2 decades ago, i obtained a new client. I post his resume, with his permission, as background information for my series of articles about the Government's war on me. I am grateful to Mr. Parker, Terry Reed and others for their help in understanding this complex nest of Merde.
RESUME
TRENTON H. PARKER
1. · PERSONAL INFORMATION:
DATE OF BIRTH: February 2, 1945 NATIONALITY: U.S.A.
PLACE OF BIRTH:Camp Lejeune Marine Base, North Carolinao
HEIGHT1 6' 3" HAIR: Brown EYES :B1ue WEIGHT: 205 lb. MARITAL STATUS:Divorced NUMBER OF CHILDREN: 3
RESIDENCE :Denver, Colorado. HEALTH :Good
1. EDUCATION:
Leuzinger High School, Lawndale, California. Graduated 1963
· course: College Prep . School Activities: Senior Class President School Senate, Varsity Track and Cross Country - 3rd and 4 th yea.
Santa Ana Junior College, Santa Ana, California. Graduated ·1967 with Honors. Major: Social Sciences - Philosophy 1 Deans List fo· semesters; President, School Honors Society; Permi!nent Member - California Junior College Scholarship Society, Sophomore Class Vice President, Man of the Year Award, College House of Representatives, Minister of Justice; Nalley Award Recipient.
Fullerton Junior College :Fullerton, California. Summer Classes
California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, Californi
Graduated January, 1969 with Honors Degree: B .A. Philosophy and
·psychology Major-Minor, Deans List all semesters.
California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, California.
Graduated June, 1969 with Honors. Degree :B.A. Sociology,
Major-Minor in Business, Deans List all semesters.
California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, California. Masters Degree: Sociology, Minor in Business.Deans List, Did no complete thesis and graduate due to financial reasons. Graduate Student Elected Representative to College Senate.
Liberty Mutual School of Insurance, Boston, Massachusetts, Claim.
Adjustments and Workmen's Compensation Investigator.
New York Institute of Finance :
Securities License, New York, Ne1
York. Correspondence Course.
Training Center - Six Months.
Dean Witter &'Company Securities
Real Estate Prep; Denver, Colorado. Real Estate Salesman's
La Salle University, Chicago, Illinois. Correspondence Law Sch4 Course, 1973. Did not Graduate - School stopped Law Program.
Dick Jones School of Real Estate, Denver, Colorado. Real EstatE Brokers School, Graduated January, 1976. Passed Multi-State Rec Estate Brokers Examination.
2. FORMER FINANCIAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSES:
1. Registered Representative:New York Stock Exchange; 1972.
1. Registered Representative :American Stock Exchanger 1972.
2. Registered Representative:Pacific Cost Stock Exchange; 197. d .. Registered Representative:Mid-West Stock Exchange1 1972.. e. Registered Representative:Chicago Board of Trade1 1972.
f. Registered Representative:Chicago Mercantile Exchange; 197.
1. Teaching Certificate:Colorado State Board of Community Colleges, Securities and Finance1 October, 1973.
2. Board of Directors:American Institute of Finance; 1978.
i . Registered Securities Broker-Dealer:United States Securiti1 and Exchange Commission; March, 1975
j. Securities Broker Dealer License; State of Colorado, 1974.
1. Securities Principal's License: National AssociJtion of Securities Dealers; October, 1975.
1. Securities Financial Principal's License:National Associat of Securities Dealers; October, 1975
1. All Lines Insurance Broker's License: State of Colorado, 19
2. Real Estate Broker's License:State of Colorado, 1976
3. Certified Lender's License:State of Colorado, November, 19
4. Reistered Investment Advisor: United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 1976.
5. Registered Associated Person: United States Commodity Futur Trading Commission, 1976.
6. Registered Commodity Pool Manager: United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1976.
7. Registered Commodity Advisor: United States Commodity Futur Trading Commission 1976.
MILITARY TRAINING EXPERIENCE
L U.S.M.C. Search and Destroy Mission Center, Camp Pendelton, California.
?. Crypto-Logic Training Center, Computer Center, 3rd Marine Air Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMF-Pac), El Toro Marine Air Base, California.
t Covert Operations Training Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
. Cold Survival Training, Mt. Shata, California, Point Burrow, Alaska.
1. Water Assault and Survival Training, Navy Seal Training Center, San Deago Naval Bas1 Coronado Island, San Diego, California.
2. Desert Warfare and Survival Training, U.S.M.C., Twentynine Palms, California.
3. Civil Affairs and Military Government College, Fort Brag, Georgia, Special Forces Training Center.
4. Military Communications and Language Center, Monterey, California.
5. Jungle & Covert Operations Training Center,(CIA), Panama Canal Zone, Panama.
6. Foreign Military Recrutment and Development Center; Small Arms & Demolition Training Center, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
7. Political and Military Science & Affairs Training Center,
8. Accident Investigation & Insurance Reporting Procedures, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, Mass.
9. Computer Security Systems; IBM, Atlanta, Georgia.
10. Criminal Investigation Training Program, Quantico,Virginia.
Publications by Trenton B. Park.er
1. Principals of Monetary Destabilmtion of Third World Currencies
2. Principals and Goals of Urban Warfare
3. Movement Politics - Chairman Mao Revisited
4. Principals of Propaganda by Incremental Stealtla
4. Principals of Terrorist Tactics inNorth America - How to Measure Success
5. Def"ming Wealth and its MOftlllmt.
6. The Art of Document Preparation -National & International
7. The Art of Shadow Danciag and Escape.
8. Principles of Skip Tracing -Hide and Seek
9. Principles and Goals of Off Shore Ymaacing and Investments
10. The Five Palaces of Power -F"mancial, ladustrialt Media, Mili1ary & Political 12. Morality -Past, Present & Future
11. The Principles of Identity Theft and Asset Convenion
12. Principles of Ruthless Economics
13. Principles of "Continental"vs. "Island" Eeoaomics
14. The New Goals of War and Mau Extermination
15. Invasion USA -A Strategic Game Plan -Check Mate
DEFRAUDING AMERICA
This document was entered into the court reco followed by a Justice Department protest that the papers filed by Parter should be sealed. A reduced-in-si7.e copy of that confidential CIA doCWI\nt is sh0wn below.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRicr COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COIDRAOO IDUIS T, BABCOCK, JUDGE
Case No. 93-CR-43
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintif f ,
vs.,
TREN'ION H.PARKER,
Def endant.
DEFENDANT ' S AMENDED MJI'ION REQUESTING COURT ORDERED PRODUCTION OF CEN'
INTELLIGENCE FILES AND RECORDS PERTAINING TO DEFENDANT
COMES "NOW, the Def endant , Trenton H. Parker , pro se, and moves the Dist Court to enter Orders directing the U.S. Attorney , National Security Agei Department of Def ense, National Security Council, Central Intelligence Ag1 and all other related government entities to produce any and all f i reports, pay records , transcripts1 service records, security f iles, tr. statements, surveillance reports , covert operations reports, special operat overviews, FOI records, and any and all documents, records and computer rel, inf o.nration relating to this Def endant in his of f icial and unof f icial an1 direct and/or indirect , and/or attached and/or extended capacity as ag• employee, broker, control source, contact , or any other related or unrel, capacity , covering the periods 1963 to present (1993 ) , and more specif ica but not limited to, Def endant ' s involvement in the £ollov1ing CIA secret, co and/or controlled operations.
l. oeeration Mother Goose 6/64 - 1 2/64 : This operation delt with enter/ joint military ( USMC-Navy- Ar.my-Air Force) selection , recruitment training of military academy gualif ied enlisted men with security ratings be educated and trained in basic covert and undercover activities, and a training , to be released f ran active military duty from the armed service enroll into various colleges and universities under the G .I. Bill and , w under the supervision of the CIA, were to enf iltrate and rerx>rt on "expec ( 0200 ) unamerican- com:nunist activities and student movements which were to place on and of f campus, as it related to the Vietnam War , and other rel political areas. The training center was located at Camp Pendelt9n , calif o ( USMCB) . Defendant was selected and completed the "Mother Goose" program was released from active duty on December 22 , 1964 fran the USMC , at Trea Island, San Francisco.
2 . 0peration Back-Draf t 1 965-1 970: This CIA OfJOJ"ation ( as regards Def endant ) covered a f our + year period involving the Def endant and o selected and trained fonner enlisted military personal, who received govern ( G.I. Bill) and CIA financial assistance ·while attending institutions of hi education , and who were trained to inf iltrate all areas of student activi
and student government , and report to their CIA control on a regular ( at le.: once a month) basis, and to disrupt any and all antiamerican college camt movements. Under the supervision of the CIA, the Def endant participated this program while attending college and university programs from 1965 to l in the Southern calif ornia area. Def endant was active in student government.
2. Operation cyclops 1971-1974 : This operation involved the placemE
/inf iltration of American f inancial institutions by CIA agents with the purpc of obtaining various inf ormation relating to the internal workings of s< businesses and to gather inf ormation on the f inancial activities of cert:
11 target 11 businesses and political and milita.ry personal and to "track" S<
persons through their investments, and f or the agents to becane prof icient the running and use of various f inancial ( national and internation; institutional activities. The Defendant obtained employment, through the hi of the CIA, with New York Stock Exchange and brokerage f irms starting in l until 1974, in Calif ornia and Colorado, and supplied conf idential inf o.rmat to the CIA on various target customer accounts and transactions, starting f: the bottcm to the top, until he opened his own brokerage f irm through the , and NASO.
3. 0peration Interlink 1974-1976: This operation involved manipulation of oil prices; the opening of the Suez Canal; the coordina disruption of the Alaska pipeline; the ouster of the President of Mexico; sale of missing W.W. II gold ; and the introCJ.uction and passage of congressional legislation. This was a top secret operation involving President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Director of CIA, a f ormer Vice President of the United States, and various top national international political and f inancial f igures. The Defendant was one of persons who acted as the coordinating messenger for this operation , which designed to control world and national oil reserves and raise oil prices; to f inance arms for various Middle Eastern Arab nations in contravention various United States laws.
4. 0peration Anaconda 1 975-1 976: This operation entailed CIA age and/or operatives running f or various major state and f ederal political of f i for the purposes of conducting a "sting" operation in order to "f lush c f oreign agents who contact or investigate political candidates in the ea stages of their political campaigns, in an attempt to gain early insi inf ormation and inf luence on said candidates. The second purpose of operation was to help swing key elections toward one candidate over another means of either party and/or public support or division. The Def end participated in the 1976 election campaign f or the of f ice of United Sta Senate ( Colorado) and had rrost of his campaign expenses paid by the CIA.
6 . 0peration Gold Bug 1 979-1 982: Operation Gold Bug involved develop:nent of one of a number of national and international businesses illegal drug related activities ( Operation Snow Cone) , and financing progr sponsored by the CIA in order to develop independent ( fran congress) £inane sources ( resources ) of inccrne ( and assets ) which would be available or regular basis, in order to support and carry on expensive CIA covert natic and international activities, and more specif ically to prepare f or plan Central American activities in the f uture. A prime purpose of "Gold Bu
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establish a covert surveillance program, contra training center, and sat-c tracking station in order to monitor French space center activities in Fre Guiana , South America. Defendant was imprisoned in 1982 f or his ro Def endant turned over copies of the "Pegasus Files" to Congressman la McDonald of Atlanta , Georgia just before appearing in Denver District Cc for trial on 2/2/82.
7 . 0peration Indigo 1 991-1 992: This operation is in progress at t time and entails the present developnent of the opium plant and f ut importation of opium and opium by-products f rom Nigeria into the U. S., to h f inance revolutions in various African nations, such as Angola . This operation is headquartered. in , and run out of , the U. S. E.mbassy , lag Nigeria. This operation is currently under way and is providing f inanc support for arms shiµnents which are coming into the ports of Lagos and E Harcourt , Nigeria , which, in turn, are delivered. to both sides in the pres Angolan Civil War. Def endant received a full brief ing at the U. S. Ernbas Lagos, Nigeria early in 1992 , while on a f inancial-political f act f ine survey in Nigeria, regarding this "double covert" operation.
