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The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack | FPIF

The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack | FPIF

The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack

By William Blum, November 1, 1996

In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News initiated an extended series of articles linking the CIA's "contra" army to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles. Based on a year-long investigation, reporter Gary Webb wrote that during the 1980s the CIA helped finance its covert war against Nicaragua's leftist government through sales of cut-rate cocaine to South Central L.A. drug dealer, Ricky Ross. The series unleashed a storm of protest, spearheaded by black radio stations and the congressional Black Caucus, with demands for official inquiries. The Mercury News' Web page, with supporting documents and updates, received hundreds of thousands of "hits" a day.

While much of the CIA-contra-drug story had been revealed years ago in the press and in congressional hearings, the Mercury News series added a crucial missing link: It followed the cocaine trail to Ross and black L.A. gangs who became street-level distributors of crack, a cheap and powerful form of cocaine. The CIA's drug network, wrote Webb, "opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the 'crack' capital of the world." Black gangs used their profits to buy automatic weapons, sometimes from one of the CIA-linked drug dealers.

CIA Director John Deutch declared that he found "no connection whatsoever" between the CIA and cocaine traffickers. And major media--the New York Times,Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post--have run long pieces refuting the Mercury News series. They deny that Bay Area-based Nicaraguan drug dealers, Juan Norwin Meneses and Oscar Danilo Blandon, worked for the CIA or contributed "millions in drug profits" to the contras, as Webb contended. They also note that neither Ross nor the gangs were the first or sole distributors of crack in L.A. Webb, however, did not claim this. He wrote that the huge influx of cocaine happened to come at just the time that street-level drug dealers were figuring out how to make cocaine affordable by changing it into crack.

Many in the media have also postulated that any drug-trafficking contras involved were "rogue" elements, not supported by the CIA. But these denials overlook much of the Mercury News' evidence of CIA complicity. For example:

• CIA-supplied contra planes and pilots carried cocaine from Central America to U.S. airports and military bases. In 1985, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Celerino Castillo reported to his superiors that cocaine was being stored at the CIA's contra-supply warehouse at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador for shipment to the U.S. The DEA did nothing, and Castillo was gradually forced out of the agency.
• When Danilo Blandón was finally arrested in 1986, he admitted to drug crimes that would have sent others away for life. The Justice Department, however, freed Blandón after only 28 months behind bars and then hired him as a full-time DEA informant, paying him more than $166,000. When Blandón testified in a 1996 trial against Ricky Ross, the Justice Department blocked any inquiry about Blandón's connection to the CIA.
• Although Norwin Meneses is listed in DEA computers as a major international drug smuggler implicated in 45 separate federal investigations since 1974, he lived conspicuously in California until 1989 and was never arrested in the U.S.
• Senate investigators and agents from four organizations all complained that their contra-drug investigations "were hampered," Webb wrote, "by the CIA or unnamed 'national security' interests." In the 1984 "Frogman Case," for instance, the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco returned $36,800 seized from a Nicaraguan drug dealer after two contra leaders sent letters to the court arguing that the cash was intended for the contras. Federal prosecutors ordered the letter and other case evidence sealed for "national security" reasons. When Senate investigators later asked the Justice Department to explain this unusual turn of events, they ran into a wall of secrecy.

History of CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking

"In my 30­ year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." -- Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit.

The foregoing discussion should not be regarded as any kind of historical aberration inasmuch as the CIA has had a long and virtually continuous involvement with drug trafficking since the end of World War II.

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 shrimp 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 operation 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.

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Xianet: Top 10 Mafia Hitmen!

In the popular culture, through the help of songs, police novels, but especially through the help of the multitude of Hollywood movies, the Mafia has received an apparent human image, based on urban myths that offers honor and respect. Powered by the entertainment industry, the Mafia was liked by entire generations, and many times gangsters like Al Capone or Lucky Luciano were looked upon as real heroes. However, the real history of organized crime is very different. [Editor - Especially Jews love their criminals, it is very Talmudic you know, see this The Purple Gang - Jewish Organized Crime - J-Grit.com and number 5. in this article below.]

It is a dark and bloody history. To be made a mafioso and then to climb the ladder and become a capo someone had to literally step on bodies, on dozens and dozens of bodies. As higher they got, as bigger the massacre was, because the position and business had to be protected. So, each Mafia boss had an army of hitmen working for them.

During the Mafia’s glory days, between 1930 and 1940, in the United States, people talked about a professional criminal association, Murder Inc, as it was named by the press, which allegedly was the armed arm of the National Crime Syndicate, the gangsters group started by Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky and other Mafia bosses that tried to reproduce the pyramidal system of the Cosa Noastra on US soil. Murder, Inc, was the arcade that gathered or inspired the most fierce hitmen, fanatic soldiers of the bosses or real psychos and serial killers that have found the perfect environment on the street to express their criminal outbursts.

