America's Mexican Border Wars

[David Guyatt]

I found the below quotes particularly interesting:

The record shows Plumlee was involved in the Cuban conflict of 1957 through 1964, while connected to military and CIA intelligence operations. In the early fifties, he supplied Fidel Castro’s rebel forces in Cuba with arms and ammunition; There were similar sensitive reports indicating that the CIA had armed Castro to overthrow the Batista government. However, the Committee has not been able to confirm those reports.

(my underlining)

And

Millions of dollars, dirty drug money, was being routed through Panama by the cartel, some of it to be used to influence the upcoming presidential election.

(my underlining)

And

Plumlee testified under oath that there was close cooperation between Mexican and U.S. government personnel in drug smuggling (there is other evidence in later testimony from XXXXXX. which confirms sections of Plumlee's testimony. This defies comprehension, Plumlee described his undercover activities to this Committee, including the practice of the Mexican police and its military protecting drug traffickers, something that will be described in considerably more detail in later testimony.

(my underlining).

And (but also refer to item 2 above)

He also stated that these operations
were not CIA operations but rather under the direction of the White House, Pentagon and NSC personnel.