Def endant has been a CIA undercover operative f or nearly 30 years, require the requested supporting documentation to support his def ense contention that, well in advance, Defendant was aware that a money "st operation" was being contemplated against the Def endant, and that, at no tJ whatsoever , did the Defendant believe that the money which was purported tc drug related funds, was such, and knew that said funds were "clean"
belonged to the United States of America; that the. "would-be" undercover as
was no drug dealer ; had not been involved for the "four years past" in importation of ( 100 to 200 kilos at a time) cocaine into the U. S., Def endant ' s sources in Mexico, Panama and Columbia , and even before the WOl be undercover customs agent ever met the Def endant. While the Def endant always ref used to becane involve in drug related activities, Def endant " require all CIA related records to demonstrate to the jury, just how he cOIUE way of his advanced sources of information on "Dapper Dan" the customs man.
Defendant has no idea as to the state ' s and government 1 s reasons selecting the Def endant as a target f or their "would-be" sting operation , 01 it had anything to do with the Defendant ' s ref usal, after touring Nigeria being briefed on the status of present conditions in Nigeria and Angola , becane involved in the CIA "Drugs and Guns" operations, or the launderin f unds in connection , therewith.
lvberefore, gcxx'l cause having been shown , Def endant moves the Court to gJ the Def endant the relief sought, herein.
Respectf ully Suhnitted ,
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mission. From "Ravens: Covert War in Laos," a 2004 documentary shown on the (U.S.) Discovery Times channel on April 11, 2004.
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TOP SECRET CIA DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATIONS
lperation Snow Cone - Parent Central American drug smuggling operation. Various operations um:
,eration Snow Cone include:
)peration Watch Tower - Operation Watch Tower consists of secret radio beacons stationed at rem
:ations between Columbia and Panama. The beacons help CIA drug pilots fly from Central Americ nama at near-sea-level without being detected by high flying U.S. drug interdiction aircraft. Pilots drug flights home in on the low frequency signals emitted by the beacons to reach their destinatio brook Army Airfield in Panama.
peration Toilet Seat - The CIA uses Boeing 727 and C-130 aircraft to haul drugs from Central and uth America. The drugs are du1nped out the rear ramps of the aircraft into waters offshore of the U waterproof containers. There the drugs are retrieved by boat and brought into the U.S.
lperation Whale Watch - Consists of using offshore oil drilling rigs as a cover for drug smuggling. e drugs are offloaded by ship onto the oil drilling platforms. The drugs are then flown by helicopte arby U.S. coastal areas. Companies owning the oil rigs included Rowan International and divisiom pata Corp., such as Zapata Petroleum and Zapata Off-Shore. Zapata Corp. is partly owned by form sident George Bush.
peration Buy Back - Operation involving CIA front Pacific Seafood Company._ Drugs are packed i
imp containers and shipped to various points in the U.S. This is a joint DEA-CIA operation.
'r>ernti9n Big Blow - See link.
DDITIONAL CIA DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATIONS
)peration Indigo Sky - Massive CIA heroin smuggling operation based in Lagos, Nigeria. Heroin i
>wn and processed in Nigeria, then shipped for packaging to Amsterdam, Netherlands. From there roin is shipped to Europe and various points in the U.S., including bonded warehouses on the East ast and Boeing Field in Seattle.
iperation New Wave - CIA heroin smuggling operation based in Thailand. CIA front Van Der Ber emational is responsible for getting the drugs out of the Orient. Typically the heroin is smuggled Jard freighters and cruise liners heading from the U.S. Transshipment points in the U.S. include Sa
:!go, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles.
)peration Short Field
)peration Morning Gold
)peration Backlash
)peration Triangle
CIA DRUG DISTRIBUTION ROUTES
formation on the CIA drug smuggling operations listed above was provided by the following CIA •
>.JI (Office of Naval Intelligence) operatives:
renton Parker mther Russbacher icha_LMaholy ibert Hunt
)Cutnentation confirming the intelligence status of each of these men is attached. This documentati
lS taken from Rodney Stich's seminal work, Ddrm.iding America.
he information provided by these men, often at great personal risk to themselves and their families
nas information provided by CIA agents and contract agents such as Richard Brenneke, Stephen
ittenden, Gene Tatum, and Terry Reed, can leave no doubt that the CIA has been involved in drug Lfficking on a massive scale and over an extended period of time. Every single member of Congre rs known about it, as. well as every high-ranking off1eial of the Executive as well as the Judicial anches of our government. And yet not a single member of any government entity has thus far pped forward to try to put an end to this rampant drug smuggling, despite being confronted with 1cumentary evidence. Let's call this for what it is: treason.
he reader needs to understand the true breadth of the CIA's drug operations. Profits from its cocair roin, and marijuana smuggling activities have been estimated at between $10 and $15 billion per y ie economic and social devastation to the United States caused by this illegal activity is incalculabl deed, the damage has been so great, that even if the CIA were banished tomorrow, it's doubtful thi untry could recover from the harm the CIA-sponsored drug epidemic has already caused.
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BY SHARON CHURCHER
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Some of Bill Clinton's young aides have been cutting up while using the three presi¬ dential boxes at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and other patrons aren't amused.
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A White House source told us that the President has been made aware of such complaints by Kennedy Center administrators. From now on, he says, aides will get a list of do's and don'ts with their tickets. "There will be asterisks telling them at which events to wear formal clothes," the source
explains, "and about eight specific rules like 'Be on time.' 'Don't hang your jacket over the railings, because it might drop on someone's head,' and 'Don't take your cocktails into the box, because it will make other people jealous.' "
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We're shocked! Lisa Gastineau reports that the feds are not letting up in their campaign against impris¬ oned Mafia chief John Gatti.
The government recently seized Pulcinella's, a chic Manhattan bistro where Mark Gastineau's ex was doing promotions for the owner of record. Gatti pal Carlo Vaccarezza. Gotti-"a true gentleman," Lisa Gastineau says-had invested $1 mil¬
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only reason she agreed to promote the restaurant¬ unsalaried, she stresses¬ was that business was hurt¬
ing because people were "intimidated" by "rumors"
that it was a Gatti-crew hang¬ out. She wanted to help her pal Vaccarezza change that "image," she says.
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The saga beg; ing to papers ,Pa tiled in U.S. Oistr after "difficult tim him to set up a n ness. His old bu' gold-mining !tax-o scheme. and the ordered him to p largest single re,; crime victrms.evE Parker demurred merely a "tax pre seeking to help ir whom prosecuto bilked out of mor million-avoid pE he spent several
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:dn t tell Kassey I recognized was careful to play 1t as safe
.I as I c ould, " Parker t old onfidential." "I knew some¬ wrong. As soon as he left, I e Colorado attorney general's
J asked the receptionist the the investigator' who looked R ick les. She said he wa s Jert Kalutkiewicz. "
says he instantly realized he 1rget of a sting. Much later he 1e details. Operation Legal
is zeroing in on professionals thought to be in league with ade. and Kalutkiewicz was an or agent on the federal-state The attorney general's inves¬ med that he had been told by
1ondsman that Parker could launder money."
er knew at the time, he says, '.alutk1ewicz was trying to "set th dirty money "I was, to say perplexed-not to me,ntionand mulled what to do over a jug of white wine. As Tchaikovsky's celebra¬ tion of Napoleon's defeat in Russia, punctuated by the sounds of a cannon, shook the room, Parker had a revela¬ tion. He would launch a reverse sting, aiming, he told us, to milk his persecu¬ t or s-quite legally, of cour se-of as much money as possible.
A t their next meeting, Parker told Kassey that he had the ideal investment device: He'd create a new corporation f or him with a bank acc ount in the Bahamas. "It had been more than ten years since I had been to the Bahamas, and I needed a free vacation," Parker explains in court papers. "I told Kassey, who was an obvious 'dummy' when it came to corporations, I would act as the corporate registered agent, and serve as the president and only director."
The undercover agent handed over
$15,000 t o cover the cost of t he Caribbean break, which Parker prompt¬ ly enjoyed, and the founding of the new c ompany. In turn, Parker ga ve Kalutkiewicz the· incorporation papers. Had the agent bothered to study them, Parker gloats, he would have discov¬ ered that Kassey now owned Si per¬ c en t ol Union C apital Mor t gage Corporation. Since the undercover oper-
experts, says this means that the new company's real principal owner s were the two states-and those states' poor taxpayers.
"Now was the time for 'the great fuck
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papers. At Union's first board meeting¬ convened by its president (Parker) and attended by the sole director (Parker)- Parker voted himself an annual salary of
$1 million, guaranteed by shareholders (principally Arizona and Colorado) "1n• direct proportion" to their stock owner¬ ship. Blissfully unaware of these techni¬ c alities, the undercover agent gave Parker another $20,000. "I t ook the money and told Kassey I would make sure that all ol the funds got · properly disbursed,' which I did, all of them to myself for back salary," Parker says 1n
court papers. ' ·
Then the f eds c ame c alling. A Customs agent, Donald Charobee, pos¬ ing as a drug dealer called "Don Cham¬ bers," asked Parker to launder money Parker says he realized after plying Chambers with "a few drinks" that he was another gover nment oper ative Chambers claimed to run drugs ou't West in small planes, but didn't know the region's most obvious geographical landmarks, Parkr says
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firms' bylaws ( about which. Parker say 1110 ;1gc11I 11cvo1 111q ui roc J). Ilic Unt t E States had now agreed to guarantE Trenton Parker a salary of S 1 m!ll1on year per company Parker says ,he w; delighted to acc ept the $75 000 t r agent then gave him to wash. Jat ural he put it toward hrs salaries
Oblivious to all this, Customq agen chuckled that they were "having a goc
time" snaring Parker. The boasi, p1ckE up on their own wire, soon came bac to haunt them Arrested for money lau dering, Parker wrote up his antic s court papers that he gleefully ent1tlE "Anatomy of a Reverse Stmg " Pros, cutors admit that this theory has causE "a doubt concerning [his] guilt, ' whic is why they have agreed to dismiss tr federal charges in the case.
Though sta t e money -launder 1 n charges are still pending against h1r Parker has warned author1t1es that would be wise to drop them. roo. sine it is clear who holds the upper hand.
He has slapped the Unit ed St atE government with a demand for the ': million that he say s the Tre a su1 Department owes him to dat e. That
$500,000 for toiling for six months c
president of Cleveland Investment ar another $500,000 for a hair y ear s Se vices to R ETA He 1s also seeking : million f rom A rizona and C olor ad1 since it has been a year srnce he toe over the presidency of Unron Cap1t Mortgage.
The U.S prosecutor 1n charge of tr sting, Joseph Mackey. assured us th. he doesn't expect taxpayers will ha'Je pay up, becciuse when the two ferJer agents accepted their stockr1olc-J1rig Parker " was playing a game s these were not legal agreemen t s good faith " Parker. however. tell s L that he has every 1ntent1on of su1nq-- n1 1ust for salaries. but f or all hr s L0:CJ . e xpense s A f t er a l l, going t o c ou
shouldn't c ost him a dime. The by!a· . of the three companies he su up ma
their principal stockholders- - t! 'f: Unite States. Arizona. and Coior2clo- r&sour sible for all legal expenses cCJ1i1 'c'=1e to hrs efforts as C E 0 D-f-e
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initially discovered deep-seated corruption at a major airlme and within the federal govermnent while holding federal responsibilities for air safety at the airline experiencing an inordinate number of corruption-related air disasters.
In seeking to expose and correct the tragedy-related criminality, he encountered epidemic coverup in every major government and non-govermnent check and balance. His determination to circum¬ vent complicity of coverups Iesulted in a thirty-year crusade against corrupt government, revealing a level of corruption that at first may appear beyond comprehension.
Commencing in the late 1980s the author's acti.vities became a magnet for attracting fonner deep-cover people assigned to or
·working with U.S. intelligence agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration. They were concerned about the harm caused by the activities they were ordered to perform by their superiors.
