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SECRET GOVERNMENT DRUG TRAFFICKING
 

While the U.S. government has been prosecuting users of illegal
drugs, it has been engaging in secret trafficking in heroin and
cocaine with the aid of the CIA, to finance "covert" military
operations.

Veterans returning from Vietnam in the early 1970s described how they
had witnessed, or had been forced to participate in, the smuggling of
tons of heroin into the U.S. from the Southeast Asian "golden
triangle" during Nixon's "secret" incursions into Laos and Cambodia.
The heroin was loaded into sealed coffins supposedly containing the
dismembered corpses of American soldiers.
 

In the 1980s, the same type of government sponsored drug trafficking
occurred with cocaine (and there are indications it continues today).
The CIA arranged the importation of thousands of tons of cocaine into
the U.S. from Central and South America and the Middle East, to
provide covert funding for the Nicaraguan "contra" war. Details of
these dealings leaked out during the Iran-Contra congressional
hearings, and the story was widely reported by the newspapers of the
world — except in the U.S., where it was totally suppressed. The
government of Costa Rica identified Oliver North, John Poindexter,and
Richard Secord as conspirators in a cocaine trafficking plot, along
with CIA operative John Hull, whose Costa Rican ranch was used as a
Transshipment point for drugs and arms.

This covert government involvement in drug trafficking was designed
to serve a dual political purpose. On the international level, it
provides financial support for covert military operations in the
Third World, in furtherance of the strategy of "low intensity
warfare" in support of U.S.-based multinational corporations.

Domestically, the proliferation of debilitating drugs is used to
destabilize the oppressed populations of the inner cities, to
counteract potentially revolutionary tendencies, and to provide a
pretext for the militarization of domestic law enforcement and the
erosion of traditionally protected civil liberties, bringing us a
step closer to the monolithic police state that the corporate
oligarchs have planned for America and the "new world order."

Heroin flooded the streets of U.S. cities during the late 1960s and
early 1970s. It rapidly plummeted in price, giving Nixon the
diversion he needed to veil his major crackdown on dissidents and
revolutionaries (including the FBI's "ColntelPro" purges and the
police assassination attacks on the Black Panther Party, and the
frame-up of Timothy Leary on pot charges as he was putting together
his campaign for governor of California). Part of this wave of
repression was the draconian anti-drug law that was sponsored in New
York by governor Nelson Rockefeller, the Butcher of Attica.
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America's 'crack' plague
has roots in Nicaragua war
Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline
helped finance CIA-backed Contras

Aug. 18, 1996

BY GARY WEBB
Mercury News Staff Writer

FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring
sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los
Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American
guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury
News investigation has found.

This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's
cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city
now known as the "crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that
flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America … and
provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy
automatic weapons.

It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union
of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary
socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas'' of Compton and
South-Central Los Angeles.
 

The army's financiers -- who met with CIA agents both before and
during the time they were selling the drugs in L.A. -- delivered cut-
rate cocaine to the gangs through a young South-Central crack dealer
named Ricky Donnell Ross.
Unaware of his suppliers' military and political onnections, "Freeway
Rick" -- a dope dealer of mythic proportions in the L.A. drug world --
turned the cocaine powder into crack and wholesaled it to gangs
across the country.

The cash Ross paid for the cocaine, court records show, was then used
to buy weapons and equipment for a guerrilla army named the Fuerza
Democratica Nicaraguense (Nicaraguan Democratic Force) or FDN, the
largest of several anti-communist commonly called the Contras.
 

While the FDN's war is barely a memory today, black America is still
dealing with its poisonous side effects. Urban neighborhoods are
grappling with legions of homeless crack addicts. Thousands of young
black men are serving long prison sentences for selling cocaine -- a
drug that was virtually unobtainable in black neighborhoods before
members of the CIA's army started bringing it into South-Central in
the 1980s at bargain-basement prices.
And the L.A. gangs, which used their enormous cocaine profits to arm
themselves and spread crack across the country, are still thriving,
turning entire blocks of major cities into occasional war zones.

