Gary Webb (wire) (1987 DEA)
CIA connections to drug trafficking
── This is from a 1987 DEA report: „ ... Torres told DEA Confidential Informant 1 that CIA representatives are aware of his drug-related activities, and that they don't mind. He said they had gone so far as to encourage cocaine trafficking by members of the contras, because they know it's a good source of income. Some of this money has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking. ...“
── CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
── Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras.
First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon
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what happened?
how did it happened?
why did it happened?
who was involved?
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https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html (verify to be up on 6/11/2023 16:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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The other more palatable reason which in my mind comes closer to the truth, is that someone started bringing cheap cocaine into black neighborhoods right at the time when drug users began figuring out how to turn it into crack. And this allowed black drug dealers to get a head start on every other ethnic group in terms of setting up distribution systems and trafficking systems.
Now, one thing I've learned about the drug business while researching this is that in many ways it is the epitome of capitalism. It is the purest form of capitalism. You have no government regulation, a wide-open market, a buyer's market -- anything goes. But these things don't spring out of the ground fully formed. It's like any business. It takes time to grow them. It takes time to set up networks. So once these distribution networks got set up and established in primarily South Central Los Angeles, primarily black neighborhoods, they spread it along ethnic and cultural lines. You had black dealers from LA going to black neighborhoods in other cities, because they knew people there, they had friends there, and that's why you saw these networks pop up from one black neighborhood to another black neighborhood.
Now, exactly the same thing happened on the east coast a couple of years later. When crack first appeared on the east coast, it appeared in Caribbean neighborhoods in Miami -- thanks largely to the Jamaicans, who were using their drug profits to fund political gains back home. It was almost the exact opposite of what happened in LA in that the politics were the opposite -- but it was the same phenomenon. And once the Miami market was saturated, they moved to New York, they moved east, and they started bringing crack from the east coast towards the middle of the country.
So it seems to me that if you're looking for the root of your drug problems in a neighborhood, nothing else matters except the drugs, and where they're coming from, and how they're getting there. And all these other reasons I cited are used as explanations for how crack became popular, but it doesn't explain how the cocaine got there in the first place. And that's where the contras came in.
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"I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in ... inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper."
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/gary-webb
https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%253A//allthatsinteresting.com/gary-webb
How Gary Webb Linked The CIA To The Crack Epidemic — And Paid The Ultimate Price
By Marco Margaritoff
Published December 5, 2019
Updated February 18, 2022
Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" series boldly claimed the CIA knew about a U.S. drug trafficking scheme that ravaged the country's inner cities to fund Nicaragua's Contra rebels. Years later, he shot himself in the head.
In a three-part exposé, investigative journalist Gary Webb reported that a guerrilla army in Nicaragua had used crack cocaine sales in Los Angeles’ black neighborhoods to fund an attempted coup of Nicaragua’s socialist government in the 1980s — and that the CIA had purposefully funded it.
It sounds like a Tom Clancy novel, right? Except it actually happened.
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In a written statement to obtain a search warrant for Blandón’s sprawling cocaine operation, L.A. County sheriff’s Sergeant Tom Gordon confirmed that local drug agents knew about Blandón’s involvement with the CIA-backed Contras — all the way back in the mid-1980s:
“Danilo Blandon is in charge of a sophisticated cocaine smuggling and distribution organization operating in Southern California… The monies gained from the sales of cocaine are transported to Florida and laundered through Orlando Murillo, who is a high-ranking officer of a chain of banks in Florida named Government Securities Corporation. From this bank the monies are filtered to the contra rebels to buy arms in the war in Nicaragua.”
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([ drug trafficking has always been linked to money laudering ])
([ money laudering is a method for hiding the source of the money ])
([ once the money is laundered, in practice, it should be ... difficult to trace the [original] source where the money come from, it does not have to be illegal; ...])
([ what if you laundered the money twice, can it still be traced? if you can put someone and recruit a someone from the inside; yes, money laundering can be traced; the u.s. treasury and the justice department does it all the time; what if you laundered the money in the offshore banking system, can that still be traced, it becomes more difficult, and yes, even that can be traced if the stream or flow are targeted by the agency (department, organization, unit, ...); ... ])
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Panama - international banking center for drug money - banking
Nicaragua - a trans shipment point
Central America - a trans shipment point - the planes needed a place to refuel
Columbia, - [drug producers]
Peru, - [drug producers]
and Bolivia - [drug] producers
source:
https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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── Well, what Noriega had done was sort of create an international banking center for drug money. That was his part of it. Nicaragua was nothing ever than just a trans-shipment point. Central America was never anything more than a trans-shipment point. Columbia Peru and Bolivia were the producers, and the planes needed a place to refuel, and that's all that Central America ever was. The banking was all done in Panama.
