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Re: Dark Alliance: Contras, ****, and the CIA
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A prime example was international drug kingpin Norwin Meneses, a California-based contra who supplied the South-Central crack market with tons of **** powder during the 1980s and early 1990s. A 1988 FBI cable shows that the Bureau knew Meneses was working for the DEA and believed he "was, and may still be, an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency." At the time, the FBI was unsuccessfully seeking his indictment on federal ****-trafficking charges.
According to the report, the CIA not only failed to act against the Contra traffickers but also, deliberately or otherwise, misled others who were investigating them. The agency repeatedly sent false reports to U.S. attorneys, U.S. Customs and other federal agencies, assuring them that the CIA had no record of men and companies who were plainly listed in CIA files as being involved with drugs.
Most important, the declassified cables show the CIA knew exactly what it was doing and was fully aware of how the American public would react if word of its shenanigans ever surfaced.
"There is a very real risk that news of our relationship with [Alan Hyde], whose reputation as an alleged drug trafficker is widely known to various agencies, will hit the public domain-something that could bring our program to a full stop," CIA headquarters nervously cabled its agents in Honduras in July 1987. Six years later, the CIA report says, the agency was still protecting Honduran trafficker Hyde in an effort to keep the CIA's relationship with drug dealers during the contra war under wraps.
"A March 11, 1993, cable discouraged counternarcotics efforts against Alan Hyde because 'his connection to the CIA is well-documented and could prove difficult in the prosecution stage,'" says the report, which was posted on the CIA's Web site in early October (
www.odci.gov/CIA/publications/
cocaine2/contents.html).
Among other things, the declassified cables reveal:
*The CIA knew from the very beginning of the war that the men it had hired to run its main contra army were narco-terrorists, but it continued to finance and protect them. In September 1981, just as the CIA was becoming formally involved with the contras, the agency learned that a faction called the Legion of September 15 "had made a decision to engage in drug smuggling to the United States in order to finance its anti-Sandinista operations." One drug shipment to Miami had already taken place, the CIA was told. In addition to dope dealing, the CIA knew the Legion "to some extent engaged in kidnapping, extortion and robbery to fund its operations," as well as "the bombing of Nicaraguan civilian airliners and airline hijacking."
A few months after discovering the Legion's involvement with drugs, the CIA put the group's senior commanders in charge of the agency's newly formed contra organization, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). "No information has been found to indicate any action to follow up or corroborate the allegations concerning 15th of September Legion drug smuggling into the United States," the CIA report states.
That would prove to be no small oversight. According to the testimony of former LA drug kingpin Danilo Blandon, the contra middleman who sold Norwin Meneses' **** to South-Central's crack dealers, it was the Legion's commander in chief, Enrique Bermudez, who recruited him and Meneses in late 1981 to raise money for the contras in California. As part of their fund-raising efforts, they began selling **** to the street gangs of South-Central and, in the process, helped touch off the crack-**** explosion there.
The head of the FDN's air force, Arnoldo (Frank) Arana, was suspected by both the FBI and DEA of being a drug trafficker. Arana had been under criminal investigation by a presidential anti-drug task force in 1983 and was suspected of smuggling a 100-kilo load of ****-worth about $5 million wholesale-into the U.S. that year. The FBI accused him in 1986 of being "the primary pilot in a drug-smuggling enterprise." A month after Arana was named to a senior leadership position with the contras, he showed up in Brownsville, Texas, with two brothers who were working for one of the biggest **** traffickers on the planet, the Honduran kingpin Juan Matta Ballesteros.
"If Arana is mixed up with the Perez brothers," the DEA warned the agency, "he is probably dirty." That may explain the worried notation the CIA Inspector General found scribbled on the cable reporting Arana's promotion: "Arana . . . still active and working. We may have a problem."
*The CIA received information as early as 1983 that Panama's intelligence boss, Manuel Noriega, a longtime CIA asset, was dealing dope through the contras. A CIA contractor told the Inspector General that he received information from contra commander Hugo Spadafora "that Noriega was smuggling drugs with the contras" and that Noriega's high school buddy, contra leader Sebastian "Guachan" Gonzalez, was deeply involved. "The independent contractor adds that he reported the Gonzalez drug allegation in October 1983 to his superior, who replied that CIA had heard some rumors of drug trafficking involving the contras."
Shortly after Spadafora went to the DEA with his allegations against Noriega and the contras, he was murdered by Noriega's security forces. The report reveals that the CIA and Noriega then plotted ways to "defuse an effort by family members of slain rebel Hugo Spadafora to implicate Manuel Antonio Noriega in drug trafficking."
*One of the CIA's key agents assigned to the Costa Rican contra armies, a Venezuelan who used the pseudonym "Ivan Gomez," was believed by CIA polygraph experts to have "directly participated in illegal drug transactions, concealed participation in illegal drug transactions, and concealed information about involvement in illegal drug activity." In an interview in late 1996, former San Francisco contra drug courier Carlos Cabezas named Gomez as the CIA agent to whom he had delivered money from contra **** sales. Gomez admitted during CIA-administered lie detector tests in 1987 that he was laundering drug money during the months Cabezas says he was delivering it to him, but Gomez claimed he was doing it for his brother, not the contras. The CIA believed the agent was "concealing . . . much more personal and direct involvement in drug smuggling than he can report" and fired him in 1988.
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