. .. The average American has been kept illiterate in these areas by the establishment media, the babel of governmen,t officials, and the
\ criminal coverup by almost every membe1' of Congress. The
• public's own refusal to read what has been written about many of
: .. .these subjects has made this condition possible. The resulting state
ii • of naivete may cause difficulty believing what is stated here.
The author, and those concerned whistleblowers .who contributed infonnation found in these pages, have nothing to gain, and much to lose, by coming forward; even their lives. Despite the unlawful
• acts that many of these whistleblowers committed; under orders and knowledge of high U.S. officials, they deserve credit for risking their lives and imprisonment by speaking out.
The charges within these pages are supported by a hundreds of classified government documents; records of . administrative proceedings; court filings; the author's discoveries while a federal and priva te investigator; over a thousand hours of deposition-like statements made to him by many fom1er CIA and DEA personnel; qongressionaI records; circumstantial and anecdotal evidence; and research by others.
program in the United States, where conuption and resulting airline crashes were rampant. This experience caused him to embark upon a lifelong crusade exposing hard-core corruption in the three branches of the federal government.
During the past five years he became a confidant to many former deep-cover people in the U.S. intelligence community who were on the front-lines of serious misconduct ordered by their superiors.
Well over a thousand hours of deposition-like communications, hundreds of classified documents, and many letters, made the author privy to government corruption far beyond what he had already personally discovered.
Each of the many whistleblowers who contributed to the contents of this book have been targeted and persecuted, as well as their families, by Justice Department prosecutors and federal judges, seeking to silence them. Many other informants who could have provided additional information were killed or mysteriously died. The author and his confidants are risking their lives in bringing this information to the American public,
Walsh refused to receive my testimony and evidence and that of Gunther Russbacher.
SILENCING THE CHRlSTIC INSTITUTE
The public-service-oriented Christie Foundation investigated the atrocities associated with CIA activities in Centra America, and filed a federal lawsuit against White House officials who were implicated. Their complaint stated numerous federal causes of actions, invoking mandatory federal court jurisdiction. But the Christie Institute encountered the same judicial obstruction of justice that I encountered, and similar retaliatory actions. The U.S. District Judge unlawfully dismissed the case, and then ordered the Christie Institute to pay one million dollars damages for having exercised their constitutional and statutory right in filing the action and reporting the criminal activities. The Christie Institute filed an appeal, and were ordered to pay additional sanctions for exercising this right. The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court approved this judicial misconduct by refusing to provide relief, just as the Supreme Court justices had done to me.
ELIMINATING THE INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR
Toward the end of 1992, as the number of crimes directly involving federal officials escalated to an unprecedented number, threatening Justice Department and White House officials, as well as members of Congress, and the Independent Prosecutor was a threat to them all. When the Independent Prosecutor authorization expired on December 15, 1992, Congress refused to renew it. Republicans were under the greatest threat of exposure from a decade-long pattern of corruption, and they threatened to filibuster if a vote was taken. to renew the legislation. Democrats were also threatened for their role in numerous scandals, and didn't press the matter. Further, renewal of the legislation carried a provision that members of Congress could also be investigated by an independent prosecutor.
CIA AND DEA DRUG TRAFFICICTNG
The CIA's role in drug trafficking into the United States has been the subject of many magazine and newspaper articles, books, testimony given to Congressional committees in closed-door hearings, and work-place conversation among CIA personnel. Movies and television documentaries have been made on the subject, and many books and articles have been written describing some ·particular phase of the operation. Yet, most Americans are oblivious to this serious misconduct or its far-flung implications. The DEA's role has received virtually no attention.
One of the first books linking the CIA to drug trafficking was published in 1972, authored by Alfred McCoy: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia ,305 and the heavily documented 1991 update, The Politics of Heroin-CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.306 The author, Alfred W. McCoy, was professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. Some of the books that have been written about CIA drug trafficking have been written by people who were actually part of the operation.
CIA operatives in the Far East, including such well-known CIA personnel as Michael Hand, General Jack Singlaub, and Theodore Shackley, discovered early during the Vietnam war the huge profits to be made from drug trafficking. My CIA, OSS, and DEA informants described their role in the intelligence agency drug trafficking starting in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One of my contacts, formerly with the OSS, described his drug trafficking in the Middle East, flying from Kabul
learned from this source, Russell Bowen, that one..or me managemern people with my airline, Transocean Airlines, wa a CIA operative, receiving the drugs arriving in Beirut. ··
The CIA has stimulated drug trafficking in the Far East, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Africa. All of these unlawful operations escalated the drug crisis in the United States to epidemic proportions, generating huge profits for the U.S. intelligence agencies and many of those who participate in it.
Possibly the largest CIA drug operation was that \vhich was carried out in the Far East in the Golden Triangle area. Ifirst learned of this drug trafficking while Iwas an airline pilot flying into Tokyo for Transocean Airlines and for Japan Airlines, in the 1950s. This CIA drug trafficking greatly increased as the CIA took over from the French. in Indochina. The CIA generated conflicts escalated into the Vietnam war, and this became especially profitable for the CIA.
The question arises as to why thousands of Customs and DEA agents, and other law enforcement agencies, have been unable to reduce the huge flow of drugs into the United States. Until I became a confidant to many CIA and DEA personnel I didn't have the answer. These same agencies responsible for halting the drugs were either shipping them into the United States or aiding and abetting the shipments without detection.
This fact is almost impossible for the average American to compre¬ hend, especially in light of the media coverup of the activities. Few Ameri¬ cans can believe that the people in control of the CIA and DEA, and other intelligence agencies, would conunit these criminal acts and inflict such great harm upon the American people. It also takes the concurrent coverup by many others in the three branches of the federal government to make such a vast operation possible, including the U.S. Attorney General, the
U.S. Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, Customs, Drug Enforcement Administration, and many others.
Sham drug busts occasionally occur to give the public the impression that drug enforcement agencies are carrying out their drug-interdiction responsibilities. One sham drug bust occurred in Miami in the early 1980s to justify hiring more federal personnel and to reflect favo rably on the newly appointed drug czar for Florida, Vice-President George Bush. Another huge drug bust was set up in the Los Angeles area in 1989, at Sylmar, in which twenty tons of drugs were seized. The purpose of this drug bust was two-fold. One was for public relations, indicating to the American public that the huge amount of money and taking of constitu¬ tional rights were justified. The second purpose was to reduce the amount of drugs in circulation, as the drug prices were plunging, due to an
. oversupply.
Some drug busts are to eliminate competition from drug traffickers not connected to the intelligence agencies. Another reason is to bust a CIA
ne was opposed to this activity. He described meetings between individual drug dealers in Columbia, for instance, at which the CIA caused them to form into groups which are now called the Medellin and Cali cartels,
SOUTHEAST ASIA DRUG TRAFFICKING
For decades the British and the French controlled the huge drug operations in Southeast Asia, which was taken over by the United States through the CIA in the 1950s. The CIA's intervention in Vietnam escalated
into the Vietnam War which greatly escalated the drug trafficking and profit for this portion of the CIA operation.
The American public, brainwashed to believe that the Vietnam war was in the interest of freedom and to fight communism, willingly sacrificed the lives of 58,000 American Gis who were killed and the far greater number who were painfully injured and sometimes maimed fur
life.
EVEN IN DEATH THE GI's WERE USED
The CIA drug trafficking required large numbers of drug addicts, and
.the epidemic drug-addition among American Gis became highly profitable. Even indeath the Gis became an unwitting participant in the drug traffick¬ ing, as drugs were shipped into the United States in the bottom of caskets and in the body cavities filled with plastic bags containing drugs. Upon arrival at West Coast Air Force bases, and especially Travis Air Force
Base in California, the drugs would be removed from the caskets and bodies that were identified by secret codes.
OPERATION CODE NAMES
The CIA drug trafficking is handled in an organized mam1er as if it was a large corporation such as General Motors, and different geograph¬ ical areas and different type or level of operations are given code names. In the Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia the code names included
Operation Short Flight; Operation Bunna Road; Operation Morning Gold; and Operation Triangle, among others.
The CIA transferred some of the CIA operatives who developed the drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle area of Southeast Asia to develop and operate drug trafficking into the United States from Central and South America. They reportedly included Theodore Shackley (who now lives in
,, Colombia); Edwin Wilson (who is in federal prison); and Frank Terpil. In i:; Central and South America the code names for CIA drug trafficking included Operation Snow Cone, Operation Toilet Seat, Operation Watch
Tower, among others.
These CIA operatives carried out orders promoting drug trafficking that originated in Washington,
Operation Snow Cone Was the agency identification for the drug trafficking operation in Central and South .A.merica, under which other
• drug operations were located. One was called Operation Watch Tower, whose function was to aid the pilots of the drug-laden ai rcraft tn Av frnm
hundred feet, they could not receive the 11ne-or-s1glll rnu1u "'"""'a ordinarily used. The low-frequency radio beacons permitted the aircraft to home in on the signals, and to reach their destination at Albrook Anny Airfield in Panama. Radio signals from an aircraft on a particular frequency actuated a relay at the radio beacon site that started up the gasoline-engine-powered generators and the radio transmitters.
The CIA utilized the Army Intelligence Agency in Operation Watch Tower, which started in the mid-1970s. U.S. Army Colonel A.J. "Bo" Baker was ordered to oversee part of Operation Watchtc\wer and turned the operation over to Army Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, who also commanded the 10th Special Forces based at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts. Cutolo had supervised Operation Orwell for the intelligence agencies, which was an operation spying upon political figures for the purpose of blackmail, similar to the operation conducted by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover during his reign.
OPERATION TOILET SEAT
The CIA used Boeing 727 and C-130 type aircraft, hauling drugs from Central and South America, to bring drug loads to offshore locations in the United States, throwing the drugs out the rear ramp into the ocean in water-proof containers. The planes were leased or operated by CIA proprietary airlines and flown either by CIA/DIA/DEA crews or by airline pilots supplementing their regular airline income as contract agents.
One of my informants, Gunther Russbacher, gave me the names of several airline pilots who regularly flew drug operations for the CIA, including two captains I had known at United Airlines and a senior captain for Pan American, who was retired from Pan Am but still flew drug runs for U.S. intelligence agencies. One of the United Airline pilots bragged that he made twice as much money flying illegal cargo as he did on his regular airline job. ·
FUELING NICARAGUA REVOLUTION TO PROMOTE DRUG TRAFFICKING
The CIA stimulated Vietnam war was duplicated in Nicaragua to
stimulate military action in Nicaragua, followed by selling and trading arms to both sides of the conflict, receiving drugs in exchange for the weapons. The CIA-fed media releases claimed that the United States had to fund the Contra for freedom purposes and to combat Communism. The real reason appeared to be the profitable drug trafficking. As my CIA contacts stated, the CIA was shipping arms to both sides, defending this in a tongue-in-check comment: "How else can the CIA keep the war
going!"
The CIA sought support from Congress for its Contra operation by
reporting that the Sandinistas were trafficking i n drugs and that the Contras were not doing so. Actually, the U.S. intelligence agencies were selling arms to both the Contras and the Sandinistas and taki ng drugs as part
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the aircraft at a Central America arms and drug transshipment point. Tht White House stated that the drugs were loaded on board the aircraft by tht Sandinistas, making the tapes available to Congress and the media. Inthi1 way the White House sought to inflame public opinion and Congres1 against the Sandinistas so as to vote funding for the Contras. The peopl t represented as Sandinistas were contras. The scheme worked, Congresi voted money for the Contras, and the public generally supported the CIA activity.
All types of aircraft were used for flying arms to Central and Soutl America and returning with drugs. CIA aircraft were generally largt airline or military types, landing in the U nited States at military or genera aviation airports. Almost all military bases became drug transshipmen points, and especially included Homestead (Florida); Davis-Monahar ((Arizona); Travis (Sacramento); Luke (New Mexico); McGuire (Ne\11 Jersey); McClellan and Travis (California).
