused of taking
$40,000 in payoffs from phony drug dealers.  The Feds are
confiscating $132,000 in property as drug profits.  Meanwhile,
Sheriff Mann is serving 24 years 4 months in prison.  Wolfe
County Deputy Sheriff Wilson Stone was sentenced to 10 years 1
month.

920807, Nashville, TN, WKYU.  Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brothers
is indicted at Nashville TN for his part in laundering
$1.3million in cocaine profits into several corporations.  Also
indicted are Russell Brothers, nephew of The Judge, and G Thomas
Newell, their attorney.

920809, Clay Co, KNN.  Marijuana claims another young victim.
Melissa K Cotton (20) of Patterson, New Jersey, a Ft Campbell
soldier, was killed in Clay Co, KY, as part of The Governor's
Marijuana Task Force (GMTF).  She was a passenger in a fuel
tanker truck which ran off the road.  The shoulder collapsed, and
the truck rolled down a hill and into a tree.  The truck was in
the area supporting helicopters searching for marijuana.  The
claim was made on several newscasts that "The Army is not heavily
involved in marijuana eradication".  The GMTF score so far this
year is about a half million plants.

920825, Floyd Co, KY, KNN.  Floyd County Kentucky Deputy Sheriff
Larry Newsome (45) plea bargains guilty to one of five counts of
drug trafficking.  He was charged with selling pills to an
undercover agent.  This must have happened a while ago, since a
trial was scheduled for tomorrow.

920826, Louisville, KY, many including KNN, KET, WLKY, WAVE,
WHAS.  Four law officers are arrested on charges of violating the
civil rights of Ricky Lee Pardu by planting cocaine and a
silenced pistol in his car.  Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff Ron
Pike was the mastermind of the operation.  Saint Regis Police
Captain Gary Epperly was the operations chief, and Saint Regis
Policeman James Goodman his assistant.  They were hired by
Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff George Tingley, who supplied the
cocaine.  Pardu was arrested by Epperly and Goodman on 1 Nov 90.
David Tingley, Charles Bookout, and John Bursoe were also
involved.  Epperly and Goodman were also questioned in the murder
of State Policeman Johnny Eddrington with his own gun in Laurel
County, but have not been charged.  Pardu was believed because he
was an informant passing information on activities of Special
Security Services, an operation of the officers located on the
Rest Haven Cemetery property.  See 930225, 930723

920827, Detroit, MI, Paul Harvey.  Detroit Police Chief William
Hart is sentenced to 10 years for embezzlement and tax evasion
for stealing millions of dollars which was supposed to have been
used for undercover drug buys.

920829, Clinton Co, KY, KNN.  Anthony Seratto is sentenced to 70
months for marijuana trafficking.  Not mentioned was his
occupation (Albany city cop) or the disposition of charges of use
of a firearm in the commission of conspiracy to traffic in
illegal drugs.

921113, Erlanger, KY, KNN & WSEK.  Inspector David Woods (42) of
the Erlanger, KY (suburb of Cincinnati, OH) police was arrested
for selling confiscated drugs.  The East Kentucky Task Force of
DEA, FBI, KSP, ETC, charged Inspector Woods with drug trafficking
and theft of government property after a five to six month
investigation.

921123, Whitesburg, Letcher Co, KY, WKYU, KNN.  Circuit Court
Judge Larry Collins was arrested on five bribery charges for
taking $7,000 and some marijuana in return for protection of a
marijuana dealer.  This came after a one year Grand Jury
investigation.  When Judge Collins took over his office in
January 92, he immediately dismissed a Grand Jury which was
investigating corruption.

921212, Louisville, KY, KNN.  A drug sweep in Louisville, KY,
catches 24 drug dealers, including a Jefferson County Deputy
Sheriff.  Deputy Gerald LaMotte Gray was charged with two counts
of marijuana trafficking.  Also paraquat has just been declared
safe and efficacious for use on homegrown marijuana.

