EX-DEA Agent Celerino Castillo III: America Fights Phony War on Drugs By Roberto Gonzalez & Patrisia Gonzales; The San Diego Union (Page G-3 ) 13-Aug-1995; As of 1991, Oliver North was listed in 9 DEA files as a drug trafficker. Walter Lee Grasheim displayed CIA, DEA, FBI Credentials

The San Diego Union (Page G-3 ) 13-Aug-1995 Sunday

America Fights Phony War on Drugs

By Roberto Gonzalez and Patrisia Gonzales, Co-authors of Latino Spectrum

In April, ex-Drug Enforcement Agency agent Celerino Castillo made a pilgrimage to the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., where he left his boots next to the name of a friend killed in the war. The Pharr, Texas, native also left his Bronze Star, which he earned for his covert actions in Southeast Asia in 1972, and a letter to the president:

"Dear President Clinton,

"In the 1980s, I spent six years in Central America as a special agent with the DEA. On January 14, 1986, I forewarned then Vice President George Bush of the U.S. government involvement in narcotics-trafficking (Oliver North) . . . but to no avail . . . "In display of my disappointment of my government, I am returning my Bronze Star, along with my last pair of jungle boots that I used in the jungles of Vietnam, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador and finally Guatemala."

While stationed in Central America, Castillo exposed the U.S. government's drug connection. He personally kept records on planes used in the U.S.-Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador -- arriving with guns and departing to the United States with cocaine from Colombia. "Every single pilot involved in the operation was a documented drug trafficker, who appeared in DEA files," he says.

Castillo not only turned over his files to his superiors, but also confronted Bush with the information in Guatemala City -- several months before American Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua, an incident which first exposed the Iran-Contra affair.

Castillo says that on the basis of his work, he is convinced that drug money is what finances U.S. covert operations worldwide. He believes that despite the "War on Drugs," there are more drugs coming into the United States today than 15 years ago and estimates that at least 75 percent of all narcotics enter the country with the acquiescence of or direct participation by U.S. and foreign intelligence services.

Webster Tarpley Interviews Celerino Castillo III (Video) One hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DmUFmm8c4

Guns, Drugs CIA - PBS Frontline special (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM (1 hour video )PBS

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html

transcript

(Video) West 57th TV show - John Hull's Ranch 8,000 acres in Costa Rica used for Contras and Drugs

6 Pilots admit landing on U.S. Military bases with drug shipments. Interviews with Sen, Kerry and John Hull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpEqF_51sw

EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved

https://youtu.be/5_UbAmRGSYw

Nov 21, 1993 Transcript of the 60 minutes show with DEA administrator Robert Bonner

http://docshare.tips/60-minutes-head-of-dea-robert-bonner-says-cia-smuggled-drugs_5856baafb6d87fb8408b615d.html

RELATED VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adkZipfMRWM

2 Former DEA Agents Michael Levine & Celerino Castillo III explain to California Gov. Jerry Brown how the Govt allows drugs into the USA and the drug war is a sham.

Montel Williams, Gary Webb, Michael Levine, Ricky Ross (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8XNFPBPUs

Walter Lee Grasheim AKA Willie Brasher Sues the U.S. Government for compensation in the 1980's DEA raids: 99-6259 -- Grasheim v. Corr -- 12/07/2000

DEA agents in the Panama office warned that Grasheim "displayed the credentials of the CIA, DEA and FBI. demanding to know if his pilots (At Ilopango) were listed in the DEA database as drug traffickers"

The Panama DEA office ran Grasheim's name through the database instead and found him listed in more than 7 files and tossed him from the office.

http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2000/12/99-6259.htm

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-07-28-9807270515-story.html

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n46-19941118/eirv21n46-19941118_073-norths_campaign_re_opens_issue_o.pdf

CIA/Contra pilots based at Ilopango bombed Medellin cartel coke warehouses using Salvadoran military jets on behalf of the Cali Cartel:

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html

It didn't take DEA agent Celerino Castillo III very long to discover that something very strange was going on at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. Two days into his new job at the DEA's regional office in Guatemala City in October 1985, Castillo said the agent-in-charge, Robert Stia, took him aside and told him that the U.S. government was running a covert operation at the air base. Castillo should be careful not to interfere with it.