DEA aircraft used for drug trafficking operations were usually singlt and twin general aviation aircraft, and rarely landed at military fields Instead, they landed at private airports including Mena Airport (Arkansas) Angel Fire Airport (New Mexico); Marana Airport (Arizona); Spirit of S Louis Airport (Missouri); McMinnville Airport (Oregon); Coolidgt Airport (Phoenix); Midland-Odessa (Texas); Lakeside Airport (Chicago) Addison Airport (Denton, Texas); Shamrock Airport (Houston); Pietr: Negro (Black Rock), northeast ofEl Paso; and Redbird Airport (Dallas) . The airport at Mena; Arkansas, was a well-known CIA arms and dru1 transshipment point, and was featured on two television shows, Frontlim
and Now It Can Be Told , and in numerous local newspaper stories.
After the drugs were unloaded at these and other CIA drug transship ment points, CIA-affiliated trucking companies transported the drug throughout the United States. My CIA contacts stated these included MN) Trucking; Jayes' Truck Driver Training School; Jiffey Truck Drive Training School; and Zapata Trucking Company, a division of Zapata Oi Company in Texas.
Barry Seal was one of the CIA's drug pilots, operating out of Men Airport, making many drug flights from Central America into the Unite1 States. He coordinated frequently with Ollie North, who used the drui profits in his various schemes associated with the Contra operation. Sea was killed after talking · too much, threatening the drug traffickin; operations of U.S. intelligence agencies. The day Seal was killed, the FB seized his personal belongings, covering up for his CIA-sanctioned drui operations.
The CIA had placed video cameras on board an aircraft to tape th loading of drugs on board a CIA aircraft by the Sandinistas so as ti discredit them before the American people, thereby generating support t1
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including Nugan Hand Bank (described elsewhere); Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong (also described elsewhere); the Vatican Bank; Bartl<: of Lavoro; and Bank of Credit and Corrunerce International (BCCI).
SACRIFICING ASSETS, A COMMON CIA TACTIC
The CIA and DEA, working with Justice Department prosecutors, frequently target and charge their own pilots with drug offenses, which appears to be a contradiction. My CIA contacts state that this is done for several reasons. One is to eliminate someone who has learned too much about the involvement of government officials. Another reason is that the targeted individual may have incurred disfavor · among his handlers. Another reason is to have periodic drug seizures to make the expensive drug war effective.
A code name identifies the situation where a CIA or DEA drug pilot is set up and sacrificed: Operation Back Biter. Targeted CIA or DEA drug
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trafficking was a key part of the Contra operation in the Iran-Contra affa The criminal activities surrounding the massive CIA arms and dn trafficking at Mena Airport were well known to local residents, the Joe police, the Arkansas State Police, and the media. The local Arkans, Gazette published numerous investigati ve articles describing the crimin activities and the coverup by the State attorney general and Govern<
Clinton.
Despite the many reports by local citizens and police around Mena c the drug trafficking, the U.S. Attorney in Little Rock refused to conduc an investigation. The Arkansas highway patrol also received hundreds c citizen reports detailing the criminal activities, consisting of seven thousand pages in 34 volumes. Governor Bill Clinton was also advised c the activity and requests made of him that he conducts a state investigation Despite the gravity of the reported criminal activities Clinton and the U.S
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pilots are routinely set up by top echelon people. Customs and DEA
Attorney
refused to conduct an investigation.
officials are told about the arrival at a certain airport at a certain time of the targeted pilot, and he is arrested upon arrival. The pilots are charged and prosecuted, denied the right to have CIA or DEA personnel testify in their behalf, and refused the right to obtain government documents on the basis of, would you believe, national security.
AIDING AND ABETTING BY FUTURE PRESIDENT
In 1989 Tom Brown, former leader of the Arkansas Committee, 307 sent a petition to Governor Clinton to convene a special state grand jury. Brown and his committee had obtained considerabldnformation showing that the CIA was using Mena Airport in Arkansas as a major arms and drug transfer point. An Arkansas state prosecutor, Charles Black, requested in 1988 that Governor Bill Clinton supply state money to investigate the serious international drug activities that were beyond the financial ability of the small Mena police force. They knew drug traffick¬ ing was rampant, but they needed state or federal funds to probe into the international aspects of the operation.
Arkansas papers carried stories of the CIA arms and drug tra.fficking at Mena Airport, describing details of the covert operations. The Arkansas Times had a front page story (May 21, 1992) with three pictures across the top showing CIA contract agent Barry Seal, drug trafficker Jorge Luis Ochoa, and George Bush. Below their picture in large. print was the title, BAD COMPANY. A subheading read: "Arkansas's most notorious drug smuggler testified about his links to Colombia. Hi ties to Washington have yet to be explained. " The article brought together the CIA's Mena operations; the drug smuggling; the shooting d own of a CIA C-123 over Nicaragua; Lt. Col. Oliver North's arm shipments to Central America, and drug shipments back to the United States. ··
Pressure from people in Arkansas increased to the point where tht
U.S. Attorney was forced to convene a federal grand jury in Decembet 1987. After the grand jury disbanded, the jurors and grand jury witnesse complained to the media that there was a cover-up by the U.S. Attorney.
As Clinton entered: the presidential race in 1992, the Arkansas Committee in Little Rock asked him why he didn't initiate an investigation. Clinton replied, "Well, I authqrized $25,000 for a state investigation, and I never heard anything about it." Clinton told the group309 that he knew about the CIA activities, the drugs, the arms, and George Bush's involve¬ ment. When the Arkansas Committee wrote to Clinton asking for docu¬ mentation that he authorized $25,000, a letter came back stating that there was no documentation. Evidence of a precedent-setting scandal and no writings supporting authorization to fund an investigation?
Back in Polk County where the criminal activities were ongoing and where any state investigation would occur, the assistant prosecutor stated he had not heard of any funds being authorized, and ridiculed the funding of only $25,000, remarking that it would be like spitting on a forest fire.
CUTOLO AFFIDAVIT AND KILLING OF INFORMANTS
Army Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, who had been ordered by the CIA to supervise Operation Watch Tower, grew increasingly concerned about its flagrant illegality, and conducted an investigation in an attempt to bring it to a halt. Fearing he might be killed because of his investigation, he prepared a fifteen-page single-spaced affidavit, dated March 11, 1980, describing the CIA drug trafficking and other activities. Cutolo gave copies of it to several trusted friends, 310 wi th instructions to release the
.affidavit to government officials and the media if he was killed or died. He
dozens of others stated within these pages, protectea mgn U..). orncia11:;
and the sordid operations they inflicted upon the United States.
The affidavit described the installation and operation of the radio beacon towers and several of the drug flights in which he participated. The first one occu rred in December 1975, headed by Colonel A.J. "Bo" Baker, under whom Cutolo worked. Cutolo stated in his affidavit that in the February operation, "30 high-performance aircraft landed safely at Albrook Air Station," and "the mission was 22 days long."
The affidavit described key people meeting the' aircraft, including
Colonel Manuel Noriega, who al that time was Panama's Defense Force Officer assigned lo Customs; CIA operatives Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil; and Mossad operative Michael Harari. Harari worked closely with
U.S. intelligence agencies in the drug trafficking operation, sharing the profits for Israel, and sharing the blame for the U.S. drug epidemic and associated crime wave. Harari had authority from the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama to operate on military bases.
OPERATION ORWELL
The Cutolo affidavit described another unlawful mission, Operation
Orwell,311 which consisted of spying on politicians, judicial figures, state law enforcement agencies, and religious figures. Compromising informa¬ tion was distributed to certain members of the military-industrial complex for blackmail purposes. Colonel Cutolo stated in h,is affidavit that the compromising information was needed to silence these people if informa- tion on the criminal activities leaked out: '
Mr. Edwin Wilson exp, lained that it was considered that operation Vibtch Tower might be compromised and become known if
politicians, judicial figures, police and religious entities were approached or received word that U.S. troops had aided in delivering narcotics from Colombia into Panama. Based on that
possibility. intense surveillance was undertaken by my office to ensure that if ttbtch Tower became known, the United States government and the Arnry would have advance warnings and could
prepare a defense.
This was another way of accomplishing the CIA's "plausible deniability ...
to downplay and defend against inquiries." The affidavit listed some of the people against whom the surveillance was directed:
I instituted surveillance against Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Edward
King, Michael Dukakis, Levin H. Campbell, Andrew A. Caffrey, Fred Johnson, Kenneth A. Chandler, Thomas P. 0 'Neill, to name afew of the tmgets. Surveillance at my orders was instituted at the Governors residences in Massachusetts, M aine, New York, and New Hampshire. T71e Catholic cathedrals of New York and Boston
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I specifically used individualsfrom the 44J st Military Intelli¬ gence Detachment and 402 Army Security Agency Detachment assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group to supplement the SATs tasked with carrying out Operation Orwell.
I also recruited a number of local state employees who worked within the ranks of local police and as court personnel to assist in
this Operation. They were veterans and lutd previous security clearances. They were told at the outset that if they were caught
they were on their own.
The Cutolo affidavit described the killing of an Army servicewoman Elaine Tyree, who had knowledge of Operation Watch Tuwer, which sht had described in her diary. To shift attention away from the actual kille1 and his connection to the ongoing drug operation, the military chargec 1)'ree's husband with the killing.
The Cutolo affidavit continued:
It was too risky to allow a military court to review the charges against Pvt. 1)'ree with Operation Orwell still ongoing and Senator Cam's office requesting a full investigation. Pvt. Tyree therefore had to stand before a civilian court of law on the criminal charges.
At the first military hearing the presiding judge found no reason to bind Pvt. Tyree's husband over for trial for the murder of his wife. This decision risked further investigat ion and possible exposure of the corrupt operation. Army pressure caused the county prosecutor to indict the husband for murdering his wife, even though the army knew the actual killer was someone else, The Cutolo affid avit stated:
On 29 February 1980, Pvt. JYree was convicted of murder and will spend the duration of his life incarcerated. I could not disseminate intelligence gathered under Operation Orwell to not!fY civilian authorities who actually killed Elaine Tyree.
To prevent further investigation into the woman's murder, Army officials conspired with Lieutenant; J. Dwyer of the Middlesex District Attorney's Office and the county D,istrict Attorney. They went to the Massachusetts Supreme Court and obtained a ruling prohibiting any court but the Massachusetts Supreme Court from ordering the arrest of suspects in the Tyree murder. This was without precedent, as any court in Massachusetts could issue arrest warrants for murder suspects. But the ruling protected the real murderer, who, if c;harged, would have exposed Operation Watch Tower and Operation Orwell,
The Cutolo affidavit continued: ''I have seen other men involved in Operation Watch Tower .meet accidental deaths after they were also threatened. " It then identifit::d the people who died in strange fashion, and
who had posed a danger of exposing the drug trafficking.
Sgt. John Newby receiyed threatening phone calls and then died in a
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Colonel Baker died while trymg to aetermme u ttaran nau KJueu l--u1u11c1 Cutolo. Colonel Rowe was assassinated on April 21, 1989, in the Philip¬ pines, within three days after Mossad agent Harari arrived in that country. Rowe had been investigating Harari's links to Cutolo's murder and to CIA operatives Edwin Wilson and Thomas Clines. Pearce was killed in a helicopter accident in June 1989 under mysterious circumstances. Larkin Smith died in an airplane accident on August 13, 1989.
The affidavit stated that Mossad agents assoc.iat d with Operation Watch Tower were being protected by CIA Director Stansfield Turner and George Bush, and that Washington military authorities had approved the drug trafficking operation: .
Harari was a known middleman for matters involving the
United States in Latin America [and] acted with the support of a network of M ossad personnel throughout Latin America and worked mainly in the import and export of arms and drug traffick¬ ing.
F1iwin Wilson explained that Operation V\btch Tower had to
remain secret . .. There are similar operations being implemented elsewhere in the world . Wilson named the "Golden Triangle" of Southeast Asia and Pakistan . . .. Wilson named several recognized officials of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, Korea, Thailand and Cambodia as being aware and consenting to these·arrangements, similar to the ones in Panama.
