Did Jeb Bush, VP George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North Murder
CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal in February, 1986?
By Robert
Morrow 512-306-1510 Morrow321@aol.com
There is a question that needs to be
asked of Jeb Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, and Oliver North.
It is: “Did you murder Barry Seal in February, 1986?’
Ross
Perot: “When you look into the [Vietnam POW] prisoner cover-up, you find
government officials in the drug trade who can’t break themselves of the habit.”
Ross
Perot: “What I have found is a snake pit [CIA drug smuggling] without a bottom.
They will do anything to keep this covered up.”
Bill
Clinton to L.D. Brown (in the mid 1980’s) after Brown had excoriated Clinton
for setting him up with the CIA’s Barry Seal who had brought back a brick of
cocaine after a roundtrip flight from Arkansas to Central America: “That’s [Dan] Lasater’s deal!
“That’s Lasater’s deal! And your buddy [VP George Herbert Walker] Bush knows
about it!”
Jeb
Bush to intelligence operative Al Martin, who had worked closely with Jeb Bush
during the Iran-Contra scandal and was threatening to go public: “There is no
constituency for the truth.”
Terry
McAuliffe, Clinton insider and later the governor of Virginia in 2014: “These
folks should all have been put away in jail. But you know what? Because of
their power, and because George [H.W.] Bush went into office and he got to pick
the attorney general, the U.S. attorneys, it all got hushed up. And George [W.]
Bush - he’s now the president of the United States of America. Chief law
enforcement officer!” (McAufliffe laughs) - from the documentary Boogie Man, The Lee Atwater Story.
Barry Seal was a legendary CIA drug
smuggler and ace pilot who had literally worked for the Agency since he was a
teenage pilot prodigy in the late 1950’s. By 1986 Barry Seal was having legal problems (criminal and a huge
IRS tax liability) that not even his CIA connections could protect him from and
according to Seal’s lawyer Lewis Unglesby, Barry Seal was a threat to testify
against Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. In fact, in early 1986 Barry
Seal was threatening GHW Bush to get the IRS off his back or he (Seal) was
going to blow the whistle on the Contra scheme and CIA drug smuggling.
Two
weeks after his argument with Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush, Barry
Seal was pumped full of bullets and murdered outside his Baton Rouge halfway
house on Feb. 19, 1986. The three Columbians who were convicted of the crime
thought they were working for Lt. Col. Oliver North of the National Security
Council. North’s alias in the 1980’s was “John Cathey.” The personal phone
number of George Herbert Walker Bush was found in Seal’s possessions, even
after the “men in black” had swept in to pick car of the slaughtered CIA drug
smuggler clean of evidence. Years later, Texas Gov. George W. Bush was
literally being flown around in what had been the favorite plane of Barry Seal.
Many folks don’t know that on the
exact same day (2/19/86) Barry Seal was murdered in Baton Rouge, his mistress
“Barbara” was also murdered in Miami; two other men also affiliated with the
Medellin drug cartel, Pablo Carrera (Medellin’s #2 man) and Pablo Ochill, were
also assassinated in Colombia.
Some people think the CIA American
drug cartel were switching horses from the Medellin drug cartel to a
partnership with the Cali, Colombian drug cartel. The three men convicted of
murdering Barry Seal were from Cali, Colombia. The CIA American drug cartel was
using the Cali cartel in a killing spree to wipe out the competition and murder
anyone who might pose a threat to spill the beans on CIA drug smuggling and the
participation of very high U.S. officials.
Jeb Bush in 1986 was the 33-year-old
chairman of the Dade County Republican party and he was up to his eyeballs in
the Iran-Contra scandal. To get a taste of that read Al Martin’s book The
Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider (2001) and read about Jeb Bush’s
dealings with operatives such as Al Martin, Oliver North, Richard Secord, Dewey
Clarridge, Sam Watson, Fred Ikley and, of course, his father George Herbert
Walker Bush. Basically Jeb Bush was in the center of a wasp’s nest of dirty
dealing CIA/military operatives engaged in rampant criminality – all in the
name of “national security.”
The murder of CIA drug smuggler
Barry Seal was just the tip of the iceberg. There was a lot of murdering going
on to keep a lid on Iran-Contra in the 1980’s. Some of the big revelations of
L.D. Brown’s (Bill Clinton’s favorite state trooper) book Crossfire:
Witness in the Clinton Investigation
(1999) was that
Bill Clinton had gotten L.D. Brown into the CIA, that Barry Seal was L.D.