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https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fourhiddenhistory.org%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt
CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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── One of the people said, well geez, what was the CIA's responsibility when they found out about this? What were you guys supposed to do? And the Inspector General sort of looked around nervously, cleared his throat and said, "Well... that's kind of an odd history there." And Norman Dix from Washington, bless his heart, didn't let it go at that. He said, "Explain what you mean by that?" And the Inspector General said, well, we were looking around and we found this document, and according to the document, we didn't have to report this to anybody. And they said, "How come?" And the IG said, we don't know exactly, but there was an agreement made in 1982 between Bill Casey -- a fine American, as we all know [laughter from the audience] -- and William French Smith, who was then the Attorney General of the United States. And they reached an agreement that said if there is drug trafficking involved by CIA agents, we don't have to tell the Justice Department. Honest to God. Honest to God. Actually, this is now a public record, this document.
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── Attorney General of the United States, William French Smith, knew about CIA agents engaging in drug trafficking
The other thing about this agreement was, this wasn't just like a thirty-day agreement -- this thing stayed in effect from 1982 until 1995. So all these years, these agencies had a gentleman's agreement that if CIA assets or CIA agents were involved in drug trafficking, it did not need to be reported to the Justice Department.
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── there is an agreement that stayed in effect from 1982 until 1995, that if CIA assets or CIA agents were involved in drug trafficking, it [the CIA?] did not need to be reported to the Justice Department.
── This is from a 1987 DEA report. And this is about this drug ring in Los Angeles that I wrote about. In 1987, the DEA sent undercover informants inside this drug operation, and they interviewed one of the principals of this organization, namely Ivan Torres. And this is what he said. He told the informant:
"The CIA wants to know about drug trafficking, but only for their own purposes, and not necessarily for the use of law enforcement agencies. Torres told DEA Confidential Informant 1 that CIA representatives are aware of his drug-related activities, and that they don't mind. He said they had gone so far as to encourage cocaine trafficking by members of the contras, because they know it's a good source of income. Some of this money has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking. Torres told the informant about receiving counterintelligence training from the CIA, and had avowed that the CIA looks the other way and in essence allows them to engage in narcotics trafficking."
── This is from a 1987 DEA report: „ ... Torres told DEA Confidential Informant 1 that CIA representatives are aware of his drug-related activities, and that they don't mind. He said they had gone so far as to encourage cocaine trafficking by members of the contras, because they know it's a good source of income. Some of this money has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking. ...“
── Some of this money has gone into numbered accounts in Europe and Panama, as does the money that goes to Managua from cocaine trafficking.
── receiving counterintelligence training from the CIA
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── Well, what Noriega had done was sort of create an international banking center for drug money. That was his part of it. Nicaragua was nothing ever than just a trans-shipment point. Central America was never anything more than a trans-shipment point. Columbia Peru and Bolivia were the producers, and the planes needed a place to refuel, and that's all that Central America ever was. The banking was all done in Panama.
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https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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What I've attempted to demonstrate in my book was how the collapse of a brutal, pro-American dictatorship in Latin America, combined with a decision by corrupt CIA agents to raise money for a resistance movement by any means necessary, led to the formation of the nation's first major crack market in South Central Los Angeles, which led to the arming and the empowerment of LA's street gangs, which led to the spread of crack to black neighborhoods across the country, and to the passage of racially discriminatory sentencing laws that are locking up thousands of young black men today behind bars for most of their lives.
But it's not so much a conspiracy as a chain reaction. And that's what my whole book is about, this chain reaction. So let me explain the links in this chain a little better.
The first link is this fellow Anastasio Somoza, who was an American-educated tyrant, one of our buddies naturally, and his family ruled Nicaragua for forty years -- thanks to the Nicaraguan National Guard, which we supplied, armed, and funded, because we thought they were, you know, anti-communists.
Well, in 1979, the people of Nicaragua got tired of living under this dictatorship, and they rose up and overthrew it. And a lot of Somoza's friends and relatives and business partners came to the United States, because we had been their allies all these years, including two men whose families had been very close to the dictatorship. And these two guys are sort of two of the three main characters in my book -- a fellow named Danilo Blandón, and a fellow named Norwin Meneses.
a fellow named Danilo Blandón, and a fellow named Norwin Meneses.