921218, Comment on Kentucky, KET.  ?  Estep of Lexington
Herald-Leader says that the value of the marijuana crop has been
forced below the value of the tobacco crop in Kentucky this year,
which is 900M$.  During the 80's, marijuana was usually of more
value than tobacco, 1B$ in some years.  Most is produced in
southeastern Kentucky, Clay, Leslie, Laurel, Harlan, Whitley,
McCreary, Wayne, Clinton counties.  Prices this year are $1200
to $2600 per pound.  Judge Collins has been suspended with pay
after continuing to hold court after his arrest on bribery
charges.  Al Smith speculates as how the drug trade has caused a
lot of corruption.

921226, Russell Co, KY, WSEK.  Matthew Gene Roy, Russell Co KY
Magistrate is arrested in Lake Charles, LA, for marijuana
trafficking in a "routine traffic stop".

921230, Eastern KY, KNN.  The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld
the "Operation Walking Short" convictions of five Eastern
Kentucky cops on assorted drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
It does admit that maybe the punishment of Omer Noe was too
harsh.

930127, Miami, FL, WSFC (ABC?).  Three customs agents and an FBI
agent are charged with drug trafficking, bribery, and money
laundering in Miami, FL.

930128, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Police Officer
Danny Murphy has his charges of use of a machine gun while drug
trafficking overturned in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati, OH.  He still is in prison for murdering his wife.
In a personal conversation with DPB at Rainbow 93, an individual
volunteered that his brother-in-law was one of the fronts for
Murphy, holding title to Murphy's estate in alternate years.
Murphy beat the machine gun rap because the gun was in the attic
and the pot was in a freezer in the basement, this being a
sufficient distance that he could not be using his machine gun in
perpetration of a drug crime.

930201.  Ex-Miami cop Armando Garcia is on the FBI most-wanted
list.  This may be one of the Miami's Finest who was given a
mistrial for robbing and killing cocaine smugglers.  See 870202.

930209, Beattyville, Lee Co, KY, WMKZ.  Beattyville Chief of
Police Omer Noe of Lee County, KY, is resentenced to 12 years 7
months in prison for his part in in the "Operation Walking Short"
drug smuggling.  The Appeals judge was Eugene Siler, who had
originally tried Noe.  Not that Noe doesn't deserve another 12
consecutive life sentences for hypocrisy, but has a judge ever
overturned himself on appeal?

930225, Louisville, KY, KNN.  Jefferson County policeman Ron Pike
is convicted of possession of two automatic weapons.  No mention
of any connection with his planting drugs and weapons on Ricky
Lee Pardu who was informing on their security service.  See
920826, 930723

930318, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington, KY, police officer
Danny Murphy is convicted of possession of a pistol while
marijuana trafficking and sentenced to five years in prison.  He
was formerly acquitted of possession of a machine gun while
engaged in his moonlight business.  See 930128 & 910719 &
900822 & 900820 & 900816 & 900608.

930120, St Regis, KY, WKYU.  St Regis Police Captain Epperly
pleads guilty to planting drugs to facilitate the arrest of an
inconvenient criminal.  It is unclear whether this concerns the
case of David Trigley or that of Ricky Pardu.  See 920826 &
910108.

930409, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former (fired in 1979 for
insubordination after 8 years of service) Lexington Police
Officer Bill Canan is arrested by Federal Marshals on charges of
drug trafficking and intimidation of a witness.  Officer Canan
allegedly bought 24 oz of cocaine and then threatened to kill
Robert Scott, his supplier turned Federal Witness, if he
squealed.  This is part of an investigation ongoing for 1.5
years.  Police Chief Walsh vows that he is "finally gonna clean
up the Good Ole Boy Network" [his words].  See 850912, 930716.

930416, Lexington, KY, WSEK.  Ella Flynn, mother of Melanie Flynn
who was disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1977,
claims police ineptitude & indifference.  Mrs Flynn claims that
she gave police many details of names, places, times, etc, which
were ignored.  She also claims that part of the case file was
disappeared.  Chief Walsh denies all these false allegations.
This re-surfaced upon the arrest of Bill Canan former Lexington
Police Officer on cocaine trafficking charges.  Rumors at the
time of Melanie Flynn's disappearance were that she knew too much
about the Lexington Police drug trafficking.  See 850912, 870112,
871123, 890225, 900820, 930409, Sally Denton, The Bluegrass
Conspiracy, Doubleday, 1990.

