OLLIE NORTH & DRUGS

[Octafish]

Want to know the real reason why Ollie North sicced the FBI on John Kerry?


OLLIE NORTH AND DRUGS

By Dennis Bernstein and Howard Levine
From The Texas Observer

If Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had wanted to know the extent of former Colonel Oliver North's involvement in the smuggling of drugs from Central America to the United States, Walsh might have made at least one phone call to Celerino 'Cele' Castillo in San Antonio.

Between 1985 to 1991, Castillo was the Drug Enforcement Administration's main agent in El Salvador, where, he says, he uncovered "and reported" a huge drug and gun smuggling operation that was run out of the Ilopango military airport by the 'North Network' and the CIA.

SNIP…

Though Castillo had been reporting his findings all along, to no avail, a December 1988 report prepared by the Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations (the Kerry Committee) confirmed Castillo's allegations and concluded: "There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of the individual Contras, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and the Contra supporters throughout the region."

The committee, chaired by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, also found that on March 16, 1987, a plane owned by known drug smugglers was seized by U.S. customs officers after dumping what appeared to be a load of drugs off the Florida coast: "Law enforcement personnel also found an address book aboard the plane, containing among other references the telephone numbers of some Contra officials and the Virginia telephone number of Robert Owen, Oliver North's courier," the committee reported. And on July 28, 1988, DEA agents testifying before Kerry's committee said it was North's idea in 1985 to give the Contras $1.5 million in drug money being used by DEA informant Barry Seal in a sting operation aimed at the drug cartels.


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1. The most amazing part of this story is that Oliver North is still around

to deal us a fit. He should have spent the rest of his life in prison like any drug dealer.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. North should have been hung

Like any other traitor.
Selling weapons to our enemies in Iran so they could shoot them at our ships...(OK, they missed, but the principle is there, dangit.)

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4. Iran & Syria teamed up to destroy the USMC barracks in Beirut

At least 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers — and possibly members of other US armed forces — were killed in 1983. Like in 9-11, the Reagan-Bush administration failed to listen to intelligence or even heed history, our embassy in Beirut had been blown up by suicide truck bombers earlier the same year.

The Ayatollah Khomeini, President Hussein of Syria, and their puppets in Lebanon were ecstatic. And THOSE are the types of people Ollie North and the BFEE deal with. Despotic murderers and terrorists.

Yes, Ollie North is a traitor. The worst kind.

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3. The greasy turd even ran for the Senate.

He used his Ollie Defense Fund mailing list for campaign contributions in his Virginia Senate run. The treasonous bastid got a cachet of respectability within the inbred community.

[alfredo]

5. He was also involved with Air America with Richard Secord

when the Meo tribesmen were trading opium for weapons. air america became Southern Air during the contra years. Weeks before the Afghani war, Secord was up in the "Stans" I guess there is plenty heroin to ferry to Europe and the US.

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6. Yup. Same goes for Gen. Singlaub.

Gen. Singlaub and Ge. Secord were very active in the global Cold War against communism. For their part in the struggle on behalf of capitalism, they created or led several World Anti-Communist League type organizations that had ties to the neo-fascists, NAZIs, organized crime, and the local despotry. Some funded with backing by Rev. Moon and the Korean CIA, others by Saudi oil wealth, if memory serves, with the the help of the top dogs at the Saudi CIA. Truly an international operation, the group's big money maker was — and apparently still is — the international drug trade. Here's some of what Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall and Jane Hunter wrote in

The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era"

EXCERPT...

Saudi Arabia: Casey also worked on Saudi Arabia-successfully- to support Washington's cause in Central America. The CIA director met with King Fahd in February 1984 to press his case. Working in tandem with Casey to persuade the royal family were two private individuals with tremendous experience in the field of Mideast arms sales: retired Air Force Gen. Richard Secord, who steered the sale of AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia through Congress in 1981, and Robert Lilac, former commander of the U.S. Air Force Logistics Command in Saudi Arabia, who left the NSC in 1983 and now works for the Saudi Ambassador in Washington, D.C. The Saudi royal family reportedly turned over $32 million to the rebels in Honduras and Costa Rica in gratitude for the administration's success in overcoming the Israeli lobby's resistance to the $8.5 billion AWACS sale. Saudi money also supported anti-communists in Angola and Afghanistan. Most recently, evidence has come to light that Saudi Arabia financed arms purchases by its feared adversary Iran, in hopes of moderating the regime's revolutionary, messianic mission. Some of these monies in turn were allegedly deposited by Israeli intermediaries in Switzerland for disbursement to the contras.

South Korea: Less visibly, South Korea, too, has given generously to the contras, and on at least one occasion shipped them arms paid for by Saudi Arabia. It has also provided an important back channel for arms shipments to the Khomeini regime in Iran. The arms and funding pipelines from South Korea were kept open by a combination of Washington lobbyists, ex-CIA officers and private organizations, many with ties to Saudi Arabia as well.

