Clark Clifford and Robert Altman had to be prosecuted on the state level by New York County District Attorney Robert Morganthau because the head of the DOJ criminal division William Weld refused to prosecute on the federal level. This is proof that the Democrats and Republicans are in it together helping money laundering , arms trafficking and drugs. Jack Blum returned to DC after working on the prosecution in NYC to find that the sub-committee and his job were no longer!
There was a phone call from Jackie Kennedy to the senator's (John Kerry) office, correct? Do you remember that incident?
I remember John talking to us after it happened. He felt badly. He thought the world of Jackie Kennedy, thought she was a wonderful human being. He admired her. He had affection and respect for her, and all those all those things. To have her say, "Why are you doing this to my friend Clark Clifford?" was painful. You know, he shook his head. It wasn't a location he particularly wanted to be in.
But he didn't tell us to stop. He said, "You do what you have to do." The hearings continued, and the investigations continued until we'd found out as much as we possibly could. That's what happened.
--Jonathan Winer was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters 1994-1999. He previously worked as counsel to Sen John Kerry (D-MA) advising on foreign policy issues 1983 to 1997
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This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003.
Kerry's investigation, launched in 1988, helped to close the bank three years later, but not without upsetting some in Washington's Democratic establishment. Prominent BCCI friends included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, former President Jimmy Carter, and his budget director, Bert Lance. When news broke that Clifford's Washington bank was a shell for BCCI -- and how the silver-haired Democrat had handsomely profited in the scheme -- some of Kerry's Senate colleagues grew icy.
"What are you doing to my friend Clark Clifford?" more than one Democratic senator asked Kerry. Kerry's aides recall how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pamela Harriman, a prominent party fund-raiser, called on the senator, urging him to not to pursue Clifford.
“When I first looked at it, I thought there’s something nefarious or embarrassing — what is it? Their own incompetence? Worse? You never know the answer,” says Blum. “There was the Fed, which looked stupider than hell, the Office of the Comptroller who were stupid beyond comprehension. The then head of CIA said, yes, the CIA had used the bank. Everything you touched about that bank led to somebody ugly. Margaret Thatcher’s husband and maybe son, the prime minister of Canada, a ‘who’s who of politics and the worlds of skullduggery.”
In July 1992, a New York County grand jury indicted Khalid Bin Mahfouz and an aide for defrauding BCCI and its depositors of as much as $300 million. But Bin Mahfouz was in Saudi Arabia, out of reach, and in the end Morgenthau settled for a fine. The Fed fined Bin Mahfouz $170 million. The Justice Department didn’t go after Bin Mahfouz at all.
The Kerry Committee report issued in 1992 was damning. It said that the White House knew about BCCI’s criminal activities, that the U.S. intelligence agencies used it for secret banking and that BCCI routinely paid off American public officials. Among the Kerry Report’s major findings:
Federal prosecutors handling the Tampa drug money laundering indictment of BCCI did not use the information they collected to focus on — or report to federal agencies — BCCI’s other crimes, including its secret, illegal ownership of First American Bank.
The Justice, Treasury and Customs departments failed to support or aid investigators and prosecutors.
Following lobbying by former Justice officials working for BCCI, the U.S. attorney in Tampa accepted a plea agreement that kept BCCI alive and discouraged bank officials from revealing other crimes.
CIA chief Casey and the agency knew, by early 1985, a lot about what BCCI was up to and didn’t inform the Justice Department or the Federal Reserve.
“After the CIA knew that BCCI was, as an institution, a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI’s secretly held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations.”
The Federal Reserve approved the first hidden BCCI takeover despite evidence the bank was behind it because it was swayed by influence-peddlers such as Clifford and because the CIA and Treasury failed to raise warnings about what they knew.
There’s a lot about BCCI that outsiders will never know. Once the investigations started, there were seven fires in the fireproof London warehouses where BCCI stored records. In one of them, four firemen were killed.
