The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
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The Reagan Commission on Organized Crime spent much of 1984 attacking Deaks global foreign exchange firm, Deak-Perera. By the end of the year, Deak was forced to appear before the commission in a testy public interrogation; his financial empire collapsed within days.
A year later, in 1985, Deak was assassinated in his Wall Street high-rise by a paranoid-schizophrenic bag lady from Seattle, whod been hired for the job by Latin American mobsters, according to a private internal investigation led by former FBI detectives. The assassin, Lois Lang (pictured above), had previously spent several murky years in the underbelly of Silicon Valley, where she fell under the care of a famous Stanford Research Institute psychiatrist, Frederick Melges an expert on dosing his subjects with drugs and hypnosis to induce artificial dissociative states. Perhaps not surprisingly, Dr. Melges was up to his eyeballs in secret CIA behavior modification programs that were going on at Stanford until they were exposed in Congressional hearings in 1977. [For more on this stranger-than-fiction story, read James Bond and the Killer Bag Lady co-authored with Alexander Zaitchik.]
Nicholas Deaks end came fast. Exactly thirty years ago, in 1984, his global financial empire, Deak-Perera, was accused by the Reagan Administration of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars of Colombian drug cartel cash.
Nicholas Deak shouldve been the least likely target for a Reagan Administration takedown over cocaine money laundering, and not only because the same Reagan Administration was busy aiding and abetting the CIAs mercenary army, the Contras, as they moved cocaine into the US, and illegal weapons into their Honduras bases. What made targeting Deak all the stranger was that one of Deaks closest longtime friends, William Casey, was head of Reagans CIA at that time. And as Gary Webbs reporting (and Robert Parrys exposés before and after Webb) have shown, Caseys CIA was at that very same time aiding and protecting the Contras cocaine-running operation.
http://pando.com/2014/10/26/the-biggest-cia-drug-money-scandal-you-never-read/
The article is well sourced so hopefully it is enough to keep it from being relegated to the CT dungeon.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Oldenuff
(582 posts)just SHOCKED.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)That more people on DU don't talk about and reference this part of our history.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)and were attacked from the Right and left. After a while, they just say "fuck it." and leave.
Got to look forward, don't dwell on the past, it's old news, conspiracy theory....bla..blah..blah.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)They are small-minded, naive, foolish simpletons.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)There was a long account of it in Salon two years ago:
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/better_than_bourne_who_really_killed_nick_deak/
But it doesn't ever seem to have made it through into general public awareness.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)CIA was trying to do the right and capitalist thing by eliminating the competition.