Scott
Harshbarger, former CIA Director and US President George Bush, and
self-admitted government assassin D. Gene Tatum as Defendants in a
far-reaching case involving US Government - sanctioned drug smuggling,
murder and cover-up.
Bill Tyree is currently serving a life
sentence for the murder of his wife - a case eerily similar to that of
Dr Jeffrey MacDonald, a Fort Bragg
doctor who was framed for the murder of his wife and children in the early 1980s.
"In the mid-1970s, while serving in Panama, Tyree and other Green Berets were led into Colombia under the command of
Green Beret
Colonels Cutolo and Baker to plant radio beacons, so that planeloads of
cocaine could fly below Colombian and US radar and land undetected in
Panama," writes former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert in his newsletter, From
the Wilderness (PO Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA, website
www.copvcia.com).
"Orders for these missions came from the CIA's
Ed Wilson and Tom Clines," continues Ruppert. "Tyree had been a part of
many secret missions and was losing his taste for it. His wife was
keeping a diary [for which she was presumably murdered, after which the
diary was confiscated and later disappeared].
"Five Special
Forces Colonels - Cutolo, Baker, Malvesti, Rowe and Bayard - have died
under mysterious circumstances since. The heart of the Tyree
documentation consists of an affidavit allegedly written by Colonel
Cutolo, who was also Tyree's commanding officer at Fort Devens, Mass.,
at the time of Tyree's arrest. Both were then with the 10th Special
Forces.
"That fifteen-page
document
gives precise details of CIA drug operations using Special Forces
personnel. It also describes how Tyree was framed for the murder of his
wife and how Special Forces personnel were used to intimidate and
conduct illegal electronic and physical surveillance of anyone who might
expose CIA drug dealing," Ruppert concludes.
NO LEGAL FUNDING FOR FEMA
According
to the actual complaint in the lawsuit: "...the Plaintiff [Tyree]
alleges that the Defendants CIA and George Bush were negligent and
failed at the conclusion of Operation Watchtower to monitor the
post-Watchtower events and seek legal congressional funding for the
origination of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), and this
failure led to the concealment and cover-up of Operation Watchtower,
written about in the diaries of Elaine Tyree, seized illegally and
turned over to Colonel Carone and then to the CIA which ensured that the
Operation Watchtower drug trafficking operation would remain covert,
allowing the drug profits from this Operation to be used to circumvent
Congress and fund FEMA and continue the pattern of criminal activity."
Colonel
Carone, who died in 1990, was a CIA paymaster and Mafia-connected money
launderer, who incidentally held the rank of full colonel in Army
Intelligence. As Oliver North's bagman, Carone also couriered large
amounts of cash in and out of the country.
According to former Federal Aviation
Administration
(FAA) investigator Rodney Stich, "Carone had complex relationships". In
his underground bestselling book, "Defrauding America"
(www.defraudingamerica.com), Stich writes that Carone was a member of
the Gambino family, had connections to other crime groups in the eastern
part of the United States, was a detective on the New York City vice
squad, a member of the military and a CIA operative.
Stich
writes: "Dee [Ferdinand, Carone's daughter] said her father was a
detective and 'bag man' in the New York City police department,
collecting money that was distributed to captains and inspectors as
payoffs for 'looking the other way' where drugs were involved...
"Referring
to CIA - Mafia drug trafficking, she said she knew from what her father
said that the drugs coming from South America went to the Colombo,
Genovese and Gambino families, and that it was a joint CIA - Mafia drug
operation under the code name Operation Amadeus," continues Stich. "She
said that during World War II, Operation Amadeus was involved in
transporting Nazi officers from Germany into South American countries.
According to her father's notes, Operation Amadeus split into several
other operations, including Operation Sunrise and Operation Watchtower."
In
the lawsuit, Tyree alleges that CIA and George Bush were negligent by
allowing the stolen diaries of Elaine Tyree to be used to further cover
up "Operation Watchtower, which was one of several illegal drug
operations that produced a profit which was used in turn to help
originate and implement FEMA" (p. 23).
It is further contended in
the lawsuit that CIA and George Bush violated the "separation of
powers, [i.e.,] the Executive Branch brought about an agency (FEMA)
which has the authority to suspend
the US Constitution
(e.g., further suspending legislative and judicial branches), but is
vague in its verbiage as to what does constitute an emergency, and fails
to list what, if any, duties the legislature and judiciary will have to
perform if the US Constitution is suspended" (p. 23).