They came to the United States in 1979, along with a flood of other Nicaraguan immigrants, most of them middle-class people, most of them former bankers, former insurance salesmen -- sort of a capitalist exodus from Nicaragua. And they got involved when they got here, and they decided they were going to take the country back, they didn't like the fact that they'd been forced out of their country. So they formed these resistance organizations here in the United States, and they began plotting how they were going to kick the Sandanistas out.
At this point in time, Jimmy Carter was president, and Carter wasn't all that interested in helping these folks out. The CIA was, however. And that's where we start getting into this murky world of, you know, who really runs the United States. Is it the president? Is it the bureaucracy? Is it the intelligence community? At different points in time you get different answers. Like today, the idea that Clinton runs the United States is nuts. The idea that Jimmy Carter ran the country is nuts.
In 1979 and 1980, the CIA secretly began visiting these groups that were setting up here in the United States, supplying them with a little bit of money, and telling them to hold on, wait for a little while, don't give up. And Ronald Reagan came to town. And Reagan had a very different outlook on Central America than Carter did. Reagan saw what happened in Nicaragua not as a populist uprising, as most of the rest of the world did. He saw it as this band of communists down there, there was going to be another Fidel Castro, and he was going to have another Cuba in his backyard. Which fit in very well with the CIA's thinking. So, the CIA under Reagan got it together, and they said, "We're going to help these guys out." They authorized $19 million to fund a covert war to destabilize the government in Nicaragua and help get their old buddies back in power.
Soon after the CIA took over this operation, these two drug traffickers, who had come from Nicaragua and settled in California, were called down to Honduras. And they met with a CIA agent named Enrique Bermúdez, who was one of Somoza's military officials, and the man the CIA picked to run this new organization they were forming. And both traffickers had said -- one of them said, the other one wrote, and it's never been contradicted -- that when they met with the CIA agent, he told them, "We need money for this operation. Your guy's job is to go to California and raise money, and not to worry about how you did it. And what he said was -- and I think this had been used to justify just about every crime against humanity that we've known -- "the ends justify the means."
CIA agent named Enrique Bermúdez
Now, this is a very important link in this chain reaction, because the means they selected was cocaine trafficking, which is sort of what you'd expect when you ask cocaine traffickers to go out and raise money for you. You shouldn't at all be surprised when they go out and sell drugs. Especially when you pick people who are like pioneers of the cocaine trafficking business, which Norwin Meneses certainly was.
There was a CIA cable from I believe 1984, which called him the "kingpin of narcotics trafficking" in Central America. He was sort of like the Al Capone of Nicaragua. So after getting these fundraising instructions from this CIA agent, these two men go back to California, and they begin selling cocaine. This time not exclusively for themselves -- this time in furtherance of U.S. foreign policy. And they began selling it in Los Angeles, and they began selling it in San Francisco.
Sometime in 1982, Danilo Blandón, who had been given the LA market, started selling his cocaine to a young drug dealer named Ricky Ross, who later became known as "Freeway" Rick. In 1994, the LA Times would describe him as the master marketer most responsible for flooding the streets of Los Angeles with cocaine. In 1979, he was nothing. He was nothing before he met these Nicaraguans. He was a high school dropout. He was a kid who wanted to be a tennis star, who was trying to get a tennis scholarship, but he found out that in order to get a scholarship you needed to read and write, and he couldn't. So he drifted out of school and wound up selling stolen car parts, and then he met these Nicaraguans, who had this cheap cocaine that they wanted to unload. And he proved to be very good at that.
Now, he lived in South Central Los Angeles, which was home to some street gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods. And back in 1981-82, hardly anybody knew who they were. They were mainly neighborhood kids -- they'd beat each other up, they'd steal leather coats, they'd steal cars, but they were really nothing back then. But what they gained through this organization, and what they gained through Ricky Ross, was a built-in distribution network throughout the neighborhood. The Crips and the Bloods were already selling marijuana, they were already selling PCP, so it wasn't much of a stretch for them to sell something new, which is what these Nicaraguans were bringing in, which was cocaine.
This is where these forces of history come out of nowhere and collide. Right about the time the contras got to South Central Los Angeles, hooked up with "Freeway" Rick, and started selling powder cocaine, the people Rick was selling his powder to started asking him if he knew how to make it into this stuff called "rock" that they were hearing about. This obviously was crack cocaine, and it was already on its way to the United States by then -- it started in Peru in '74 and was working its way upward, and it was bound to get here sooner or later. In 1981 it got to Los Angeles, and people started figuring out how to take this very expensive powdered cocaine and cook it up on the stove and turn it into stuff you could smoke.
