Antifascist Calling...
The CIA-coke planes mystery has been updated by two reliable sources: Daniel Hopsicker over at MadCowMorningNews and Bill Conroy at The Narco News Bulletin.
According to Hopsicker, the Skyway Aircraft/Donna Blue Aircraft jets were two of fifty (!) planes allegedly sold to narco-traffickers connected to the ultra-violent Sinaloa Cartel. Hopsicker writes:
According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico's Atty. General, Pedro Alfonso Alatorre, already indicted as the cartel's chief financier, purchased the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, the Gulstream II business jet (N987SA), and 48 other planes not yet identified for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel with laundered drug money, using a company he controls which owns currency exchanges at major airports in Mexico.Bill Conroy's take though somewhat different moves along a parallel track. Conroy writes:
Now we know who bought the airplanes. The tricker question is: who sold them? The answer, normally, would be, 'Their local counterparts in international organized crime.'
Documents obtained previously by Narco News also indicate that the jet was used in prior CIA operations and was last owned, in part by a pilot named Greg Smith -- who was involved in prior DEA, FBI and CIA operations in Latin America some eight years ago.According to Conroy's sources, the crashed dope jet was part of an ICE-CIA operation called "Mayan Express. Conroy continues:
The problem with such a plan, DEA sources contend, is that by allowing the dope into the country in the first place -- a shipment assisted by a jet provided via the U.S. government -- ICE with the support of the CIA, essentially becomes a drug smuggling organization, and its operations south of the border could never be revealed in a court of law because they violated international laws.Can you say "protected drug racket"? I thought you could. Why isn't this considered news? Could a GOP pedigree have something to do with consigning this information down the proverbial "memory hole"? Stay tuned!
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Thanks for looking after things in Joe's absense.
John
SluggoJD
I'm not absent, John, but I have a ton of work waiting for me, and an "iffy" personal situation. So there may be some days when I'm not around.
The Independent:
Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet
Let's see... "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" was first published in 1972. Perhaps it isn't "news" because it has been business as usual for centuries, and publicly available knowlege for more than 3½ decades.
Of course, during all of that time, the subject has never received the attention it deserved, but the fact that it still doesn't should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention...
Just caught this blurb from a dkos comment. It opens:
"WASHINGTON: A top US military commander said Wednesday he fears a "disastrous" linkup between drug traffickers and Islamists in Latin America, where he said Iran wields growing influence. "I fear greatly that the connectivity between narcoterrorism and Islamic radical terrorism could be disastrous in this region," Admiral James Stavridis, head of the US Southern Command, told a conference on Latin America."
This Drug system is most complex. It’s great to see people working in what may seem as an investigative team to uncover the details. Personally, I’m both surprised and overwhelmed with reading the many articles that frequently surface. There’s also a personal reason because Clyde O’Connor is my ex-sister-in-law’s brother. After spending more than 26 years in a family who is directly involved in this mess, I’m happy it’s showing signs of ending. You might want to say that one of my top motivations are my three children, now adults, who are stuck in this mess when they really need to be out of it. What many don’t know is at the root of all of this is Treason!
Being in this family exposed me to a great deal of what this Criminal system is about. You might want to say that my view is from the top down and doesn’t include the mountain of detail that the investigative hero’s are uncovering. Another point is my education of this system comes from the family’s “administrative” type comments and discussions over all those years. Their view is also from the top down.
One focus of this article is how some separate investigations are running in parallel and seem to be connected. I can assure you that besides these two, there are others and as more is dug up especially over here in the US, there will be so many more you too will be overwhelmed. Clyde O’Connor’s money man is his sister’s husband, my ex-brother-in-law. Both families live in the Chicago area near me. Knowing the O’Connor’s as I do, they always appeared to be nice people and my fear is that besides Clyde, some others within the family may have also been seduced into joining. My hope is that both families come to their senses and get out of this mess before it’s too late! I feel that Clyde’s traveling following the bust is because he doesn’t feel safe. This is backed up by recent reports of what has happened to others. Hence for Clyde, he may end up like the others unless he decides to get out.
The recent Madcow article explains that around 50 planes were/are being used to ship the drugs. Knowing what I know about the family shows there are other families involved in this mess also. However, from what I know about the Money Man’s involvement, expect the detail to be unbelievable.
My Internet efforts are choked by ongoing criminal harassment, plus more. Adding what I know about the criminal system, it’s suggested that any obvious and straight forward effort to uncover detail about O’Connor may be met with failure. I have good information on the O’Connor family that may help an investigative reporter uncover who they are and their links to the money man. Going through the backdoor is the best approach. I’m confident that time will come when more has been uncovered in what is happening in the US. I really doubt anyone will really believe who all is involved in this AND what the plans are with all the profit made from the Drug sales.
Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL
Among the many facets of the story you can read about on MadCowMorningNews is the interesting, though not surprising fact that one of the planes was also used in illegal CIA "renditions," that is state-sanctioned kidnapping and torture.
While I'm not a proponent of the theory that the "CIA deals drugs," the Company does siphon off some of the resulting dirty lucre for black operations.
But the devil is in the details, as they say. The relationship amongst state intel agencies and their right-wing, drug-dealing assets is both more complex and sinister than meets the eye. I'm referring of course, to the "Memorandum of Understanding" forged between Reagan's Attorney General, William French Smith and CIA chief spook, Bill Casey. It resulted in a virtual "get-out-of-jail-free" card for the Gipper's dope dealing Contras. See Gary Webb's Dark Alliance for the sordid details.
McCoy, Henrik Kruger, Mike Levine and Peter Dale Scott have amply demonstrated these sad realities across many continents and decades.
Kruger's book, The Great Heroin Coup, is long out of print and has become rather rare. It's filled with info from European sources -- stuff not easily available here in the States. Maybe someday someone will be kid enough to put the thing on the net? It's not as though Kruger's still making money from it...
Antifascist--
You said the following:
While I'm not a proponent of the theory that the "CIA deals drugs," the Company does siphon off some of the resulting dirty lucre for black operations.
They may not be dealing the drugs, but someone-perhaps not an employee but a contractor -- may be earning protection money. And the economy gets the benefit of keeping the money stateside.
At which point, I ask, what on earth is the difference?
mindful
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