Even
though the origin of FEMA has remained historically unclear, Tyree
alleges in the lawsuit that FEMA, created by Executive Order, is
illegitimate "since Congress had to approve FEMA for two specific
reasons: (1) FEMA is a vaguely written Executive Branch - created agency
that has the power to suspend the US Constitution and put the
legislative and judicial branches of government out of work; (2) FEMA is
an Executive Branch creation that clearly affects all three branches of
Government capable of
silencing the voice of the people (i.e., legislative) and the legal redress of the people (i.e., judiciary)".
FEMA
was allegedly created by Executive Order 12148, which became law simply
by its publication in the Federal Registry. In other words, Congress
was bypassed for FEMA's authorisation as well as its funding. But if
Congress never authorised the agency, where do operational expenses come
from? Tyree's lawsuit alleges that laundered drug profits were the
initial source of FEMA's funding.
According to the lawsuit:
"...the Plaintiff [Tyree] alleges the Defendants CIA and George Bush did
intentionally engage in the complained-of conduct herein to conceal:
(1) the origins of FEMA, and that profits from drug trafficking by the
CIA were used in some part to originally fund FEMA and the drafting of
the FEMA infrastructure..."
An even more astounding allegation in
the lawsuit is that Colonel Carone told Tyree himself that "Colonel
Ollie North worked on developing a plan, known as FEMA, which would in
an ill-defined national emergency allow
the US Military
to take control of the United States to ensure National Security".
Colonel Carone said that "FEMA" originally stood for "Federal Emergency
Military Action"
(i.e., martial law), but was retitled "Federal Emergency Management
Agency" because it would be better received by the people of the United
States.
The late Colonel Carone also claimed that he "took drug
profits that were clean and laundered in 1982 - 1984 to the following:
NSC - Colonel Oliver North, who used the funds to create and develop
FEMA" (p. 88 of the lawsuit).
COLONEL OLIVER NORTH AND FEMA
Oliver North's role in the creation of FEMA should be better known. In a book called "Guts and Glory: The
Rise and Fall of Oliver North", author Ben Bradlee, Jr, writes:
"North's
work for FEMA - from 1982 to the spring of 1984 - was highly
classified, and some would say bizarre. During that period,
the Miami Herald reported, he was involved in helping to draft a sweeping
contingency plan
to impose martial law in the event of a nuclear war, or less serious
national crises such as widespread internal dissent, or opposition to an
American military invasion abroad.
"The plan - which also gave
FEMA itself broad authority to report directly to the President, appoint
military commanders and run state and local governments [Executive
Order 11490] - ruffled many administration feathers," continues Bradlee.
"North
would also play a role in helping FEMA stage a national emergency
simulation exercise [on] April 5 - 18, 1984... Rex-84 Bravo, authorised
by President Reagan's signature of National Security Decision Directive
52, was predicated in his declaration of a state of national emergency
concurrent with a mythical invasion (code-named Operation Night Train)
of an unspecified Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.
"...Rex-84
Bravo was designed to test FEMA's readiness to assume authority over
Department of Defense personnel, all fifty state National Guard forces
and a number of 'State Defense Force' units which were to be created by
state legislative enactments. FEMA would 'deputize' all DoD and state
National Guard personnel, so as to avoid violating the federal Posse
Comitatus Act which forbids using any military forces for domestic law
enforcement," writes Bradlee.
In the lawsuit, Tyree quotes
Colonel Carone's testimony that "FEMA was one of those off-the-shelf
creations that was funded through the giant black-operations fund which
came about from drug-trafficking operations instituted by the CIA, which
Congress has no idea of and no control over" and that "the FEMA Chain
of Command, rules and regulations that he had seen, violated the US
Constitution and actually established a succession to the Office of the
President in the event of an emergency that circumvented the Vice
President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives".
According
to the lawsuit: "Carone said, 'NSC [National Security Council] used
drug trafficking profits to start FEMA without congressional approval
...a 1981 NSC Directive written by Frank Carlucci [states]: "Normally a
state of martial law will be proclaimed by the President. However, in
the absence of such action by the President, a senior military commander
may impose martial law in an area of his command where there had been a
complete breakdown in the exercise of government functions by local
authorities."'
"Colonel Carone said a literal interpretation of
the 1981 NSC Directive was that a local yokel National Guard commander
could institute martial law, and the actions of FEMA, without local
citizens ever knowing how FEMA came to be or what FEMA was originally
intended to be about, would automatically be triggered without any type
of presidential order," it is alleged in the lawsuit.
"Congress
doesn't even have the purse strings on this one," Carone said. "It's all
from the Black Operations fund which Congress will never force the US
Intelligence Community to admit even exists."
Incidentally,
according to criminal conspiracy investigator Sherman Skolnick,
Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois has been handling this fund for
the CIA and has done an "admirable" job in keeping it under wraps,
completely removed from public scrutiny.
