Anonymous officials informed major US outlets this week about the CIA’s ‘benevolent’ new role: flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels. What’s wrong with this picture?
placed reports, released within 24 hours of one another, come in the wake of the State Department’s designation of eight major Latin American drug traffickers as global terrorist organizations.
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Unfortunately for the CIA, anyone with even a cursory knowledge of its activities knows that the agency has been more of an ally, rather than an enemy, to the drug pushers bringing violence and death to American communities.
In 1985, the Iran-Contra scandal exposed the Reagan administration’s facilitation of secret arms sales to Iran to fund rebels in Nicaragua, with the CIA iimplicated in Contra cocaine trafficking into the USA.
In 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb independently corroborated and elaborated on allegations that the crack epidemic rocking America’s inner cities was linked to traffickers enjoying protection from the CIA.
Webb’s reporting was probed by the federal government and major US media, but any info on the CIA’s involvement was swept under the rug. Webb was found dead in his home in 2004, shot twice in the head. His death was ruled a suicide.
Iran-Contra was just a small part of the CIA’s global drug s..muggling empire. Lawyer, banker, OSS and CIA officer Paul Helliwell has been called the pioneer of CIA drug dealers.
In 1962, Helliwell created the Castle Bank & Trust offshore in the Bahamas to support CIA ops against Castro’s Cuba and other anti-US forces across Latin America.
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Before that, he ran Overseas Supply, a CIA front company smuggling Burmese opium to finance a dirty war against China.
The Bahamian scandal blew up in 1973 during a tax evasion probe by the IRS, with Richard Nixon attempting to clip the CIA’s wings by creating the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Some believe the move, combined with Nixon’s obsession with the JFK murder, helped precipitate Watergate and the president’s 1974 resignation in disgrace.
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Renowned US drug and arms smuggler Barry Seal ran drugs for the Medellin Cartel and, according to US authorities, was recruited as a double agent.
But investigative journalist Alexander Cockburn and others have alleged that Seal was a CIA agent as far back as the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War implicated for working with the Contras.
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In 2017, Juan Pablo Escobar, son of the infamous founder of the Medellin Cartel, confirmed that his dad worked for the CIA, and alleged that drugs were being trafficked, by Seal and others, directly to a US military base in Florida.
Independent reporter Manuel Hernandez Borbolla has documented the formation of large Mexican cartels under the protection from the Federal Security Directorate, which the journalist described as practically employees of the CIA, along with some former Mexican presidents.
So intricate were the links, Hernandez Borbolla recalled, that infamous CIA agent Felix Ismael Rodriguez was present while members of the Guadalajara Cartel tortured and murdered DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985 after he uncovered drug and arms smuggling ops linked to the Contras.
The CIA was allegedly also involved in the 1984 murder of Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia, who was investigating the agency’s drug operations, and corrupt officials’ involvement.
In 2012, Chilean journalist Patricio Mery uncovered a CIA plot to smuggle cocaine from Bolivia to Chile, Europe and the USA to raise funds for ops to destabilize Ecuadorian President Correa’s government.
The CIA hasn’t been the only USA three-letter agency implicated in drug smuggling and cooperation with cartels, either.
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In 2010, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly referred to as the ATF) was accused of purposely allow[ing] licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican cartel leaders and arrest them, with no arrests ever made.
The case, popularly dubbed the ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ scandal, was dubbed a potential ‘Watergate’ moment for the Obama administration bu Forbes.
A few years later, El Universal published court documents revealing that from 2000-2012, the DEA collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, looking the other way as it smuggled drugs into the US in exchange for info on rival cartels.
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The CIA/DEA control drug and arms trafficking in Canada, Mexico & Colombia. Where do you think the CIA/DEA get their money to fiance their undercover, secret destabilization & chaos operations?… From the DEA/CIA’s black budget (~ $9 Trillion) originated from the CIA drugs & arms trafficking RATLINES. Arms go one way and drugs the other way – Google “Secrets of the CIA”… Why a black budget?… Because CIA black operations, inside and outside the USA, are secretly planned and funded from the black budget without the knowledge of the President or Congress… CIA black operations are run without any Congressional oversight… Read more »
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It is not mentioned in the above report that the CIA went to great lengths to pay Afghanistan farmers to produce poppy fields sent their troops to protect them split the profits with the farmers and shipped them to Russia. Mr.Putin knew this and complained to the western countries with no effect so he started bombing the poppy fields and setting up border patrols to stop them reaching Russia . he was portrayed in America and the UK as quote- “putting the Afghans into poverty” typical MI6/CIA propaganda . This was eventually reported in the Western media as it was… Read more »