"There is a saying that the ends justify the means,'' former FDN
leader and drug dealer Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes testified during a
recent cocaine trafficking trial in San Diego. "And that's what Mr.
Bermudez (the CIA agent who commanded the FDN) told us in Honduras,
OK? So we started raising money for the Contra revolution.''
Recently declassified reports, federal court testimony, undercover
tapes, court records here and abroad and hundreds of hours of
interviews over the past 12 months leave no doubt that Blandon was no
ordinary drug dealer.
 

Shortly before Blandon -- who had been the drug ring's Southern
California distributor -- took the stand in San Diego as a witness
for the U.S. Department of Justice, federal prosecutors obtained a
court order preventing defense lawyers from delving into his ties to
the CIA.
Blandon, one of the FDN's founders in California, "will admit that he
was a large-scale dealer in cocaine, and there is no additional
benefit to any defendant to inquire as to the Central Intelligence
Agency,'' Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neale argued in his motion
shortly before Ross' trial on cocaine trafficking charges in March.

Motion to preclude reference to CIA involvement
The most Blandon would say in court about who called the shots when
he sold cocaine for the FDN was that "we received orders from the --
from other people.''
The 5,000-man FDN, records show, was created in mid-1981 when the CIA
combined several existing groups of anti-communist exiles into a
unified force it hoped would topple the new socialist government of
Nicaragua.

From 1982 to 1988, the FDN -- run by both American and Nicaraguan CIA
agents -- waged a losing war against Nicaragua's Sandinista
government, the Cuban-supported socialists who'd overthrown U.S.-
backed dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.

Blandon, who began working for the FDN's drug operation in late 1981,
testified that the drug ring sold almost a ton of cocaine in the
United States that year -- $54 million worth at prevailing wholesale
prices. It was not clear how much of the money found its way back to
the CIA's army, but Blandon testified that "whatever we were running
in L.A., the profit was going to the Contra revolution.''
 

At the time of that testimony, Blandon was a full-time informant for
the Drug Enforcement Administration, a job the U.S. Department of
Justice got him after releasing him from prison in 1994.
Though Blandon admitted to crimes that have sent others away for
life, the Justice Department turned him loose on unsupervised
probation after only 28 months behind bars and has paid him more than
$166,000 since, court records show.

Motion for reduction of Oscar Danilo Blandon's sentence
"He has been extraordinarily helpful,'' federal prosecutor O'Neale
told Blandon's judge in a plea for the trafficker's release in 1994.
Though O'Neale once described Blandon to a grand jury as "the biggest
Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in the United States,'' the prosecutor
would not discuss him with the Mercury News.

A known dealer since '74 has stayed out of U.S. jails
Blandon's boss in the FDN's cocaine operation, Juan Norwin Meneses
Cantarero, has never spent a day in a U.S. prison, even though the
federal government has been aware of his cocaine dealings since at
least 1974, records show.
Meneses -- who ran the drug ring from his homes in the San Francisco
Bay Area -- is listed in the DEA's computers as a major international
drug smuggler and was implicated in 45 separate federal
investigations. Yet he and his cocaine-dealing relatives lived quite
openly in the Bay Area for years, buying homes in Pacifica and
Burlingame, along with bars, restaurants, car lots and factories in
San Francisco, Hayward and Oakland.
 

"I even drove my own cars, registered in my name,'' Meneses said
during a recent interview in Nicaragua.
Meneses' organization was "the target of unsuccessful investigative
attempts for many years,'' prosecutor O'Neale acknowledged in a 1994
affidavit. But records and interviews revealed that a number of those
probes were stymied not by the elusive Meneses but by agencies of the
U.S. government.

Agents from four organizations -- the DEA, U.S. Customs, the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the California Bureau of
Narcotic Enforcement -- have complained that investigations were
hampered by the CIA or unnamed "national security'' interests.

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