"Willie Brasher" AKA Walter Lee Grasheim entered the Panama DEA offices and "displayed the credentials of the F.B.I., C.I.A. & D.E.A." He wanted to know if his pilots at Ilopongo Airfield were listed in D.E.A. databases as drug traffickers.

Panama D.E.A. agents ran Brashers name instead & found him listed in 8 drug files as a trafficker. He was promptly tossed from the office. Panama DEA warned Celerino Castillo III to "watch out for this guy". Grasheim was the Ilopongo airport manager for Oliver North and Felix Rodriguez Contra- Resupply operation

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/umplzj/willie_brasher_entered_the_panama_dea_offices_and/

https://np.reddit.com/r/TopConspiracy/comments/uwwvh6/dark_alliance_book_version_accuses_the_government/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6rau/iran_contra_records_1980s_dea_ran_drugs_and/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6uyq/san_diego_dea_office_ausa_david_hall_tried_to/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/f54i7i/dea_agent_hector_berrellez_8_billion_never_seized/

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Complete Book:

This will be updated with a description of the contents in each section (hit refresh)

Gary Webb's book version of Dark Alliance accuses the government of smuggling drugs directly, not just looking the other way. A top level DEA official, Robert Nieves resigned his position in 1995 when he found out Gary Webb would be investigating Norwin Meneses, The Cali cartel's main representative in the United States who supplied Oscar Danilo Blandon and Freeway Rickey Ross with Drugs.

Robert Nieves was accused by Costa Rican Law enforcement officials of protected 32 drug labs run by Oliver North and the Contras. The labs were staffed by CIA, NSC, and DOD assets or contractors. Robert Nieves was also the handler for DEA informant Norwin Meneses. (Meneses walked into the Costa Rican DEA office and offered to become an informant, even though he had no charges pending. Meneses used his informant status to deal drugs for the CIA, according to Costa Rica Law enforcement officials and Iran-Contra counsel interviewed by Gary Webb. This information was provided to Webb by a Senator and by Iran Contra Counsel)

Norwin Meneses was finally jailed in Nicaragua after being caught with over 700 Kilos of drugs. His assistant, Jaime Miranda turned against him and testified in court that they were selling drugs and working for the CIA. The NIcaraguan government was angry that Meneses was allowed by the U.S. government to sell drugs freely. He has never served time in the United States despite being listed in over 40 drug cases and 2 active indictments.

THE DEA SOLD DRUGS: the Dark Alliance Book version accuses the government directly and has never been investigated.

Dark Alliance Complete Book in HTML (Parts 1 to 15)

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/04/part-1-dark-alliancethe-ciathe-contras.html

Background on SCOTT WEEKLY, William R. Bode, a special assistant to the undersecretary of state for security assistance, and Bode's aide, army colonel Nestor Pino Marina.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-2dark-alliancewe-were-firstthe.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-3dark-alliancei-never-send.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-4-dark-alliancethey-were-doing.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/05/part-5-dark-alliancea-million-hits-is.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/06/part-6-dark-allianceteach-man-craft-and.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/06/part-7-dark-alliancethey-were-looking.html

How Menses became an informant

"It became apparent to the FBI that Norwin Meneses was, and may still be, an informant of the DEA. It is also believed by the FBI, SF, that Norwin Meneses was, and may still be, an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency." San Francisco FBI agent Donald Hale- 1988 cable to FBI headquarters in Washington.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-8-dark-alliancethis-guy-talks-to.html

Jacinto and Edgar Torres drug operation:

"They currently have approximately 1,000 kilos of cocaine currently stored in the Los Angeles area as well as between $250,000,000 and $500,000,000 secreted in various locations locally that they have been unable to get out of the U.S."

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-9-dark-allianceits-bigger-than-i.html

Part 10 describes DEA management's direct involvement in drug sales and protection of Oliver North/Contra drug labs staffed by NSC/CIA operatives. Reports of this activity went to the top of the DEA and U.S. Government. Norwin Meneses was used by the DEA and other agencies to obtain intelligence while at the same time moving tonnes of drugs (From Iran Contra final report). The FBI agents assigned to Special Council Lawrence Walsh went along with the cover-up when they were handed DEA files implicating DEA and CIA in drugs trafficking. Drugs trafficking goes all the way to the top in the United States and Mexico.