When Ricky went out and he started talking to his customers, and they started asking him how to make this stuff, you know, Rick was a smart guy -- he still is a smart guy -- and he figured, this is something new. This is customer demand. If I want to progress in this business, I better meet this demand. So he started switching from selling powder to making rock himself, and selling it already made. He called this new invention his "Ready Rock." And he told me the scenario, he said it was a situation where he'd go to a guy's house, he would say, "Oh man, I want to get high, I'm on my way to work, I don't have time to go into the kitchen and cook this stuff up. Can't you cook it up for me and just bring it to me already made?" And he said, "Yeah, I can do that." So he started doing it.
So by the time crack got a hold of South Central, which took a couple of years, Rick had positioned himself on top of the crack market in South Central. And by 1984, crack sales had supplanted marijuana and PCP sales as sources of income for the gangs and drug dealers of South Central. And suddenly these guys had more money than they knew what to do with. Because what happened with crack, it democratized the drug. When you were buying it in powdered form, you were having to lay out a hundred bucks for a gram, or a hundred and fifty bucks for a gram. Now all you needed was ten bucks, or five bucks, or a dollar -- they were selling "dollar rocks" at one point. So anybody who had money and wanted to get high could get some of this stuff. You didn't need to be a middle-class or wealthy drug user anymore.
Suddenly the market for this very expensive drug expanded geometrically. And now these dealers, who were making a hundred bucks a day on a good day, were now making five or six thousand dollars a day on a good day. And the gangs started setting up franchises -- they started franchising rock houses in South Central, just like McDonald's. And you'd go on the streets, and there'd be five or six rock houses owned by one guy, and five or six rock houses owned by another guy, and suddenly they started making even more money.
'The contras. They were selling weapons and were buying weapons. And they started selling weapons to the gangs in Los Angeles."
And now they've got all this money, and they felt nervous. You get $100,000 or $200,000 in cash in your house, and you start getting kind of antsy about it. So now they wanted weapons to guard their money with, and to guard their rock houses, which other people were starting to knock off. And lo and behold, you had weapons. The contras. They were selling weapons. They were buying weapons. And they started selling weapons to the gangs in Los Angeles. They started selling them AR-15s, they started selling them Uzis, they started selling them Israeli-made pistols with laser sights, just about anything. Because that was part of the process here. They were not just drug dealers, they were taking the drug money and buying weapons with it to send down to Central America with the assistance of a great number of spooky CIA folks, who were getting them [audio glitch -- "across the border"?] and that sort of thing, so they could get weapons in and out of the country. So, not only does South Central suddenly have a drug problem, they have a weapons problem that they never had before. And you started seeing things like drive-by shootings and gang bangers with Uzis.
── South Central [Los Angeles] suddenly have a drug problem
── South Central [Los Angeles] have a weapons problem that they never had before.
── the need for weapons to protect your asset (what kind of asset?)
By 1985, the LA crack market had become saturated. There was so much dope going into South Central, dope that the CIA, we now know, knew of, and they knew the origins of -- the FBI knew the origins of it; the DEA knew the origins of it; and nobody did anything about it. (We'll get into that in a bit.)
But what happened was, there were so many people selling crack that the dealers were jostling each other on the corners. And the smaller ones decided, we're going to take this show on the road. So they started going to other cities. They started going to Bakersfield, they started going to Fresno, they started going to San Francisco and Oakland, where they didn't have crack markets, and nobody knew what this stuff was, and they had wide open markets for themselves. And suddenly crack started showing up in city after city after city, and oftentimes it was Crips and Bloods from Los Angeles who were starting these markets. By 1986, it was all up and down the east coast, and by 1989, it was nationwide.
── There was so much dope going into South central los angeles
── dope that the CIA, we now know, knew of, and they knew the origins of
── FBI knew the origins of it;
── the DEA knew the origins of it;
Today, fortunately, crack use is on a downward trend, but that's something that isn't due to any great progress we've made in the so-called "War on Drugs," it's the natural cycle of things. Drug epidemics generally run from 10 to 15 years. Heroin is now the latest drug on the upswing.
Now, a lot of people disagreed with this scenario.