According to Tyree,
Carone also said that unindicted drug conspirator Oliver North's role
was admitted in his own diary (p. 91 of the lawsuit):
"You want
the diary of Oliver North [said Carone]. Inside that diary is your whole
case. It will tell you that he knew of drug trafficking even if he
wasn't involved directly, which is what he will claim. I remember one
entry from May 12, 1984, to the effect that he knew one of his contacts
was trafficking drugs. Another entry from July 20, 1984 basically stated
that there was cargo offloaded at the ranch of John Hull. The cargo
that was offloaded was cocaine. I recall seeing an entry from August 9,
1985, that a specific aircraft was being used for drug trafficking. Then
there was an entry from either September 9 or 10, 1985, in which Ollie
North, through Colonel James Steele, used a Special Operations Unit
brought in by Wally Gresheim and Litton. Get his diary."
None
dares call it fascism, of course, but due to this explosive lawsuit by a
framed American serviceman, Bill Tyree, the origin of FEMA and its
illegal funding may finally be known.
II. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAME
SPOOKY PARALLELS: THE TYREE & MACDONALD COVER-UPS
When
criminals in government are about to be exposed, a story is concocted
which uses some of the facts, mixes it with lies, and obscures the rest.
This disinformation is then spread throughout the media and - voila! - a
cover-up is born. With Hollywood connections, a TV movie is produced.
This new dose of fiction then becomes irrefutable "fact" in public
memory.
Just so, there are significant parallels between the
murder case of former Green Beret Bill Tyree and Dr Jeffrey MacDonald.
Both involve CIA/military drug smuggling crimes and cover-ups. Both men
were set up and convicted. Both men have been languishing in prison for
20 years.
The story of emergency physician Dr Jeffrey MacDonald,
framed for the murder of his wife Collette and children Kimberly and
Kristen in 1970, remains a tragedy. Author Joe McGinnis wrote a
best-selling book, Fatal Vision, which was made into a TV movie of the
same name in 1984.
The real story is the frame-up of an innocent
man who had powerful enemies. It's described in great detail by Jerry
Allen Potter and Fred Bost in "Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the
MacDonald Murders" (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997).
However, as
Errol Morris, director of The Thin Blue Line, writes: "If you think you
know the Jeffrey MacDonald case from Fatal Vision, think again. Fatal
Justice is the first account of the whole story."
The Boston Phoenix called Fatal Justice "a devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision".
An
investigator in the MacDonald case, former LA FBI Special Agent in
Charge Ted Gunderson, obtained a signed confession from Helena
Stoeckley, "the girl in the floppy hat", who told him that the group she
was involved with "was active in an international drug operation that
involved US Army personnel, including Army officers, police officers and
at least two local attorneys" in the Fort Bragg area. According to Time
magazine (January 1, 1973), heroin was being flown into the United
States from the Far East in plastic bags hidden in the body cavities of
dead GIs.
According to Gunderson, members of this group "...tried
to shake down Dr MacDonald because he was abusive to those who
overdosed on drugs in the civilian hospital where he was moonlighting...
The assailants [of MacDonald's family] were high on drugs and the
situation escalated to the murders. Their intentions to shake down Dr
MacDonald were not known or approved by the leaders of the drug
operation. When it was realized by the leaders that members of their
network committed these murders, they were concerned that an
investigation of the cult would expose the drug operations - thus the
cover-up and 'framing' of Dr MacDonald."
Gunderson has written
his own summary of the facts in The Doctor Jeffrey R. MacDonald
Investigation (contact Gunderson International, PO Box 18000-259, Las
Vegas, NV 89114, USA). Evidence, such as fingerprints, was intentionally
destroyed by Army CID (Criminal Investigation Division). Other
evidence, like a bloody syringe, bloody clothing and boots, was lost.
More crucial evidence was never collected. Then allegations of FBI Crime
Lab corruption surfaced through FBI whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst.
Michael
P. Malone, an FBI forensic specialist who testified in the MacDonald
case, was exposed by the Inspector-General's report. "Mr Malone has
indeed testified falsely and outside his expertise," reported the Wall
Street Journal of April 16, 1997. "In 1987 and 1988, Florida appellate
courts overturned guilty verdicts - citing insufficient evidence - in
cases in which Mr Malone had testified for the prosecution," the article
continues.
In addition, an internal FBI memo written in 1989
alleged that Mr Malone had given 27 instances of false or misleading
testimony in the 1985 proceedings that led to the impeachment and ouster
of former US District Judge Alcee L. Hastings.