Brown’s CIA handler, Barry Seal was running cocaine and that a GHW Bush
associate Felix Rodriguez (aka “Max Gomez” his CIA code name) had attempted to
get Bill Clinton’s favorite state trooper L.D. Brown to murder a man named
Terry Reed in Mexico. Reed was involved in Oliver North CIA Contra operations
and Bush was obviously very worried about this man.
Grisly stuff – and you can see why
this material has been suppressed in the MSM because it is so discrediting to
the political elites of the Republican & Democratic parties, the Bushes
& the Clintons. Now you know why Bill Clinton and GHW Bush are so chummy:
they are tied at the hip by some epic liability in Iran-Contra. There is no
statute of limitations for murder.
Terry Reed, who thankfully was not
murdered by L.D. Brown who just did not have the stomach or the depravity to do
it, later went on to write an extremely important expose Compromised:
Clinton, Bush and the CIA (1994). There is a famous scene in that
book of Gov. Bill Clinton smoking dope and at the same time trying to convince
Terry Reed to move to Mexico for the Contra support operations. I have always
wondered if Clinton, by doing that, was setting up Reed to be murdered because
he knew too much. Reed certainly busted it wide open with his expose book in
1994.
Regarding Jeb Bush: just read the
material below. And particularly see what Jeb Bush had to say to Al Martin
about the murders of George Morales and Johnny Molina. This material has been
on the public record for 5-10-20 years. It really is stunning that Jeb Bush with such
epic Iran-Contra liability could even be considered for president. It just
shows the arrogance of these people – the Bushes and the Clintons – who think
that rules are for everyone else, but not for them. As someone said “Tyranny is
defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the
citizenry.”
Some examples might be gargantuan
drug running, money laundering and murdering people to keep it all covered up.
Below there is a lot of material relating to the 1986 murder of CIA drug
smuggler Barry Seal as well as CIA/governmental drug smuggling in general. Be
sure and check at the end of this article the bibliographies on CIA drug
smuggling and one on the dark side of the Bushes.
The Personal Phone Number of VP George Herbert Walker Bush was
Found in CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal’s Trunk
The well respected reporter Daniel
Hopsicker, who focuses on the government drug trade, is a must read on the
murder of Barry Seal. Read “CIA Linked to Seal’s
Assassination: George Bush’s Personal Phone Number Found in Seals’ Trunk”
(Daniel Hopsicker, 8/18/97):
Hopsicker’s book “Barry and ‘the
Boys:’ The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History (2006) is one of the
classics of modern politics.
Hopsicker’s book has critical information on the murder of Barry Seal and the
possible Bush family/Oliver North involvement. The author Daniel Hopsicker
concludes that Oliver North murdered Barry Seal and he used Colombians to do
it.
Texas Governor George W. Bush later flown around in the favorite
airplane of the murdered Barry Seal
A fine article is “Why Does
George W. Bush Fly in Drug Smuggler Barry Seal’s Airplane?” (Oct., 1999) by Daniel Hopsicker and Michael
Ruppert. That article is about how after the
murder of CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal, his favorite airplane somehow ended up
being the exact same plane use to transport Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the
brother of Jeb Bush and son of George Herbert Walker Bush.
Read Hopsicker’s Barry
and the Boys
(2006) and also Terry Reed’s Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA (1994) and you will never look at
modern American politics in the same way again:
CIA and
Government Sponsored Drug Smuggling was the Real Scandal of Iran-Contra; This
unpleasant fact was suppressed by the government, the media and both the
Republican and Democratic Parties because both the Bushes & Clintons were
involved in the CIA Iran-Contra Drug Trade up to their Eyeballs.
In the 1980’s the dirty
little secret of the Iran-Contra scandal was not that the government was
illegally dealing with the Iranians to free American hostages and not that the
U.S. government was illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. Rather the
“dirty little secret” of Iran-Contra was in fact a whopper: the U.S. government
and its high level politicians of both political parties (the Bushes and the
Clintons) were up to their eyeballs in drug trafficking to support the
Nicaraguan contras! I think they were also skimming plenty of money for
themselves, too, especially on the Clinton end.
In fact, one of the big reasons that
Ross Perot ran for president in 1992 was because he was incensed at George Herbert Walker Bush’s participation
in the drug trade. The US Government and the CIA were running billions of
dollars’ worth of drugs into the USA and they were doing in hand in hand with
Columbian drug cartels and people like Panamanian dictator and CIA asset Manuel
Noreiga.