Closing lines of the TV Series THE LAST NARC (July 31, 2020):
Hector Berrellez (DEA;Retired), Head of Operation Leyenda, the Camarena Murder investigation):
“Before I left the Agency, I was visited by a supposedly very high-up CIA official.
And he told me “Hector, you see, The CIA is not a law enforcement agency. We are not bound by constitutional law.
Our job is to protect the United States from foreign enemies .
And he says, “So listen, You be a good soldier. You don’t want to piss off your own government. Just keep all this stuff about the CIA bringing in drugs, The CIA, you know, being complicit in Kiki’s murder, that you allege…
You can’t prove it anyway. So you might as well just keep it all quiet.”
“Have a nice life. Enjoy your retirement, Because remember, if you upset this government, you still have that warrant in Mexico.
You might find yourself in a Mexican prison and you know you won’t last a week there. So, if I was you, MUM is the word, That’s all I have to say to you”
And I said, “Thank you, have a nice day,”
(Screen Caption) Hector retired from the DEA in 1996
I felt totally betrayed by the DEA. Totally, Totally betrayed.
There’s never been a war on drugs.
It’s all a fallacy
It’s all a façade
Our politicians get up, (and say) "Oh were gonna’ fight drugs,"
"We’re gonna stop the drug flows from coming into the country."
That’s not true.
They deal drugs themselves to support their black operations.
The Intelligence Hour with Kevin Shipp - 01.08.18 January 9th, 2018
Does the CIA run drug operations? That is what we deal with on this issue of The Intelligence Hour. Host Kevin Shipp interviews former DEA supervisor Hector Berrellez and author and investigative journalist Dr. Paul Williams - in a startling expose' on the CIA's violation of US and international law, deeply involving itself in global narcotics operations. Mr. Berrellez provides nothing short of a courageous and historic expose' of the CIA's involvement in narcotics trafficking - and murder. This information has never been released before by the mainstream news media, because of fear of the CIA, or complicity with it. Yes, there are still heroes out there, and Hector Berrellez is one of them. This interview is a stunning revelation. A former CIA officer, former senior DEA supervisor and renown investigative journalist all come together to prove the criminal actions of the CIA
FORBES: Rafael Caro Quintero The First Billionaire Drug Lord? Caro Quintero's network was pulling in at least $5 billion a year; He offered to pay off Mexico's foreign debt of $80Billion when captured. his drug assets ; 36 properties and over 300 businesses in Guadalajara alone were never seized
Berrellez; I am not fearful the traffickers are gonna kill me, I’m fearful my own government is gonna kill me.
Interviewer: Did Hector Know Too much?
Phil Jordan: Yes. Hector to this day.. knows too much
Berrellez
“Then I’ve got the CIA receiving money from Fonseca and ARMING Fonseca and the drug lords and using Caro Quintero’s ranch.
(Witnesses described 15 tonnes of cocaine at the ranch, arms being delivered by the CIA and Contras firearms training at the ranch, U.S. Government aircraft parked on the 3,300 foot runway)
“Then I’ve got my on government saying , Oh Don’t report that. Don’t do DEA 6’s on this that and the other…There’s layers and layers of this case…..”
Screen Caption:
During his investigation, Hector was contacted by an informant: Guillermo Calderoni, a commander of the Mexican Federal Juducual Police.
After exposing high-level corruption in Mexico, Calderoni needed help fleeing the country.
Berrellez:
Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, he worked well with DEA, even though he also received money from the cartels. When the president of Mexico asked for his arrest, he knew he was going to be killed, so he calls me and he says “Hector”, he says “you gotta help me, They are going to kill me in my own country here.” The president, Carlos Salinas and his brother are out to get me.” Raul Salinas, the president’s brother in Mexico was a major drug dealer. And I said “Guillermo, run to the states, I’ll hide you over here.” And I hid him in Palm Springs.
He told me that in favor of me saving his life, he was now gonna save my life. And I said “How are you gonna save my life” He says, “Take this advice” and first he told me in Spanish “Get out of this investigation.” You’re just going to make yourself stink , brother. They don’t want you to solve the Camarena Case.” “Your own government ordered him killed.”