930416, Covington, KY, WSEK.  Undercover Narcotics Officer Randy
Sebastian is charged with perjury for lying to obtain a search
warrant on Dr Patricia Canfield.  Officer Sebastian resigned when
confronted.

930421, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Kentucky Police
Officer Bill Canan is indicted on 14 counts.  Charges include
drug possession and distribution in '88, possession of a fake DEA
ID, and possession of a pen gun and machine gun.  His lawyer is
Fred Peters.  One of the character witnesses at the bail hearing
was the same as for Danny Murphy.  (See 900608, 900816, 900820,
900822, 910719, 930128, 930318).  The Judge had enuf sense not to
pay any attention to him this time.  Officer Canan is ajudged to
be a danger to the community and an escape risk.

930528, Christian County, KY, WKYU.  Sheriff William Dillard has
his conviction overturned on appeal.  Thus he really did not
partake in cocaine trafficking or take bribes for protection of
the drug industry in his dominion.  See 900118, 900823, 901011.

930624, Paducah, KY, WKYU.  Captain William Gorden of the Narco
Squad is fired for recording and reporting corruption in the drug
unit by city manager Pennington.  A whistle blower lawsuit is
filed.

930626, Catletsburg, KY, WMKZ.  Timothy Woods (39), a Kentucky
Department of Forestry Ranger, is arrested for cultivation of
marijuana, tending a patch on a hillside, while on duty in
uniform.

930716, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Police Officer and
accused cocaine trafficker Bill Canan has his 13 counts (didn't
it used to be 14 counts?) dropped to 6 counts.  Apparently he is
still charged with threatening to kill a confidential informant.
See 850912, 930409

930722, Paducah, KY, WSEK.  The Western Kentucky Narcotics Unit
"needs to restore credibility", and be moved out of Paducah city
hall.  The corruption ridden operation was funded by $220K in
state money and $73K in local taxpayer extortions.

930723, Louisville, KY, WHAS-KET.  Louisville, KY, police
officers Ron Pike and James Goodman are convicted of planting
cocaine on a Federal informant, George [wasn't it Ricky Lee?]
Pardu.  George Tingley was found not guilty.  See 920826, 930225

930803, Kentucky, KNN?  Just a piece of a story about someone
agreeing to resign from the State Police in face of corruption
charges.

930806, Harlan Co, KY, WMKZ.  Howard Taylor, Harlan County
Kentucky Jailor, is accused of stealing two pounds of marijuana
from the Sheriff's evidence room.

930824, KY, WKYU.  An outfit called "Kentuckians for Freedom,
Inc" has been formed to combat militarization of The War on
Marijuana.  Also, Gary Shepherd, victim of The War, was given an
address of Brodhead, not Mt Vernon.

930824, Whitesburg, KY, KNN.  Letcher County Circuit Court Judge
Larry Collins pleads guilty to bribery for extorting drugs and
money from James Braddock.  Several other charges are dropped.

930825, New York City, Paul Harvey.  Calling themselves The
Morgue Boys (their meeting place was in an old morgue), 35 of New
York City's Finest preyed on drug dealers, robbing them of
cocaine, guns and money.

930917, Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY, many.  Jim Greene, former
High Sheriff of Jefferson County, Kentucky, goes for a six month
vacation at Maxwell AFB (AL?) for tax evasion.  Also $128,000
fine.  He seemed bitter about it, complaining that he had made a
deal for no prison time.  He declared that, "My debt to society
will be completely paid after this six months." This contradicts
the three year probation.  All they could make stick to Al Capone
was tax evasion, too.

931019, London, KY, WSEK.  Former Lexington, KY, Police Officer
Bill Canan's trial started on 12 Oct.  Today he took the witness
stand and swore that he had never engaged in the trafficking of
cocaine!!  More to come, I expect.  See 850912, 930409, 930716.
He was eventually convicted on the cocaine trafficking and
witness intimidation charges & not guilty on the weapons charge.