Funny how “Pineapple Face” Noriega
goes to jail but the American politicians involved (Oliver North, the Bushes,
the Clintons) in the drug trade never do.
Ross Perot
knew about GHW Bush’s involvement in the CIA Drug Trade and he was Incensed
about it; it was a big reason Perot ran for President in 1992: to Torpedo GHW
Bush!
Ross Perot once said in private “When you look into the
prisoner cover-up, you find government officials in the drug trade who can’t
break themselves of the habit.” (See “Ross Perot Will Not Like This Book,”
Richard Bernstein, NYT 8/7/96)
Google “Chip Tatum Pegasus” and you will learn about GHW Bush’s attempts to
intimidate or possibly murder Ross Perot who simply knew too much about the
governmental drug trade. Here is CIA Pegasus assassin Chip
Tatum’s story and it includes being asked by President GHW Bush to murder or
intimidate Ross Perot.
Perot was incensed about the CIA Iran-Contra drug trade and particularly GHW
Bush’s involvement in it. The reason Bush feared Perot so much was because he
was a billionaire who could self-fund his campaign. If elected Perot could have
done what Bill Clinton did the first thing he got in office – fire every US
attorney in the country, put people in those slots who could have prosecuted, convicted
& thrown GHW Bush in jail. It is no exaggeration to say that GHW Bush was
terrified of Ross Perot.
As it ended up, Perot only wanted to
knock Bush of office and he succeeded at that in a royal fashion. What many
people don’t know is that Ross Perot was coordinating with Bill Clinton for the
entire 1992 presidential campaign. Arkansas state trooper Larry
Patterson reports they had several lunches, dinners and many phone calls.
Poor Perot – he knocked out one
Republican CIA drug smuggler from office … and installed a Democratic CIA drug smuggler
as his replacement!
The Weight of the Evidence in the Barry Seal murder:
There have been a lot of good books
written on the bipartisan CIA drug trade of the 1980’s. When one reads the cumulative work of Daniel
Hopsicker, Gary Webb, Robert Parry, Pete Brewton, Leslie Cockburn, Ambrose Evans
Pritchard, Al Martin, L.D. Brown, Chip Tatum & Bo Gritz one cannot help but
think that the Bushes and Lt. Col. Oliver North were behind the 1986 murder of
Barry Seal with intent to cover up the Iran-contra drug smuggling activities.
Remember the C-123 cargo plane
that Eugene Hasenfus was on did not get shot down over Nicaragua until October
5, 1986, which
had the effect of busting Iran-contra wide open. The real story of Iran-Contra
was the one that got suppressed by the government and media: that the US
government was engaged in gargantuan drug running and that VP George Herbert
Walker Bush and Lt. Col. Oliver North as well as the Democratic governor of
Arkansas, Bill Clinton, were involved in the drug trade up to their eyeballs.
Below are some web links to articles
and some passages from books that cover this topic. Read them and decide for
yourself if you think Jeb Bush, VP
George Herbert Walker Bush and Oliver North were involved in the murder
of Barry Seal. Here are some interesting
excerpts from some expose books.
Barry Seal and his Argument with VP George Herbert Walker Bush
[Daniel Hopsicker, "Barry & the
Boys: The CIA, The Mob and America's Secret History," pp. 375-376]
"Lewis
Unglesby is today a prominent and very well connected Louisiana lawyer.
At the time his name was daily on the front page of the state's newspapers.,
defending his long-time client and associate, Governor Edwin Edwards.
Unglesby
had told us about a confrontation he had with Barry over the fact that Seal was keeping him in the
dark about matters Unglesbly considered crucial to defending him...
"Barry
pushed the phone across the desk to me and said, 'You wanna know what's going
on? Here. Dial this number. Tell 'em you're me,' Unglesby related.
"When
I did what he requested," he continued, "A female voice answered the
phone, sayin' 'Vice President Bush's office, may I help you?'"
"I
said, 'This is Barry Seal.' She asked me to wait while she transferred the
call, which was immediately picked up by a man who identified himself as
Admiral somebody or other, who said to me 'Barry, Where you been?'"
"That's
when I told him that I wasn't Barry Seal, I was his lawyer," said
Unglesby. "Immediately he slammed down the phone."
So
why was Barry Seal murdered?" we asked Sharpstein.
"Unglesby
said he had been with Seal when the IRS came and seized all his property,"
Sharpstein related. "The IRS man said, 'You owe us $30 million for the
money you made in drug dealing.'
"Hey,
I work for you," was Seal's reply. "We work for the same
people."