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https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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── “ ... I mean, part of the problem is that the media often times believes its own propaganda. And one of the biggest propaganda efforts that I came across in the story was the idea that crack happened overnight, that in 1986 suddenly we woke up one morning and we were engulfed by this tidal wave of crack. And that’s pretty much the prevailing media belief to this day, which, you know, it’s nonsense. I mean, it started very slowly and started in South Central [Los Angeles], and it took years to spread to other cities. So, I mean, I think Ceppos and I just disagree on the whole epidemiology of crack. ...” (Gary Webb)
── https://www.democracynow.org/1997/5/14/san_jose_mercury_news_editor_claims
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AMY GOODMAN and JUAN GONZÁLEZ interview GARY WEBB on democracynow.com
── the story is essentially true
── Nicaraguan contra were selling cocaine in South central los angeles
── they were selling large quantities of it
── the money from the sales of drugs were going to the war effort.
── we have solid documentation
── couriers drug ring: $5 million to $6 million down in one year alone, in 1982.
── direct CIA involvement with this drug operation.
── high-level CIA knowledge of at least portions of this drug operation.
── pressure from the DEA not to print information about Danilo Blandón
── Danilo Blandón, known drug traffickers
── Danilo Blandón, became a DEA informant (info not from democracy now Gary Webb interview)
── only five tons of cocaine sold by these folks down in South Central.
── Brian Barger and Bob Parry, did their Nicaraguan contra cocaine stories back in the ’80s
── expanding crack epidemic spread primarily through the gangs.
── federal government reports: evidence of Crip crack dealing and Blood crack dealing in 45 cities in 32 states.
── The truth is we were more right than we knew.
── We interviewed pilots that were flying this cocaine in and out of the country.
── courier: We interviewed the man who was taking the money down there [Nicaragua].
── the paper’s come out with this strange column, which says that we don’t have information that we do have.
── https://www.democracynow.org/1997/5/14/san_jose_mercury_news_editor_claims
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facts on the ground
how did the facts on the ground came to be
as a matter of fact, we manufactured reality all the time.
for example, if there was no hole, we can go dig a hole
once a hole is digged, we can say, for a fact, there is a hole.
the fact that there is a hole in the ground does not explain, how did the hole got there;
in many to all cases, how a thing happen is where the story get interesting, whether in real life or in fiction; ...
in another example, it is a fact that there is birth, there is living or life, and then there is death; those are the facts; what is interesting is how are we born, how is living, and how did we died; that is the story.
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get the facts, what happened?
then ask the interesting question, how did it happened?
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first get the story
does the story work
does the story tells the reader what happen
is the story true
is the story interesting
abstract the story; don't get attached to the label, the name, the date, the places; what is the pattern or the structure of the story; like, for example, the role that the person played in the scenario; can this happened in other country, in other places; ...
is there a viable screenplay to be made from this story
([ they already made at least two movies related to this ])
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the first private awareness that human error is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system, and to explain that failure, do not try to find where the people went wrong; instead, find out how people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given the circumstances that surrounded them; What were they thinking? - “The reconstruction of the mindset begins not with the mind. It begins with the circumstances in which the mind found itself.”, Dekker (2002);--Heather Parker, Transport Canada slide presentation, titled, Investigating and Analysing Human and Organizational Factors, 2006-11-09;
── the first private awareness that [CIA complicits in drug trafficking] is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system, and to explain that failure, do not try to find where the people went wrong; instead, find out how people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given the circumstances that surrounded them; What were they thinking? - “The reconstruction of the mindset begins not with the mind. It begins with the circumstances in which the mind found itself.”, Dekker (2002);--Heather Parker, Transport Canada slide presentation, titled, Investigating and Analysing Human and Organizational Factors, 2006-11-09;
── the first private awareness that [the CIA, the DEA, the FBI, the department of Justice, their knowledge of the CIA's complicity in drug trafficking, and being complicit to the CIA operation in Nicaragua] is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system, and to explain that failure, do not try to find where the people went wrong; instead, find out how people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given the circumstances that surrounded them; What were they thinking? - “The reconstruction of the mindset begins not with the mind. It begins with the circumstances in which the mind found itself.”, Dekker (2002);--Heather Parker, Transport Canada slide presentation, titled, Investigating and Analysing Human and Organizational Factors, 2006-11-09;
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https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. Approximately 300 people, crowded into the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, listened with rapt attention as Webb detailed his experiences. Webb's riveting speech was followed by an intense question-and-answer session, during which he candidly answered questions about the "Dark Alliance" controversy, his firing from the San Jose Mercury News, and CIA/contra/cocaine secrets that still await revelation. ORIGINAL: http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
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Gary Webb: Yeah, let me sum up your question. Essentially, you're asking about the goings-on in Mena, Arkansas, because of the drug operations going on at this little air base in Arkansas while Clinton was governor down there. The fellow you referred to, Terry Reed, wrote a book called Compromised which talked about his role in this corporate operation in Mena which was initially designed to train contra pilots -- Reed was a pilot -- and it was also designed after the Boland Amendment went into effect to get weapons parts to the contras, because the CIA couldn't provide them anymore. And as Reed got into this weapons parts business, he discovered that the CIA was shipping cocaine back through these weapons crates that were coming back into the United States. And when he blew the whistle on it, he was sort of sent on this long odyssey of criminal charges being filed against him, etcetera etcetera etcetera. A lot of what Reed wrote is accurate as far as I can tell, and a lot of it was documented.