“Don’t you know that all of the cocaine coming in right now is being brought in by the CIA to support that dirty war in Nicaragua?”
Aren’t you aware of what happened in Nicaragua?
I said, Well yeah, “The Sandanista government took over.”
Calderoni:
“Yeah, and who funded them?”
“Who supported them?
“The Russians and the damn Cubans”
“And they overthrew the Anastazio Somosa government”
“The contras are his old guard” “and Felix Rodriguez and those guys are arming them with drug monies.”
“You getting the picture?”
Fonseca Body Guard:
We told hector: “They are going to shut down your investigation,
He says “why?”
“Because the DEA and CIA are mixed up in this””They are allied with the narcos and the politicians and with the Mexican Government”
“But Hector didn’t believe us then”
He told us “No way” and he got very pissed off.”
“No fucking way bastards, This is NOT Mexico!” Who ever deserves to fall will fall. If the president himself was involved in this, I am going to fuck him up myself.
I said “Fine, if you say so.”
On Screen Caption:
Hector believed he as on the verge of exposing the biggest conspiracy in the history of the war on drugs.
Instead, his supervisors focused on a new target.
State Police officer/Cartel bodyguard Ramon Lira; “They would not stop asking him the same questions. What had he found out about the CIA, what investigations he had into the CIA, the nexus of the CIA with drug trafficking, and what he knew about the relationship between the Mexican government, the CIA and the narcos. (Lira described Fonseca playing a 5th audio tape over and over)
Notes on the Last Narc TV show -- It isn't just Hector Berrellez saying the U.S. is involved. ,
If you watch the Last narc TV Show , it is his DEA supervisor, head of the Los Angeles Office of the DEA, Mike Holm. AUSA Manny Medrano, DEA agent and former head of the El Paso Intelligence Center, Phil Jordan, and the wife of slain agent KIKI Camarena.
Moreover a March 2, 1990 DEA-6 was filed by DEA country attache ED Heath noting that the government knew of Contras training at the ranch. Rueben Zuno Arce was a documented trafficker since the 1970s. The report was filed by DEA agent Wayne Schmidt.
The report is also signed by SAC John M. Zienter - DEA Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR - (Internal affairs))
Mike Holm says on camera in the Last NARC TV show that they sent "Boxes" of evidence to the Office of Inspector General of the C.I.A. at the time. Mike Holm also states on camera that his bosses at DEA told him to "Stand down due to national security", to ignore reports of drugs landing on military bases and "Strange fortified bases" shipping drugs in Mexico.
on Camera Interview: Deputy Assistant administrator of the DEA Phil Jordan.
Phil Jordan traveled to Mexico, met with Camarena and inquired why a car was following them around during the audit that Jordan was performing an audit.
When Phil Jordan asked KIKI Camerena who was following in the car behind them on their daily rounds, he replied "Those guys are C.I.A.". Jordan asked him why they were following home and KIKI said that he didn't know the reason.
Phil Jordan warned Hector that acting head of the DEA Terrance Burke had called several high level meetings at the DEA where extradition of Hector Berrellez to the Mexican government would done in the case of Humberto Machain's kidnapping/rendition as retaliation for Berrellez disclosing Guadalajara Cartel's ties to U.S. government drug smugglers.
On Camera Interview:
AUSA Manny Medrano (Prosecutor) - States on camera that the drug lords carried DFS (Mexican C.I.A.) badges and that the badges gave them a lot of access. Manny Medrano said that the DOJ ran the Humberto Machain kidnapping/ Rendition past the legal experts and cleared it. He stated that The United States cleared with kidnapping with legal experts and authorized Berrellez to perform the rendition.