Was it just
sloppy work or outright fraud? The evidence shows that FBI Crime Lab
work cannot be trusted. In MacDonald's case, Malone's testimony alone
should have been grounds for a mistrial.
In Psychic Dictatorship
in the USA (Feral House, 1995), author Alex Constantine also weighs in
on the MacDonald case. "Fatal Vision is a political hit piece," he
writes. "The paperback indictment of MacDonald has reinforced the public
perception of MacDonald's guilt, and kept dormant one of the most
unconscionable scandals in American military history.
"Three
suspects in the murders have confessed. MacDonald's version of events
has been confirmed by some 40 witnesses... Fatal Vision is myopic in its
exclusion of any evidence that might clear MacDonald. McGinniss's claim
to impartiality eroded completely in his flat refusal in 1980 to even
look at the 1200-page report compiled by MacDonald's defense attorneys.
The report, taken together with the sworn depositions of witnesses,
press accounts and interviews with investigators, combines in a case
sharply at odds with the government's.
"MacDonald passed a
polygraph," writes Constantine. "He submitted to five independent
forensic examinations. The government's own lab specimens link Fort
Bragg's body-bag [drug-smuggling] ring to the crime scene, including a
long, synthetic blonde strand corroborating MacDonald's contention that
Stoeckley wore a blonde wig the night of the murders. A bloody syringe
found in his home was 'lost' by the prosecution."
The case of
William Tyree is just as complex, convoluted and byzantine. Tyree was in
the Army Special Forces and also convicted of his wife's murder. An
Arts & Entertainment channel documentary, Murder at Fort Devens,
revealed evidence that he was also framed to conceal CIA/military drug
trafficking. Tyree says that, as early as 1975, drugs were flown into
Panama and were subsequently shipped to Mena, Arkansas - a state
described as the CIA's own "banana republic" inside the United States.
According
to Rodney Stich, author of Defrauding America, the CIA utilised the
Army Intelligence Agency in Operation Watchtower which began in the
mid-1970s. US Colonel A. J. Baker was ordered to oversee part of
Watchtower, and turned the operation over to Colonel Edward P. Cutolo
who also commanded the 10th Special Forces based at Fort Devens,
Massachusetts.
"...Cutolo, who had been ordered by the CIA to
supervise Operation Watchtower, grew increasingly concerned about its
flagrant illegality, and conducted an investigation in an attempt to
bring it to a halt," writes Stich. "Fearing he might be killed because
of the investigation, he prepared a fifteen-page, single-spaced
affidavit dated March 11, 1980, describing the CIA drug trafficking and
other activities... Cutolo was killed, as were several other people
working with him to expose the drug trafficking operations...
"The
affidavit described the installation and operation of the radio beacon
towers [to guide airplanes bringing in drugs] and several of the drug
flights in which he participated."
Relevant to the Tyree case
itself: "The Cutolo affidavit described the killing of an Army
servicewoman, Elaine Tyree, who had knowledge of Operation Watchtower
which she described in her diary. To shift attention from the actual
killer and his connection to the ongoing drug operation, the military
charged Tyree's husband with the killing," Stich writes.
This affidavit stated: "It was too risky to allow a military court to review the charges against Pvt Tyree..."
"At
the first military hearing, the presiding judge found no reason to bind
Pvt Tyree's husband over for trial for the murder of his wife,"
continues Stich. "This decision risked further investigation and
possible exposure of the corrupt operation. Army pressure caused the
county prosecutor to indict the husband for murdering his wife, even
though the Army knew the actual killer was someone else. The Cutolo
affidavit stated:
'On 29 February 1980, Pvt Tyree was convicted
of murder and will spend the duration of his life incarcerated. I could
not disseminate intelligence gathered under Operation Orwell [a
surveillance operation directed against US politicians] to notify
civilian authorities [of] who actually killed Elaine Tyree.'"
Murder
at Fort Devens featured Judge James Killam, who initially dismissed the
case against Tyree, saying: "I didn't believe a word the prosecution's
chief witness said. He had the skills to do a decapitation." The judge
was referring to Green Beret Earl Michael Peters, who was present when
the murder was committed. Forensic evidence and witness testimony show
that Tyree was not present, and that Peters was probably the real
killer.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Bill Tyree by his
attorney, Ray Kohlman, states that the Plaintiff is seeking US$63
million - $21 million for each year of incarceration and $42 million in
exemplary damages - and is also seeking an injunction against the CIA
from engaging in further illegal activities, as well as a new trial.
Bill
Tyree, Dr MacDonald and many others, like former FBI Special Agent
Richard Taus, have been falsely arrested, convicted and imprisoned.