Referring to the huge profits received by the CIA from the drug traffick¬
ing, the affidavit continued:
Edwin Wilson explained that the profit from the sale of narcotics was laundered through a series of banks. Wilson stated that over 70% of the profits were laundered through the banks in Panama. The remaining percentage wasfunneled through Swiss banks with a small remainder being handled by banks within the United States. I understood that some of the profits in Panamanian banks arrived through Israeli Couriers. I became aware of thatfact from normal conversations with some of the embassypersonnel assigned to the l!/, nbassy in Panama. Wilson also stated that an associate whom I don't know also aided in overseeing the laundering of fends ... Wilson indicated that most of Operation V\btch Tower was implemented on the authority of Clines.
Referring to Operation Orwell that spied upon politicians for subsequent
blaclanail:
I was notified by Edwin Wilson that the informationforwarded to
V\bshington, D. C., was disseminated to private corporations who were developing weapons systems for the Dept. of Defense. Those
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men into approving whatever costs the weapon systems incurred. As of the date of this affidavit, 8,400 police departments,
1,370 churches, and approximately 17,900 citizens have been monitored under Operation Onvell . Ihe major churches targeted have been Catholic and Latter Day Saints. I have stored certain information gathered by Operation Orwell on Fort Devens, and pursuant to instructions from Ed win Wilson have forwarded additional information gathered to V.bshington, D. C. ... Certain iriformation was collected on suspected members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg group. Among those that informa¬ tion was collected on were Gerald Ford and President Jimmy Carter. Edwin Wl'lson indicated that additional surveillance was implemented against former CIA Director George Bush, whom Wilson named as a member of the Trilateral Commission.
1. t is easy to understand why members of Congress can be blackmailed in
covering up for criminal activities involving personnel of the intelligem agencies or the Justice Department when information on their person lives is secretly collected by the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies fi blackmail purposes. The affidavit described some of the weapon manufa turers who received this CIA information:
Edwin Wilson named three weapons systems when he spoke of private corporations receiving informationfrom Operation Orwell.
1. An armored vehir,:le. (2) An aircraft that is invisible to radar.
(3) A weapons system that utilizes kinetic energy. Edwin Wilson indicated to me during our conversation, which entailed the dissemination of Operation Orwell information and the identifica¬ tion of the three weapons systems, that Operation Orwell would be implemented nationwide by 4 July I 980.
The affidavit made reference to classified information and "the activitie of the CIA in the United States and in Latin America."
Referring to people working with Edwin Wilson, the affid avit contir ued:
Each operation had basically the same characters involved ... with Edwin Wilson.... Robett Gates and William J. Casey ...
AB Colonel Cutolo suspected, he was killed, apparently to silence him Paul Neri 313 was one of the people that Cutolo entrusted with the affida
vit and who had been requested to make the affidavit public upon hi death. In distributing the affidavit to members of Congress and the media Neri wrote:
Both Col. Rowe and M1: Pearce agreed to go public, after the meeting with Larkin Smith, to call for afall investigation into the events described in Col. Cutolo 's affidavit. But both men died prior to the meeting with Smith.
Robert Bayard named in Cot. cutoto ·s aJJwavu; tt 1.i 11urn w believe the deaths of these men are not the work of the Ismeli Mossad. It is equally easy to attribute the death of Col. Cutolo directly to Operation Vibtch Tower inquiries.
Meeting the same coverup response that I received for the past thirty years
from the establishment media, Neri's letter stated:
For your information a copy of the affidavit will be sent to the New York Times, the Hbshillgton Post and the Bqstpn .Globe. ... The men who died sofar ... were good men. They attempted to let thepublic know what really occurred in Latin America, and in the
never ending drug flow.
In I 980 Col. Cutolo died in an accident while on a military exercise. Just prior to his death he notified me that he was to meet with Michael Harari, an Jsmeli Mossad agent. ft· is my belief, though unsubstantiated, that Harari murdered Col. Cutolobecause of the information Col. Cutolo possessed. I believe that Col. Cutolo died in his attempt to [expose] Operation Witch Tower ...
Col Baker enlisted the aid of Colonel James N. Rowe, and between Col. Baker, Col. Rowe and myself, we set out to prove that Harari murdered Col. Cutolo, and that Operation Hbtch Tower ... netted Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil of the CIA a large
sum of taxfree dollars.
Prior to getting veryfar into the investigation, Col. Baker died
... W? had no doubt as to the guilt of Thomas Clines, who we suspect was the master mind behind Operation V\atch Tower.
Neri went on to describe how Mossad agent Harari and Col. James Rowe314 were in the Philippi nes when Rowe was assassinated, and that "It is my unsubstantiated belief that Harari murdered Col . Rowe, or arranged it." Neri's letter continued: "I believe Harari's motive for murdering Col. Rowe was due to Col. Rowe's inquiries about Harari's movements and relationships to Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines and Manuel Noriega." ·
Referring to still another death in the small group seeking to expose
Operation Watch Tower and the associated deaths, Neri wrote:
In June 1989, M r. Pearce was killed in a helicopter accident. The accident has a st01y of its own I am told. Both Col. Rowe and Mr. Pearce agreed to go public, after the meeting with Larkin Smith, to call for a full investigation into the events described in Col. Cutolo 's affidavit. But both men died prior to the meeting with
Smith.
Paul Neri continued:
Since the Israeli Mossad openly traffil*s in arms and drugs in Latin America, a theory that Clines, Wilson, Terpil, Harari and
NorieR.a enp,af!.ed in Operation l-\btch Tower is very easy to believe
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it is hard to believe the deaths of these men are not the work of the Israeli Mossad. lt is equally easy to attribute the death of Col. Cutolo directly to Operation Hbtch Tower inquiries. It all fits, this entire scenario carried overfrom Operation Hbtch Tower directly into the Iran-Contra affair with the same characters.
Neri wrote that he was sending a copy of the Cutolo affidavit to the M
YiJ rk Times, the Wzshington Post, and the Boston Globe. Referring to t deaths associated with the attempted exposure of the CIA's Operati Watch Tower and the Mossad involvement, Neri wrote: "They attempt to let the public know what really occurred in Latin America, and in t never ending drug flow. I'm sorry that I am unable to carry the work a further. This is now your Pandora's Box."
Before he was murdered, Colonel Rowe also tried to get CBS's 1 Minutes interested in the contents of the Cutolo affidavit, the murders, ai the CIA crimes. Typical of what I encou ntered during thirty years of tryi1 to get the media to report the charges, CBS replied on July 13, 198 through a Ms. M. Holyoak, refusing to proceed with the matter. Despi the responsibility of the media to expose government corruption, CI chose to cover up, and with the cover up there were more murders and ti CIA crimes continued. Justice Department officials blocked an investig tion into these deaths.
FINALLY THEY GOT NERI
On April 29, 1990, even Paul Neri died. An unknown person wrote short letter that was sent out with the Cutolo affidavit and Paul Neri accounting of what had happened. The unknown person wrote:
M r. Paul Neri, of the National Security Agency, died 011 April 29, 1990. Before his death, he requested that I mail the enclosed affidavit to you. Paul Neri was concerned that he would be killed or lose his security. clearance if he revealed the affidavit before he
died. According to him, thesefacts are true. If you investigate and
interview the parties named withbz the affidavit, you will find the iriformation is true. I am simply carrying out the wishes of a good friend, but do not want to get involved any further; therefore, I shall remain anonymous.
MOSSAD IN DRUG TRAFFICKING
Several of my CIA and DEA informants, who were directly involve in the drug trafficking, described the Mossad's role in Central and Sout American dmg trafficking These informants described how the Mossa1 would mark their drug packages in what looked like the Star of David bu which were really three inverted triangles taken out of the Star of Davi1 emblem. They described how the Mossad shared space on aircraft flyini drugs into the United States.
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conspirator with Noriega, the U.S. intelligence agencies allowed him to escape in an Israeli jet. If Harari had been captured and questioned, Israel's involvement in the drug trafficking could have come out, as well
as that of U.S. intelligence agencies.
Former OSS operative Russell Bowen worked with or along side the
Mossad and "Freddy" for many years. He told me that Harari had started his vast Central and South American operations by hauling cigarettes, and
then branching out into drugs.
PANAMA INVASION AND THE CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING
In 1990 President George Bush ordered the military to invade Panama on the basis that Colonel Manuel Noriega was allegedly violating U.S. drug trafficking laws by his acts in Panama. This was rather bizarre in light of the fact that CIA operative and then Director of the CIA, George Bush, paid Noriega for years for engaging in drug-related activities.
The invasion of Panama with the hundreds of deaths and billions of
dollars in damages, invading the sovereignty of another country, for having allegedly engaged in drug trafficking in his own country, was utterly bizarre. Corrupt people in control of the United States intelligence agencies and their cohorts were themselves engaging in drug trafficking against their own country and were guilty of crimes far more serious than any which Noriega had committed. These outrages were compounded by stripping Noriega of assets necessary to hire legal counsel . This is a
standard tactic of Justice Department prosecutors.
It is unclear why Noriega was singled out in this deadly invasion of
Panama, while the CIA and other U.S. officials were guilty of far more serious drug trafficking offenses. The federal judge barred attorneys supposedly defending Noriega from presenting any information on the CIA's role in drug trafficking, or anything of a political nature. This standard tactic protected the web of corruption within the U.S. intelligence
agencies and involving federal officials.
The U.S. District Judge repeatedly refused to allow CIA documents to
be introduced that Noriega needed to defend himself. Noriega's U.S. attorneys limited their arguments in defense of Noriega, protecting the
U.S. intelligence agencies and the Justice Department with whom they would be working during their entire legal career.
1b obtain a conviction, Justice Department prosecutors rewarded
known drug smugglers with reduced prison terms, granted them freedom from prosecution, or compensated them for testifying against Noriega. They were paid witnesses. On July 10, 1992, a federal jury in Miami sentenced Manuel Noriega to 40 years in federal prison for allegedly
trafficking in drugs in his country.
It is ironic that the paid testimony of known criminals are taken as
om:n I hv the Justice Department prosecutors and much of the establish-
111 1..,u:sta .K1ca .. 11.e ue:scnueu uay1e as oemg aeep1y mvo1veo v the Contra operation and the drugs, as well as his close association v noted drug trafficker Felix Rodriguez. Speaking of the Indiana sena Russbacher stated, "Quayle was one of our bag boys."
LEAKS IN TIIE MEDIA
Occasionally someone in the media gets brave, and puts their toe in w.iter by revealing some segment of a major scandal. Connie Chi started her premier show, Eye to Eye , on June 17, 1993, with a story the drug trafficking into the United States aboard miliary and commen aircraft flying into such Air Force Bases as Homestead in Florida. 1 show centered around an Air Force pilot who was assassinated sho1 before an Air Force hearing at which he was expected to expose this d1 trafficking. A pilot appeared on the show stating that he flew seve flights into military . bases carrying cocaine from Central and Soi America. He said that Air Force pilots were told by their milit< superiors that the drugs were for a sting operation in the United States. I when the drug flights continued, and no one was arrested, the pilots star1 becoming suspicious. _Expressing shock at what had become commonpfa to the insiders, the moderator stated that if these facts were true, it wm give truth to some , other bizarre-sounding charges of goverrum corruption. '
ANOTHER KEY CIA OPERATIVE CAME FORWARD
As my exposure activities became known, other CIA and DI personnel secretly contacted me and provided additional information CIA activities in which they participated. Even though they didn't krn
.each other, statements · they made to me of particular incidents crrn checked and confirmed what other CIA and DEA personnel had stated me. One of these informants seeking to blow the whistle on corm activities was Trenton' Parker, who contacted me in March 199
'ii furnishing me with very sensitive information which he learned in I years of CIA activities.
His disclosures to me revealed shocking corruption within the fedet government, similar to what other CIA infurmants had stated to me. H statements were accompanied by a confidential CIA employee status repc that made it possible to positively establish his CIA connections a1 contradict the CIA and Justice Department's denials of such relationship That confidential employee status report showed that Parker w; employed by the CIA from December 23, 1964 to May 24, 1992, and h last rank was Colonel in the United States Marine Corp, attached to ti Marine-Navel intelligence and to the CIA. His serial number was 553-6l 1458, with an additional MSID identification number of 2072458. Tl importance of that confidential employee status report was that it firm] established Parker's CIA status, and identified him as a member of tt ultra-secret Pegasus group; listing his alias, Pegasus 222. One of Parker
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and warned Parker to plead guilty and thereby cover for the CIA opera¬ tion, assuring he would be released as soon as the time was proper. Parker didn't realize that his usefulness to the CIA was compromised by the publicity given to the money laundering operation, and that it would further threaten any CIA operation if he was brought back.