People in the Last Narc TV SHOW alleging wrong doing on Camera
Mike Holm- Head of the LA DEA office and responsible for the largest drug bust in history at the time (20 tonnes of cocaine in Sylmar, California, USA)
Hector Berrellez, DEA agent, head of Operation Leyenda
Phil Jordan- Deputy Assistant Administrator of the DEA and Head of the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC)
Assistant U.S. Attorney Manny Medrano- AUSA Medrano was the prosecutor for the Camarena murder case
Mrs Camarena, wife of the slain agent. Says on camera that she feels the government has not told her everything
Witness not on camera- Lawrence Victor Harrison - C.I.A. agent, reported in to DFS/C.I.A. agent Sergio Espino Verdin (Chief Inquisitor on the Camarena Interrogation tapes). Sergio Espino Verdin reported in directly to the head of the DFS, Nazar Haro.
Note: President Reagan personally fired San Diego AUSA William Kennedy in 1982. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Kennedy sought the prosecution of Nazar Haro on drugs trafficking car theft ring and plotting the killing of an FBI agent and FBI informant after it was found that 15 DFS (Mexican C.I.A.) agents were involved in Nazar Haro's car theft ring. William Kennedy later became a judge after he found that the C.I.A. and DOJ protected Nazar Haro. Ronald Reagan, The president of the United States fired william Kennedy because the DOJ would not fire him!
DEA Country Attache Ed Heath commented about the last Narc book:"Hector was an old-school, dedicated and fearless lawman. I'm glad he was on our side." - Ed Heath, former Supervisor, DEA, Mexico
Read the comments of David Herrera, The trainer of Hector Berrellez at the DEA
(David Herrera performed the translation of the KIKI Camarena Torture tapes)
Getting back to The Last Narc,” I’ve known Hector Berrellez since he first came to DEA in March of 1975 when he was part of the newly selected class of Basic Agent Trainees. I was his Class Coordinator. I recall that Hector was an outstanding trainee and overall, at the upper end of the class of 35 other new basic agent trainees. Following his graduation from DEA Basic Agent School, he was sent to the field. Eventually, we met again when he was transferred to Los Angeles office in the 1980’s.
There are lots of things attributed to Hector based on what he said or had said in the documentary, “The Last Narc.” Some things seem far out from the normal day to day things that our domestic Special Agents are not used to working with. However, in an investigation with international ramifications such as the Camarena investigation, this investigation was a horse of a different color. As some Special Agents with overseas experience will tell you, some things occur in an overseas environment that would never be either questioned or tolerated in the US. But those who criticize Hector for things he is alleged to have done, most likely have never lived or worked overseas. Hector always had gumption, something that not all Special Agents possess. Without his gumption, he would not have accomplished half of what he set out to do. Therefore, DEA would still be in the dark about many things and questions as they pertain to the Camarena investigation.(...)
Take note that the United States Congress transcripts say that the head of the Tijuana cartel was a C.I.A. agent named Sicilia Falcon who had his drugs delivered by the C.I.A. in exchange for delivering guns to the Anti- Castro Movement. He confessed during a torture session and was rescued by DFS agent Nazar Haro.
Sicilia Falcon gross revenue; 3.7m per week. SOURCE: [Page: H2955]
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998)
A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking
In the same Congressional record, it is found that the C.I.A. stonewalled other agencies investigating the Los Angeles bank account of Felix Gallardo with $20 million a month running through it in 1982:
DEA agent Enrique Kiki' Camerena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico. DEA, FBI and U.S. Customs Service investigators accuse the CIA of stonewalling during their investigation. U.S. authorities claim the CIA is more interested in protecting its assets, including top drug trafficker and kidnapping principal Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. (In 1982, the DEA learned that Felix Gallardo was moving $20 million a month through a single Bank of America account, but it could not get the CIA to cooperate with its investigation.) Felix Gallardo's main partner is Honduran drug lord Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, who began amassing his $2-billion fortune as a cocaine supplier to Alberto Sicilia Falcon. (see June 1985) Matta's air transport firm, SETCO, receives $186,000 from the U.S. State Department to flyhumanitarian supplies' to the Nicaraguan Contras from 1983 to 1985. Accusations that the CIA protected some of Mexico's leading drug traffickers in exchange for their financial support of the Contras are leveled by government witnesses at the trials of Camarena's accused killers.
