Memory Hole: The Kerry Report Transcripts

[Hissyspit]

http://www.thememoryhole.org/kerry/

"Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy"
a/k/a the Kerry Report Transcripts

In 1987/8, two subcommittees of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held three 14 days of hearings on drug trafficking. Headed by Sen. John F. Kerry (D - Mass.), the panel heard evidence of official corruption in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The next year, the government published the transcripts in a 4-volume set that has remained a touchstone for anyone interested in narco-corruption, particularly as it involves US intelligence agencies.

The trouble is, this 1,800-page goldmine of information has been incredibly hard to find. The Memory Hole's copy was given to me by a friend of the family—Lorenzo Hagerty—who told me an interesting story. As soon as the Kerry Report was published, Lorenzo ordered a set of the transcripts from the Government Printing Office. When it arrived, he began reading it and realized how important it was. He immediately called the GPO to order another set. He was told that the set was already out of print and would not be published again. It had been available to the public for one single week.

Small portions of the Kerry Report transcripts have been published online, but they are only a fraction of the entire four volumes. The Memory Hole is planning to scan and post the entire thing. The first volume has been posted as HTML, and the second two have gone up as Acrobat files. The front page and the email updates will contain notifications when the final volume is posted...

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Part Three: The Cartel, Haiti and Central America

Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, April 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1988

entire volume in one Acrobat file 22 meg

[never cry wolf]

1. Needs a K&R......... n/t

[liam_laddie]

2. K & R'd !

Suppressed during the last year of Ol' Ronnie Reagan's term...who'da thunk?
How many reich-wing operatives from that era are still influential in the
Bush 43 junta? Many! Thanks for posting this!
:toast:

[WiseButAngrySara]

22. Who, specifically? ....n/t

[liam_laddie]

25. who?

Here's a start (sorry I don't have the time right now to retreive a list).
Try this 50-page pdf <http://www.wws.princeton.edu/bushconf/HultPaper.pdf>
For sure Rumsfeld and Cheney were getting started then, and altho' often
behind the curtain, James A Baker III must be considered a major presence
in the Reagan and Bush43 eras.

[WiseButAngrySara]

26. Thanks so much! ....n/t

[blm]

28. Yes - and even John Bolton is a figure, too.

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[LunaSea]

3. k&r

[rox63]

4. Thanks for retrieving this from the memory hole

K&R!

[ginnyinWI]

5. I think I heard that John Bolton was involved in shelving it,

if that's the same document. Thanks to the internet, maybe this will see the light of day now.

[TayTay]

9. Bolton was an assistant AG at the time.

From Meese to the U.N. (John Bolton, nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs) (Beltway Bandits) (column)
The Nation, Vol. 248, Issue. 15, p 512(1) 04-17-1989
By David Corn, and Jefferson Morley

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee should take a good look at John Bolton, the nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, a position in which he would, among other things, act as a liaison between the U.S. government and the United Nations. Currently Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's civil division, Bolton was known to be one of Edwin Meese 3 d's most loyal lieutenants. At Justice, Bolton developed a reputation for combativeness. When he attacked the independent counsel law, even a White House spokesman accused him of intemperate."

Bolton's record as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs in 1986 and 1987 merits special scrutiny. He "tried to torpedo" Senator John Kerry's inquiry into allegations of contra drug smuggling and gunrunning, one committee aide says. When Kerry requested information from the Justice Department, Bolton's office gave it the long stall, a Kerry aide notes. In fact, says another Congressional aide, Bolton's staff worked actively with the Republican senators who opposed Kerry's efforts.

In 1986 this chum of Meese also refused to give Peter Rodino, then chair of the House Judiciary Committee, documents concerning the Iran/contra scandal and Meese's involvement in it, Later, when Congressional investigators were probing charges that the Justice Department had delayed an inquiry into gunrunning to the contras, Bolton was again the spoiler. According to Hayden Gregory, chief counsel of a House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, Bolton blocked an arrangement by which his staff had agreed to let House investigators interview officials of the US. Attorney's office in Miami. Bolton refused to speak to us on the subject.

Last year Legal Times reported that Bolton, who earned $330,000 in 1984 as a partner at a blue-blood D.C. law firm, had contacted several private firms hoping to parlay his government experience into a lucrative lobbying job. None were interested in a tainted Meese disciple. Fortunately for him, George Bush and James Baker are less discriminating.

[blm]

12. Kerry hammered him in the confirmation hearings.

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[TayTay]

13. There is a lot of history there that goes way back

and the Bush cartel are indeed the type of people who would take a John Bolton in.

Kerry did hammer Bolton very hard. Bolton deserved it then and deserves it now. He is a cruel joke at the UN and a disgrace to this nation and any pretend notion that we actually have a 'foreign policy.' America has a 'we do what we want when we want' policy that ignores the rest of the world.

[ginnyinWI]

19. Thanks, TayTay! n/t

[Luftmensch067]

6. Thank you! K&R!!!

We need as much help as we can get with remembering actual HISTORY and putting it out there for people to see!

[blm]

18. It is up to us to educate with REAL historic records - most people are

COMPLETELY unaware of these facts, and that helps the GOPs when they spin against Kerry.

[_dynamicdems]

7. K & R!

:kick:

[blm]

8. Unfortunately Bush1, Clinton and Bush2 have tried to bury this aspect

of terrorism. And most media is letting them.

Had Clinton opened the books on IranContra and BCCI, the American people would have known about the characters involved with terror, how they were funded and how official governments were part of the financial networks protecting them.

9-11 wouldn't have happened, and no Bush would have been allowed NEAR the White House, let alone inside it.

[AntiFascist]

30. K & R, extremely important!

This information should prevent any Bush (or anyone who supports Bush Sr. such as certain former Dem president?) from having access to the White House ever again.

[ProSense]

10. Excellent! n/t

[ray of light]

11. Kerry has money. And the technology is there nowadays...

he should self-publish!

Self-publishing is so easy nowadays.

[TayTay]

14. Senator Kerry does not own that work

I believe that work is the property of the Senate and the US Government. I'm not sure he can just publish it. The Memory Hole might be in a legal grey area when they publish the thing online.

I don't believe you can just go back into Senate archives and pull stuff out and re-publish it. That sounds fishy to me.

[ray of light]

16. Oh. so he's not considered the author?

bummer!

[karynnj]

17. Even if he is the official author, it is a Senate document

done as part of his work in the Senate and it is a government document.

[Luminous Animal]

20. Then it belongs to us. We paid for it. (n/t)

[blm]

29. National Security Archives should have these papers.

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[garthranzz]

15. missing link - please supply n/t

[Hissyspit]

23. What's missing? Click on the link in the OP and everything is there...

at the Memory Hole site.

[BelgianMadCow]

21. There should be more memory-hole posts

cause they're always good

Kd & Rd

[blm]

24. Yeah, because they're usually filled with stuff they REALLY don't want us

to see and connect to what they're pulling off today. It really is an endless seam.

[WiseButAngrySara]

27. K & R & Bookmarked and thank you! ....n/t