RE: How Gary Webb Changed the Web with Dark Alliance
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I'm convinced from my time in SE Asia that the CIA was running heroin out of the Golden Triangle -- one example being an op in Laos to take out a target 15 miles from the CIA outpost there, something they could as easily handled. Again in Central America in the late 70s we were getting top-notch supplies and giving the "insurgents" old M-1 carbines and other leftovers from WWII and Korea. There was talk of drugs being used to purchase weapons then. The scuttlebut among mercs has always been that the CIA has been involved in smuggling drugs. Coca Cola is also involved.
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Right, CIA drug trafficking networks likely have their origins in SEA in connection to the Vietnam war.
It's wild that you experienced some of these things first hand in Central America and in Vietnam.
Sounds like someone was profiting off the weapons trade, especially if they are switching out the products with WW2 leftovers. It sounds like this sort of thing is common as many players in the drug and arms trades are focused on personal profits and care little about the ideological battles or objectives of their organizations and governments.
I have been reading a book off-and-on about the Phoenix program, which you first introduced me to!
But there was another book I read last year called the Crimes of Patriots which goes into depth about drug trafficking, arms dealing and most importantly money laundering in SEA involving a bank known as Nugan Hand. Nugan Hand's board of directors was made up of ex-military officials in the region, special ops, and high ranking CIA officials.
It's a slog to read, I'll admit that. But it does demonstrate how these networks are created and how they function. Eventual Nugan Hand imploded and the banker ,Nugan, was found dead from an apparent suicide in his car in Australia. The CIA and Military officials basically wipe their hands clean of the dirty business and claimed ignorance to the banks fraudulent activities.
There's another American bank controlled by the CIA, the name of which escapes me. I wrote about it on Steemit a couple of years ago, but the search option no longer functions. It was run by the father of one of the Kavanaugh accusers who died.
The Phoenix Program I believe set the paradigm for irregular warfare, still being used in the middle east. Now they've refined it adding in companies like DynCorp (who you introduced me to) and Blackwater. They've also changed the role of JSOC to integrate military and ex-military in black ops. Before the CIA would contact guys like me for in-country ops (the CIA isn't allowed to operate within the US) when they needed something done. Now it's "official" effectively circumventing the no ops in America rule by using JSOC. I think Craig Sawyer is one of the JSOC lackeys.
They always profit from the weapons trade. By using WWII surplus they evade suspicion... it would have looked very suspicious if the Contras and other "freedom fighters" were equipped with brand new M-16s.