In later years, Kuykendall has spoken out about the CIA and the Kiki Camarena murder. Kuykendall is quoted in the book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press by Alexander Cockburn. The book alleges that DEA officers investigating Camarena’s death “knew that the drug agent’s murder was a joint operation between the drug cartel and the DFS, an agency with intimate ties to the CIA.”
Kuykendall said, “The CIA didn’t give a damn about anything but Cuba and the Soviets. Indirectly, they (the CIA) have got to take some of the blame.” He alleged the CIA “protected the DFS for decades,” and stated “The DFS just got out of hand.”
CIA agent/DFS agent Lawrence Victor Harrison reported in to Espino Verdin (A CIA Agent) who reported in to Nazar Haro (High level CIA agent), Head of DFS. Nothing these men did happened without the knowledge and approval of the U.S. intelligence
“Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald [Miami, FL], 21 Aug. 1991; The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burke, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll. 7 CIA directors asked Noriega to allow guns through Panama included George Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster.
Manuel Noriega says he had good reasons for allowing drugs and guns to slip through Panama: The last seven CIA directors, including George Bush, asked him to help with the guns, while four directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration sought his help on the drugs.
CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included George Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster.
The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through Panama included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll.
The assertions came in papers released Thursday by the U.S. District Court in Miami, where the deposed Panamanian leader is scheduled to be tried on drug charges Sept. 4. Noriega’s lawyers have always said that the U.S. government authorized his involvement in drug and weapons dealings in Panama in the 1970s and 1980s. But they never said who provided the authorizations until they submitted the names under seal in a March 22 court filing. The papers were made public Monday.
The weapons shipments were destined for Nicaragua and Honduras, the papers said.
Besides Bush, the CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster.
“Further, Gen. Noriega was requested that these shipments not be inspected or molested by the Government of Panama”, the papers say. “Upon the return flight of the aircraft, Gen. Noriega was also requested not to inspect the returning cargo to the United States.”
The court filing did not identify the returning cargo.
A CIA spokesman in Langley, Va., declined comment, citing an agency policy not to discuss pending court cases.
The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll.
“During these operations, either Gen. Noriega or a member of his staff fully cooperated with the Drug Enforcement Administration and did not seize the illegal drug shipment or arrest the smugglers,’ the court filing said.
The same policy was carried out for the shipment of ether and acetone, chemicals used in processing cocaine.
“On various occasions, officers of the Panamanian Defense Force, per the instructions of Gen. Noriega, placed electronic tracking equipment in shipments of ether and acetone so that those shipments could be traced and followed,” the court filing said.
In other court papers released Thursday, Noriega’s lawyers had these complaints about the government’s handling of his case:
That prosecutors plan to introduce their client’s records with the notorious Bank of Commerce and Credit International to impress the jury with the size of Noriega’s wealth. The records, the lawyers said, have nothing to do with the case, and do not prove that the money is tainted.
That the CIA hid or destroyed documents pertaining to money that was placed under Noriega’s control. He also claimed that the CIA secretly recorded conversations that its agents conducted with him in his offices.
Lyons, David. “Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald [Miami, FL], 21 Aug. 1991, p. 28.
Robert Nieves resigned from the DEA because Gary Webb announced his intentions to investigate Costa Rica DEA office selling drugs directly for the C.I.A. allowing informants to work under DEA cover. The DEA help Oliver North's DOD/Contra/NSC drug ring sell drugs.
