Hampton
23rd July 2004, 03:12
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In February of 1982 the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Casey, and Attorney General William French Smith entered into a secret Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that allowed CIA assets who were involved in drug smuggling to escape from legal reporting requirements to the federal law enforcement agencies.
This secret agreement detailed a long list of crimes which the CIA was required to disclose to federal law enforcement agencies including homicide, kidnapping, assault, bribery, possession of firearms, as well as illegal immigration, election contributions, and perjury. Amazingly, this MOU did not require the CIA to report drug trafficking or other drug law violations by CIA assets to the Department of Justice.
In other words, CIA assets who were smuggling narcotics, even into the United States, did not have to worry about being reported to the DEA or other federal law enforcement agencies.
The timing of the Memorandum of Understanding was as remarkable as its contents. Prior to 1982, an Executive Order existed which required that drug trafficking and related crimes by CIA assets and agents be reported. Then in late 1981, President Reagan authorized covert aid for the Contras by the CIA. Only two months later, the CIA and the Attorney General carved out an exemption for CIA assets and agents that were dealing drugs in a new Memorandum of Understanding.
Link. (http://www.house.gov/waters/ciareportwww.htm)
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey's request to then-Attorney General William French Smith isn't in the public domain. But two letters, one from Smith thanking Casey for his request, and a follow-up by Casey, are both available. They were released as part of a internal CIA report that explored allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking. (The most comprehensive allegations were reported by Gary Webb in a series of San Jose Mercury News reports and a book entitled "Dark Alliance.") In the first document, Smith thanks Casey for his letter (the one that isn't public) and says:
"...in view of the fine cooperation the Drug Enforcement Administration has received from CIA, no formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures."
--William French Smith
Attorney General
Link (http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/06/cia.html)
In 1982, $200 million in Taxpayers? funds were transferred in an agency account under the Central Intelligence Agency. The funds were then covertly used by dedicated officials in high office for a contract to purchase, manufacture, and import more than 500 tons of cocaine between 1982 and 1987, with National Security as a cover, in order to secretly finance anti-communist military operations in third world countries. That cocaine flooded the inner cities of the United States and became the ?Crack Cocaine Epidemic.? United States foreign intelligence needs created a generation of drug users and the largest prison population in the world to save the world from communism. This is, unfortunately, a true story with live eye witnesses, and documentary evidence written in Oliver North?s personal diary which contained 584 entries concerning cocaine importation.
Link (http://www.wethepeople.la/montal1.htm)
Ricky Ross is complaining that he too is a victim of the federal government's racism, but don't cry for Freeway Rick. Although he claims he never knew about the connections of those who were supplying him with truckloads of cocaine, Ross made millions off the misery of fellow African-Americans and deserves the harshest punishment. He sold out people who had come up hard like him so that he could have everything from great Lakers tickets to a fancy home in Inglewood to a speedboat at the Marina.
Link (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/crack/)
America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war (http://www.constitution.org/abus/narc/day1main.htm)
One of these schemes was to recruit Nicaraguan expatriates who would smuggle drugs into the U.S. by various means. One means of transport was allegedly a Salvadorian Air Force plane that would deliver cocaine to an air base in Texas. This San Francisco based cartel would then sell the cut-rate cocaine to a Los Angeles teenager called "Freeway Rick", who would "rock up" the cocaine and distribute it to Los Angeles gangs. The profits supposedly made their way back to the cartel who would pass them on to the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), better known as the Contras, or "Freedom Fighters", as Reagan called them.
When President Reagan obtained Congressional support for the Nicaraguan Contras, the CIA involvement with the expatriate drug cartel ended, according to the Mercury News article. "While the FDN's war is barely a memory today, black America is still dealing with its poisonous side effects. Urban neighborhoods are grappling with legions of homeless crack addicts. Thousands of young black men are serving long prison sentences for selling cocaine -- a drug that was virtually unobtainable in black neighborhoods before members of the CIA's army started bringing it into South-Central in the 1980s at bargain-basement prices. "And the L.A. gangs, which used their enormous cocaine profits to arm themselves and spread crack across the country, are still thriving, turning entire blocks of major cities into occasional war zones.