The list that is going to be presented below, is a relative one. Crime was an usual action, it was part of the day to day life of Mobsters. Many killings occurred in group confrontations, and the police did not found it easy to discover who shot the fatal bullet. Even so, they are the most prolific Mafia hitmen!

10. Salvatoare “Salvie” Testa ( 1956 – 1984 )

Murders: more than 15

Affiliation: Scarfo Family ( the most powerful mafia family in Philadelphia )

The most known assassination: Rocco ” Boom Boom” Mancini. In 1982, one year after Mancini killed Slavie’s father by bombing the restaurant where Tesla senior was eating dinner, Salvatore got his revenge by shooting Mancini three times in a parking and shoving new year’s crackers in his mouth to signify Mancini’s specialty: explosives

A very violent man, being also known as “The uncrowned prince of the Philadelphia Mafia”, Salvatore is liked by the supreme Philadelphia Mafia boss, Nicodemo Scarfo, even since he was a young man, helping him in war for supremacy, a war between the Scarfo and Riccobene mafia families that ended up with a lot of people dieing. He is named capo when he was only 26 and becomes the main target of Riccobene’s hitmen. He survives 17 assassinations attempts, but he is eventually killed in 1984 by Scarfo himself, who has starting to fear the fact that “Salvie” is becoming more and more powerful.

9. Joseph “The Animal” Barboza ( 1932 – 1976 )

Murders: 26

Affiliation : The Patriarca Mafia Family ( Providence, Rhode Island and Boston )

The most known assassination: Cornelius and Stevie Hughes. In 1966, Barboza’s best friend, Vincent “The Butcher” Flemmi is almost killed in a gun fight with the Hughes brothers. “The Animal” hunts them down for 6 months, during which time he brutally tortures and executes many friends and family members of the Hughes family to find out where they are hiding. Eventually, the Boston hiding place of the Hughes brothers is revealed, and Barboza catches them and tortures them for days before killing them.

Barboza, former professional boxer, was very violent and impulsive, performing even acts of cannibalism and necrophilia with his victims. The nickname “The Animal” was given to him in a Reverse city club, where he drank a lot and the Italian owner of the club, an elder person, invited him to step outside and Barboza started to slap him around. Henry Tameleo, a capo bastone of the Patriarca family, ordered: ” I do not want you to slap this man anymore. I do not want you to ever touch him again”. Angered, Barboza snapped against the old man, he brutally bitten his ear off and chewed it and swallowed it. Then he told Tameleo: ” Look, I have not put my hands on him!”. Very little details are known about Barboza’s last years. Starting with 1967, he becomes a FBI informant, and in 1970 he is the first mobster that enters the Witness Protection program, after he helped build a case against Raymond Patriarca and testifies against other mafia bosses.

8. Salvatore “Sammy The Bull” Gravano ( born 1945 )

Murders: 28

Affiliation: Colombo and Gambino families

The most popular assassination: Frank Fiala. In 1982, drug dealer Fiala, makes a 1,000,000 dollar offers to Gravano to take over the Plaza Suite, one of the most appreciated New York clubs. The two do not get along during the transaction, and Fiala threatens Salvatore with an Uzi gun, puts two Doberman dogs on him and humiliates him in this office. “Sammy The Bull” manages to escape and organizes an ambush, killing all of Fiala’s men and shoots Fiala to death. Despite eye witnesses, friend Loborio “Louie” Milito confesses to the murder and goes to jail in Gravano’s place.

He started off as a petty thief and he ended up being the right hand of the famous Mafia boss John Gotti, who made him sotto capo and Gambino family consigliere. Despite the high ranking position he had in the Gravano family, Gotti used him to solve his dirty work. Although Sammy “The Bull” killed “only” 28 people, he is suspected of other 100 killing attempts he made on behalf of John Gotti. Eventually, Gotti, Gravano and other mafia bosses were arrested, and after spending one year in jail, Gravano becomes an FBI informant, testifying against John Gotti in 199.1.

He joined the Witness Protection Program, changed his appearance, but he blew his cover after deciding to appear on TV, write books and becoming a Mafia Hollywood consultant. He says that he is not afraid of dieing.

7. Frank “The Dasher” Abbandano ( 1910 – 1942 )

Murders: 30

Affiliation: Murder, Inc

The most known assassination: George Rudnick. Abe Reles, former Murder Inc, hitman and intermediary between the association and National Crime Syndicate, finds out that George Rudnick, Brooklyn loan shark, became an informant for the police and hires Abbandando to kill him. Abbandando brutally kills Rudnick, using a machete.