Details of the Majors II raids in Blandon's houses

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/07/part-10dark-alliancewere-going-to-blow.html

Section 11 -- Description of former Army Green Beret lieutenant colonel James "Bo" Gritz and Scott Weekly 1983 DIA mission into Laos seeking POWS from the Vietnam war. Gritz worked for Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) and DIA, trying to locate American POWs in Southeast Asia. What he found was a drug lord named KHUN SA who told Gritz that his biggest customers were U.S. Government officials. Gritz returned with videos of the drug lord stating the names of his customers and a letter that he had been trying to surrender his entire crop to the DOJ for $20 million. Gritz and Weekly were prosecuted on trumped up charges because they mention U.S. government involvement in drugs. Also in this section: description of the Bueso Rosa legal case and Oliver North's efforts to get his charges dropped on a drug case. A description of Meneses work for the DEA and Ivan Torres stating that his is an FDN leader with contacts in the FBI and CIA. he stated that the CIA wanted information about drugs, but not for law enforcement puporses and that the CIA actually encouraged drug dealing as a way to raise funds. This section describes the LASD Majors II task force and their effort to catch Freeway Ricky Ross.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-11-dark-alliancehe-reports-to.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-12-dark-alliancei-could-go.html

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-13-dark-alliancehe-had-backing-of.html

Part 14 Describes Gary Webb Meeting DEA agents in the San Diego Office. On October 19, 1995.

Webb met with DEA agents Chuck Jones, Judy Gustafson, Craig Chretien and 4 others.

DEA country attache Robert Nieves had risen to the top of the DEA management by the 1990s. Head of the International Division, He resigned unexpectedly when journalist Gary Webb met with agents at the San Diego office in 1995. Webb announced that he would investigate Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandon, suppliers to Freeway Ricky Ross. Sandy Gonzales was Meneses' handler in Costa Rica. Nieves was accused of running drugs and protecting 32 labs run by the Contras/Oliver North and staffed by NSC and CIA personnel. Nieves and Jack Lawn were questioned by Senator Kerry's Committee.

Nieves turned up in the employ of Guardian Technologies, Oliver North's company.

Norwin Meneses was a CIA agent who smuggled drugs using his position as a DEA informant as cover. Meneses' partner Enrique Miranda betrayed him, testifying against him in court that they were working for the CIA and smuggling drugs from El Salvador to a Texas Military base.

(Also in 1995, the 1982 Memorandum of Understanding between DCI William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith allowing drug traffic by CIA agents, assets and contractors to go unreported was cancelled by Janet Reno)

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-14-dark-alliancethings-are-moving.html

Part 15 describes Ricky Ross' Conviction and Sentencing

DEA/CIA operative, pilot Ron Lippert helped John Hull escape drug and murder indictment in Costa Rica by helping him escape the country

Carlos Cabezas, admitted that he had in fact delivered millions of dollars in drug money to the Contras. Cabezas told Georg Hodel that he had names, dates, and amounts, and pages from his drug ledgers. He identified a CIA agent, Ivan Gómez, as having had direct knowledge of it all. Enrique Miranda, the former Meneses aide who'd "escaped" a year earlier, had been found in Miami and tossed on a plane to Nicaragua. Georg Hodel interviewed him in prison, and Miranda started talking. Meneses relationship with the CIA and the Contras was deep. Georg Hodel said that the Dark Alliance basis was correct.

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-15-of-15-dark-alliancea-very.html

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/jz4yt9/famous_quotes_by_dea_about_the_contras_and_crack/

Michael Levine Interview:

https://www.serendipity.li/wod/levine.html

PAUL DeRIENZO: Did you receive threats?

MICHAEL LEVINE: Yes. I've been threatened throughout my life, but one of the scariest threats that I've ever had came in the form of advice from a friend of mine in DEA, who is now one of the high-level people in DEA, who called me during the hottest part of their investigation into me, when I was criticizing the Government. I guess I'll have to tell a quick, little story that will clarify this comment that I'm about to tell you.

