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1947 to 1951, FRANCE


According to Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party. The Corsicans gained political influence and control over the docks - ideal conditions for cementing a long-term partnership with mafia drug distributors, which turned Marseille into the postwar heroin capital of the Western world. Marseille's first heroin laboratones were opened in 1951, only months after the Corsicans took over the waterfront.


EARLY 1950s, SOUTHEAST Asia


The Nationalist Chinese army, organized by the CIA to wage war against Communist China, became the opium barons of The Golden Triangle (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos), the world's largest source of opium and heroin. Air America, the ClA's principal airline proprietary, flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia. (See Christopher Robbins, Air America, Avon Books, 1985, chapter 9)


1950s to early 1970s, INDOCHINA During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many Gl's in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention, Southeast Asia had become the source of 70 percent of the world's illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America's booming heroin market.


1973-80, Australia


The Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney was a CIA bank in all but name. Among its officers were a network of US Generals, admirals and CIA men, including fommer CIA director William Colby, who was also one of its lawyers. With branches in Saudi Arabia, Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the U.S., Nugan Hand Bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms dealings. In 1980, amidst several mysterious deaths, the bank collapsed, $50 million in debt. (See Jonathan Kwitny, The crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA, W.W. Norton & Co., 1 987.)


1970s and 1980s, Panama


For more than a decade, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S. drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega facilitated ”guns-for-drugs” flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel otficials, and discreet banking facilities. U.S. officials, including then-ClA Director William Webster and several DEA officers, sent Noriega letters of praise for efforts to thwart drug trafficking (albeit only against competitors of his Medellin Cartel patrons). The U.S. government only turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989 and kidnapping the general once they discovered he was providing intelligence and services to the Cubans and Sandinistas. Ironically drug trafficking through Panama increased after the US invasion. (John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, Random House, 1991; National Security Archive Documentation Packet The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.)


1980s, Central America


The San Jose mercury News series documents just one thread of the interwoven operations linking the CIA, the contras and the cocaine cartels. Obsessed with overthrowing the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, Reagan administration officials tolerated drug trafficking as long as the traffickers gave support to the contras. In 1989, the Senate Subcommittee on terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations (the Kerry committee) concluded a three-year investigation by stating:


- There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots Mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters throughout the region…. U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war efforts against Nicaragua…. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. govemment had intormation regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter…. Senior U S policy makers were nit immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems.” (Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, a Report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and Intemational Operations, 1989)


In Costa Rica, which served as the - Southern Front” for the contras (Honduras being the Northern Front), there were several different ClA-contra networks involved in drug trafficking. In addition to those servicing the Meneses-Blandon operation detailed by the Mercury News, and Noriega's operation, there was CIA operative John Hull, whose farms along Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua were the main staging area for the contras. Hull and other ClA-connected contra supporters and pilots teamed up with George Morales, a major Miami-based Colombian drug trafficker who later admitted to giving $3 million in cash and several planes to contra leaders. In 1989, after the Costa Rica government indicted Hull for drug trafficking, a DEA-hired plane clandestinely and illegally flew the CIA operative to Miami, via Haiti. The US repeatedly thwarted Costa Rican efforts to extradite Hull back to Costa Rica to stand trial. Another Costa Rican-based drug ring involved a group of Cuban Amencans whom the CIA had hired as military trainers for the contras. Many had long been involved with the CIA and drug trafficking They used contra planes and a Costa Rican-based shnmp company, which laundered money for the CIA, to move cocaine to the U.S. Costa Rica was not the only route. Guatemala, whose military intelligence service - closely associated with the CIA - harbored many drug traffickers, according to the DEA, was another way station along the cocaine highway.


Additionally, the Medellin Cartel's Miami accountant, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, testified that he funneled nearly $10 million to Nicaraguan Contras through long-time CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who was based at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. The contras provided both protection and infrastructure (planes, pilots, airstrips, warehouses, front companies and banks) to these ClA-linked drug networks. At least four transport companies under investigation for drug trafficking received US govemment contracts to carry non-lethal supplies to the contras. Southern Air Transport, - formerly” ClA-owned, and later under Pentagon contract, was involved in the drug running as well. Cocaine-laden planes flew to Florida, Texas, Louisiana and other locations, including several militarv bases Designated as ‘Contra Craft,” these shipments were not to be inspected. When some authority wasn't clued in and made an arrest, powerful strings were pulled on behalf of dropping the case, acquittal, reduced sentence, or deportation.


1980s to early 1990s, AFGHANISTAN


ClA-supported Moujahedeen rebels engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported govemment and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and leading heroin refiner. CIA supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe. US officials admitted in 1990 that they had failed to investigate or take action against the drug operabon because of a desire not to offend their Pakistani and Afghan allies. In 1993, an official of the DEA called Afghanistan the new Colombia of the drug world.