What's new? Unlike the wrongfully imprisoned and recently released
former Black Panther, Geronimo Pratt - who did 27 years for a murder he
didn't commit - they are still political prisoners in the American
Gulag.
It's called "Doing time for the CIA's crimes". After all,
even the spooks make jokes that "CIA" stands for "Criminals in Action".
III. SECRET HISTORY: Dead Men Do Tell Tales
The
lawsuit by former Green Beret William Tyree against the CIA et al. is a
work of art, a masterpiece of legal reasoning and an important
historical source document. Why? Because, for the record, it contains
first-hand knowledge and revelations by the late US Army Colonel Al
Carone of a far-reaching criminal conspiracy, namely, US Government drug
smuggling, money laundering, murder and cover-up. Carone's information,
corroborated with evidence from other sources, reveals a dark history
of the United States that has been neglected by mainstream historians
and censored by the Mega-Media Cartel.
First, the lawsuit
questions the constitutionality and legality of so-called "Executive
Orders". According to the lawsuit, Executive Order #12333, for example,
authorised the "privatization of intelligence and covert operations and
permitted agencies other than the CIA to conduct 'Special Activities',
thus effectively opening the door, previously closed [by the National
Security Act of 1947], to the White House National Security Council
Staff or even private entities/assets, i.e., third-party cut-outs, to
carry out covert operations".
In plain language, this means that
the CIA could subcontract or "farm out" its drug smuggling and
assassinations to third-party personnel and continue to enjoy its
"plausible deniability" status, i.e., denying any knowledge of or
involvement with criminal activities.
According to the lawsuit,
Tyree claims his false imprisonment was due to the theft of his murdered
wife Elaine's diaries - which contain evidence that would have
exonerated him in his trial.
"Colonel Carone, either as a CIA
asset/entity or as a CIA employee, did receive the diaries of Elaine
Tyree in 1979," reads the lawsuit. "Colonel Carone became aware of the
information that was listed in the diaries that related to Operation
Watchtower and the illegal surveillance operation in New England/
Massachusetts. Colonel Carone turned the diaries of Elaine Tyree over to
the CIA for security reasons, in an effort to conceal the drug
operation Watchtower and the subsequent surveillance operation that took
place in New England/Massachusetts.
"Through Dee and Tom
Ferdinand [Carone's daughter and son-in-law], the Plaintiff [Tyree]
learned for the first time in August 1995 that Colonel Carone had in
fact been in possession of the diaries of Elaine Tyree and had
subsequently travelled to Langley, VA, to drop the diaries off at the
CIA."
The diaries of Mary Pinchot-Meyer (JFK's mistress and the
ex-wife of CIA operative Cord Meyer) also mysteriously disappeared
following her (unsolved) murder in 1964. Nina Burleigh's book, A Very
Private Woman (1998), appears to be a cover-up, or at least a "limited
hangout", concerning the life and death of Pinchot-Meyer. Did Mary
Pinchot-Meyer, like Elaine Tyree, know too much? More importantly, did
they document the Agency's illegal "fun and games"?
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER: BILL TYREE'S STORY
According
to the lawsuit: "[Tyree] took part in a US Army - CIA Operation
Watchtower which brought cocaine out of Colombia into the US air base,
Albrook Air Station, Panama, where the planes (not US Air Force planes,
but planes of other Latin American countries and some unmarked
airplanes) landed and offloaded the cocaine while the mission commander
Colonel A. J. Baker and Colonel Noriega, among others, looked on."
"...in
February and March 1976, a second and third Watchtower operation took
place under the command of Colonel Edward Cutolo, and more cocaine was
brought into Albrook Air Station, Panama. [Tyree], who was also involved
in a non-volunteer capacity as Crew Chief on a US Army helicopter, saw
CIA Officer Edwin Wilson, CIA Officer Frank Terpil, CIA Asset/Officer
Colonel Albert V. Carone, and Israeli Colonel Michael Harari.
"In
late 1976, Colonel George Bayard, US Army, CIA Middle East Expert,
contacted US Army Special Forces Colonel Edward Cutolo and James N. Rowe
and told them that Operation Watchtower was not a sanctioned US
congressional operation, and he had found out this information through a
Middle East Intelligence contact associated with a bank known as BCCI.
"In
1977, Colonel Bayard went to Atlanta, Georgia, to follow up on a lead,
and contacted Colonel Rowe from Atlanta. Colonel Bayard was murdered in
Atlanta after he spoke to Colonel Rowe, and that murder remains
unsolved...
"In October 1977, Tyree arrived at the 10th Special
Forces Group Airborne, Ft Devens, Massachusetts, and the Group Commander
was Colonel John Shalikashvili."