931104, Kentucky, KET-WAVE.  Joseph Shawn Kelley and three other
National Guard members of GMTF plead guilty to padding their
expense accounts in last summer's War on Drugs.

931108, Evansville, IN, WKYU.  A trial starts today at
Vanderburgh Circuit Court for Richard Witlow (38), an Evansville,
IN, narcotics agent.  Witlow is charged with attempted bribery,
attempted theft, and theft.  Witlow solicited $100,000 to
disappear evidence from Harris Roach, father of Tocio Roach, who
was convicted of cocaine trafficking along with his wife.  The
FBI was present at the cash pickup.  Witlow is also accused of
stealing $6500, a semiautomatic pistol, and a gold bracelet while
searching the home of Edward Cooper.

931129, USN&WR, p37.  "At play in the fields of the spies".  A
somewhat confusing story about a CIA operation in Caracas.  CIA
case officer Mark McFarlin cooperated with Gen Ramo'n Guille'n
Da'vila, the head of the National Guard antinarcotics unit.
Guille'n told DEA & CIA officials in Nov 1991 that he had
cooperated with two "unauthorized" shipments of cocaine to the
United States.  The 940704 USN&WR p 41 reports this as "knowingly
allowing several shipments of cocaine from Venezuela to the
United States."

931215, ???, Paul Harvey.  Some cops somewhere got caught
stealing money from drug dealers.  Chief Kelley declares that he
will root out corruption.

931216, Lexington, KY, WSEK.  Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan
has his convictions on cocaine trafficking, intimidation of
witnesses, and carrying a false DEA badge upheld.

931228, NYC, NY, NPR.  Judge Milton Mullins (sp) Commission
releases a preliminary report on New York City Police corruption,
drug trafficking, police brutality, etc.  Judge Clean Hand
decries the "Blue wall of silence".

940104, Lexington, KY, KEY.  Horrace Inman, 15 year veteran of
the Lexington Police Force, is charged with felony possession of
cocaine.  The Police Department has no further comment.

940202, San Juan, Puerto Rico, "FBI This Week" (radio spot).
Victor Zapata was arrested in Puerto Rico.  The FBI claims to
have been surveilling Victor Zapata for three years.  Armando
Garcia was arrested about two weeks ago in Columbia.  These are
ex Miami Police Officers wanted for racketeering, corruption, and
conspiracy to traffic in cocaine.  Garcia was on the prestigious
FBI 10 Most Wanted List.  No mention of assisting the suicide of
drug smugglers.  See 861024, 870207, 880105.

940222, Beattyville, Lee Co, KY, WKYU, WSEK.  Lee County Sheriff
Douglas Brandenburg was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury last
Friday on charges of conspiracy to distribute hundreds of pounds
of Mexican and domestic marijuana.  Their market was southeastern
and eastern United States.  25 others were also arrested, tho no
names were given.  As of 22 Feb, Sheriff Brandenburg was being
held without bond.  The Federal investigation has been ongoing
since Sheriff Mann was caught.  See 940404.

940222, CIA Headquarters, MacNeil-Lehrer, KET.  940310, WSJ.
Aldrich Ames and his wife Maria are arrested on charges of being
Soviet spies in the CIA.  Ames was head of the CIA narcotics
intelligence for the Black Sea countries.  Some think that the
cash ($2.5 million at last count) did not all come from the
Soviet KGB.

940223, Beattyville, Lee Co, KY, WSEK.  Sheriff Brandenburg is
released on $25,000 bail on drug conspiracy charges.  Strangely,
the charges are now cocaine trafficking.

940312, Hazard, KY, WSEK.  Kentucky State Police Narcotic Officer
Mark Lopez is indicted on five charges of forgery.  What he
forged was another officer's signature on reports on how he used
money which was supposed to be used for undercover drug buys.  He
was also reprimanded for taking home ("I didn't steal it!
Honest!!") vehicles seized in drug raids.

940317, Philadelphia, PA, AP.  Two FBI agents are wounded, but
they killed two criminals and wounded two others in a drug raid
in Philadelphia, PA.

