>From: Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Activistism & the Democratic Party (Kerry: Americ
>Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:09:22 -0800
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>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:45:05 -0800, Joseph Wanzala <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>Kerry, the man who helped cover up CIA-Contra drugs and BCCI crimes...
>
> I watched alot of the Committee hearings that Kerry held the Contras and
>drug running. Yes, of course, be as critical of Kerry's career and stands,
>your usual elite neo-liberism parading as populism, as the facts (and
>hagiography of Douglas Brinkley, whose new book I skimmed a few chapters of
>this morning @ Borders, on his VVAW period) demand, but, this is yet
>another moment, where I go, Wanzala, what do they have as perks on the KPFA
>LAB for you to do such an upside down perception of when he did when he
>went after John Hull and co. in the CIA/Contra Cocaine running
>investigation, and going after Clark Clifford, one of the big poobahs of
>influence peddling ever?
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>http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/contracoke.html
>Selections from the Senate Committee Report on
>Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy
>chaired by Senator John F. Kerry
>I. INTRODUCTION II. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO CONTRA/DRUG CHARGES
>III. THE GUNS AND DRUG SMUGGLING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPS IV. DRUG
>TRAFFICKING AND THE COVERT WAR V. THE PILOTS VI. U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDS AND
>COMPANIES WITH DRUG CONNECTIONS A. SETCO/HONDU CARIB B. FRIGORIFICOS DE
>PUNTARENAS C. DIACSA D. VORTEX VII. THE CASE OF GEORGE MORALES AND FRS/ARDE
>VIII. JOHN HULL IX. THE SAN FRANCISCO FROGMAN CASE, UND-FARN AND PCNE X.
>THE CUBAN-AMERICAN CONNECTION XI. RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ AND FELIX
>RODRIGUEZ FOOTNOTES NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND THE CONTRAS
>I. INTRODUCTION
>The initial Committee investigation into the international drug trade,
>which began in April, 1986, focused on allegations that Senator John F.
>Kerry had received of illegal gun-running and narcotics trafficking
>associated with the Contra war against Nicaragua.
>
>As the Committee proceeded with its investigation, significant information
>began surfacing concerning the operations of international narcotics
>traffickers, particularly relating to the Colombian-based cocaine cartels.
>As a result, the decision was made to incorporate the Contra-related
>allegations into a broader investigation concerning the relationship
>between foreign policy, narcotics trafficking and law enforcement.
>
>While the contra/drug question was not the primary focus of the
>investigation, the Subcommittee uncovered considerable evidence relating to
>the Contra network which substantiated many of the initial allegations laid
>out before the Committee in the Spring of 1986. On the basis of this
>evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras
>were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was
>used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras
>themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug
>traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had
>information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or
>immediately thereafter.
>
>The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included:
>
>--Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the
>Contra movement.
>
>--Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations
>through business relationships with Contra organizations.
>
>--Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers,
>including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other
>materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers.
>
>--Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds
>authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in
>some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law
>enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were
>under active investigation by these same agencies.
>
>These activities were carried out in connection with Contra activities in
>both Costa Rica and Honduras.
>
>The Subcommittee found that the links that were forged between the Contras
>and the drug traffickers were primarily pragmatic, rather than ideological.
>The drug traffickers, who had significant financial and material resources,
>needed the cover of legitimate activity for their criminal enterprises. A
>trafficker like George Morales hoped to have his drug indictment dropped in
>return for his financial and material support of the Contras. Others, in
>the words of Marcos Aguado, Eden Pastora's air force chief:
>
>... took advantage of the anti-communist sentiment which existed in Central
>America ... and they undoubtedly used it for drug trafficking.[1]
>
>While for some Contras, it was a matter of survival, for the traffickers it
>was just another business deal to promote and protect their own operations.
>II. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO CONTRA/DRUG CHARGES
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>Michael Pugliese
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