On December 31, 1977, Bill
Tyree married Elaine. She was an avid diarist who had been keeping
detailed notes on all the illegal activities she was observing. On
January 30, 1979, Elaine Tyree was murdered. Judge James Killam III
entered a written decision that SP4 Earl Michael Peters killed Elaine
Tyree and that "Pvt Aarhus assisted SP4 Peters in killing Elaine Tyree".
In
a bizarre string of events: "...on June 6, 1979, in an unprecedented
decision from the Single Justice of the SJC [Supreme Judicial Court],
not only did the SJC strike down all criminal charges against Peters,
but issued the order which forbids any court in Massachusetts from
issuing criminal process against anyone in the Elaine Tyree homicide
unless authorised to do so by the SJC," according to the lawsuit.
"After
Erik Aarhus stood trial for the murder and was convicted and sentenced
to life in prison, Tyree himself went on trial and was convicted without
testimony of Erik Aarhus on February 29, 1980."
A pretty good frame, if you can get away with it.
ELAINE TYREE'S DIARIES: TO DIE FOR?
In
August - September 1996, former Army CID investigator Bill McCoy
introduced Bill Tyree to Dee Carone-Ferdinand, the daughter of Colonel
Carone.
According to the lawsuit, after a two-year-long
correspondence by phone, a stunning breakthrough occurred in the case
when "...Dee Ferdinand at a point notified the Plaintiff [Tyree] that
she was the daughter of Colonel Carone, and said: 'My father had the
diaries that belonged to your wife Elaine. He went to Langley, Virginia,
to drop them off with "the boys". That's what he said. I read some of
the diaries, or at least the parts that my father showed me. I saw the
photograph in the front of the diaries that was of you and your wife.'"
Unfortunately,
in 1997, CW4 William H. McCoy was found dead in his home, Virginia, and
was immediately cremated before the medical examiner could determine
the cause of death.
According to the lawsuit, McCoy told Tyree:
"No matter what happens, if I die and you're not sure what I died from,
have my family get an independent medical examiner to check me out. Be
sure. Give me your word."
McCoy, after all, was concerned that
people just seemed to drop dead after they delved into the CIA cocaine
operation at Mena, Arkansas. Among the dead were Stanley Huggins, Kevin
Ives, Donald Henry, Keith McCaskell, Greg Collins, Jeff Rhodes and
Richard Winters. Or they got "suicided" - like writer Danny Casolaro,
attorney Wilcher and NSA Colonel Vince Foster. Etcetera. Etcetera.
FIGHTING COMMIES WITH DRUG PROFITS: AL CARONE'S STORY
"The CIA had predicted a large communist build-up in Latin America in the early 1970s," Carone told Tyree.
"Operation
Watchtower was initiated to pre-position drugs in Panama/Central
America from South America to fund covert actions against the predicted
communist threat. The prediction became reality and the flow of cocaine
into the United States increased as a result of the prediction. The
American people wouldn't sufficiently fund a covert action anywhere,
following Vietnam, for the amount of money which was needed. The cocaine
couldn't be moved into the United States until an avenue was
established that took the CIA out of the picture, because the CIA was
already busy fending off allegations of trafficking drugs out of
Southeast Asia and Europe, and the CIA couldn't be tied in to the Latin
American cocaine at all.
"Once Ronald Reagan became President,"
Carone continued, "his oldtime friend William Casey, the head of the
CIA, was able to convince him to sign Executive Order #12333 into
effect, which...took the CIA out of covert operations business...,
authorized the use of private assets/entities to be used by the National
Security Council to conduct covert operations including the drug
[smuggling]... Allowing private assets and entities to do the dirty work
meant the CIA could do whatever it wanted to do, in or out of the
United States..."
In other words, EO #12333 privatised CIA's drug
smuggling, making the Agency even more insulated from discovery of its
criminal activities.
"You had NSC staffers that were tied right
into the drug trafficking themselves, like Ollie North," Carone said,
continuing his history lesson. "Hell, his diary had everything in it.
Between his diary and your wife's [Elaine Tyree's] diaries, the whole
thing is blown. Totally compromised.
"I remember seeing him
[North] write over 200 entries in his diary that related to major drug
profits being used to buy weapons for the Contras," continued Carone.
"The diary of Ollie North alone would prove what I've told you and show
the violation of 50 USC - 403 and everything."
North's diary, for example, contained the following entry: "July 5, 1985 - $14 million to buy arms came from drugs."