There is a House Banking Committee investigation that has been going on now for about three years, looking specifically at Mena, Arkansas, looking specifically at a drug trafficker named Barry Seal, who was one of the biggest cocaine and marijuana importers in the south side of the United States during the 1980s. Seal was also, coincidentally, working for the CIA, and was working for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
I don't know how many of you remember this, but one night Ronnie Reagan got on TV and held up a grainy picture, and said, here's proof that the Sandanistas are dealing drugs. Look, here's Pablo Escobar, and they're all loading cocaine into a plane, and this was taken in Nicaragua. This was the eve of a vote on the contra aid. That photograph was set up by Barry Seal. The plane that was used was Seal's plane, and it was the same plane that was shot down over Nicaragua a couple of years later that Eugene Hasenfus was in, that broke open the whole Iran-contra scandal.
── the two sides in the Nicaraguan civil war ended up using drug trafficking to fund their conflicts. (??)
── That photograph was set up by Barry Seal. The plane that was used was Seal's plane, and it was the same plane that was shot down over Nicaragua a couple of years later that Eugene Hasenfus was in, that broke open the whole Iran-contra scandal.
── the whole Iran-contra scandal make it ([what is it]) possible for us to learn about the underlying cause of crack cocaine explosion, with South central los angeles being ground zero. (??) (South central los angeles is ground zero for crack cocaine explosion - that is true; but how true or how untrue about Iran-contra scandal exposed CIA's involvement in drug trafficking, not directly, but it did)
The Banking Committee is supposed to be coming out with a report in the next couple of months looking at the relationship between Barry Seal, the U.S. government and Clinton's folks. Alex Cockburn has done a number of stories on this company called Park-On Meter down in Russellville, Arkansas, that's hooked up with Clinton's family, hooked up with Hillary's law firm, that sort of thing. To me, that's a story people ought to be looking at. I never thought Whitewater was much of a story, frankly. What I thought the story was about was Clinton's buddy Dan Lasater, the bond broker down there who was a convicted cocaine trafficker. Clinton pardoned him on his way to Washington. Lasater was a major drug trafficker, and Terry Reed's book claims Lasater was part and parcel with this whole thing.
── banking committee
── Dan Lasater, major drug trafficker
Voice From the Audience Cockburn's newsletter is called Counterpunch, and he's done a good job of defending you in it.
Gary Webb Yeah, Cockburn has also written a book called Whiteout, which is a very interesting look at the history of CIA drug trafficking. Actually, I think it's selling pretty well itself. The New York Times hated it, of course, but what else is new?
•── Alex Cockburn, a book called Whiteout, a interesting look at the history of CIA drug trafficking
Audience Member #2 Well I just wanted to mention that he states also -- I guess it was Terry Reed who was actually doing the work -- he said Bush was running the whole thing as vice president.
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“The law of Concentrated Benefit over Diffuse Injury can be stated as follows:”
“A small, determined group, working energetically for its own narrow interests, can almost always impose an injustice upon a vastly larger group, provided that the larger group believes that the injury is "hypothetical," or distant-in-the-future, or real-but-small relative to the real-and-large cost of preventing it.”
