In September of 1994, I received a telephone call demanding the information "or else!" It was obvious from the day that I walked out of Pegasus that to turn this information over would be terminal. In the spring of 1995, I was arrested by the FBI for wire fraud. Although innocent of the allegations, I found it necessary to plead guilty in an attempt to tarnish my credibility. It was my opinion, as I expressed it to [Felix] Rodriguez when he called and threatened me, that if I were of questionable credibility, the documents, if ever made public, may not stand on their merits.
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With this arrest, I seized upon the opportunity to effect this theory. I have since been indicted on a second fraud charge, this time involving my wife. I will not allow this prosecution of my family. I have notified the authorities that I intend to put my case to a jury. While awaiting the trial, I wrote a book involving my first experience in the Special Operations arena. Since then, I have found that the US Marshals have instructed the Hillsborough County jail to hold me, regardless of the outcome of the instant trial charge.
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The new charge is treason. For over twenty years I have dedicated my skills, time, and health to my country. I have been shot, tortured, and beaten, fighting to protect our right to form and run our government as determined by the Constitution. I am not aware of an active Pegasus unit. I had assumed it was disbanded with the new President... Someone had to orchestrate this. So, be aware and alert! Good luck and good fortune in 1996.
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In 1996, Perot's strategy to take votes from Bush worked, and Bill Clinton won - a president involving in drug trafficking was replaced by another involved in trafficking as detailed in my book, American Made. As Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton was paid off by the CIA to allow cocaine to flow through his state.
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On YouTube, Chip Tatum stated that Bush had direct knowledge of the drug operation coming out of Central and South America. Tatum saw Bush at a drugs camp, standing by a cocaine press. Thanks to YouTube, the testimonies of numerous US pilots who flew drugs into America for the CIA are available: Google Beau Abbott, Tosh Plumlee or Terry Reed.
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In April 1989, Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee On Terrorism Narcotics and International Operations released its report, "Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy." It included diary entries from Bush's frontman Oliver North. In July 1984, North wrote that he wanted "aircraft to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, want aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos.' On July 12, 1985, he wrote, "$14 million to finance [arms] Supermarket came from drugs."
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While others took the fall for trafficking, the DEA never investigated North. Even though he'd kept his hands clean by not actually flying the drugs himself, he was guilty of conspiracy under statutes passed by Congress in 1953, concerning anyone committing any act, no matter how small, in the furtherance of a crime. The DEA had stood down, even though North had used international traffickers on the DEA's most wanted list.
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One example in the Kerry Report was the airline SETCO, described as "the principal company used by the Contras in Honduras to transport supplies and personnel," in 1986. As early as 1983, US Customs had told the DEA that the owner of the airline was Juan Matta Ballesteros, one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in the world. By 1980, the DEA was aware that Matta and his co conspirators were estimated to be trafficking one third of the cocaine used in America. Oliver North had obtained funding from the State Department for Matta's SETCO and three other airlines, all established and run by traffickers. The DE's response was to close their office in Honduras and to have their officials lie to the public. The difficulty of this deceit was compounded after Matta and his accomplices conspired to kidnap, torture and murder a DEA agent in Mexico in 1985. As they'd all been contributing drug money and weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels, Matta wasn't arrested until 1988, as part of a strategy for George HW Bush's run for the presidency.
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Born into a CIA family, Mike Ruppert rose up the ranks as an LA police officer. After witnessing huge CLA shipments of cocaine into California, he blew the whistle and was forced to quit amid death threats. After the journalist Gary Webb detailed the CIA cocaine trafficking that Bush had overseen, people were so outraged that the CIA director appeared at a town-hall meeting at a high school in LA - an epicentre of the crack epidemic that CIA cocaine had helped to fuel. Mike Ruppert decided to attend.
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A Congresswoman approached the micro-phone. "It's not up to us to prove the CIA was involved in drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. Rather, it's up to them to prove they were not."
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As CIA director Deutch got up to speak, the crowd booed and jeered. "I'm going to be brief," he said. "I want to make four points, and only four points. First, the people of the CIA and I understand the tremendous horror that drugs have been to Americans, what drugs do to families and communities, and the way drugs kill babies. We understand how ravaging drugs are in this country. CIA employees and I share your anger at the injustice and lack of compassion that drug victims encounter."
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"He sounds just like Clinton!" someone yelled.
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"During the past two years, Dutch said, "while I have been director of Central Intelligence, our case officers' intelligence operations have directly worked to capture all of the Cali Cartel drug lords. We have seriously disrupted the flow of coca paste between the growing areas of Peru and Bolivia to the cocaine processing facilities in Colombia. We have seized huge amounts of heroin grown in the poppy fields of Southwest Asia. Our purpose is to stop drugs from coming into the US. So my second point is that the CIA is fighting against drugs."
The audience grumbled.
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"Our activities are secret. Accordingly, there's not a lot of public understanding of what we do. I understand that people are suspicious of the CIA, and in the course of recruiting agents to break up those groups that bring drugs into the US, our case officers, our men and women deal with bad people, very bad people, sometimes at great risk to their lives. These are criminals with which we must deal, if we are going to stop drugs from coming to the country. They frequently lie about their relationships with us for their own purpose. So it is hard for members of the public to know what is true and what is not true• • •
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"Now we all know that the US government and the CIA supported the Contras [Nicaraguan rebels] in their efforts to overthrow the Sandinista government Nicaragua in the mid-80s. It is alleged that the CIA also helped the Contras raise money for arms by introducing crack cocaine into California. It is an appalling charge that goes to the heart of this country. It is a charge that cannot go unanswered," Deutch said, pounding on the table.
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"It says that the CIA, an agency of the United States government founded to protect Americans, helped introduce drugs and poison into our children and helped kill their future. No one who heads a government agency - not myself or anyone else- can let such an allegation stand. I will get to the bottom of it and I will let you know the results of what I have found.
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"I've ordered an independent investigation of these charges. The third point I want to make to you is to explain the nature of the investigation. I've ordered the CIA Inspector General to undertake a full investigation." The crowd yelled their discontent so loudly that Deutch had to wait a minute before continuing. "Let me tell you why he's the right official to do the job. First, the IG is established by law of Congress to be independent, to carry out activities, to look for fraud and crimes within the CIA. Secondly, the inspector general has access to all CIA records and documents, no matter how secret. Third, the IG has the authority to interview the right people. Fourth, he is able to cooperate with other government departments. For example, the Department of Justice, the DEA, the Department of Defense, all of which had operations on-going in Nicaragua at the time. Finally, the IG has a good track record of being a whistle-blower on past misdeeds of the CIA. For example, just last month he uncovered that some CIA employees were misusing credit cards and they are now in jail."
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