940317, WV?, WSEK.  Over 70 criminals are having their cases
reinvestigated after eight years because a State Police
Forensics "Expert" falsified the evidence.

940318, Middlesboro, KY, KNN, WKYU, WSEK.  Two Middlesboro, KY,
city police and another former policeman are among eight charged
with drug trafficking.  This is the result of a FBI sting called
"Operation Broken Shield".  The investigation started October
92.  Steeley Arlis Barnett and Garrett Russell are the greedy
cops.  Their business included OH, PA, and TN as well as
Kentucky.  940401, WSEK.  The FBI had wiretapped the home phone
of Officer Barnett.

940326, Dorchester, Boston, MA, CNN.  Hazaline Wiliams, a 75 year
old retired minister died under the attentions of 13 narcotics
agents who raided his home.  No drugs were found.  It is unknown
what merited this attention.

940326, Miami, FL, CNN.  Renee De Lacoma, a DEA agent who busted
Manuel Noriega has been convicted of keeping $250,000 for
himself.

940328, Boston, MA, NPR.  Rev Williams was handcuffed and thrown
to the floor.  This was considered necessary, even tho he was a
frail 75 year old.  After ransacking his apartment and finding no
drugs, it was noticed that the perpetrator had died choking on
his own vomit.  William's crime was to have his address confused
with that of a drug dealer fingered by a confidential informant.
The police have apologized to his widow, but maintain that
because their informant was right twice before, they were within
their rights.  They even said that this shows just how dangerous
drugs are to the community!

940404, Madison Co, KY, KET.  Twice convicted murderer and
sometimes FBI Confidential Informant Robert Foley (37) [still
37?] is on trial (moved to Madison Co) for the murder of four
more persons in 89.  [So that's before the Vaughn murders, &
while he was working for the FBI?] Three bodies from Van Wert,
Ohio, Kimberley Bowersocks (20), Lillian Cantini (26), and Jerry
McMillan (36) and one from Laurel Co, KY, Calvin Reynolds (22)
were found in the septic tank on a burnt-out farm near Baldrock
in western Laurel County, KY.  On September of 93, Foley was
convicted of murder for disposing of two other persons who had
become inconvenient to his operations.  He was also earlier
convicted in a single murder.  See 911029

940404, Beattyville, Lee Co, KY, KET.  Irvine Shouse (32), a
prospective witness to the theft of pot from the Lee Co jail has
unexpectedly become dead.  No other reason for his demise was
apparent.  Sheriff Brandenburg is out on bond on charges of
conspiracy to traffic in drugs.  See 940222.

940411, Mt Vernon, KY, KNN.  It has been determined by a county
jury that Gary Shepherd forced the confrontation with GMTF,
justifying his execution.

940415, Harlem, NYC, NY, Paul Harvey.  Twelve cops were caught in
a sting operation.  Mostly night shift officers were buying and
selling drugs and guns.  One Officer was caught on video tape
buying a kilogram of cocaine for $10,000.

940420, Mena, AR, WSJ.  "On the Mena Trail" by Edward Jay
Epstein.  CBS News recently focused two segments of "Eye on
America" on Mena, AR.  1) In Reagan years, local airstrips were
used to supply Contras.  Supposedly Lt-Col Oliver North
supervised the operations.  2) Reputedly cocaine was brought back
on return trips, over 20 tons.  Barry Seal was a pilot and
government informant.  3) Money laundering of $9 million per
week.  4) The strange lack of interest in the foregoing by the
"Justice" Department.  _Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA_
by Terry Reed and John Cummings reports on the alleged
conspiracy.

940429, Barbourville, Knox Co, KY, KNN.  Senator Tom O'Dell
Smith's conviction is upheld for solicitation of a $10,000 bribe
for his efforts to reduce the sentence of a drug dealer.  Senator
Smith offered his services to the wife of the unfortunate
citizen.

940504, Lee Co, KY, KNN.  Townsend (Sheriff?  Chief of Police?)
suspended following the strange death of drug dealer in Lexington
who had implied involvement with the disappearance of marijuana
from evidence.