Unindicted
drug kingpin Oliver North is still free, while William Tyree has served
20 years in prison. Why? Because corrupt officials in the CIA,
Department of Defense and Department of Justice continue the cover-up.
Colonel
Carone told Tyree that "Operation Watchtower provided cocaine that was
sold to finance anti-communist operations in Latin America because the
US Congress has shut down general funding of anti-communist activities
in that area", while heroin trafficking by the CIA in Southeast Asia was
used to fight communism there.
Selling drugs to fight communism has to be one of the biggest ironies of the 20th century.
"At
the CIA there were a few people in the right positions who blamed the
decline of American culture on people of color living in the United
States," said Carone. "The blame of the fall of American culture began
with the creation of the National Security Memorandum 200, which stated
among other things the concern of overpopulation in the United States.
Many at the CIA attributed it to the birthrate among people of color,
and there were some at the CIA that felt that physical slavery could be
replaced by pharmaceutical slavery, and that's why African-American
gangs, i.e., 'Bloods' and 'Crips', were singled out for distributing the
drugs brought into the United States by the CIA."
Carone also
told Tyree that he had "...delivered money to the Los Angeles - based
gangs, i.e., the Bloods and the Crips, which are among the most violent
African-American gangs in the United States. He had delivered money to
the gangs because they were on the CIA payroll Executive Order 12333
which allowed for the CIA to hire outside sources to help the CIA
perform their jobs. He had delivered money to the gangs because they
transported drugs across the United States, i.e., Atlanta, Norfolk,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston."
Carone's information
dovetails exactly with the in-depth investigations of Gary Webb in his
book, Dark Alliance (Seven Stories Press, 1998).
IV. CIA/ DoJ COLLUSION IN DRUG TRAFFICKING COVER-UP
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Federal Statute Violations
Despite
documented evidence by government whistleblowers, the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) have never
been held accountable for their collusion in and/or acquiescence to
drug trafficking. On March 15, 1999, however, class action lawsuits were
filed by attorneys , William M. Simpich and Kenneth Frucht on behalf of
Rosemary Lyons and Olivia Woods in northern California and Donna J.
Warren and Berlina M. Doss in southern California (Case No. 99-02603).
The
suit names the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States
Department of Justice, Estate of William Casey, Robert Gates, John
Deutch, George Tenet, Estate of William French Smith, Edwin Meese,
Richard Thornburgh, Janet Reno and others as Defendants, alleging that
these US Government agencies and employees were responsible for the
1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the resulting social and economic
devastation of inner city communities.
According to the Statement
of Facts: "On March 16, 1998, CIA Inspector-General Frederick Hitz
appeared before the House Intelligence Committee to report on his
investigation of the CIA, the Contras and crack cocaine. Hitz testified
that, beginning in 1982, the CIA entered into an undisclosed agreement
with the Department of Justice, allowing CIA officers to refrain from
reporting drug trafficking by its 'agents, assets and non-staff
employees'. Hitz admitted that 'there are instances where the CIA did
not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with
individuals supporting the Contra program, who were alleged to have
engaged in drug trafficking activity, or take action to resolve the
allegation'.
"When asked by Congressman Norman Dicks of
Washington, 'Did any of these allegations involve trafficking in the
United States?', Hitz's answer was 'Yes'. Hitz acknowledged that the CIA
knew of drug trafficking allegations 'regarding dozens of individuals
and a number of companies connected in some fashion to the Contra
program or the Contra movement'.
"Hitz recounts in Volume II of
the Inspector-General's Report dated 10/9/98 that through the secret
agreement, the CIA and DoJ attempted to exempt the CIA from reporting
about the drug trafficking of persons employed by, assigned to, or
acting for an agency within the intelligence community."
Since
the CIA itself admitted to having knowledge of its own "assets" being
involved in illegal activities, the argument seems to be indisputable.
"Plaintiff
claims that the CIA/DoJ agreement violated a federal statute, 28 USC
-535," the lawsuit alleges, "which imposes a duty on every department
and agency in the Executive Branch to report promptly to the Attorney
General any information, allegations or complaints relating to possible
violations of [criminal law] by officers and employees of the
government."
In other words, if federal agency employees are
aware of violations, these must also be reported. There is another
category of criminal code violation called "misprision of felony", which
refers to the offence of concealing knowledge of a felony by one who
has not participated in it. CIA officials could be charged with this as
well.
"The private CIA/DoJ agreement attempted to get around this
federal law by redefining the term 'employee' to mean only full-time
career officials - as opposed to persons 'employed by, assigned to, or
acting for an agency within the intelligence community'. In addition,
the secret agreement violated Executive Order 12333 issued in 1981,
which required the reporting of drug crimes."