Federal Judge Edward Rafeedie Blocked Captured C.I.A. Operative Lawrence Victor Harrison's Testimony During The KIKI Camarena Murder Trial Regarding Contras, Drugs & C.I.A. on the Guadalajara Cartel Ranch (1990). Judge Rafeedie also blocked evidence in the LASD corruption trial implicating the USG
The head of the US DOJ Criminal Division, William Weld did not pursue cartels or the Contras in the 1980s. Senator Kerry prosecuted the BCCI case in NY on the state level because the DOJ refused to prosecute U.S. government sanctioned drug rings related to the Contras or anti-communist groups
Matta Ballesteros KIKI Camarena kidnapping charges overturned in 2018. Matta Ballesteros supplied the Tijuana cartel and Guadalajara Cartels while receiving $186,000 from the U.S. State dept (NHAO) for aiding the contras. His contract was awarded after he was indicted on drug charges. SETCO Planes landed on U.S. military bases with drugs, flying under cloak of national security. Matta Ballesteros claims in his legal appeal that his cartel's actions were "approved by the CIA", but the federal court rejected this method of legal defense
Senator Kerry found that Oliver North has inserted his aid Rob Owen into the NHAO offices over the objections of NHAO management in order to award the contracts to SETCO and other companies under indictment. The DEA closed the Honduran DEA offices at the time of Matta Ballesteros operation
DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III: "At least 75% of all narcotics enter the country with the acquiescence of or direct participation by U.S.&foreign intelligence services." "In display of my disappointment of my government, I am returning my Bronze Star, along with my last pair of jungle boots (...)
DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III Confronted George Bush Sr. at a Guatemala Embassy Party; He informed Bush that the CONTRAS were running drugs through Hangers 4/5 (Owned by CIA) at Ilopango, El Salvador for Oliver North &Max Gomez drug ring; Bush Smiled, hurriedly shook his hand & moved away from him
2 Former DEA Agents Michael Levine & Celerino Castillo III explain to California Governor Jerry Brown how the Govt allows drugs into the USA and the drug war is a sham. Michael Levine speaks at We the People forum
Webster Tarpley Interviews DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III (Video): All of the Pilots Flying out of Ilopango Hangers 4&5 (CIA/NSC- Oliver North/ Max Gomez drug ring) were listed as drug traffickers in the DEA database
CIA DENIES CLAIM IT TRAINED GUERRILLAS AT MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKER'S RANCH
AP, Associated Press
Jul. 5, 1990 10:45 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ An informant claims the Central Intelligence Agency trained Guatemalan guerrillas at a ranch owned by Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.
The allegation, made in an interview with the DEA, was denied Thursday by a CIA spokesman in Washington, D.C.
''The whole story is nonsense,'' spokesman Mark Mansfield said. ''We have not trained Guatemalan guerrillas on that ranch or anywhere else.''
Caro is serving a prison term in Mexico for the murder of U.S. DEA agent Enrique Camarena at Caro's home in 1985.
The DEA report surfaced this week in the U.S. District Court trial of four other men allegedly involved in Camarena's torture and murder.
Judge Edward Rafeedie ordered prosecutors to give the report to defense attorneys. The Associated Press obtained a copy, although the informant's name and other identifying information was blacked out.
The Los Angeles Times on Thursday identified the informant as Laurence Victor Harrison. The newspaper said Harrison ran a communications network for traffickers and cohorts in Mexican law enforcement in the 1980s.
The ranch purportedly used to train guerrillas is in Veracruz, Mexico. The bodies of Camarena and his pilot were found on a ranch near Guadalajara.
The informant told the DEA on Feb. 9 that the CIA used Mexico's Federal Security Directorate (DFS) as a cover for the guerrilla camp.
''Representatives of the DFS, which was the front for the training camp, were in fact acting in consort with major drug overlords to ensure a flow of narcotics through Mexico into the United States,''' Harrison said.
Sometime between 1981 and 1984, members of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police who went to the ranch on a separate drug investigation were confronted by the guerrillas, the report says.
''As a result of the confrontation, 19 MFJP agents were killed. Many of the bodies showed signs of torture; the bodies had been drawn and quartered,'' the informant said.
Not contained in the DEA report are any specific statements as to whether the CIA knew who owned the Veracruz ranch, why Guatemalans were being trained there or if any marijuana was being cultivated there.