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explain it to me like I am five:
•── CIA
did the CIA do its job? Yes
did the CIA wander off reservation? I don't know
•── DEA
did the DEA do its job? No, Yes
edge cases, conflict of interest, organizational goal, so-called national security trump DEA mission
•── FBI
did the FBI do its job? No, yes
conflict of interest, organizational goal, again, national security interest
•── department of Justice
did the DOJ (department of justice) did its job? No, yes
conflict of interest, national security, grey area, black area
•── ATF
eh, it is legal to buy firearms in the u.s.
how would ATF notice a rise in blackmarket firearms from drug trafficking
during warfare when there is periodic fighting, there should be a rise in ammo purchase; we do not talk about continuous fighting, because when there is continuous fighting, that mean there is death and casualties, and that mean the body count goes up, which means, when enough people start killing each other in great number, the vicious spiral of violence start, without new body, the problem of limiting factors come into play, which means, what do you run out first, the body, ammo, the guns, the will to fight, revenge; ...
have to monitor firearms manufacturing, wholesalers, and distribution;
list firearms [and ammo] manufacturers, their capacity, location, market share
list firearms parts dealer
•── customs and border protection
•── drug traffickers
did the drug traffickers do their job? Yes
•── drug users
they use the drug; they buy it; the customers;
did the drug users do their job? Yes, if they have one; or no, if they do not have;
•── public health
what is going on?
what is happening?
how can there be so much cheap crack cocaine on the street in America?
•── local law enforcement
what is going on?
what is happening?
where are all these crack cocaine coming from?
spike in crime? stealing? burgary? robbery?
so much cash in the business
firearms on the street
•── Joe Q public
what is going on?
what is happening?
why am I reading about in the news, media, mainstream media about drug, power cocaine, crack cocaine
how come there is so much drug and drug dealers in my neighborhood?
•── stovepipe (organizational)
everyone stayed in their lane
people do their job
who has the big picture? (CIA, DEA, FBI, DOJ)?
how to get the big picture
does whoever (The System) want Joe Q public to get the big picture?
source:
https://snyderlab.com/2018/03/07/wtf-no-neurogenesis-in-humans/
Does adult neurogenesis exist? No, yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, YES!
Does adult neurogenesis exist in primates? No, no, yes, maybe, yes, yes, YES!
Does neurogenesis occur in the neocortex? No friggin way, yes, no way, yes, no way Jose, yes, DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK.
Does adult neurogenesis happen in humans? Yes, yes, yes, no, WAIT WTF* DID YOU SAY NO???
https://snyderlab.com/2018/03/07/wtf-no-neurogenesis-in-humans/
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in an alternative fictional world:
What if in an Orwellean world, (..., the DEA, the FBI, the DOJ) did not do what they say they do, or did not do what the people [Joe Q public] think they (..., the DEA, the FBI, the DOJ) do according to the usual understanding of the law, because the law has become complicated, complex, and political, and can no longer be explained to a five years old or a fifty years old; what if in fact, in practice, and in some aspects (..., the DEA, the FBI, the DOJ) is protecting, and providing cover for the CIA to facilitate their drug trafficking to fund some sort of operations - the political orientation of (..., the DEA, the FBI, the DOJ) - the national security orientation of their organizations, then ... [in complete thought] ... [looking at it like that makes much more sense]
[the EPA : protect the environment (public health) and protect the people in the big corporation and the corporation themselves from Joe Q Public (provide legal cover to industry and big chemical corp for poisoning the air, water, soil, people, and the environment); because ... ] [rules, law, regulation, code of conduct that enable pollution; rules, law, regulation, code of conduct that make it difficult to impossible to hold Big Corp legal liable for pollution that cause harm ]
[the DEA : ... ]
[the FBI : ... ]
[the DOJ : ... ]
[the law : there are at least two aspects to the law, rules, regulation and code of conduct (omission and commission?); one is enable you to do a thing (legal); the other, two is to disable you from doing a thing (make it illegal); ]
[ if all the law, rules, and regulation were strictly enforced (literal interpretation; there is no such as thing as literal interpretation), then everyone would be jailed and nothing would get done (??); ... ]
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book "Dark Alliance", author Gary Webb: What I've attempted to demonstrate in my book was how the collapse of a brutal, pro-American dictatorship in Latin America, combined with a decision by corrupt CIA agents to raise money for a resistance movement by any means necessary, led to the formation of the nation's first major crack market in South Central Los Angeles, which led to the arming and the empowerment of LA's street gangs, which led to the spread of crack to black neighborhoods across the country, and to the passage of racially discriminatory sentencing laws that are locking up thousands of young black men today behind bars for most of their lives.