A combination of factors caused Parker to plead guilty in 1982. One reason was that he feared for his life, as assassinations and mysterious
deaths of witnesses constituting a threat to federal officials were common. Parker's CIA handlers impressed upon him the great harm that would fall upon the CIA if the public learned about the fraudulent operation. Further, Parker didn't want to implicate friends and business associates. Parker pied guilty and refused to grant any newspaper interviews.
PATTERN OF DOUBLE CROSS
As happened to other CIA operatives caught in similar situations, the
promises were not kept. Instead, Justice Department officials kept Parker in prison for the next four years. To block him from law library access where he could have filed post-conviction remedies Justice Department officials kept him in dark solitary confinement for over two years. When that confinement had to be halted, prison officials moved him dozens of
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orders. Parker gave me the details, snowmg a tyµ11.;d1 J u;,u"'" v"F"""'v"'
frame-up.
At his arraignment in Denver the judge ordered him released pending trial, set for April 1993. But before his release Parker occupied a cell with Stewart Webb, who I had met earlier, and who was trying to expose the HUD and Savings and Loan corruption in the Denver area. Webb showed Parker some of my writings and Parker decided to contact me after he was released.
Parker stated that he had been with the CIA for approximately 30 years and was part of Faction "B" in the CIA, and was identified as Pegasus 222, and describing his role in various CIA secret operations.
Parker responded to my deposition-like questions concerning his involvement in CIA activities, and sent me copies of briefs that he filed in the U.S. District Court at Denver. 315 His statements and his writings added additional confirmation to what other CIA operatives had stated to me, and especially Gunther Russbacher. I suggested that Parker file certain papers with the court, which he did, including a description of CIA operations that would have catastrophic consequences if the public learned of them and their significance.
While waiting for trial, Parker filed with the court briefs describing in specifics the secret CIA operations that he would be revealing at his trial, including with these papers a copy of the confidential employee status report establishing his CIA employment, and rank as Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps.
The status report showed him assigned to Naval Intelligence and to the
rarKer aescrrnea now the ClA, with Vice President George J approval, set up a sham drug bust in Miami, comprising 4,000 pou cocaine, which was the biggest drug bust at that time. The purpose sham drug seizure was to generate support in the United States for appointed drug czar, Vice President George Bush, and to justify the · the U.S. military in the "war" upon drugs (while using military fac
to carry out the drug trafficking into the United States). The sc worked.
In carrying out the scheme the CIA coordinated with Jorge Och Colombian drug dealer. Ochoa organized many of Colombia's dealers to contribute cocaine for a large shipment into the United S stating there was safety in numbers. What most of the dealers didn't l was that this was a planned drug bust and that they would lose wha cocaine they contributed to the shipment. After the drug dealers contr ed their cocaine into Ochoa's warehouse, Ochoa switched large quan of bad cocaine, that he had accumulated, with good cocaine contribute
other dealers. Later, Ochoa sold the cocaine obtained in the switcl about fitly million dollars.
The 4,000 pounds of cocaine, including the bad cocaine that 0 had switched, was then shipped to Miami and seiZ:ed by U.S. Cust< The plan worked. Bush got good publicity for his role as drug czar, Ochoa and his insiders made over fifty million dollars by replacing !
cocaine with bad cocaine.
Parker stated that Reagan didn't know anything about the
CIA from 1964 through May 24, 1992, and that he held a top secret clearance. The combination of that confidential status report and his declarations of CIA activities that he intended to disclose threatened to blow the lid off a major segment of the CIA criminality. Without that confidential status report, Parker would probably have ended up in prison, as the CIA and Justice Department would have denied he had any employee relationship to the CIA. This standard practice of lying caused the incarceration of Gunther Russbacher, Ronald Rewald , Michael Riconosciuto, Richard Brenneke, and many other CIA personnel.
Once Parker introduced that document into thejudicial records the CIA and Justice Department had a serious problem, which they addressed by dismissing all charges against him. Parker called me on March 23, 1993, quickly stating: "All charges have been dropped. I'm going underground. Don't ask any queslions. " He then hung up.
During subsequent telephone conversations Parker described the presence of two men in the court room who waited for him outside the courthouse after the judge ordered him released. Parker felt they were waiting to seize him wiih possible futal consequences. One of the guards in the federal building also recognized the problem and unlocked a rear
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, and cleared the plan for the drug bust, knowing that this included deal with the group that eventually became t he Medellin Cartel. Parker sta "Bush knew what was going on. He knew because he gave the order to what we could come up with, and he cleared it. He knew those we v dealing with would eventually be the Medellin cartel. "
CIA COMPLICITY IN ESTABLISHING THE MEDELLIN CARTEL
Parker described how the CIA set up the meetings in which the vari Colombian drug dealers organized into a drug trafficking cartel. Par described two preliminary meetings in late 1981, arranged by the CIA which the individual drug dealers in Colombia plam1ed to organize int cartel for shipping drugs to the United States. Parker stated that the f
meeting occurred with twenty of the biggest cocaine dealers in Colom being present, and that the second and final meeting was held at the He
International in Medellin, attended by about two hundred drug deale pushers, and smugglers. Establishment of the Medellin Cartel occurred February 1982, and each of the members paid a fee to fund a security fo1 for the cartel members to protect their drug operation.
_ ...J _]!Rus..s. bacher confirmed to me the meetings that Parker describe
dealers.
At least half a dozen former CIA, OSS, and DEA personnel gave me
many hours of deposition-like statements concerning the Central and South America drug operations in which U.S. intelligence agencies and the Mossad participated. These statements, made over a period of three years by different informants, some of whom didn't !mow each other, presented me with a form of mosaic proving the existence of what had been rumored for years but withheld from the American public by the establishment media, members of Congress, and federal law enforcement agencies.
CIA PLANNING AND FUNDING THE KIDNAP OF OCHOA'S SISTER
Prior to organizing the Medellin cartel the CIA created a crisis
situation, providing an impetus to cause the Colombian drug dealers to form a group. Parker described the CIA operation in early December 1981, that led to the kidnapping of Ochoa's sister from a University outside of Bogota. Parker stated that he, acting in his CIA capacity, paid a group known as M-19 to carry out the kidnapping, and to also kidnap Carlos Lehder, but who escaped. The CIA paid the M-19 group three million dollars, of which two million dollars was in guns and one million
in cash.
The CIA created the crisis for Ochoa, seeking to force his cooperation
in bringing together the twenty top cocaine dealers in Columbia for the purpose of forming the Medellin Cartel. Parker stated: "We made arrangements with Colonel Noriega, and this was the point where Noriega became involved with the CIA and the drugs. " He added: "The deal was that the meeting between M-19 and Ochoa and Escobarwould be held in a neutral point, namely, Panama. On the second week of January every¬
thing was set up."
Another one of my CIA informants, Russell Bowen, described the role
he played in the kidnapping, as pilot of the aircraft that flew Escobar's sister to a remote location until she was released.
CROSSING OF PATHS
As Parker described one of his money-laundering flights I discovered
that his path had crossed that of Gunther Russbacher, adding another confirming detail to the dozens I already had. Parker described the purpose of a flight from Dobbins Air Force Base near Marietta, Georgia, in January or February of 1982, including a description of the pilot, a Navy Lt. Commander with the nickname of "Gunsel." Russbacher had told me a year earlier that "Gunsel" and "Gunslinger" were nicknames that he used. Parker stated that the pilot was very articulate, which fit Russbach¬ er's description as I know it. Upon checking with Russbacher he con¬ firmed that he did fly such a flight and described the route offtight and the name of one of the passengers, which coincided with Parker's description.
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Cartel. Parker stated:
Lehder was getting way out of line, he wru shooting atpeople, and when he finally shot. at Wzlter Cronkite, who happened to be sailing around in the area, Wilter broke the news and a lot of people were saying how can this guy be operating out of Cayman Key, just off the shores of the United States.
Parker stated that Lehder was then forced to leave Herman's Key a1
return to Colombia, where he joined the Medellin Cartel.
Parker said that before leaving Nassau he was joined by Robert Yes< (wanted in the United States for money fraud), and Bernie Cornfeld ,' and the CIA plane flew to Havana, where they were met at the airport I security guards and Fidel Castro. Parker said:
I personally delivered two million dollars to Fidel Castro. And for those two million dollars he wru to see that shipment of arms go to M-19, which was a right-wing revolutionary force that we wanted to keep active, so that we could have pressure on the government to bring about certain things that we wanted to do. And we needed pressure from below and pressure from above. He agreed to do that and he did do that.
Parker continued: "I took the remaining two million dollars and flew int Panama City, Panama, and there I checked into Holiday Inn," where h met with the head of Colombia's M-19. Parker added: "I delivered my on million dollars to him, anti then I met with Colonel Noriega and delivere one million dollars to hiin. That one million dollars was to act as th neutral party to negotiate. the release of Ochoa's sister. Sure enough Ochoa's sister got released.''. Parker continued:
And then he was also supposed to make an offer that he could and would provide protecrion for the drugs coming into the United States through the back door, to the midway. And what that wru is that we had already made a move on the cartel to close down some of the small operations. At that time Noriega ojf ered a connection into the Sandinistas,· the drug operations. Refinery plants were set up there. And that's What we wanted, as we wanted to show the Sandinistas as being the bad guys and justify U S. involvement. What we were doing was also financing operations, because a certain gmup in the CIA was going ahead and flying guns down into Nicaragua, dropping them off by parachutes to the Contras. They then went over to the Sandinistas, picking up drugs andflying them into the United States, after which the money would be returned to the Sandinistas. In effect we were taking over some of the flying senices for the Medellin Cartel. T7ze money from the
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where he was set to go to trial on charges filed by the U.S. Attorney relating to a CIA operation called Operation Interlink .. He explained that he was on a one-million-dollar self-recognizance bond, which was rather bizarre, since any offense requiring that large bond would be serious enough to preclude release on one's own recognizance.
Parker explained how he thought it was a mistake that he got charged
in the first place (unless it was deliberate so as to silence or discredit him). Parker stated: "First, my trial was to start on February 2, 1982. Second, when it came up it came up by a pure fluke." Parker explained how the CIA was to protect him from prosecution. Prior to trial his CIA handlers instructed him to remain silent about the CIA operation as it was ongoing and that any exposure of it would have enormous consequences. His handlers stated that he would receive a very light prison sentence or
probation and be free in a short time.
PEGASUS UNIT
Parker described his role in a highly secret intelligence unit called
Pegasus, the existence of which was further confirmed by Russbacher, although Russbacher was very hesitant to talk about it. Parker stated that Pegasus was set up by former President Harry Truman to spy on other CIA units and report to the President any unlawful activities by the CIA. Parker stated that the last time the Pegasus unit was able to report to a U.S. president was when President J.F. Kem1edy was in office.
He stated that after President Kell1edy had decided to pull U.S. troops
out of the CIA Vietnam operation that would also cause the loss of billions of dollars from the CIA drug trafficking, certain factions of the CIA decided to assassinate Kennedy, and that Pegasus pople discovered the plot and advised Kennedy of the plan two weeks before he was assassi¬ nated. I know nothing about the truth of this, and include it simply for the
reader's possible interest.
There is no qu estion of CIA involvement in some aspects of the
Kemrndy's assassination, and it is certainly provocative to have a high¬ ranking CIA officer make these statements. In light of other CIA criminali¬ ty, there should be little doubt that the CIA has the mindset to assassinate
a president of the United States.
Parker stated that after Kennedy's d eath the Pegasus unit was not able
to function as intended, because of the corrupt activities of U.S. Presidents after the Kennedy assassination, naming Johnson, Nixon and Bush. He stated that Reagan was not implicated like the others as he was more of a figurehead for powerful factions controlled by George Bush, a statement
that is not too difficult to believe.
