u/shylock92008

https://consortiumnews.com/archive/crack.html

"In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA."

--Dennis Dayle, former chief of DEA CENTAC.(Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, pp. x-xi.) https://web.archive.org/web/20120208083401/http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/

https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jeffrey-st-clair-alexander-cockburn/

"There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, on the payroll of, and carrying the credentials of, the CIA were involved in drug trafficking while involved in support of the contras."

—Senator John Kerry, The Washington Post (1996).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpEqF_51sw http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html

"our covert agencies have converted themselves to channels for drugs." --Senator John Kerry, 1988

"It is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras...We can produce specific law-enforcement officials who will tell you that they have been called off drug-trafficking investigations because the CIA is involved or because it would threaten national security."

--Senator John Kerry at a closed door Senate Committee hearing http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html

"...officials in the Justice Department sought to undermine attempts by Senator Kerry to have hearings held on the [Contra drug] allegations." -Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee

“On the basis of the evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter.”

Executive Summary, John Kerry's Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee Report. April 13, 1989.

We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

--1988 speech by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham at CIA Headquarters

"We were complicit as a country, in narcotics traffic at the same time as we're spending countless dollars in this country as we try to get rid of this problem. It's mind-boggling. I don't know if we got the worst intelligence system in the world, i don't know if we have the best and they knew it all, and just overlooked it. But no matter how you look at it, something's wrong. Something is really wrong out there." -- Senator John Kerry, Iran Contra Hearings, 1987

"it is common knowledge here in Miami that this whole Contra operation was paid for with cocaine... I actually saw the cocaine and the weapons together under one roof, weapons that I [later] helped ship to Costa Rica." --Oliver North employee Jesus Garcia December, 1986

"I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years with less evidence for conspiracy than is available against Ollie North and CIA people...I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it." - Former DEA Agent Michael Levine - CNBC-TV, October 8, 1996

"For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... [and] other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega." - Ex-DEA agent Michael Levine: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic

"When this whole business of drug trafficking came out in the open in the Contras, the CIA gave a document to Cesar, Popo Chamorro and Marcos Aguado, too...""..They said this is a document holding them harmless, without any responsibility, for having worked in U.S.security..."

--Eden Pastora, Former ARDE Contra leader - November 26, 1996, speaking before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s

"I believe that elements working for the CIA were involved in bringing drugs into the country," "I know specifically that some of the CIA contract workers, meaning some of the pilots, in fact were bringing drugs into the U.S. and landing some of these drugs in government air bases. And I know so because I was told by someo f these pilots that in fact they had done that." https://web.archive.org/web/20130818061541/https://narcosphere.narconews.com/userfiles/70/DEA.Mexico.Report.2.1990.pdf – Retired DEA agent Hector Berrellez on PBS Frontline. Berrellez was a supervisory agent on the Enrique Camarena murder investigation .

"I do think it a terrible mistake to say that 'We're going to allow drug trafficking to destroy American citizens' as a consequence of believing that the contra effort was a higher priority." - Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE)

A Sept. 26, 1984, Miami police intelligence report noted that money supporting contras being illegally trained in Florida "comes from narcotics transactions." Every page of the report is stamped: "Record furnished to George Kosinsky, FBI." Is Mr. Kosinsky's number missing from (Janet) Reno's rolodex?

– Robert Knight and Dennis Bernstein, 1996 . Janet Reno was at that time (1984), the Florida State prosecutor.----on Sept. 13, 1996, the nation's highest law enforcement official, Attorney General Janet Reno, stated flatly that there's "no evidence" at this time to support the charges. And a week earlier, on Sept. 7, director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch, stated his belief that there's "no substance" to allegations of CIA involvement.

"For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega."

-- Michael Levine, The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic

"In my book, Big White Lie, I [wrote] that the CIA stopped us from indicting the Bolivian government at the same time contra assets were going down there to pick up drugs. When you put it all together, you have much more evidence to convict Ollie North, [former senior CIA official] Dewey Clarridge and all the way up the line, than they had in any John Gotti [Mafia] case." - MIKE LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED)

"To my great regret, the bureau (FBI) has told me that some of the people I identified as being involved in drug smuggling are present or past agents of the Central Intelligence Agency."

--Wanda Palacio’s 1987 sworn testimony before U.S. Sen. John Kerry's Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics and International Terrorism.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/01/cia-drug-smuggling-and-dealing-the-birth-of-the-dark-alliance/

“I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General, testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking its assets did to the Justice Department. To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted - so CIA claims -from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs. God, with friends like these, who needs enemies?”

--Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998. https://np.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/comments/jo61ea/us_attorney_general_william_french_smith_director/

https://web.archive.org/web/20101020062131/http://www.wethepeople.la/levine1.htm

C.I.A. Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie "The Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during the 1980's despite allegations that they were trafficking in drugs, according to a classified study by the C.I.A." "....the agency's decision to keep those paid agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship, was made by top officials at headquarters in Langley, Va.," https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html

http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html

IRONCLAD Original

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction to Borderland Narcosis
01:31 - Taking Over the Kiki Camarena Case
06:06 - Discovering CIA Involvement
08:45 - The Real Reason Kiki Was Murdered
10:35 - Addressing Skeptics and "The Last Narc"
14:08 - Orders from Washington and the Cover-up
17:06 - High-Level Corruption and Ricky Ross
23:51- Evolution of Cartels and Extermination Camps
33:00 - The Future of the Drug War and Fentanyl

Let's go back. You asked me earlier about corruption.

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My biggest disappointment in investigating the uh the murder of Karina was that I found out that the CIA

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was bringing in tons of cocaine to Rancho Vera Cruz which was owned by Rafael Caro Kintterero

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and in started to in listening to the Camarina torture tapes which I had brought to my house one night and had a few beers while while I

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was listening to them. I remember that they asked Kiki Kamarena, "What do you know about Rancho Vera Cruz?" And

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Kamarena said, "Well, I know that I just opened up an investigation and I know that they were bringing in a lot of cocaine through there."

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And they asked him, "Oh, yeah." He says, "Kiki says come." I answered, "Yes, this is what was being tortured." And he said, "And how did you find out about

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that?" He said, "Well," he said, "A commandante told me about it." He said, "They were

1:02

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bringing in tons of cocaine there and then they slapped Kamarena and you're hearing being tortures. How did the commandante know about a lot of cocaine

1:09

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being brought through Rancho Vera Cruz?" And Kiki answered, "Because Commandante Lorraio

1:18

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has u wire tapped and that's why I just started the investigation." And they asked Kamarina, "What do you know about

1:26

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the CIA's involvement?" He said, "I don't know nothing about that. I don't I don't know what you guys are talking about." He didn't. Camarina didn't know

1:34

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what what was occurring was, and I know this because I recruited a CIA operative by the name of Lawrence

1:41

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Harrison. I made him a double agent and made him an informant of ours. And Lawrence Harrison was the one that told

1:49

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me that the NYSE, the CIA was bringing in a lot of cocaine through Rancho Vera Cruz, Karoki's ranch in Costa Rica.

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This is a real reason why Kamarena was picked up. Kamarena was not supposed to be killed. Tikki was blindfolded.

2:09

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When you're going to kill somebody and traffickers are going to kill somebody, they don't need to blindfold them. They wanted to know what Kiki knew about CIA

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operations, NC operations at at Kok Ranch in Vera Cruz.

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And Larry Harrison, who was a SA operative who had basically he was an electronics expert, he has sent he has

2:30

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set up ground to air communications of Rancho Vera Cruz for the CIA planes that were coming in full of cocaine and were leaving going south full of weapons.

2:41

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weapons that they were providing to the contras who were fighting against the Daniel Ortega communist regime the

2:48

2 minutes, 48 seconds

contrast. Now the reason and I want to make it clear the reason that the CIA was involved in clandestantry

2:58

2 minutes, 58 seconds

arming the contra was because in 1980 the CIA and the NS uh the DIA had gone

3:05

3 minutes, 5 seconds

to to the to the to the to the administration and asked for funding

3:12

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of the contros and provided military assistance to the contras against the Sonunista communist regime of Daniel Ortega.

3:20

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Congress denied providing any type of funding or military assistance to the Contraost.

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Why? Because we had just come out of a war in Vietnam where we had just had our butts kicked and Congress knew that the

3:34

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that the that the people of the United States were not going to want to get involved in another major war. So that's

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why the CIA decided to do it clandestantly undercover

3:48

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from the war using drug money. And this is why Camarina was brought in, tortured, interrogated to see what he

3:56

3 minutes, 56 seconds

knew because at the time the CIA and the NYSE were already in trouble. They were already being

4:04

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investigated for providing missiles to to the our nemesis, the Iranians. And they were already under, it's a rank contra. They were already under

4:12

4 minutes, 12 seconds

investigation and they didn't want this drug connection to be exposed and they were afraid that Kiki was going to

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expose it and that's why Kamarina was picked up.