Link. (http://www.thewinds.org/1996/10/drug_hypocrisy.html)
In February of 1982 the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Casey, and Attorney General William French Smith entered into a secret Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that allowed CIA assets who were involved in drug smuggling to escape from legal reporting requirements to the federal law enforcement agencies.
This secret agreement detailed a long list of crimes which the CIA was required to disclose to federal law enforcement agencies including homicide, kidnapping, assault, bribery, possession of firearms, as well as illegal immigration, election contributions, and perjury. Amazingly, this MOU did not require the CIA to report drug trafficking or other drug law violations by CIA assets to the Department of Justice.
In other words, CIA assets who were smuggling narcotics, even into the United States, did not have to worry about being reported to the DEA or other federal law enforcement agencies.
The timing of the Memorandum of Understanding was as remarkable as its contents. Prior to 1982, an Executive Order existed which required that drug trafficking and related crimes by CIA assets and agents be reported. Then in late 1981, President Reagan authorized covert aid for the Contras by the CIA. Only two months later, the CIA and the Attorney General carved out an exemption for CIA assets and agents that were dealing drugs in a new Memorandum of Understanding.
Link. (http://www.house.gov/waters/ciareportwww.htm)
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey's request to then-Attorney General William French Smith isn't in the public domain. But two letters, one from Smith thanking Casey for his request, and a follow-up by Casey, are both available. They were released as part of a internal CIA report that explored allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking. (The most comprehensive allegations were reported by Gary Webb in a series of San Jose Mercury News reports and a book entitled "Dark Alliance.") In the first document, Smith thanks Casey for his letter (the one that isn't public) and says:
"...in view of the fine cooperation the Drug Enforcement Administration has received from CIA, no formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures."
--William French Smith
Attorney General
Link (http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/06/cia.html)
In 1982, $200 million in Taxpayers? funds were transferred in an agency account under the Central Intelligence Agency. The funds were then covertly used by dedicated officials in high office for a contract to purchase, manufacture, and import more than 500 tons of cocaine between 1982 and 1987, with National Security as a cover, in order to secretly finance anti-communist military operations in third world countries. That cocaine flooded the inner cities of the United States and became the ?Crack Cocaine Epidemic.? United States foreign intelligence needs created a generation of drug users and the largest prison population in the world to save the world from communism. This is, unfortunately, a true story with live eye witnesses, and documentary evidence written in Oliver North?s personal diary which contained 584 entries concerning cocaine importation.
Link (http://www.wethepeople.la/montal1.htm)
Ricky Ross is complaining that he too is a victim of the federal government's racism, but don't cry for Freeway Rick. Although he claims he never knew about the connections of those who were supplying him with truckloads of cocaine, Ross made millions off the misery of fellow African-Americans and deserves the harshest punishment. He sold out people who had come up hard like him so that he could have everything from great Lakers tickets to a fancy home in Inglewood to a speedboat at the Marina.
Link (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/crack/)
America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war (http://www.constitution.org/abus/narc/day1main.htm)
One of these schemes was to recruit Nicaraguan expatriates who would smuggle drugs into the U.S. by various means. One means of transport was allegedly a Salvadorian Air Force plane that would deliver cocaine to an air base in Texas. This San Francisco based cartel would then sell the cut-rate cocaine to a Los Angeles teenager called "Freeway Rick", who would "rock up" the cocaine and distribute it to Los Angeles gangs. The profits supposedly made their way back to the cartel who would pass them on to the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), better known as the Contras, or "Freedom Fighters", as Reagan called them.
When President Reagan obtained Congressional support for the Nicaraguan Contras, the CIA involvement with the expatriate drug cartel ended, according to the Mercury News article. "While the FDN's war is barely a memory today, black America is still dealing with its poisonous side effects. Urban neighborhoods are grappling with legions of homeless crack addicts. Thousands of young black men are serving long prison sentences for selling cocaine -- a drug that was virtually unobtainable in black neighborhoods before members of the CIA's army started bringing it into South-Central in the 1980s at bargain-basement prices. "And the L.A. gangs, which used their enormous cocaine profits to arm themselves and spread crack across the country, are still thriving, turning entire blocks of major cities into occasional war zones.
Link. (http://www.thewinds.org/1996/10/drug_hypocrisy.html)