940504, Louisville, KY, KNN.  There is an investigation of police
drug tactics as a result of the attack on a black police officer
mistaken for a drug dealer a couple weeks ago.

940505, Leslie Co, KY, KET.  Deputy Sheriff Lyn Doyle Parr and
Roger Wells were sentenced for protecting marijuana dealers.

940506, Middlesboro, KY, KET.  Middlesboro Policeman Garrett Lee
Russell was given a postponement of his trial for running a
multi-state marijuana trafficking ring.

940515, West Harlem, New York City, National Public Radio, All
Things Considered, Jim Zorowley (sp?).  The latest New York City
cop scandal is 14 cops in the 30th precinct arrested and more to
go for robbing drug dealers, shooting a man in custody, etc.  The
Knapp (sp?) Commission investigated systemic corruption,
especially in the narcotics business.  Also a Mallen (sp?)
Commission last October.  A "Blue Wall of Silence" was found
where officers lied to protect each other.  Also referenced was
the 77th precinct in Brooklyn where in 86, 12 cops were stealing
and selling drugs.

940518, Thailand, Paul Harvey.  Ten politicians, including six
present members of Parliament, are accused of drug dealing.

940601, Middlesboro, KY, KNN.  Middlesboro Police Officer James
Patterson pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking.  Sentencing is
scheduled for August.

940604, Louisville, KY, KNN.  FBI Agent Withers is accused of
heroin trafficking.  He reputedly stole 100 pounds of heroin from
the evidence room and sold it to dealers who were under FBI
surveillance.  Solicitations were by telephone and mail, and
payment was to various Post Office boxes.  Much of the evidence
was found in a relative's home in Louisville, KY.

940610, Beattyville, Lee County, KY, KET?  Sheriff Brandenburg is
real careful when he busts 123 marijuana plants.  He is under
indictment for trafficking in marijuana confiscated last year.

940614, Hazard, KY, WKYU, KNN.  A internal investigation hearing
in Frankfort was indefinitely postponed for another of Kentucky's
Finest yesterday.  Hazard Post Kentucky State Police Officer Mark
Lopez (28) is accused of stealing $2000 [not clear if of or in
addition to] marijuana from evidence and threatening to kill an
informant.  WSEK says that an informant got $450, but Officer
Lopez claimed $2475 in his report.  No mention of how much
marijuana he scored.

940621, Louisville, KY, WHAS-KET.  Louisville Police Officer
George Bell is busted for cocaine possession.

940628, Beattyville, KY, Kentucky Tonight.  Beattyville Police
Chief Townsend is finally fired after being on suspension with
pay since May.  The fate of the 16,000 marijuana plants which
were disappeared under his care is still unknown.

940707, New York City, NY, NPR.  The (Judge Jim) Mollen (sp)
Commission Report has been released documenting years of highly
organized police corruption.  Gangs of Our Finest rushed to crime
scenes to collect the booty.  They also used police equipment to
break and enter and burglarize.  They protected narcotics
dealers, stole and resold narcotics and handguns (New York has a
"Sullivan Law" prohibiting private ownership of handguns).  When
investigated, they lied and perjured.  Honest(?) police and
supervisors chose to ignore this.  Three former Police
Commissioners, including present National Drug Czar Lee Brown,
"showed a willful blindness to corruption".  The extent of this
corruption is unknown, but "everywhere we looked for it, we found
it".  Suggestions on cleaning up NYC Police are hotly contested
by the department.

940712, Eastern Kentucky, WKYU, WMKZ.  An unnamed Eastern
Kentucky man (25) pleaded guilty to selling marijuana within 1000
yards of a school in the Mexican dilution connection.  He was
sentenced to 8 months in jail.  The real target is Lee County
Sheriff Douglas Brandenburg.

940727, Lexington & Beattyville, KY, WSEK.  Deceased drug dealer
Irvine Shouse (32) died 03 Apr 94 of acute cocaine and diamulid
(sp?) (a strong cancer painkiller) poisoning.  No fowl [sick]
play is suspected!  Shouse claimed that Beattyville Police Chief
Townsend tried to sell him part of the 1600 marijuana plants
which were disappeared from evidence and mysteriously reappeared
in his car trunk, but didn't live long enough to tell that to a
jury.

