Reality Or Conspiracy Theory? 1996 Video Of Former LAPD Officer Mike Ruppert Confronting CIA Director John Deutch On Drug Trafficking
This was posted at The Daily Paul:
Ruppert's LAPD record is here. More about Ruppert on Wikipedia. His allegations are here:
I haven't been a policeman now for a long time. I graduated from the LA Police Academy class of 11/73, hit the streets in January of '74 in South Central Los Angeles. It was a vastly different world then; there was no cocaine and we had six-shooters and straight batons and nobody had a radio that you carried around with you. But the world has changed enormously. I specialised in narcotics quickly, and heroin was the predominant drug on the street in my area; it was Mexican brown heroin in those days.And what happened to me was that I met and fell in love with a woman who was a contract CIA agent, a career agent. Now, I come from a CIA family and they had tried to recruit me, so this was not unexpected to me, but I began to see that she was protecting drug shipments and that the Agency was actively involved in dealing drugs. This happened with her in Hawaii, Mexico, Texas and New Orleans, and I kept saying I'm a narc, that I'm not going to overlook drug shipments. That's what basically set me on the irreversible course of events that determined the rest of my life. That was 1977.
The CIA's version from PBS' Frontline:
In October 1998, the CIA released a declassified version of Hitz's two-volume report.The IG's report cleared the CIA of complicity with the inner-city crack cocaine trade. It refuted charges that CIA officials knew that their Nicaraguan allies were dealing drugs. But, the report said that the CIA, in a number of cases, didn't bother to look into allegations about narcotics And the Hitz report describes how there was little or no direction for CIA operatives when confronted by the rampant traffic in drugs in Central American during the 1980s.
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I think he embellishes some aspects which hurt his credibility, but.......his point is right.
The CIA has admitted giving weapons to certain drug lords they favor. Their reasoning was to "track" the weapons and how and who was using them but they eventually lost the tracking info. Oops.
I've read in Mexican newspapers (and if you don't know the journalists get routinely killed for publishing stuff about the drug trade) really great investigative reports on how the US government has favored and directly worked with El Chapo. Even allowing his stuff to come in freely.
Don't trust your government to protect you against drugs.
If you are poor they'll hunt you down, but if you've got money they'll look the other way.
Ppen at February 23, 2014 6:53 AM
"It refuted charges that CIA officials knew that their Nicaraguan allies were dealing drugs "
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of the founders of the cartel, provided a significant amount of funding, weapons, and other aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. His pilot, Werner Lotz stated that Gallardo once had him deliver $150,000 in cash to a Contra group, and Gallardo often boasted about smuggling arms to them. His activities were known to several U.S. federal agencies, including the CIA and DEA, but he was granted immunity due to his "charitable contributions to the Contras".[6]
Ppen at February 23, 2014 6:59 AM
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