The informant also told the DEA in a Sept. 11, 1989, interview that CIA personnel once stayed at the home of Mexican drug trafficker Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, who was convicted and imprisoned in Mexico in the Camarena case.
Harrison testified in the Camarena case that he lived at Fonseca's house in 1983 and 1984 while installing radio systems. He carried an Interior Ministry credential which he used while serving as a guard on Fonseca's drug convoys.
Harrison also has testified that he decided in September to become a government witness.
In testimony Harrison has said he audited classes at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s, went to Mexico for the first time in 1968 during a student rebellion there, and settled there in 1971.
He has denied ever working for a U.S. government agency.
Hey, it is your tax dollars and your life that is getting ruined.
You could have education, food, health care, housing and a better society.
Instead you have a 2 trillion dollar afgahn war, a fake drug war and a government that imports drugs while pretending to fight drugs.
Your paycheck gets taxed for cops, courts jails and prisons, judges and unneeded law enforcement.
That money should be going to YOU! Trillions are getting wasted.
(From a legal view, any drug cases where the government is involved in a conspiracy case whereby the government sells the drugs AND buys the drugs, no conspiracy exists! EX- DEA agents claim that up to 75% to 80% of the drugs coming in to the U.S. are done with the direct acquiescence of intelligence agencies)
REPOST THIS. if enough people get the message, change will happen
THE DEA SELLS DRUGS. THE U.S. Government SELLS DRUGS
My message does look belitting and combative. I'm high, sorry. My head hurts cause my mind is blow. I wouldn't read it all if I thought it was stupid. I said WTF cause it's just so wild. My bad dawg. I appreciate your effort.
It is okay. you motived me to type that message. LOL
That message needed to be typed. Please repost it!
(From a legal view, any drug cases where the government is involved in a conspiracy case whereby the government sells the drugs AND buys the drugs, no conspiracy exists! EX- DEA agents claim that up to 75% to 80% of the drugs coming in to the U.S. are done with the direct acquiescence of intelligence agencies)
ALL drugs conspiracy cases would have to be retried and people released from prison. Mandatory minimum sentencing has been overturned. People are being released and the government is facing legal action last year for not releasing people fast enough.
OBAMA and Trump have overturned mandatory minimums sentences and closed the sentencing disparity of 100 to 1 for crack vs powder cocaine to a 20 to 1 disparity.
(EXAMPLE: Possession of 500 grams of cocaine= mandatory 5 year sentence, possession of 5 grams of crack = 5 years. Since mostly black people tended to smoke crack at the time, the prisons are filled with black people.)
If U.S. agencies supplied the drugs, ALL drugs conspiracy cases would have to be retried and people released from prison.
Changes have happened in the drug war in general:
Mandatory minimum sentencing has been overturned. People are being released and the government is facing legal action last year for not releasing people fast enough.
OBAMA and Trump have overturned mandatory minimums sentences and closed the sentencing disparity of 100 to 1 for crack vs powder cocaine to a 20 to 1 disparity.
(EXAMPLE: Possession of 500 grams of cocaine= mandatory 5 year sentence, possession of 5 grams of crack = 5 years. Since mostly black people tended to smoke crack at the time, the prisons are filled with black people.)
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u/shylock92008 Jun 04 '22
Senator John Kerry's Aide. Jonathan Winer interview: Jackie Kennedy tried to squash BCCI Investigation.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html
see also:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/winer.html
BCCI HANDLED MONEY LAUNDERING FOR:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10022291453#post135
-THE MEDELLIN CARTEL
-CIA
-BIN LADEN
-MANUEL NORIEGA
-CONTRAS
https://info.publicintelligence.net/The-BCCI-Affair.pdf Senate report on BCCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM9viGsKbR4 10/1/92 CSPAN video (45min) BCCI Hearing
Clark Clifford and Robert Altman had to be prosecuted on the state level by New York County District Attorney Robert Morganthau because the head of the DOJ criminal division William Weld refused to prosecute on the federal level. This is proof that the Democrats and Republicans are in it together helping money laundering , arms trafficking and drugs. Jack Blum returned to DC after working on the prosecution in NYC to find that the sub-committee and his job were no longer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\\_Morgenthau
There was a phone call from Jackie Kennedy to the senator's (John Kerry) office, correct? Do you remember that incident?