940804, Middlesboro, KY, KNN.  Former Middlesboro Police Chief
Steeley Barnett and sidekick Gerald Pratt, superintendent of the
streets department now want to plead guilty to federal drug
trafficking charges.

940805, Jefferson Co, Louisville, KY, KNN.  The Grand Jury is
ready to indict 50 jailors and employees of the Jefferson KY
County jail on charges of drug smuggling within the jail.

940906, Pikeville, KY, WKYU.  The trial of Lee County, KY,
Sheriff Douglas Brandenburg is scheduled to start today in
Pikeville.  Sheriff Brandenburg is accused of importing cheap
Mexican marijuana to adulterate his higher quality domestic
product.

940907, Pikeville, KY, KNN.  Lee County Sheriff Douglas
Brandenburg is said to have taken payments of "thousand of
dollars per month" to protect the drug operations in his county,
starting shortly after he was elected and ending in June 94 as
his operation was taken down by federal action.

940909, Pikeville, KY, WKYU.  Three more codefendants plead
guilty in the Lee County Sheriff Douglas Brandenburg marijuana
adulteration trial.

940909, Pikeville, KY, KNN.  Lee County Sheriff Douglas
Brandenburg is given a mistrial.  The reason given is that his
co-conspirators have all plead guilty, and it looks bad for him.

940912, London, KY, KNN, WSEK.  The drug trial of Middlesboro
Officer Garrett Lee Russell starts today.  He is accused of three
counts of dealing in cocaine, marijuana, and pain killers, 1
count of possession, 2 of use of a firearm in the commission of
drug dealing.  He was arrested in March in "Operation Broken
Shield", after a 20 month investigation.  He is accused of also
being a USER, using, dealing and letting his customers use in his
cruiser.  All of his co-conspirators have pleaded guilty , but
this apparently is not sufficient for a mere city cop to be given
a mistrial.

940916, London, KY, WSEK.  Middlesboro City Police Officer
Garrett Lee Russell claims that FBI Informant Benny Meyers gave
him free cocaine, and then demanded that Orificer Russell supply
him with other drugs.  He carried a firearm during these drug
transactions because it was part of his uniform.

940916, London, KY, WKYM.  Middlesboro Kentucky City Police
Officer Garrett Lee Russell is convicted of drug dealing charges,
but not of the use of a firearm in the commission of a drug crime
charges.

941103,  This file distributed to Dan Drumm <[e-mail]>

Recommended reading:

Susan Adler, _Wheeling and Dealing_.  Univ of Colorado at Boulder
study of drug entrepreneurs in southern California.  The Nation,
V249, p341.

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, "A Wiser Course:
Ending Drug Prohibition".

Christic Institute, _Inside the Shadow Government_, The Christic
Institute, 1324 North Capitol St NW, Wash, DC 20002.
202/797-8106 15.00 Ongoing CIA drug smuggling etc.

Leslie Cockburn, _Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan
Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms
Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection_, Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1987.  Alleges that the CIA allowed drug traffickers to
use its airfields to import cocaine and marijuana into the United
States in return for the drug dealers giving money and arms to
the Nicaraguan contras.

Leslie Cockburn, "Drugs, Guns and the CIA", PBS Frontline program
on 17 May 88.

Courtwright , David.  _Drug legalization, the drug war, and drug
treatment in historical perspective_.  [US story]

Sally Denton, _The Bluegrass Conspiracy_, Doubleday, 1990.
Documents links between Lexington Kentucky police, politicians,
patricians and major drug trafficking.

Steven Emerson, _Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military
Operations of the Reagan Era_.  (Putnam, 1988).  U.  S.  News &
World Report, p31, Nov 16, 1987.

Edward J Epstein, _Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in
America_.  G Putnam's Sons, 1977.  Connections between the Nixon
administration and heroin trafficking.

Ryan Freemantle, _The Fix: Inside the World Drug Trade_.  352p.
1986.  St.  Martin's Press.  Illegal drug business.  British?
Monitor radio.