•── „ ... What I've attempted to demonstrate in my book was how the collapse of a brutal, pro-American dictatorship in Latin America, combined with a decision by ... CIA agents to raise money for a resistance movement by any means necessary, led to the formation of the nation's first major crack market in South Central Los Angeles, which led to the arming and the empowerment of LA's street gangs, which led to the spread of crack to black neighborhoods across the country, and to the passage of racially discriminatory sentencing laws that are locking up thousands of young black men today behind bars for most of their lives. ...“
── how the collapse of a pro-American dictatorship in Nicaragua, central America led to thousands of young black men being locked up behind bars for most of their lives? (Gary Webb)
── CIA Connections to Contra Drug Trafficking
Journalist Gary Webb — January 16, 1999
https://ourhiddenhistory.org/
http://www.whale.to/b/webb10.html
── Dark Alliance author Gary Webb gave a fascinating talk on the evening of January 16, outlining the findings of his investigation of the CIA's connection to drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras.
First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6oMN8idUQ
[strong likelihood that CIA facilitation of drug trafficking is much bigger than Gary Webb reporting, with confidence [how confidence]; how much bigger?; unknown; how long was it happening? ]
Gary Webb: "... I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in ... inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. ..."
Gary Webb: After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Michael V. Hayden, Playing to the edge : American intelligence in the age of terror, 2016
p.231
International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC
p.231
International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC
ICRC officials became frequent visitors to Langley.
; the Red Cross was all about notification and visitation.
In one meeting, I was struck by their observation that “CIA often refuses to answer our questions, but when it does, we know the answers are true.”
(Playing to the edge : American intelligence in the age of terror / Michael V. Hayden, New York : Penguin Press, 2016, (hardback) (ebook), intelligence service──united states. | national security──united states. | united states. central intelligence agency. | united states. national security agency. | biography & autobiography / political. | political science / political freedom & security / intelligence. | history / united states / 21st century., JK468.I6 H39 2016 (print), JK468.I6 (ebook), 327.1273──dc23, 2016, )
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The Elephant in the Boardroom
Sometimes after the March meeting of the board of directors of Sylvan Forest Products, an elephant came out of the forest and moved into the boardroom. Nobody noticed, until the September meeting when the managing director couldn't open the door. “There's something in there,” said the managing director, “and it's blocking the door.”
Peering under the door, the comptroller saw the shadow of the elephant's feet. “It looks as if some trees have grown inside. Better send for the silviculturist.”
The silviculturist managed to splinter the find oak door partway open with his peavey, but the elephant leaned to one side and slammed it shut again. “I don't think it's trees,” said the silviculturist. “It's huge gray monster--more like a whale.”
The board then sent for a cetaceanologist, who advised them to flood the boardroom so that the whale coudl swim out. But as the room filled with water, the elephant simply blew it out with her trunk through the broken door. Seeing the trunk, the cetaceanologist said, “No wonder it doesn't swim out. It's not a whale at all, but a large snake.”
Next, the board summoned an ophiologist, who advised, “Toss in some burning oily rags. That will drive out any snake.” But the elephant simply stamped out the flames as fast as the burning rags could be thrown through the door. The board decided to call the janitor to clear the anteroom of splintered wood, muddy water, and oily, smoked furniture.
The janitor asked about the mess. After the managing director told the story, he reached in his pocket and pulled out some peanuts. When he held one through the door, the elephant--which was by this time mightily hungry--grabbed it with her trunk. “Come on, Little One,” the janitor coaxed, holding out the other peanuts, and in a moment, the elephant lumbered out the door. After feasting a while on peanuts, she shyly retreated to the forest.
“But how did you know it was an elephant?” the astonished comptroller asked.
“Oh, I didn't know. I only suspected because it was partly like a forest, partly like a whale, and partly like a snake. It was only a theory, so I figured it would be better to risk one of my peanuts than to cause further damage to your boardroom.”
Out of Your Depth
If you had an elephant in your boardroom, which specialist would you call? The toughest problems don't come in neatly labeled packages. Or they come in packages with the wrong labels. That's why they're so tough.
Three times out of four, consultants find themselves asked to work on problems that aren't their “speciality.” The consultant just looks like a specialist to a nonspecialist. But good consultant can handle many of those problems anyway, because in addition to being specialists, they are problem-solvers. If you dig into their bag of tricks, you'll find that their best ones have nothing whatsoever to do with their specialties, but can be used by consultants in any field.
(The secrets of consulting, Gerald M. Weinberg, © 1985, pp.37-38)
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look up blind mens groping the elephant story and put it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