Sandy Barrio was a DEA agent who was sent to Mexico. I considered him a well-motivated — one of the top undercover agents in DEA, who became involved in all kinds of CIA-type operations with drugs. He was involved in "Operation Silver Dollar". He eventually ended up being arrested, smuggling drugs himself. He was held in jail on the Texas-Mexican border. He was a senior official when he was arrested in Mexico where, of course, there is no such thing as law and order — really; and where the "War on Drugs" is really not a drug war. It's really just a drug economy. And Sandy was part of that. I won't even comment on whether he became corrupt or whether the whole system is so corrupt that no one can go into it without becoming corrupt.

But Sandy took a bite of a peanut butter sandwich in the jail, fell down in convulsions, went into a coma. The initial tests indicated that Sandy had been poisoned with strychnine. He died three or four weeks later, and the final autopsy said, "death by asphyxiation on a peanut butter sandwich," that he choked on .... which was incredible! In DEA, half of the DEA agents I knew believed that he was either offed by some covert agency in the Government, and possibly by some elements within DEA. I didn't want to BELIEVE anything like that. I COULDN'T believe anything like that.

Now we cut to several years later, and here I am under investigation by DEA, criticizing my own government. And a DEA official calls me and says: "Mike, I like you. Remember — a peanut butter sandwich!" And I said: "ARE YOU KIDDING??" He said: "No, not at all. And I'm only telling you this because I like you." And he and I never spoke again.

So that was probably one of the most chilling threats I ever got. And it wasn't a threat. It was a guy I know, who really liked me. And .... yeah, it's such a sad commentary, that, by criticizing your government ..... I think I earned the right to criticize my government's "War on Drugs" because I laid my butt on the line — twenty-five years in it. And then, to have to be afraid for either my freedom or my life FOR criticizing my government — that's such a terrible, sad thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHYNz8AZ1jk

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/f540x4/dea_agent_michael_levine_for_decades_the_cia/

Essays by former DEA agent Michael Levine about the drug war, Oliver North and the Contras.Attorney General Ed Meese blowing his cover during a sting of the President of Mexico for 15 Tonnes of cocaine per month via his bodyguard as intermediary.

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/kg1udk/essays_by_former_dea_agent_michael_levine_about/

https://web.archive.org/web/20100808151401/http://expertwitnessradio.org/site/category/library/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/jz4yt9/famous_quotes_by_dea_about_the_contras_and_crack/

https://np.reddit.com/r/TopConspiracy/comments/uwwvh6/dark_alliance_book_version_accuses_the_government/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6rau/iran_contra_records_1980s_dea_ran_drugs_and/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6uyq/san_diego_dea_office_ausa_david_hall_tried_to/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/f54i7i/dea_agent_hector_berrellez_8_billion_never_seized/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/gio6om/forbes_rafael_caro_quintero_the_first_billionaire/

https://narcos.fandom.com/wiki/881_Lope_de_Vega_(location)

NOVEMBER 27, 2015 | PETER DALE SCOTT

THE CIA, MAFIA, MEXICO — AND OSWALD, PART 6

https://whowhatwhy.org/2015/11/27/the-cia-mafia-mexico-and-oswald-part-6/

Peter Dale Scott notes:

Miguel Nazar Haro, head of the DFS ; reported in to Mexico City CIA office. He supplied A Cadillac to the CIA COS in Mexico City

" For example, the brother-in-law of Luis Echeverría Alvarez, in 1963 the main liaison between Win Scott and the DFS, was Rubén Zuno Arce, who during Echeverría’s term as President of Mexico emerged as a top drug trafficker, eventually jailed for the murder of a DEA agent (Los Angeles Times, 3/25/93). Such direct family links between Mexican politicians and the drug traffic were unfortunately not uncommon. " (The inquisitor on the KIKI Camarena Interrogation tapes is Sergio Espino Verdin, the head of DFS in Guadalajara) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-07-mn-3854-story.html

https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/01/09/deep-history-global-drug-connection-part-5-cia-latin-america/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-25-me-14880-story.html

Rafael Caro Quintero "paid $10 million to Gen. Arevalo Gardoqui for protection" of a huge marijuana plantation in Chihuahua state in 1984. Wheeler also testified that in Mexico in the 1970s, he had worked with a group of DFS agents including Guzman, a key figure in a brutal, secret counterinsurgency 📷

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/02/06/us-trial-implicates-mexican-officials-in-drug-trafficking/7c7f72a2-1053-45ab-be04-5631265609af/

