03-03-2010, 05:07 PM
Tosh, I'm interested to know if Operation Watch Tower was in any way connected to the continuing drugs flights that resulted in Colonel Sabow's death?
As you know Watch Tower was circa 1975/6 - some 15 years earlier. The sense I have is that this covert operation was the beginning of the rot, but, of course, drugs had by that time already been streaming into domestic US military bases via the "long silver train" of the Vietnam war.
However, the war in South-east Asia came to an official close in April 1975. According to the affidavit of Colonel Edward Cutolo, Watch Tower commenced in December 1975 - just 8 months later. Can this be coincidence or was it simply the case of switching hemispheres to keep a good thing going and ensure the black budget for covert and off-the-books operations continued without cessation?
Back in the 1970's Colombia had barely been heard of in regard to the drugs traffic. Until then addiction in the US was centred on heroin use, resulting from the South-east Asia war drug flow. As can be seen from the linked timeline, cocaine seizures only begin in earnest in November 1975. From 1975 onwards it is all cocaine and Colombian cartels.
Since 2002 the focus has switched again. But only in part. The latin and central American cartels are now thoroughly entrenched. But now we have a new war in Asia; Afghanistan, and consequently the heroin trade there has been revitalized and has, in fact, blossomed since that date.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...rugs/cron/
As you know Watch Tower was circa 1975/6 - some 15 years earlier. The sense I have is that this covert operation was the beginning of the rot, but, of course, drugs had by that time already been streaming into domestic US military bases via the "long silver train" of the Vietnam war.
However, the war in South-east Asia came to an official close in April 1975. According to the affidavit of Colonel Edward Cutolo, Watch Tower commenced in December 1975 - just 8 months later. Can this be coincidence or was it simply the case of switching hemispheres to keep a good thing going and ensure the black budget for covert and off-the-books operations continued without cessation?
Back in the 1970's Colombia had barely been heard of in regard to the drugs traffic. Until then addiction in the US was centred on heroin use, resulting from the South-east Asia war drug flow. As can be seen from the linked timeline, cocaine seizures only begin in earnest in November 1975. From 1975 onwards it is all cocaine and Colombian cartels.
Since 2002 the focus has switched again. But only in part. The latin and central American cartels are now thoroughly entrenched. But now we have a new war in Asia; Afghanistan, and consequently the heroin trade there has been revitalized and has, in fact, blossomed since that date.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...rugs/cron/
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14