MlD-1980s to early 199Os, HAITI


While working to keep key Haitian military and political leaders in power, the CIA turned a blind eye to their clients' drug trafficking. In 1986, the Agency added some more names to its payroll by creating a new Haitian organization, the National Intelligence Service (SIN). SIN was purportedly created to fight the cocaine trade, though SIN officers themselves engaged in the trafficking, a trade aided and abetted by some of the Haitian military and political leaders.


William Blum is author of Killing Hope: U.S Military and CIA Interventions Since World War ll available from Common Courage Press, P.O. Box 702, Monroe, Maine, 04951




William Blum is a frequent contributor to global Research. Global Research Articles by William Blum

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police Superintendent Garry McCarthy are cleaning up corners where drug dealers are operating, literally cleaning them up.
By JOSEPH CELENTINO Chicago (CN) - The 7th Circuit affirmed the convictions of two Chicago-area car dealership owners who made more than half of their sales to drug dealers from 1995 to 2005, hiding large cash payments from the government.
According to evidence presented at trial, Riley had been receiving large packages of narcotics from a Texas-based source since 2008.
By ALAN MCEWEN crime Reporter police today staged a string of raids against heroin and cocaine dealers in the west of Edinburgh.

By Christopher Evans, The Plain Dealer That's the Percocet advantage. It does a sweet number on the neurotransmitters, smoothing out all the jagged edges, soothing that mad dog making mincemeat out of pain receptors.
A Vallejo man has been arrested on drug-related charges by Solano County Sheriff detectives, who were serving a search warrant, deputies said Tuesday.
By Reginald Fields, The Plain Dealer COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some welfare recipients would have to pass a drug test before being allowed to collect their monthly assistance checks under a budget provision added by the Ohio Senate that will be voted on today.
The Crown's case was based on Conrad's intercepted communications in 2006 and from August to October 2008 when police were investigating a group of large-scale cocaine traffickers on Vancouver Island. Federal Prosecutor Peter Eccles had asked the court ...
Thomason said wells was arrested last year after Department of Public Safety agents allegedly tied him to an extensive drug operation based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Wells, authorities said, distributed meth "at a rate of a quarter-pound a week ...