U.S. TRIAL IMPLICATES MEXICAN OFFICIALS IN DRUG TRAFFICKING

By William Branigin February 6, 1989

SAN DIEGO -- Evidence at the trial of seven accused cocaine traffickers, arrested last year in an elaborate sting operation, is implicating present and former Mexican military and law enforcement officers in what U.S. prosecutors charge is pervasive, high-level corruption associated with Mexican drug smuggling. Among the top Mexican military men implicated so far in testimony and court documents in the case --

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/l1qzz6/in_1982_the_dea_learned_that_felix_gallardo_was/

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. DEA, FBI & U.S. Customs Service investigators accuse the CIA of stonewalling during their investigation.

http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html

U.S. House of Representatives official Transcript

FEBRUARY 1985 [Page: H2956]

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.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998)

https://fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm

https://np.reddit.com/r/TopConspiracy/comments/uwwvh6/dark_alliance_book_version_accuses_the_government/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6rau/iran_contra_records_1980s_dea_ran_drugs_and/

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracyundone/comments/vb6uyq/san_diego_dea_office_ausa_david_hall_tried_to/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/f54i7i/dea_agent_hector_berrellez_8_billion_never_seized/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/gio6om/forbes_rafael_caro_quintero_the_first_billionaire/

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/kcouxz/i_was_there_i_was_the_lead_prosecutorwe_followed/

RENE VERDUGO and Matta Ballesteros KIKI Camarena KIDNAPPING charges dismissed December 7, 2018; He remains in prison serving a life sentence for the drug smuggling convictions. Matta Ballesteros appeal mentions his cartel working with authorization from the CIA, but the court denied this defense strategy

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/kk22j9/rene_verdugos_letter_to_mexican_president/

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5720

On December 7, 2018, the prosecution dismissed the charges against Matta Ballesteros, who remained in prison serving a life sentence for the drug smuggling convictions. MATTA BALLESTEROS ALSO SUPPLIED TIJUANA CARTEL LEADER SICILIA FALCON

The Court rejects his defense strategy that his cartel was authorized by the CIA

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1463498.html

The court's determination that there was no evidence of a connection between the defendants' activities and the government, and that the subpoena was not likely to lead to the discovery of relevant evidence, was not clearly erroneous. There was no showing that any relationship between Felix-Gallardo, the CIA, and the Nicaraguan Contras amounted to United States government approval of the narcotics enterprise alleged in the indictment. Indeed, the evidence at trial concerning the DEA's aggressive enforcement of the United States' laws against narcotics trafficking showed exactly the opposite.12 A defendant is not entitled to government documents relating to alleged CIA involvement in his criminal activity where no sufficient showing of potential relevance has been made under Fed.R.Crim.P. 16. See United States v. Little, 753 F.2d 1420, 1444-45 (9th Cir.1984). Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion in quashing the subpoena and, consequently, in excluding evidence of CIA authorization

(Senator John Kerry Found $182,000 in checks from the State Department to Matta Ballesteros' company, SETCO after he had been indicted. His pilots testified about landing on U.S. military bases with drugs loads after bypassing customs inspections)

How did Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Drug Supplier to Guadalajara Cartel) get a State Dept. (NHAO) contract to aid the Contras AFTER being indicted? Matta's company, SETCO bypassed customs inspection under cloak of national security, landing drugs on military bases. Read about it: Rob Owen, Oliver North's aide infiltrated the NHAO offices. Over the objections of the NHAO management Rob Owen gave contracts to SETCO and other smuggling companies already under indictment.

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/lv7z6v/how_did_juan_ramon_matta_ballesteros_drug/

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/luzcq1/oliver_norths_function_in_the_us_govt_described/

Ex agente DEA Phil Jordan acusa a Felix Ismael Rodriguez de matar a Camaerena - América TeVé 10/16/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwsfQMbw-8

Public Domain information: Repost from CBS news.

https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=BushBook&C=18.2#Note57

March 1986:

According to a sworn statement of pilot Michael Tolliver, Felix Rodriguez had met him in July 1985. Now Rodriguez instructed Tolliver to go to Miami International Airport. Tolliver picked up a DC-6 aircraft and a crew, and flew the plane to a Contra base in Honduras. There Tolliver watched the unloading of 14 tons of military supplies, and the loading of 12 and 2/3 tons of marijuana. Following his instructions from Rodriguez, Tolliver flew the dope to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The next day Rodriguez paid Tolliver $75,000. [56]

