06-03-2009, 07:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2009, 08:14 AM by Tosh Plumlee.)
Thirty plus years fighting the "Drug War', the longest war in the history of the United States....and its not over yet.
History does repeat itself..... Many testified about illegal drug activites in the early 80's. BUT the information was withheld by many in Congress and the main stream media for political reasons:
Some of the testimony, as to drug running and U.S. weapons going to the Cartel, can be found locked within the beltway of Washington DC, as far back as 1980:
(note some of the military grade weapons of the Contra area have now been found (2009) in the Mexico cartel's hands south of El Paso... ATF report of Nov 2009.
Example Congressional Record Reference as to 'Mockingbird" (alive and well in 2009)
also:
Iran-Contra and Mockingbird examples with introduction by H. Michael Sweeney, proparanoid.com
Document by Julian Holmes
No copyright - Public Domain
Permissions not required
"...The very lengthy (25 pages typwritten) document below is actually a letter to the Washington Post by Julian C. Holmes, in which he takes the Post to task for decades of disinformation - typically in the form of combating what the Post likes to describe as 'conspiracy theory' which, in the end, turns out to be conspiracy fact. ...
....
..... investigation by a task force of 13 congressmen headed by Lee Hamilton (D-IN). who had chaired the House of Representatives Iran-Contra Committee. Hamilton has named as chief team counsel Larry Barcella, a lawyer who represented BCCI when the Bank was indicted in 1988 (*11). (which led to failure of the Savings and Loan banks of the late 80's; Neal Bush and friends were found guilty of Fraud)
"... Like the Washington Post, Hamilton had not shown interest in pursuing the U.S. arms-for-drugs operation (*12). He had accepted Oliver North's lies,and as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he derailed House Resolution 485 which had asked President Reagan to answer questions about Contra support activities of government officials and others (*13).
After CIA operative John Hull (from Hamilton's home state). was charged in Costa Rica with "international drug trafficking and hostile acts against the nation's security", Hamilton and 18 fellow members of Congress tried to intimidate Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez into handling Hull's case "in a manner that will not complicate U.S.-Costa Rican relations" (*14). The Post did not report the Hamilton letter or the Costa Rican response that declared Hull's case to be "in as good hands as our 100 year old uninterrupted democracy can provide to all citizens" (*15).
Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves government or corporate conspiracies:
In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery, surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass U.S.citizens in the 60's (*16).
The CIA's Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by "destroying crops, brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and conspiring with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other leaders" (*17).
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notes: 13b. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Senate Report No. 100-216, House Report No. 100-433, November 1987, p.139-141.
14a. Letter to His Excellency Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica; from Members of the U.S. Congress David Dreier, Lee Hamilton, Dave McCurdy, Dan Burton, Mary Rose Oakar, Jim Bunning, Frank McCloskey, Cass Ballenger, Peter Kostmayer, Jim Bates, Douglas Bosco, James Inhofe, Thomas Foglietta, Rod Chandler, Ike Skelton, Howard Wolpe, Gary Ackerman, Robert Lagomarsino, and Bob McEwen; January 26, 1989.
14b. Peter Brennan, "Costa Rica Considers Seeking Contra Backer in U.S. Indiana Native Wanted on Murder Charge in 1984 Bomb Attack in Nicaragua", WashingtonPost, February 1, 1990.
14c. "Costa Rica Seeks Extradition of Indiana Farmer", Scripps-Howard News Service,April 25, 1991.
15. Press Release from the Costa Rican Embassy, Washington DC, On the Case of the Imprisonment of Costa Rican Citizen John Hull", February 6, 1989.
16. Brian Glick, War at Home, Boston: South End Press, 1989.
17. John Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard The U.S. Role in the New World Order, Boston: South End Press, 1991, p.121.