The suit also
states that the 1989 Kerry Report ("Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign
Policy") made specific findings that "drug trafficking had pervaded the
entire Contra war effort, that 'one or another agency of the US
Government had information regarding the involvement either while it was
occurring or immediately after' and that 'senior policy makers were not
immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the
Contras' funding problems'".
A LTTLE HISTORY, PLEASE
"In
the opening phase of the crack cocaine epidemic, between 1982 and 1986,
CIA officers and other intelligence agencies received reports regarding
Bay Area cocaine importers Norman Meneses and Danilo Blandon," the
class action lawsuit alleges.
"Both of these men were among the
primary importers in the United States and dominated the market on the
West Coast. Because of the secret CIA/DoJ agreement which purported to
exempt the CIA from having to report drug crimes, cocaine suppliers
connected with the Contras or other US covert operations were able to
import their 'unregulated product' under the cloak of national security.
"Meneses
and Blandon funneled vast quantities of cocaine, at a price far lower
than other suppliers, to 'Freeway Rick' Ross, who proceeded to flood
south-central Los Angeles with a new, low-cost product dubbed 'crack'.
By 1984, Ross was selling 150 kilograms of cocaine every week, enough to
put 3,000,000 doses of crack on LA's streets every seven days.
"The
crack cocaine epidemic enveloped Los Angeles between 1982 and 1986.
Government documents show that the CIA and DoJ knew or should have known
of the massive importations by Meneses, Blandon and other cocaine
supplying operations," the lawsuit continues.
"Common sense and a
review of the news coverage for that period indicate that these
agencies knew or should have known that their ongoing policy of
deliberate silence allowed the crack epidemic to rage unchecked. The CIA
turned its back while shipment after shipment of this new, intensely
addictive form of cocaine was delivered to one of Ross's five cookhouses
and then put up for sale throughout south-central Los Angeles and
Compton. The result was the death of men, women and children, the
collapse of businesses and the destruction of whole neighborhoods.
"Once
the initial southern California market was glutted, crack moved north.
Mid-level dealers diverted the flow to other African-American
communities in California, such as East Palo Alto, San Francisco,
Oakland and Richmond. The consequences to these communities, in terms of
loss of life, family structure and economic power, continue to this
day."
The lawsuit categorised two classes of plaintiffs: (a)
inner city residents of northern and southern California (Alameda,
Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo counties), "largely
African-American, who experienced particular economic, physical and/or
emotional injuries arising from the neighborhoods hardest hit by the
crack cocaine epidemic, such as addictions to crack, death or absence of
loved ones due to drug-related crimes, reduction of income and increase
in the number of dependents", and (b) "residents of the metropolitan
areas of the counties listed above who experienced injuries suffered by
the community as a whole, such as lack of safety, overburdened social
services, loss of local businesses and damage to the tax base".
CIA/ DoJ LIABLE FOR CRACK EPIDEMIC
According
to the lawsuit's Theory of Causation, "the signatories of the CIA/DoJ
secret agreement - Attorney William French Smith and CIA Director
William Casey - and their successors, agencies and agents are legally
liable for the pipeline of crack cocaine which inundated California
urban centers from 1982 to 1986, and for the after-effects which
continue to the present day".
"Smith, Casey, their successors and
their agents knew or should have known that failing to report crimes
would interfere with law enforcement agencies' efforts to halt the
importations of cocaine," the lawsuit continues, "and that this would
ultimately result in a 'crack epidemic' involving addiction, death,
increased crime, higher taxes, exhaustion of social services and
destruction of businesses. The outcome followed the well-known pattern
of opium in China and heroin in the United States which similarly
devastated low-income urban communities."
"The proof of the harm
which ensued is based on official statistical evidence from city and
county budgets, public health departments, hospitals, police
departments, courts and jails. In addition, individual plaintiffs and
witnesses will testify concerning the injuries they sustained due to the
crack epidemic."
This class action suit against the CIA demands a
jury trial and no specific dollar amount for damages, but certainly
"money to rebuild the community and to fund drug treatment".
"To a
large degree, we tried to take it [the lawsuit] verbatim from
government docs," said one of the lead attorneys, Bill Simpich of
Oakland, California, in a recent telephone interview.
"We're
trying to use this case as a floor," he continued, "so we can start with
this very stark premise: the CIA had a written agreement with the DoJ,
starting in 1982, that they did not have to report trafficking. The
critical issue here is the admission that they had a written policy not
to report, and then 'let the chips fall where they may'. They can offer
any explanation they want - and none of them are good."
(Part II of this article can be found here
Up Against the Beast (II)(http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=35&contentid=10120
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