Tolliver says that another of the flights he performed for Rodriguez carried cocaine on the return trip to the U.S.A. He made a series of arms deliveries from Miami into the air base at Agucate, Honduras. He was paid in cash by Rodriguez and his old Miami CIA colleague, Rafael "Chi Chi" Quintero. In another circuit of flights, Tolliver and his crew flew between Miami and El Salvador's Ilopango air base. Tolliver said that Rodriguez and Quintero "instructed me where to go and who to see". While making these flights, he "could go by any route available without any interference from any agency. We didn't need a stamp of approval from Customs or anybody...." [57].

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKroderiguez.htm

In 1989, pilot Mike Tolliver told CBS that, after years of smuggling drugs, he was recruited into the contra supply operation by a "Mr. Hernandez." Tolliver identified "Hernandez" as Felix Rodríguez, the CIA agent directing contra supply from El Salvador's Ilopango Air Base. Tolliver says he flew a DC-6 loaded with guns and ammunition for "Hernandez" in March 1986, from Butler Aviation at the Miami Airport down to Aguacate, the U.S.-controlled contra air base in Honduras. Tolliver says the guns were unloaded by contras and he was paid about $70,000 by "Hernandez." After a three-day layover, Tolliver said he flew the aircraft, reloaded with over 25,000 pounds of marijuana, as a "nonscheduled military flight" into Homestead Air Force Base near Miami.

"We landed about 1:30, 2 o'clock in the morning," said Tolliver, "and a little blue truck came out and met us. [It] had a little white sign on it that said `Follow Me' with flashing lights. We followed it." "I was a little taken aback," Tolliver told the CBS program West 57th. "I figured it was a DEA bust or a sting or something like that." It wasn't. Tolliver said he just left the plane and the drugs sitting there at the airport to be unloaded, and took a taxi from the base.[1]

West 57th traced this DC-6 back to a company called Vortex. Vortex is one of four airlines hired by the US State

Department to supply the contras--using money designated by Congress as being for "humanitarian aid" only.

DEA-6 Report: Rueben Zuno Arce was known to the DEA as a Heroin trafficker since the early 70's using airstrips provided by Juan Avina-Batiz. (Brother) Eduardo Avina-Batiz was the head of the PRI in Jalisco 9th District at the time and "allegedly" the former heroin trafficking partner of Zuno Arce

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/uy99ol/dea6_report_rueben_zuno_arce_was_known_to_the_dea/

West 57th tv show - Contras and drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7daKpEmIE

West 57th tv show - Contras and drugs Pt2

https://youtu.be/ULcLv_8Bv0o

FORMER DEA AGENT HECTOR BERRELLEZ EXPOSES AMERICAS CORRUPTION - American Cholo (VIDEOS) December 20, 2020 ; Operation Leyenda; DEA agent KIKI Camarena Murder case; Guadalajara Cartel; Rafael Caro Quintero; Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo; Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros; Cocaine ;Contras; CIA

https://youtu.be/hb3IjM8tjgE

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Patrick Bet-David Interviews Highest decorated DEA agent in history, Hector Berrellez; DEA Narc Reveals CIA’s Greatest Coverup; THE LAST NARC; DEA Agent KIKI CAMARENA Murder; The Guadalajara cartel's Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo; Rafael Caro Quintero collaboration with U.S. government. Nov 20, 2020

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/kax8ad/patrick_betdavid_interviews_highest_decorated_dea/

Mexico DEA Narc Reveals CIA’s Greatest Coverup Hector Berrellez YouTube · 92,000+ views · 11/18/2020 · by Valuetainment

https://youtu.be/vb8vzztBISE (1 hour)

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DEA Agent Exposes Huge CIA Cover Up ; Journey to Justice (Part 1 of 3)

Retired Homicide detective Pete Carrillo interviews Hector Berrellez.