"...In a FOIA suit-- and after twelve years of stalling --the CIA released documentation, in 2002, although very quitely, that John Hull was a contract operative for the CIA and had received $10,000 a month for the use of his ranch and landing strip in violation of the "Boland Amendment", from 1980 through 1986; and too, to ride herd on the citizens of Cost Rica and report to the CIA, CR station ... Mark G Tanner (0c21) his findings... Sealed Congressional Testimony declassified Feb 2002 Congressional Record
History does repeat itself..... Many testified about illegal drug activites in the early 80's. BUT the information was withheld by many in Congress and the main stream media for political reasons:
Some of the testimony, as to drug running and U.S. weapons going to the Cartel, can be found locked within the beltway of Washington DC, as far back as 1980:
(note some of the military grade weapons of the Contra area have now been found (2009) in the Mexico cartel's hands south of El Paso... ATF report of Nov 2009.
Example Congressional Record Reference as to 'Mockingbird" (alive and well in 2009)
also:
Iran-Contra and Mockingbird examples with introduction by H. Michael Sweeney, proparanoid.com
Document by Julian Holmes
No copyright - Public Domain
Permissions not required
"...The very lengthy (25 pages typwritten) document below is actually a letter to the Washington Post by Julian C. Holmes, in which he takes the Post to task for decades of disinformation - typically in the form of combating what the Post likes to describe as 'conspiracy theory' which, in the end, turns out to be conspiracy fact. ...
....
..... investigation by a task force of 13 congressmen headed by Lee Hamilton (D-IN). who had chaired the House of Representatives Iran-Contra Committee. Hamilton has named as chief team counsel Larry Barcella, a lawyer who represented BCCI when the Bank was indicted in 1988 (*11). (which led to failure of the Savings and Loan banks of the late 80's; Neal Bush and friends were found guilty of Fraud)
"... Like the Washington Post, Hamilton had not shown interest in pursuing the U.S. arms-for-drugs operation (*12). He had accepted Oliver North's lies,and as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he derailed House Resolution 485 which had asked President Reagan to answer questions about Contra support activities of government officials and others (*13).
After CIA operative John Hull (from Hamilton's home state). was charged in Costa Rica with "international drug trafficking and hostile acts against the nation's security", Hamilton and 18 fellow members of Congress tried to intimidate Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez into handling Hull's case "in a manner that will not complicate U.S.-Costa Rican relations" (*14). The Post did not report the Hamilton letter or the Costa Rican response that declared Hull's case to be "in as good hands as our 100 year old uninterrupted democracy can provide to all citizens" (*15).
Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves government or corporate conspiracies:
In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery, surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass U.S.citizens in the 60's (*16).
The CIA's Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by "destroying crops, brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and conspiring with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other leaders" (*17).
xxx
notes: 13b. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, Senate Report No. 100-216, House Report No. 100-433, November 1987, p.139-141.
14a. Letter to His Excellency Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica; from Members of the U.S. Congress David Dreier, Lee Hamilton, Dave McCurdy, Dan Burton, Mary Rose Oakar, Jim Bunning, Frank McCloskey, Cass Ballenger, Peter Kostmayer, Jim Bates, Douglas Bosco, James Inhofe, Thomas Foglietta, Rod Chandler, Ike Skelton, Howard Wolpe, Gary Ackerman, Robert Lagomarsino, and Bob McEwen; January 26, 1989.
14b. Peter Brennan, "Costa Rica Considers Seeking Contra Backer in U.S. Indiana Native Wanted on Murder Charge in 1984 Bomb Attack in Nicaragua", WashingtonPost, February 1, 1990.
14c. "Costa Rica Seeks Extradition of Indiana Farmer", Scripps-Howard News Service,April 25, 1991.
15. Press Release from the Costa Rican Embassy, Washington DC, On the Case of the Imprisonment of Costa Rican Citizen John Hull", February 6, 1989.
16. Brian Glick, War at Home, Boston: South End Press, 1989.
17. John Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard The U.S. Role in the New World Order, Boston: South End Press, 1991, p.121.
"...In a FOIA suit-- and after twelve years of stalling --the CIA released documentation, in 2002, although very quitely, that John Hull was a contract operative for the CIA and had received $10,000 a month for the use of his ranch and landing strip in violation of the "Boland Amendment", from 1980 through 1986; and too, to ride herd on the citizens of Cost Rica and report to the CIA, CR station ... Mark G Tanner (0c21) his findings... Sealed Congressional Testimony declassified Feb 2002 Congressional Record