Abbandando was one of the most prolific Murder, Inc hitmen. Because there were a lot of hitmen “working” during that time he started to take jobs for low pay, and most his contracts were brokered by Abe Reles. In 1940, Abe became a police informant and rats on Abbandando. The killer is sentenced to death and he is executed on February 19, 1942.

6. Harry “Pittsburgh Phil” Strauss ( 1909 – 1941 )

Murders: 35

Affiliation: Murder, Inc

The most known assassination: Irvin “Puggy” Feinstein. Feinstein, a petty mobster involved in illegal gambling tried to steal a business that belonged to Albert Anastasie, one of the most prominent members of the Gambino family. Anastasia contacted Abe Reles, who gave the contract to Strauss. He sadistically tortured Feinstein before he killed him.

Harry “Pittsburgh Phil” Strauss was one of the most sadistic Mafia hitmen, being a specialist in torture. It is said about Strauss that he never walked with a gun on him if he wasn’t “Working”. He had the same fate as Abbandando – Reles rated on him and he got the electric chair.

5. Abraham “Kid Twist” Reles ( 1906 – 1941 )

Murders: 50

Affiliation: Murder, Inc

The most known assassination: Meyer, Irving and William Shapiro. The Shapiro brothers, being threaten by Abe’s fulminating success, rape his girlfriend and then set up an ambush. “Kid Twist” managed to escape and starts planning his revenge. Irvin is caught after a spectacular freeway chase and shot to the head. Two months later, Reles sees Meyer on the street and shots him in the head also. Three years later, Kid Twist finds William: he kidnaps him from the street, takes him to a hiding place where he tortured him then buried him alive.

Abe Reles was the most fierce Murder, Inc killer. and he also managed to gather around him the most sadistic Jewish group of New York hitmen: Harry Maione, Frank Abbandando, Harry Strauss, Martin Goldstein, Irvin Nitzberg, Philip Cohen, Emanuel Weiss, Buggsy Coldstein and others. Caught by the police in 1940, he realized that if he does not rat he is going to get the electric chair. His biggest mistake was that he also revealed the name of his employers, besides the names of the hitmen he used, exposing many Mafia bosses. Their trail was supposed to start on November 12, 1941. To protect his interests, Frank Costello, the boss of the Genovese family, offered a 100,000 dollars reward for Abe’s head. In the morning of the trial Reles is killed.

4. Frank McErlane ( 1893 – 1932 )

Murders: 30

Affiliation: The Saltis-McErlane gang, Al Capone ( Chciago )

The most known assassination: Spike O’Donnell. In 1925, during Prohibition, in Chicago, the Saltis-McErlane gang enters into a conflict with the O’Donnell gang. After a bloody street war, with dozens of victims in both camps, Frank McErlane gets his hands on a prototype machine-gun ( Thompson ). He follows Spike O’Donnell until he stops in front of a pharmacy then kills him in cold blood. The police was so unfamiliar with the machine gun that they did not knew what to write in the murder report.

3. Giuseppe “Pino Scarpuzzedda” Greco ( 1952 – 1985 )

Murders: around 80

Affiliation: Greco and Corleonesi clans

The most known assassination: General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. Another one of his famous assassinations was the one of Rosario Riccobono, the Palermo mafia boss. He was a powerful ally of the Corleonesi family, but when he was no longer useful, Salvatore Riina decided to get rid of him, because Riccobono knew his secrets and weaknesses. So, he invited Riccobono along with his most important 8 men to a barbecue. They were all killed whine Riina was watching.

2. Giuvanni “Il Porco” Brusca ( born 1957 )

Murders: between 100 and 200

Affiliation: Corleonesi Clan

The most known assassination: Anti Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone.

1. Leoluca Bagarella ( 1942 )

Murders: more than 300

Affiliation: Corleonesi clan

The most known assassination: The chief of Palermo Police, Giorgio Boris Guiliano. In the 70′s, Giuliano, started to investigate the drug business the Cosa Nostra was doing. In 1979, Giuliano even made a visit to the FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, to consult with the american experts. Returned from the US, he got his hands on a series of documents that proved that banker Michele Sindona was laundering money for the Mafia. It is believed that Giuliano was about to uncover one of the biggest Mafia businesses in history, however he didn’t got around to it. In the morning of July 21, 1979, while he was drinking an expresso at the Lux bar in Palermo, he was shot to death by the hitman sent by the Corleonesi family, Leoluca Bagarella, probably the most prolific hitman that ever worked for the Mafia.

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