By Ioan Grillo Losing the war: Residents look at shoes of missing people that have been arranged to form the number 49, in memory of the mutilated victims dumped by suspected drug gang hit men in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday.
For me, the hint came when, during a recent talk in which I declared my support for the Mexican drug war, a woman in the audience yelled: "Sellout!
San Diego - A former Mexican law enforcement official pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Diego to aiding members of a violent Tijuana-based drug cartel in a case prosecutors said included helping traffickers get away with a double homicide ...
The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on two senior lieutenants of India's most-wanted organized crime lord. The Treasury Department on Tuesday designated the two men - Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim 'Tiger' Memon - as drug trafficking kingpins.
Should Napa police continue to arrest drug dealers? Opinions differ, and we're interested in yours. By Louisa Hufstader SWAT team at Rexford Mobile Estates.
Fighting to close a big gap with Enrique Pena Nieto, the front-runner for the July 1 election, Vazquez Mota sharpened her attacks on his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, saying it had made life easy for brutal drug traffickers in Mexico.
A heroin dealer murdered a father after trying to sell him pepper instead of the class-A drug. Ismail Burnett was jailed for life for murdering 40-year-old James Bruce in the Halloween attack.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on two senior lieutenants of India's most-wanted organized crime lord. The Treasury Department on Tuesday designated the two men - Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim 'Tiger' Memon - as drug ...
A DRUG dealer who tried to run away from police at a rave has been jailed. Simon Joseph was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday having earlier admitted six offences.
A heroin dealer murdered a father after trying to sell him pepper instead of the class-A drug. Ismail Burnett was jailed for life for murdering 40-year-old James Bruce in the Halloween attack.
By Rich Lord / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A second lawsuit was filed today against the city of Pittsburgh stemming from a 2010 arrest that was discredited by video tape showing that the alleged drug transaction never occurred. Plaintiff David Carpenter ...
By Michael Sangiacomo, The Plain Dealer Akron, Ohio -- An Akron man was convicted Monday of robbing and murdering a man who met him to buy drugs.
drug traffickers, the police, military chiefs, politics and business have become intertwined in a spectacular way. The latest bloody event is the appearance of 49 bodies without hands, feet or heads on the road near Cadereyta, a town very close to ...
Wiretaps placed by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to obtain evidence against a heroin trafficking ring uncovered a surprising suspect: a New York City police officer.
BY JAY WEAVER A former Hialeah gardens police officer was convicted Monday in federal court of conspiring to steal marijuana from dealers during traffic stops and to invade a warehouse with hundreds of pot plants in 2010.
By AP MONTERREY, Mexico - Authorities struggled today to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the US .
Fighting to close a big gap with Enrique Pena Nieto, the front-runner for the July 1 election, Vazquez Mota sharpened her attacks on his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, saying it had made life easy for brutal drug traffickers in Mexico.
AP A veteran Puerto Rican police officer has been convicted by a US federal jury of providing security for drug dealers. Officials say Yamil Navedo Ramirez was convicted Monday of one count of attempting to possess with the intent to distribute more ...
A police officer on routine patrol broke up an open-air drug sale and arrested one of two male customers Monday night in a neighborhood along East Third and Philadelphia streets.
A drug offender says he is in fear for his life because he is wrongly suspected of being an undercover officer. Kyle Vercoe Grace's predicament emerged when he admitted a cannabis offence at Christchurch District Court today.
When he attempted to intervene on behalf of a former deputy (a convicted drug dealer, who dealt drugs in the jail), his creditability should be questioned.
By James Myers According to reports from the Norristown police Department, a Norristown woman and a Philadelphia man were arrested early Monday morning and are being charged with numerous drug violations including possession with intent to distribute ...
A SWANSEA heroin dealer who fled to this country from Iran has been jailed for three years. Mohsen Golpaie was found in possession of the Class A drug when police stopped him in Victoria Terrace in the city's Brynmill area on March 6.
A DRUG dealer who was twice found with heroin by plain-clothed police has been spared a jail term so she can try to get clean.
My first thought when I read about the arrests was, how do drug dealers think their career choices are going to play out? According to the book, Freakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, it's a tough life being a drug dealer.
Authorities said at least a few of the latest victims had tattoos of the Santa Muerte cult popular among drug traffickers. The bodies, some of them in plastic garbage bags, were most likely brought to the spot and dropped from the back of a dump truck, ...
police announced the killing of one of Rio de Janeiro's most wanted drug traffickers, sparking mixed reactions in the neighborhoods he once ruled and opening a new power void in the city.
According to the affidavit, Vargas, a convicted drug dealer out on parole, was walking along Flat Street and approached the minor and asked if they wanted to smoke marijuana.
By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- US Attorney Steven Dettelbach announced this morning that the US Drug Enforcement Administration will create a Cleveland-based, 12-member investigative unit dedicated entirely to prescription ...
TWO dealers who came to Southampton to sell class A drugs on the streets have been locked up for more than seven years in total.
Somsak Nilbanjerdkul, director of a command center set up by the Thai government to coordinate anti-drug efforts. "Democracy is flourishing in Burma, but illegal activities are moving to areas where there is a lack of law and order.
Federal Judge Sandy Mattice on Monday told drug dealer Dequan Labrando Lacy he had faced a mandatory 10-year sentence, but he said he had "dodged a bullet" by getting his sentence cut substantially by testifying against his half-brother.
I learned that after being invited by the Napa Special Investigations Bureau to ride along with undercover drug agents as they set up drug buys with an informant and local methamphetamine dealers. Dubbed Operation Clean Sweep, the NSIB investigation ...
"We're coming forth saying that the drug war has been more damaging to our families than the drugs themselves." The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is well-known for helping push forward Prohibition in the United States.
Hampton Deputy police Chief Richard Sawyer said any time police make a big bust, there are more drug dealers that begin taking over the territory.
After being indicted last summer by the Eastern District of New York, Serna reportedly felt so squeezed by the agency and rival drug dealers that he began negotiating for his surrender. His arrest is by all accounts good news, especially due to Los ...
Guinea-Bissau, on the west coast of Africa, is one of the smallest and poorest countries in the world, but it has a big claim to fame: It's become a key hub for South American drug traffickers looking to make a few hundred million dollars a year ...
Guinea-Bissau, on the west coast of Africa, is one of the smallest and poorest countries in the world, but it has a big claim to fame: It's become a key hub for South American drug traffickers looking to make a few hundred million dollars a year ...
By Rene Wairimu, 11 May 2012 Three drug traffickers have been jailed for between 10 and 20 years. Patrick Odoyo, Paul Tatizo and Archibald Gad Apondi were found guilty of trafficking 351 kilos of narcotic drugs on November 22, ...
police consider the crimes to be drug-related when offenders rob to support their habits, rob dealers whether they use drugs or not, and rob users who wander into known drug areas in order to buy dope. Though most robberies this year revolved around ...
Brazilian police on Saturday found the dead body of a suspected major drug dealer in the slums of Rio de Janeiro shortly after a shootout.


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