Parker described the necessity of the Pegasus going underground
within the CIA because of the inability to report to a president, and that the files on corrupt CIA operations gathered by the Pegasus group were moved
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Parker stated that McDonald let it be-known to the press that he going to reveal startling evidence upon his return from the Far E showing that the CIA and certain high-ranking public officials were of an operation responsible for dmg trafficking since 1963 from South Asia. McDonald boarded KAL Flight 007, which was shot down by Russians.
REFERRING TO THE THREE
NAVAL OFFICERS KILLED AT FORT ORD
Parker had seen one of my petitions to Congress reporting among 01 matters the crash of a Navy helicopter at Fort Ord on April 30, 1991, the death of three naval officers from the Office of Naval Intelligence, .
· of whom was a woman. He was interested in knowing their names : physical descriptions, as two men and a woman disappeared from Pegasus group at about that time and he thought the crash may exp! their sud den disappearance. He added, "The Pegasus units have bi
· systematically exterminated. People have been knocked off. " Since Pegasus unit was collecting evidence of CIA criminality, the memb were frequent targets · of assassination by other CIA and intellige1 groups.
Parker described niaily of the CIA operations in which he playec role, and his description of these little-known secret CIA operatic coincided with the information given to me by another high-rank1 covert CIA operative, Gunther Russbacher.
OPERATION MOTHER GOOSE
Parker described his various assignments in the CIA, from when first joined th e Office of Naval Intelligence. He described his involvemt during 1964 in the CIA scheme known as Operation Mother Goo: dealing with joint military selection, recruitment, and training of qualifi enlisted men with security ratings. These people were to be educated a trained in basic covert and undercover activities, and after training, to released from active military duty from the armed services to enroll ir various colleges and universities under the G.I. Bill. While under t supervision of the CIA they were to infiltrate and report on stude activities and student movements on and off campus as it related to t Vietnam War and other political areas. His training was at the Unit, States Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, California.
OPERATION BACK DRAFT
Parker's next CIA assignment was an enlargement upon Operatic Mother Goose, called Operation Back-Draft, providing financial assistarn while attending college and training them to infiltrate and disrupt stude activities in the United States. Parker participated in this program whi attending college and university programs in the Southern California area Another CIA contract agent, Ron Rewald, had been used in this sarr overation. and was f ;iter rerrn iterl hv thf' C'T A tn nnPr!l tP !l nrrmrii>to ru i
from 1971 until 1974, m caurorma auu vu1viauv . ...... ,u t'-·-·-·- _ supplied confidential information to the CIA on various customer accounts and transactions. Eventually he opened his own brokerage firm as a front for the CIA through the SEC and NASD.
This is similar to the operation described to me by CIA operative
Gunther Russbacher, in which Russbacher received training at Mutual Life Insurance Company, and then incorporated and operated a number of CIA financial institutions, headquartered in Missouri, with offices throughout the United States, including Denver, Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta, and
Traverse City, Michigan.
OPERATION ANACONDA
Another CIA assignment was participation in Operation Anaconda in
the mid-1970s, wherein CIA personnel ran for state and federal political office. Another purpose of the operation was to swing key elections toward a particular candidate and away from someone whose interest may be detrimental to the CIA. This was used against Senatqr Church after his
committee exposed CIA misconduct.
Parker described other operations in which he was involved, dealing
with the CIA's secret infiltration of U.S. financial institutions and drug operations in Central and South America and the Nigerian operation
known as Indigo Sky.
ANOTHER INFORMANT, AN OSS MOLE INSIDE THE CIA
One of many intelligence agency informants who contacted me, who gave me many hours of information and many documents concerning his CIA activities, was Russell Bowen. Somewhat ironic, he stated he was a mole within the CIA representing a group of about seventy-five people from .the former Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Ouring World War II, Bowen was a Lieutenant Colonel in the military ahd was one of the youngest P-38 fighter pilots during the war. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and numerous other
decorations for meritorious service.
During World War II he was brought into the Office of Strategic
Services by General William Donovan, who was selected by President Franklin Roosevelt to form this intelligence unit. When President Truman disbanded the OSS in 1947, several dozen OSS members secretly main¬ tained their organization under the cover of the CIA, and were known as Faction Three in the Central Intelligence Agency.
After the war was over, during his OSS/CIA role, Bowen flew as
captain for United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, then the Shah of Iran, and eventually Fulgencio Batista, the former dictator of Cuba. He and I had crossed paths when my piloting duties took me to the Middle East on temporary assignment from my California base at Oakland. Bowen was flying DC-3 and C-46 aircraft from Kabul to Beirut via Teheran; and I flew the same type of aircraft in the same general area.
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F. "Hank;' Maierhoffer. Ihad flown for Trari'socean Airlines and h known them when I flew in the Middle East during the early 1950s, l:: had no idea they were engaged in such activities.
Bowen described how he started up several airlines in South Ameri after the war that served as covers for the CIA. He described knowing friend of mine, King Parker, who also started several airlines in Sou America and who occasionally flew with me in the 1980s, in my Bee1 Twin Bonanza aircraft. Parker has since passed away. Parker had flov PBY aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War IIwhi I was a Navy flight instructo r in PBY seaplanes at Jacksonville, Florid in 1944.
CASEY'S UNDERCOVER CIA OPERATIONS
Bowen stated that he reported directly to William Casey in the CI during the 1960s and 197.Ds, indicating that Casey was with the CIA in covert capacity after World War II, and long before he became Directc of the CIA in 1981. Bowen stated that he flew dozens of covert CI operations in the Middle East and Latin America, u nder the direction 1 Casey. Casey was part of the OSS during World War II, until it Wi disbanded by President Truman in 1947. He then became a cove operative for the CIA, with no official connection to the Agency unt 1981, when President Reagan appointed him Director of the CIA. Bowe described meeting Casey and other handlers on his trips to Washingto1 meeting at secret places·and receiving verbal instructions and suitcases fu of money.
"GARBAGE COLLECTOR"
Bowen was known in the CIA as a "garbage collector, " a term used t extract CIA operatives from foreign countries, who had been compromise or were wanted by the . local police or military. Bowen told me of on extraction in 1983 where Theodore Shackley ordered him to fly into Sa Jose, Costa Rica, to extract a CIA asset, Sam Cummings, who was hidin in the Piper Aircraft compound, and who was using the alias of Mar Clark.
Cummings was the president of the CIA-related Interarms Corporatio of Virginia, the largest sinall-arms company in the world. Cummings ha, been in Costa Rica on a sensitive mission for the CIA to provide arms fo dissident groups, and one of the meetings resulted in two locals bein; killed and Cummings charged with their murder. Cummings was th brother-in-law of Senator John Tower, who was implicated in the CIJ October Surprise operation and other CIA operations in South America. Extracting Cummings was utmost priority to the CIA, as failure coul< expose a highly sensitive CIA operation. The CIA had given orders tha Cummings was either to be extracted from Costa Rica, or killed to silenc<
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involvement in Central America.
Bowen gave me a great amount of details about the CIA drug
trafficking operation as he personally played a key role in it. He stated that he was in the CIA drug trafficking in the Middle East in the 1950s, his CIA drug trafficking experiences in the Golden Triangle area in the 1960s, and his experiences in the CIA drug trafficking in Central and South
America during the 1970s and early 1980s.
The frequent cross-questioning of different CIA and DEA persom1el
confirmed that Bowen was in fact with the CIA and. in drug trafficking, and Bowen's statements to me often confirmed the CIA role played by my other confidants. Much of this information was given in a deposition-like questioning fashion, but also given in the manner that sme pilot would state to another, with no added embellishment but routine conversations between pilots concerning routine piloting activities.
As other CIA operatives described to me, Bowen described his
dealings with the Medellin and Cali drug cartels as a CIA operative, and also the role played by the Mossad in these dealings.
Shackley was a CIA kingpin in the CIA drug activities, working
closely with the cartels and the CIA , eventually making Medellin his permanent residence. Bowen stated that one of the .CIA aliases provided Shackley was Robert E. "Bob" Haynes. Bowen worked with Shackley from 1979 to 1984, and occasionally met with Shackley socially at Bowen's home in Miami and at Shackley's home in Medellin, Colombia. Early in their relationship Shackley was on board a Cc46 aircraft flown by Bowen when an engine failure forced them to crash-land high in the Andes
on the eastern side of Venezuela.
Bowen described one of the CIA proprietaries operated by Shackley,
INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Amsterdam, and Ft. Lauder¬ dale, Florida. Shackley helped manage the extensive CIA drug operations in the Golden Triangle Area and was the executive director of the CIA Phoenix program that assassinated over 40,000 Vietnamese civilians.
Shackley directed the CIA's secret war against Laos in the mid-1960s and later became chief of station in Saigon. Shackley directed the operation known as "TRACK II, " which led to the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile in 1973. He directed the transfer of tens of millions if not billions of dollars received from the CIA-promoted heroin trade in the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand, and Laos. He was just the man to coordinate the CIA's development of the CIA burgeoning drug trafficking from Central and South America into the United States.
Medellin cartel from another perspective.
Bowen gave me details of the CIA formation of the Medellin drug cartel that high CIA-operatives Russbacher and Parker had stated to me earlier. Each of these people gave me details of the formation of the
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Russell, Bowen stated that he flew the DC-3 aircraft that flew Ochoa sister, Leona, from a small dirt airstrip near Bogota, Columbia, afte Leona was kidnapped. After she was on board the aircraft Bowen flew 1 a dirt strip at Ipiales, in the southwestern part of Colombia, near Pase After she deplaned, Bowen flew to a dirt airstrip at Paso. Ironicall: several years later, Leona married Shackley, and Bowen was a freque1 visitor to his home in Medellin, visiting the woman that he had helpe kidnap. Bowen shrugged off this strange situation, stating kidnapping is a accepted practice in Columbia.
UNUSUAL ATTEMJYf TO EXPOSE CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING
Bowen, like many other CIA operatives, became disenchanted with th CIA drug trafficking. In 1981 he wrote anonymous letters to U.S. Custom in Miami, reporting the details of the drug operation. Nothing happened During a flight in 1982 he tried another way to get publicity, whicl backfired on him. Bowen said that he was requested by CIA operative Maierhoffer 317 to fly a .trip to Medellin, Colombia, carrying a govern ment undercover agent, and to return with another agent. But when Bowe1 arrived in Medellin, Shackley placed eight hundred pounds of cocaine 01 board the return flight, including two hundred pounds belonging to th( Mossad in bags imprinted .with the Mossad's three triangles resembling tht Star of David.
On the return flight to,the United States with the cocaine he decided tc land at an airport that . had intensive surveillance for drug trafficking, Slvania Airport in Georgia. His intent was to alert the authorities to the cocaine load, and in his way of thinking, cause the local police to take action against the CIA. This was rather naive, but his heart was in the right place. Bowen was blowing the whistle on the huge nationwide and international drug operation involving some of the highest officials in the
U.S. government, with decades of coverup. The plan backfired on him.
Bowen was arrested and charged by Justice Department prosecutors with drug trafficking. Bef()re the trial started in November 1984, Justice Department officials transferred Bowen to the U.S. prison hospital at Springfield , Missouri, where he was frequently injected with Procan, which caused memory loss.
STANDARD SILENCING TACTIC
Bowen stated that at hs trial in 1985 the U.S. District Judge refused to allow him to have his CIA handlers appear as witnesses, including Meierhoffer. The Judge refused to allow him to produce records and
. testimony showing that he was carrying out CIA activities. My conversa-
. tions with many CIA arid PEA people who were made scapegoats to silence them clearly showed. that it is a standard practice by federal judges
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CIA AND MOSSAD DRUG PRODUCTS
During Bowen's trial Justice Department prosecutors and the Judge protected the Mossad's role in the drug trafficking by withholding from evidence the two hundred pounds of cocaine with the Mossad's identifica¬ tion on it. If those bags of cocaine were presented as evidence, with the triangles representing the Star of David on them, serious questions would have been raised, and Bowen's testimony would have taken on a degree of
credibility.
