CIA (Cocaine.Import.Agency) …The Drug Affair (part 1)

60 Minutes November 21, 1993 A ton of cocaine–pure cocaine, worth hundreds of millions–is smuggled into the United States. Sound familiar? Not the way this ton of cocaine got here, according to what the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told Mike Wallace. This drug shipment got here courtesy of what he calls drug trafficking by the CIA, in partnership with the Venezuelan national guard. While rumors of CIA involvement in drug trafficking have circulated for years, no one in the US government has ever before publicly charged the CIA with this kind of wrongdoing. It is not the kind of accusation anyone in government would make without thinking long and hard. Source: www.csun.edu ____________________________________ Peace Magazine Jun/Jul, 1988 The CIA’s shadowy activities in Vietnam were necessary to prepare American public opinion to accept the commitment of ground troops to a foreign war. Its actions in this regard were diabolically clever, William Blum in his book, The CIA, A Forgotten History, draws attention to the confessions of Phillip Liechty, a former CIA officer. Liechty revealed he had seen the plans to take large amounts of Communist bloc arms, load them on a Vietnamese boat, fake a battle, and then call in naive reporters to see the “captured” weapons as proof of foreign assistance to the Viet Cong. After this staged incident concerning the sinking of a “suspicious vessel” in “shallow water” off South Vietnam on Feb. 16, 1965, the United …