No country, however, has played a more significant surrogate role in both Central America and Iran than Israel. As early as 1981, Israel's economic minister Ya'acov Meridor had declared, "Israel will be your proxy." Although Israeli leaders have officially denied aiding the contras, the record of their involvement is clear and unequivocal. As recently as September 1986, according to Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams, Israel sent the contras by sea a large shipment of Soviet-made arms, presumably captured in Lebanon.

Israel's proxy activities on behalf of the contras grew out of a long tradition of military support for authoritarian regimes in Central America, including that of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua. Israel was also in on the ground floor with the contras when Somoza finally fled the country. Haifa University professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi reports that "when the CIA was setting up the contra organization in 1981, the Mossad was also there, carrying out the training and support for the first units.

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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/ContractingOut_TICC.html

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7. A kick in the pants to Ollie North!

Don't DUers want to talk about the enablers and inner workings of the Bush Organized Crime Family?

Gee. If we don't, it's to Bushler's advantage come Fall 2004.

[G_j]

8. I watched or listened to

most of the Iran-Contra hearings. Living in NY I listened to the show "Contra-gate" every morning on WBAI.
I'm still outraged! I wonder if tapes of those programs still exsit. Some people interviewed I believe may have had 'accidents' since.

[teryang]

9. they are still with us

Negroponte, Reich, Poindexter, and Abrams have appointed positions within the current junta. The corporatists are above the law.

[G_j]

10. and another Bush

it's is all one big story.

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11. Wasn't just Smirko. Jebthro too caught up in BCCI

... seems to have made quite a mint in the prohibition biz back then. Bushler probably HAD to lose it through his failed oil enterprises in order to launder the profits, I mean, proceeds.

THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER

Covert Action Information Bulletin

Excerpt...

JEB GETS IN ON THE BCCI ACTION

In 1988, Jeb was mentioned in a deposition taken by a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), which was investigating drug money laundering operations in the U.S.

"I saw Jeb Bush two or three times over there with Sakhia," stated Aziz Rehman, a junior BCCI-Miami official in the 1980s. "This was all part of the bank's trying to cultivate public officials and prominent individuals." *38 Rehman said BCCI's practice was to "bribe" government officials in the United States.

"Jeb Bush, V.P. George Bush's son," Sakhia noted in a 1986 BCCI document, was a "name…to be remembered."

Most of Rehman's testimony focused on his role in BCCI-Miami's money laundering operation. Rehman said it was his job, in the mid-1980s, to chauffeur and entertain BCCI-Miami's big clients when they came to the city from the Caribbean and Latin America. Rehman described how he deposited large amounts of cash for these clients, ranging from $100,000 to $2 million, in other Miami banks at which BCCI-Miami had accounts. To disguise the money trail, BCCI transferred the cash electronically from Miami to BCCI banks in Panama and the Grand Cayman Islands.

Jeb's name also shows up in a September 1987 BCCI document written by Amjad Awan, then a senior BCCI-Miami official. The memorandum planned a BCCI breakfast meeting with a senior level delegation from the People's Republic of China and high Florida state government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Jeb Bush. Among the Chinese delegation was Ge Zhong Xue, Deputy Division Chief of the Ministry of Public Security, a top police official.

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12. Desparado Neil helped bankrupt Silverado Savings and Loan

That was a half-billion dollar bailout in a trillion dollar taxpayer rip-off by the Bush Organized Crime Family. Of course, no friends of Bushler did time. Consider:


Silverado Savings and Loan

The Cover Up of a Cover Up

EXCERPT...

Finally, during the FDIC suit against Silverado that went to trial in 1991, the Office of Thrift Supervison (OTS)

refused to hand over thousands of pages of documents that the defense claimed would show that regulators not only approved of Silverado's deals, but had actually encouraged them. Without any other explanation, the thrift office simply claimed confidentiality, saying it would rather accept a contempt of court citation than produce the documents. (p. 203)


Why did the OTS take such an extreme action to protect the documents? As Wilmsen asks, did Mowbray, who was fired in December 1988 from the Kansas Home Loan Bank, do more damage than anyone knew about? Or is the OTS concealing something more? During the 1989 and 1990 congressional hearings, many Silverado regulators or former regulators testified as witnesses. Where was Congressman Leach when Mowbray said he could not remember who called him and asked for a forty-five day delay in closing Silverado? Was this not improper influencing of an appointed government official.? Who made the phone call? Mowbray should be compelled to answer. And here again we see the curious incuriosity of the national media when it comes to certain events that occurred during the Reagan and Bush administrations. How can you have a series of congressional hearings and raise some of these questions and not arouse the curiosity of anyone in the national media? What a difference an election makes.

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