Ronald Hamowy, _Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government
Control_, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.  $12.95
Sinsemilla Tips, V8#3p27.

Kinder, Douglas Clark.  _Shutting out the evil: nativism and
narcotics control in the United States_.

Henrick Krueger (translated by Jerry Meldon), _The Great Heroin
Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism_.  South End
Press, 1980.  240pp.  ISBN 0-89608-031-5p.  Well documented CIA
and DEA encouragement of heroin importation from Asia and Mexico.

Jonathan Kwitny, _The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope,
Dirty Money and the CIA_, WW Norton, c1987.  Mother Jones,
Aug/Sep 87, p17.

Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain, _Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the
Sixties Rebellion_.  Grove Press.  The Nation, Sep 5, 1987, p
189.

Rensselaer W Lee III, _White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political
Power_.  Transaction Press.  256pp.  The economies of Columbia,
Peru, and Bolivia have been captured by the drug trade.

Michael Levine, ???.  1990.  Interview on 23 April 90
MacNeil-Lehrer.  25 year DEA agent claims that 50 tons of cocaine
per year were shipped thru Honduras to USA to fund the War on
Communists.

Stanley J Marks, _A Year in the Lives of the Damned: Reagan,
Reaganism, 1986!_ Bureau of International Affairs.  Reveals 1980
agreement to sell arms to Iran and protect drug smugglers.

Jonathan Marshall, _Drug Wars_, 1990 Cohan & Cohen.  The
connection between Mexican drug underworld & CIA.

Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter.  _The Iran
Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the
Reagan Era_.  South End, Boston, 313pp, $11.  Drug trafficking,
gun running, government toppling, and assassination.  Ref: Utne
Reader, Nov/Dec 87, p122.

Jonathan Marshall.  _Opium, tungsten and the search for National
Security_.  [more stuff on international business and politics of
drug trade supported by the US government, but, since profits
were lucrative, one that led to corruption and misuse of
government officials and resources]

Al McCoy, _The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia 1972_.
Harper & Row

McAllister, William.  _Conflicts of interest in the international
drug control system_.  [an economic argument about producing
versus manufacturing countries and how they negotiated
international drug laws]

John McWilliams, _Through the Past Darkly: the Politics and
policies of America's drug war_.

Meyer, Kathryn.  _Fast crabs and cigarette boats: a speculative
essay_.  [this is about drug wars in china, starting with Great
Britain's monopoly on selling opium to China from India]

James Mills, _The Underground Empire_, Doubleday, $22.95
Newsweek, July 28, 1986, p65.  Big time drug smuggling business
and efforts of "Centac" to neutralize it.  Purportedly true, but
absolutely NO references nor documentation.

David Musto, _The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic
Control_.  Utne Reader, #32p78

Reed, Terry and John Cummings.  _Compromised: Clinton, Bush and
the CIA_.  Reports on the aledged conspiracy of CIA drug
trafficking out of Mena, AR.  WSJ, 940420.

Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, _Cocaine Politics: Drugs,
Armies, and the CIA in Central America_.  1992, Univ of
California Press, Berkeley CA.  $13.

Elaine Shannon, _Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, & the
War America Can't Win_.  Time.

Sam Staley, _Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities_,
Transaction, 1992.  WSJ, Aug 13 92, A13.  War on Drugs escalates
urban violence & removes youth from the legitimate economy.

Stutman, _Deep Cover_.  Confessions of an ex-DEA agent.

Arnold S Trebach, _The Great Drug War_.  Professor of Justice at
American University.  ref Reason, Nov 87, p46.

William O.  Walker, III, ed.  _Drug Control Policy: Essays in
historical and comparative perspective_.  Penn State Press, 1992.

Steven Wisotsky, Beyond the War on Drugs: Overcoming A Failed
Policy", professor of legal studies at Nova University Law
Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Leon Ziegler, _La Suiss Lave Plus Blanc_, Editions du Seuil,
Paris, France.  Swiss money laundering.  Alleges that Iran paid
for arms from the Iran-contra conspiracy partly in heroin &
morphine base.  ACRES USA, Apr 90, p21.

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