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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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Evan Sullivan said in a press release, "We want every drug dealer in Levy County to be wondering not if, but when, they will be arrested. ...
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Despite the dangers, she insists that Zeta will go on publishing the photos and names of drug lords so that "people can identify and denounce them. ...
Coronel was one of Mexico's most mysterious drug lords. On its web page of most wanted drug traffickers, the Mexican Attorney-General's office has three ...
Authorities linked Davis, a member of the Bloods street gang, to a series of drug-related crimes in Pittsfield between February and April 2009. ...
And the 38 warrants met may warp the image of drug dealers most probably held. Some just out of high school and some due for their thirty year Reunion, ...
... made dozens of arrests and destroyed marijuana plants worth billions of dollars on farms that officials said are controlled by Mexican drug traffickers. ...
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As a result, Colombia has made significant strides in fighting drug traffickers, guerrillas and paramilitaries: since Mr. Uribe's election in 2002, ...
A jury convicted Bamdad, 56, in May of 13 counts of illegal drug distribution. prosecutors portrayed Bamdad as a common drug dealer who sold prescriptions ...
Drug violence, however, comes mainly from dealers trying to protect their territories, whatever drug they are peddling. Furthermore, more expensive drugs ...
A top Mexican drug trafficker has been killed in a raid by state security forces, defence department officials have said. Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel was ...
In addition to a geographic shift, drug traffickers are also using new methods to move illegal items. Police in Ecuador recently found a 100-foot submarine ...
Ingram, who is originally from Texas, said a buddy of his asked him in 1987 if he wanted to bring Ecstasy - a relatively new designer drug at the time to ...
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In an undated photo, alleged drug dealer Tyrell Blue boasted on his MySpace page that his income is over $250000. ...
It's a reality troopers face with every traffic stop they make--drug traffickers that use Alabama's highways to perpetuate an industry local police say is ...
Former Mexican drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen is out of hiding for the first time in nearly four years, having reported to a US medium-security prison to ...
A major drug trafficker, in other words, and not some small fish who is feeding his own habit by selling to a few other folks. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ...
Deputies say they targeted drug dealers during the sale and manufacture of drugs. They served about 230 arrest warrants and several search warrants. ...
And with drug-related violence surging to unprecedented levels in the border city, he worried that his children, who frequent local bars and restaurants, ...
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Justice Paul Coghlan described Bui as a middle-level dealer who worked in IT at Telstra until his arrest. He said he was not prepared to accept Bui was ...
AP UN investigators say a Guatemalan drug lord imprisoned in the United States ordered the 2008 slaying of a former security adviser for Guatemala's ...
"Why are we coddling some of the most dangerous drug traffickers in America?" said Smith, who argued that passing the bill could increase drug violence to ...
Early this morning officers of the New York City Narcotics prosecutor arrested six heroin and crack-cocaine dealers in the Crown Heights ...
(WGGB) -- Police have arrested a suspected drug dealer and two of his alleged customers in the Locust Street area Tuesday. Officers allegedly observed a ...


 


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