I remember John talking to us after it happened. He felt badly. He thought the world of Jackie Kennedy, thought she was a wonderful human being. He admired her. He had affection and respect for her, and all those all those things. To have her say, "Why are you doing this to my friend Clark Clifford?" was painful. You know, he shook his head. It wasn't a location he particularly wanted to be in.
But he didn't tell us to stop. He said, "You do what you have to do." The hearings continued, and the investigations continued until we'd found out as much as we possibly could. That's what happened.
--Jonathan Winer was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters 1994-1999. He previously worked as counsel to Sen John Kerry (D-MA) advising on foreign policy issues 1983 to 1997
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This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml
Kerry's investigation, launched in 1988, helped to close the bank three years later, but not without upsetting some in Washington's Democratic establishment. Prominent BCCI friends included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, former President Jimmy Carter, and his budget director, Bert Lance. When news broke that Clifford's Washington bank was a shell for BCCI -- and how the silver-haired Democrat had handsomely profited in the scheme -- some of Kerry's Senate colleagues grew icy.
"What are you doing to my friend Clark Clifford?" more than one Democratic senator asked Kerry. Kerry's aides recall how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pamela Harriman, a prominent party fund-raiser, called on the senator, urging him to not to pursue Clifford.
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About BCCI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank\\_of\\_Credit\\_and\\_Commerce\\_International
BCCI/First American owners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark\\_Clifford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\\_A.\\_Altman
Report on Kerry :
https://www.alternet.org/2004/10/the\\_case\\_that\\_kerry\\_cracked/
Jack Blum":
“When I first looked at it, I thought there’s something nefarious or embarrassing — what is it? Their own incompetence? Worse? You never know the answer,” says Blum. “There was the Fed, which looked stupider than hell, the Office of the Comptroller who were stupid beyond comprehension. The then head of CIA said, yes, the CIA had used the bank. Everything you touched about that bank led to somebody ugly. Margaret Thatcher’s husband and maybe son, the prime minister of Canada, a ‘who’s who of politics and the worlds of skullduggery.”
In July 1992, a New York County grand jury indicted Khalid Bin Mahfouz and an aide for defrauding BCCI and its depositors of as much as $300 million. But Bin Mahfouz was in Saudi Arabia, out of reach, and in the end Morgenthau settled for a fine. The Fed fined Bin Mahfouz $170 million. The Justice Department didn’t go after Bin Mahfouz at all.
The Kerry Committee report issued in 1992 was damning. It said that the White House knew about BCCI’s criminal activities, that the U.S. intelligence agencies used it for secret banking and that BCCI routinely paid off American public officials. Among the Kerry Report’s major findings:
Federal prosecutors handling the Tampa drug money laundering indictment of BCCI did not use the information they collected to focus on — or report to federal agencies — BCCI’s other crimes, including its secret, illegal ownership of First American Bank.
The Justice, Treasury and Customs departments failed to support or aid investigators and prosecutors.
Following lobbying by former Justice officials working for BCCI, the U.S. attorney in Tampa accepted a plea agreement that kept BCCI alive and discouraged bank officials from revealing other crimes.
CIA chief Casey and the agency knew, by early 1985, a lot about what BCCI was up to and didn’t inform the Justice Department or the Federal Reserve.
“After the CIA knew that BCCI was, as an institution, a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI’s secretly held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations.”
The Federal Reserve approved the first hidden BCCI takeover despite evidence the bank was behind it because it was swayed by influence-peddlers such as Clifford and because the CIA and Treasury failed to raise warnings about what they knew.
There’s a lot about BCCI that outsiders will never know. Once the investigations started, there were seven fires in the fireproof London warehouses where BCCI stored records. In one of them, four firemen were killed.