The denial of evidence by federal judges is a pattern to cover up for the
dirty CIA and DEA activities. Without realizing the pattern, every CIA and DEA person who I have talked to, and who has been imprisoned, experienced this pattern, and didn't realize that it is a pattern. This tactic was infl icted upon Russbacher, Rewald, Riconosciuto, Wilson, and others, some of whom are yet to be identified in these pages.
The court-appointed defender for Bowen displayed the usual lack of
aggressiveness, with no desire to make a meaningful attack upon the Justice Department's position, thereby protecting the CIA and Mossad operation. The jury felt that Justice Department prosecutors surely would not lie, or bring false charges against an im10cent citizen, and convicted Bowen. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, during which he was sent to Springfield federal prison hospital where he was repeatedly injected with Procan. The prisoners refer to this forced drug injections as "Russian lobotomy," because it reportedly destroys the memory.
Bowen described to me how he was forcibly injected with Procan prior
to his trial, which caused memory problems. He described being injected with Procan and other drugs for two and a half years after he was put in prison following the 1985 conviction, in an attempt to destroy his memory and his sanity. I asked, "What happens if you resist taking the shots?" He replied: "Burly guards come in and hold you down, while another prison attendant shoots the drug into you. "
ANOTHER DEA CONNECTION
On April 4, 1993, I received the first of a series of phone calls from a former DEA pilot, Basil Abbott, who had flown drugs from Central and South America for the DEA in DEA aircraft since 1973. Abbott was in federal prison, being charged with a parole violation while on a trip from Austin's Executive Airport in Texas to Missouri. The parole "violation" consisted of failure to convince the DEA agents that he was not doing anything to violate his parole. The actual reason for his arrest was that Abbott had tried to interest the media and the networks in his charges that the DEA routinely engages in drug trafficking into the United States.
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Navajo. Ground training was given on how to survive if forced down the jungle and how to ditch the aircraft in the water. He received a DE flight manual, written by Coller, describing the technique for landing ar taking off from unpaved and short runways as found in Central America
In addition to English, Abbott spoke Spanish, Swedish, Norwegiai and Danish. He circulated in prominent Central America society, aIJ socialized with well-known personalities as Alfredo Stroessner i Paraguay.
During Abbott's DEA employment he worked out of DEA offices i Denver and Charleston, and was transferred in 1978 to the DEA facilit at Addison Airport, north ·of Dallas. Coller also operated out of Addiso Airport, responsible for scheduling the DEA flights.
Abbott named other DEA pilots who, acting under DEA orders, fle, drug-laden aircraft from Central America to the United States. Thes included Floyd Carlton, Cesar Rodriguez, Daniel Miranda, and Georg Phillips, among others. One of his DEA contacts in Panama was Tor Reed, who relayed instructions on drug pickups and related matten Abbott described a Bolivian 707 regularly hauling drugs into Panama wit: the DEA's knowledge. When Abbott asked his DEA handlers about it they told him to forget it
Abbott was ordered by the DEA to fly arms to numerous Centra America locations, and in 1982 he flew arms into a dirt strip near Blue fields, Nicaragua, to Miskito Indians. From that strip he flew to a stri1 known as B2E, where drugs were loaded, and he returned to the Unite< States, landing at a small airfield near Memphis, Tennessee.
' Abbott described DEA pilots flying arms to the M-19 group i1
Colombia, some of whom were assassinated during these flights.
The intensity of the drug trafficking flights was revealed by Abbott a: he described the large number of aircraft arriving and departing, ''It wa: like Grand Central Station at some airstrips in Belize and Nicaragua. "
These flights were profitable for everyone involved, including the pilots. In addition to their government salary, DEA pilots receivec additional money or perks. Abbott received $60,000 and fifty pounds 01
1. : pot for this one week of flying to the Miskito Indians.
Abbott described flying drug loads out of small landing strips ir
Nicaragua, Antigua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, and
·• · Mexico. He set up fuel supplies and ground facilities and regular bribing of local politicians.
Abbott described how.he and other DEA personnel flew to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in a Convair 340, setting a trap for the son of the Israeli Ambassa¬ dor, Sam Weisgal, involving a large shipment of cocaine to the United States. When the drug bustoccurred several people were killed and the DEA seized the drugs and then reshipped the drugs as if they were DEA loads. Weisgal escaped the drug bust but was later captured. However. he
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carteAlsb.bott described how Justice Department prosecutors kept him from testifying in a sensitive trial by notifying prison authorities that there was a contract out on his life, causing prison officials to put him into isolation
where he was unavailable to give testimony.
Abbott described his frequent contacts with DEA Central America
Bureau Chief, Sante Bario, and how the DEA silenced Bario when it suited the agency. DEA and Justice Department personnel charged Bario with federal offenses, seeking to cause his imprisonment , and to discredit anything he might say about the DEA drug trafficking. When brought before U.S. District Judge Shannon in San Antonio, Bario tried to describe his DEA duties and the DEA drug trafficking, but Justice Department attorneys and the Judge blocked him from proceeding. While in jail waiting trial a prison guard gave Bario a peanut butter sandwich laced with arsenic, and within minutes Bario collapsed, experiencing great pains. He
laterAdbibedo.tt was also on the list to be silenced . On one flight to Cancun, Mexico, he was seiz.ed by Mexican police and put in jail, and then interrogated by DEA agents Richard Arnzie, Terry Schutz, Jerry Carter, and assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) John Murphy. When Abbott wouldn't answer the questions, Arnzie had the Mexican police severely beat him,
requiring months of hospitalization and care.
The DEA and Justice Department went after Coller and charged him
with federal offenses, which consisted of carrying out activities ordered by' his DEA handlers. Prior to his arrest, Coller gave his story of DEA drug trafficking to various network shows, including the "Larry King Show," all of whom kept the lid on this enormous criminal enterprise.
King had once responded to a caller on his nationwide show that if they
didn't like what was going on in the country they should leave, and possibly this was his attitude with those who complained about the DEA and CIA drug trafficking. Abbott had also contacted various network shows, including "60-Minutes," but got nowhere. Neither one of them had any more success than I had when I contacted the same and many other
network shows during the past thirty years.
Abbott pleaded guilty to the charges against him, and when Judge
Sham10n asked him why he pleaded guilty, knowing that Abbott was a DEA pilot, Abbott stated he didn't want to end up dead as Santa Bario had done after he raised the defense of being a DEA pilot carrying out orders. ·
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single group that had a responsibility to receive their evidence, or v a responsibility to report the charges, exercised any sense of respon: Abbott sent me many letters detailing the DEA drug ope1 including maps of landing sites, people he contacted, fellow DEA
His grief over his wife's assassination, and the constant attempts to
him, made him determined to expose the operation.
ASSASSINATING ABBOTT'S WIFE
It is standard practice of U.S. intelligence agencies to silence a I especially one of their own, by inflicting harm, or death, upon so close, such as a wife, a child, or a parent. In Abbott's case it \ common-law wife. Abbott described having an apartment in Stoc and acquiring a common-law wife in Sweden, who later bore a chil moved to the United States and started an import business bi sweaters into the United States from Norway and Iceland . . described fearing for the safety of his wife and daughter after tht targeted him, and he sent them back to Sweden for their own safety Justice Department prosecutors charged Abbott with drug trafl
and sentenced him to prison. While in federal prison at Bastrop, ne Antonio, his wife in Sweden tried to get media attention on the DE1 trafficking by talking to Swedish newspapers, and in that way g husband released. While in prison at Bastrop he learned that sl assassinated.
After Abbott was released from prison on parole he attemp interest the media in his knowledge of DEA and CIA drug trafficki no avail. DEA officials, learning of these attempts, arrested Abt September 1991 as he was loading baggage into a Cessna 182 at , Executive Airport for· a trip north. There was nothing in the a indicating he was going south of the border. All flight maps were of north of Austin. Abbott was returned to prison on the basis that he d convince DEA agents that he hadn't done anything wrong. He had to a negative.
Abbott described a. 1980 meeting in Dallas at which Ross Pere present, at which Perot learned of the DEA drug trafficking. Pen nothing to bring publicity to this practice that has inflicted such great upon the American people.
ENLARGEMENT BY RUSSBACHER
Every area of CIA duplicity described by Trenton Parker was en! upon by Gunther Russbacher, when I asked him about these addi1 areas. Russbacher was a high-level CIA operative and had knowleci many areas of CIA act\vities, rather than the limited compartmental that is standard practice within the intelligence agencies.
Russbacher enlarged upon Operation Indigo which Parker had to me and which was described in Parker's court filings. 319 Referri
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heroin in the poppy fields in Nigeria and processing in the capital cny 01
Lagos, along with transportation to Europe and the United States.
Russbacher stated that the intent of Operation Indigo Sky was to get an alternate source of supply for heroin coming from the Golden Triangle area and the subcontinent of India. The operation started with the 1976 purchase of the Star Brewery in Lagos and its subsequent multi-million¬ dollar upgrade into a heroin processing facility. The brewery's name was changed to Star of Nigeria and then to Red Star: The transportation of the drugs from Lagos was initially by the CIA and DEA and then changed to contract operators. Most of the processed drugs in Operation Indigo Sky went from Lagos to Amsterdam, where it is further packaged and then shipped to European and United States destinations.
Russbacher described different ways in which the drugs are shipped into the United States, including in sealed containers leased from Phillips Electronics. He described the methods of circumventing customs inspec¬ tions in the United States, and also described those incidents in which Customs and the DEA protected the drug shipments. He described the swapping of sealed containers at bonded warehouses in Hoboken, New Jersey, and other locations, and the secret unloading of drugs at airfields throughout the United States, including Boeing Field in Seattle.
He described a CIA proprietary, World Wide Travel International (WWTI), as one of the vehicles for shipping the sealed containers into the United States aboard combination freight and passenger aircraft charters, and the methods used to either circumvent Customs and DEA or the assistance given by these agencies.
In May 1993, President Clinton abmptly dismissed the White House staff that had been in place for many years handling the travel arrange¬ ments for White House personnel and the press corp, replacing it with World Wide Travel of Arkansas. For reasons not yet known, the use of World Wide Travel International created an uproar and the White House aimounced that World Wide decided to withdraw. The White House then turned the t ravel responsibilities over to American Express, which was closely aligned with the Central Intelligence Agency. There is much more to this, but at the moment that is all that can be stated.
FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF CUSTOMS
INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG TRAFFICKING
Further support for the DEA and CIA informants who reported the· cooperation by U.S. Customs agents in drug trafficking into the United States was provided by an Associated Press (AP) story on May 3, 1993. The article described a missing file consisting of eight volumes prepared in December 1990, that disappeared from a final Washington report in 1991. The missing files described "Customs Service drug smuggling" and reported a pattern of Customs inspectors assisting drug traffickers. This
o ' "' 1-.:"t"" nrl then removed from government
CIA REVIEW
Some of the greatest harm suffered by the United State: American people has been directly and indirectly caused by I activities of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. 1 fulfilling their primary duty to gather and coordinate intelligencf lrns engaged in criminal and corrnpt operations, violating the sc of foreign nations, engaging in assassination of foreign leaders citizens. The renegades controlling the CIA have turned upon t
States itself.
The CIA's development of the global drug trade and smt huge quantities of drugs into the United States have brought abot disruption of American society. Many of the financial frauds infti the American people have been at the hands of the CIA, and in sc by others, with the acquiescence of the CIA.
The CIA was legislated into existence in 1947 via the Natiom Act while Harry Truman was President of the United States. Th purpose of the legislation was to centralize the intelligenc gathered by the various intelligence agencies of the United S disastrous failure of U.S. military officials and the White Ho upon evidence of an impending attack upon Pearl Harbor was tb reason for the legislation. The Pearl Harbor debacle resul immediate 2,500 deaths, and allowed Japan to escalate the glob that resulted in tens of millions of deaths and atrocities. If WI and military officials had used street-smarts in defending against Harbor attack, Japanese aggression could have been prevented c
The National Security Act provided, on paper, checks anc that have become meaningless. The Act required that the Natiom Council authorize any covert action taken by the CIA. The < mmnosed of the President of the United States, the Vice