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Man, that's crazy. There's some people that would say that those allegations are impossible. What would you say to those skeptics who struggle to believe

4:34

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that the US intelligence operations could be uh intersecting or being a part of the cartel activity?

4:40

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Well, you know, people at first when I exposed I exposed this, it was what 20 years ago when I first retired from the DEA. I exposed it and everybody poo

4:48

4 minutes, 48 seconds

pooed it and said, "Oh, it's it's all conspiracy theory. Um Bereas is is full of it. He just tried to make a name for

4:56

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himself." We came out with the last narc. I don't know if you saw the last narc. It's all there. Uh where we expose the whole CIA u involvement in in uh

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5 minutes, 5 seconds

bringing in drugs and also having been having their hand in in in Camarina's murder. Uh however, you know, they are

5:13

5 minutes, 13 seconds

still covering it up. They still look the other way. The witnesses, by the way, Vince, they're available. They're still alive and they saw over North meet

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5 minutes, 22 seconds

with cartel guys. They saw uh Tis Rodriguez operative also meet with Mexican cartels. They were there at

5:30

5 minutes, 30 seconds

meetings. So they're not dead. I mean they've been polygraphed. They just want to ignore it. And as a matter of fact, I

5:38

5 minutes, 38 seconds

want to make something very clear and announce it in your show. Do you know that Koto had been brought in?

5:46

5 minutes, 46 seconds

Uh, and it was announced that he was going to be he was the one that had had killed Kikamarena and that he was going to be basically punished to the Donald

5:55

5 minutes, 55 seconds

President Trump went forward and said, "Oh, he's going to be punished to the full extent of the law." Do you know that to this day they have not brought

6:03

6 minutes, 3 seconds

Koko Kintterero to face charges on Kiki's murder at the central district of Los Angeles? He's being tried for RICO

6:10

6 minutes, 10 seconds

RICO on RICO charges and CCE charges in New York.

6:15

6 minutes, 15 seconds

[laughter] They're not even going to try for Kiki's murder. You know why? Because all this stuff, the CIA involvement

6:22

6 minutes, 22 seconds

would come out. Even one one uh one exper one year experienced lawyer, defense attorney would bring this up in

6:29

6 minutes, 29 seconds

the defense of Koko Kero. So therefore, they're not they're not charging Koko with Kiki's murder. So, the CIA still to this day has not admitted to any of that?

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Of course not.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Operation Leyenda & Kiki Camarana 06:25 - The golden age of Mexico's drug cartels 08:44 - Who killed Kiki Camarena & why 12:21 - CIA's involvement in cartel drug & weapon trafficking 18:33 - Kiki Camarena discovers cocaine trafficking 25:16 - CIA agent confesses to Kiki Camarena's murder 33:35 - CIA "Larry Harrison"'s REAL identity 38:10 - Felix Rodriguez aka 'Max Gomez' 44:38 - CIA vs. DEA 47:10 - Evidence Felix Rodriguez betrayed Kiki Camarena 56:42 - Recordings of Kiki Camarena's torture 01:01:19 - Kidnapping the doctor who tortured Camarena 01:10:30 - Felix Rodriguez today 01:13:05 - El Mayo Zambada was NOT kidnapped 01:23:50 - CIA & DEA collaboration with cartels 01:26:06 - China's silent war against Americans 01:33:22 - U.S. is more corrupt than Mexico 01:38:15 - How CIA infiltrated the DEA 01:45:47 - DEA director's response to Hector's claims 01:49:14 - Felix Rodriguez's alibi 01:53:25 - What CIA & DEA are doing in Mexico today 01:55:38 - Truth behind El Mencho killing 02:04:38 - "Running with the wolves" 02:09:58 - Cartels have biological weapons 02:13:11 - Cartels own our marijuana dispensaries 02:19:39 - Fentanyl wars in Mexico 02:25:08 - How to fix the cartel problem 02:27:12 - Incineration camps in Mexico 02:32:16 - Cartels are richer & more dangerous than ever 02:38:19 - "It's all true"

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon:   / dannyjones   Hector Berrellez is a retired DEA Special Agent. His signature case was investigating the 1985 abduction, torture, and murder of undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena by Mexican drug cartels, where he uncovered a tangled web of CIA involvement in Mexican drug cartels.

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