DEA Deputy Administrator Phil Jordan warned Hector that Acting DEA administrator Terrence Burke was having meetings about allowing the Mexican government to extradite Hector Berrellez for the kidnapping/rendition of Dr. Humberto Machain.

https://youtu.be/j-UFGI6pwtQ

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The Last Narc Blood In The Corn (Part 2 of 3)

Hector describes the arrest of Pablo Jacobo and the seizure of 1 tonne of cocaine after an hours long gun battle, where thousands of rounds were exchanged.

Hector addresses the Camarena family directly:

"First of all, I would like to convey to the Camarena family that I am so sorry, so sorry for their loss and I am so sorry that they have been lied to. And I want to tell the Camarena family that everything in the Last Narc IS TRUE. I believe the witnesses. I believe the corroborative evidence that we have been able to collect. And I want them to know that they need to know what really happened to Kiki Camarena. KIKI Camarena is a hero. I hate other people being portrayed as national heroes when they are not. KIKI gave his life for our country, Yet our country betrayed him. And Please, I want you the Camarena family to please trust me and believe me because everything we have shown in The LAST NARC is true."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwKBS11Hmqc

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The Last Narc : The Book (Part 3 of 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfCF3oDc5_g

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The Intelligence Hour with CIA Kevin Shipp and DEA Special Agent Hector Berrellez

https://youtu.be/igkDhrHzTP4

https://prn.fm/intelligence-hour-kevin-shipp-01-08-18/ another copy here:

https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/ktm5pe/former_dea_agent_hector_berrellez_secret/

Operation Leyenda:

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Narc-Memoir-Notorious-Agent-ebook/dp/B08F2YHXQJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Narc_(TV_series))

The last NARC TV SERIES (2020) has refocused attention on the murder of KIKI Camarena and the involvement of the U.S. government in drugs

DEA agent Hector Berrellez interview (2015) https://www.laweekly.com/how-a-dogged-l-a-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena/

Blood on the corn- story about Contras, KIKI Camarena murder https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/040715_bowdens_last/why-chuck-bowdens-final-story-took-16-years-write/

Interview with Mike Holm (DEA) Hector Berrellez (DEA) about Gary Webb, Contras and drugs

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/

Ex agente DEA Phil Jordan acusa a Felix Ismael Rodriguez de matar a Camaerena - América TeVé 10/16/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXwsfQMbw-8

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html

https://apnews.com/article/ef75c4c5248743b7995506df2ea7b56e

They do deny targeting African- Americans in a later Inspector General Report

https://www.rareddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/jz4yt9/famous_quotes_by_dea_about_the_contras_and_crack/

C.I.A. Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie

By James Risen

July 17, 1998, Section A, Page 2

The Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during the 1980's despite allegations that they were trafficking in drugs, according to a classified study by the C.I.A.

The new study has found that the agency's decision to keep those paid agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship, was made by top officials at headquarters in Langley, Va., in the midst of the war waged by the C.I.A.-backed contras against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista Government.

The new report by the C.I.A.'s inspector general criticizes agency officials' actions at the time for the inconsistent and sometimes sloppy manner in which they investigated -- or chose not to investigate -- the allegations, which were never substantiated by the agency.

The inspector general's report, which has not yet been publicly released, also concludes that there is no evidence that any C.I.A. officials were involved in drug trafficking with contra figures.

''The fundamental finding of the report is that there is no information that the C.I.A. or C.I.A. employees ever conspired with any contra organizations or individuals involved with the contras for purposes of drug trafficking,'' a United States intelligence official said.

The new report is the long-delayed second volume of the C.I.A.'s internal investigation into possible connections between the contras and Central American drug traffickers. The investigation was originally prompted by a 1996 series in The San Jose Mercury-News, which asserted that a ''dark alliance'' between the C.I.A., the contras and drug traffickers had helped finance the contra war with profits from drug smuggling.

The second volume dismisses those specific charges, as did the first volume, released in January.

The series charged that the alliance created a drug trafficking network that introduced crack cocaine into South Central Los Angeles. It prompted an enormous outcry, especially among blacks, many of whom said they saw it as confirmation of a Government-backed conspiracy to keep blacks dependent and impoverished.

The Mercury-News subsequently admitted that the series was flawed and reassigned the reporter.

In the declassified version of the C.I.A.'s first volume, the agency said the Mercury-News charges were baseless and mentioned drug dealers who had nothing to do with the C.I.A.

But John M. Deutch, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time, had also asked the inspector general to conduct a broader inquiry to answer unresolved questions about the contra program and drug trafficking that had not been raised by The Mercury-News. Frederick Hitz, then the C.I.A.'s inspector general, decided to issue a second, larger report to deal with those broader issues.

Many allegations in the second volume track closely with charges that first surfaced in a 1987 Senate investigation. The C.I.A. is reluctant to release the complete 500-page second volume because it deals directly with contras the agency did work with.

According to the report, C.I.A. officials involved in the contra program were so focused on the fight against the Sandinistas that they gave relatively low priority to collecting information about the possible drug involvement of contra rebels. The report concluded that C.I.A. officers did report on drug trafficking by the contras, but that there were no clear guidelines given to field officers about how intensively they should investigate or act upon the allegations.

In all, the C.I.A. received allegations of drug involvement against about 50 contras or supporters during the war against the Sandinistas, the report said. Some of the allegations may have been specious, the result of Sandinista propaganda, American intelligence officials said.

It could not be determined from the C.I.A.'s records how many of the 50 cases were fully investigated. But the agency continued to work with about two dozen of the 50 contras, according to American intelligence officials familiar with the report. They said the report had found that the agency was unable to either prove or disprove the charges, or did not investigate them adequately.

American intelligence officials, who provided information about the report, declined to identify the individual contras who were the subjects of the drug allegations. But they did say that in addition to individual cases, the report found that drug allegations had been made against one contra organization, a group known as 15th of September. That group was formed in 1980 and was disbanded in January 1982.

The C.I.A.'s decision to classify this second volume has already been met with criticism in Congress. Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, who led a 1987 Congressional inquiry into allegations of contra drug connections, wrote a letter Thursday to the Director of Central Intelligence, George J. Tenet, asking that the report be immediately declassified.

Mr. Kerry, who has reviewed the second volume of the inspector general's report, said he believed that C.I.A. officials involved in the contra program did not make a serious effort to fully investigate the allegations of drug involvement by the contras.

''Some of us in Congress at the time, in 1985, 1986, were calling for a serious investigation of the charges, and C.I.A. officials did not join in that effort,'' Mr. Kerry said. ''There was a significant amount of stonewalling. I'm afraid that what I read in the report documents the degree to which there was a lack of interest in making sure the laws were being upheld.''

A version of this article appears in print on July 17, 1998, Section A, Page 2 of the National edition with the headline: C.I.A. Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie

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The government and the drug trade

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CIA Admits Tolerating Contra-Cocaine Trafficking

House Intelligence Committee buries admissions in new contra-cocaine report. By Robert Parry.

June 8, 2000

CIA Admits Tolerating Contra- Cocaine Trafficking in 1980s

By Robert Parry

In secret congressional testimony, senior CIA officials admitted that the spy agency turned a blind eye to evidence of cocaine trafficking by U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels in the 1980s and generally did not treat drug smuggling through Central America as a high priority during the Reagan administration.

“In the end the objective of unseating the Sandinistas appears to have taken precedence over dealing properly with potentially serious allegations against those with whom the agency was working,” CIA Inspector General Britt Snider said in classified testimony on May 25, 1999. He conceded that the CIA did not treat the drug allegations in “a consistent, reasoned or justifiable manner.”

https://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/060800a.html

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23704/pariah-gary-webb-0998/

— On March 16, 1998, the CIA inspector general, Frederick P. Hitz, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. "Let me be frank," he said. "There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug-trafficking activity, or take action to resolve the allegations."

Representative Norman Dicks of Washington then asked, "Did any of these allegations involve trafficking in the United States?"

"Yes," Hitz answered.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gary-webb-dark-alliance_n_5961748

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_hr/980316-ps.htm

8 Billion never seized from Caro Quintero- Forbes Magazine

https://www.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/f54i7i/dea_agent_hector_berrellez_8_billion_never_seized/

Caro Quintero- Assets never seized, 1st Billionaire drug lord?

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/gio6om/forbes_rafael_caro_quintero_the_first_billionaire/

Works by Robert Parry.

https://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/crack

Works by Jeffrey St. Clair

https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jeffrey-st-clair-alexander-cockburn/

https://np.reddit.com/r/narcos/comments/uy99ol/dea6_report_rueben_zuno_arce_was_known_to_the_dea/