"You
don't work for us," the IRS agent stated. "We're the IRS."
"Unglesby was with Seal when he retired to a back room."
Sharpstein stated. "He watched as Seal placed a call to George Bush. He
heard Barry Seal tell Bush, 'If you don't get these IRS assholes off my back
I'm going to blow the whistle on the Contra scheme."
Sharpstein spoke solemnly, aware of
the gravity of his words..., "'That's why he's dead,' is what Unglesby
said."
One week after the phone
conversation between Barry Seal and George Bush, Seal was sentenced to a
halfway house. Two weeks later he was dead.
"Barry
Seal, you mean that agent that went bad?" Gordon Novel had casually
inquired, when we'd posed the question of his associations with Seal.
An
agent that 'goes bad,' as we understand intelligence industry trade jargon, is
one who contemplates talking.
"Seal was gunned down, supposedly by those
Colombians," says Sharpstein. "But they were fed information by the
assholes in our government who wanted him dead."
The
assassination of Barry Seal was very likely even not the first attempt on
Seal's life by North, we were told by CIA electronics expert Red Hall, on the
ground in Nicaragua with Seal on the Sandinista drug sting....
"The only thing I knew was the CIA had a lot to
do with it (Barry's murder.) The killers were being directed by Oliver North at
the time. It was the same thing Oliver North pulled on us down in
Nicaragua."
"Then,
I didn't know yet that Oliver North had it for Barry Seal, because he was
working with Oliver at that particular point. We was undercover, and we were
still down there (Nicaragua), when Oliver blew the whistle on us."
Chip Tatum, another covert operative who had known
Seal and shared confidences with him, listened with amusement the first time we
breathlessly relayed what we'd discovered: that Oliver North is guilty in the
assassination of Barry Seal...
"No shit, Sherlock,"
he replied, laughing. "It ain't exactly the secret of the century, I can
tell you."
[Daniel Hopsicker, Barry & the Boys: The CIA, The Mob and America's Secret History,
pp. 375-376]
Al Martin’s
conversation with Jeb Bush just days after the Feb, 1986 Murder of Barry Seal
in Baton Rouge. Jeb Bush had been at a meeting in Sept, 1985, where the
assassination of Barry Seal had been discussed
Al Martin: "In this discussion, I
had mentioned the recent assassination, only a few days before, of Barry Seal
[Feb, 1986, outside his halfway house in New Orleans].
I said to Jeb, "Isn't it convenient that Barry Seal was assassinated when he was? And now suddenly all the information and documents he had are gone missing?"
Jeb had a rather broad smile on his face, and he concurred that it was convenient. He added a little snicker - as he often had a tendency of doing. Also little beads of sweat formed on his forehead, as when he gets nervous. It's something you can notice when he's on television. He still has a tendency to have little beads of sweat around his forehead, when he is either lying about something, or he's nervous about what someone is saying."
My conversations with Jeb at this meeting were overheard by the two
Secret Service agents who were always assigned to Jeb when he was in his office
at 1390 Brickell Avenue in Miami.
I
had intimated that if certain parties in Washington were not prepared to come
to my aid pursuant to my grand jury testimony, that it would be entirely
possible that certain details of a certain meeting occurring in September of
the year [Sept., 1985] before might be leaked out to the press.
Jeb
asked me what I was talking about.
I specifically mentioned a September meeting of the
Dade County Latin America Chamber of Commerce, which Jeb chaired, and which, of
course, was not used as a Chamber of Commerce meeting at all. It was
essentially used as a political meeting for covert operational planning
pursuant to Iran-Contra.
As I've said before, Oliver North,
Richard Secord or Dewey Clarridge or, in a few cases, even Sam Watson and Fred
Ikley himself, would show up at these meetings.
Anyway, I had recounted to Jeb, as
if he didn't know what the text of that meeting was that he chaired - the
conversations he had with Oliver North and Richard Secord and Dewey Clarridge,
all of whom attended that meeting.
Dewey seldom attended the meetings,
but this time the four of them were discussing the assassination of Barry Seal
and how it was to be carried out, since Barry was becoming an increasing
liability.
I had told Jeb that I had
substantial corroboration of that meeting. And I think Jeb understood what I
meant.
It would certainly place him into a conspiracy to
assassinate a CIA drug runner for the sake of political expediency.
When I was through speaking, Jeb
became quiet and his demeanor became serious and changed. He became flushed, as
he often does when he's frightened.
Jeb responded by telling me that it
would be most unfortunate if I were to do that, since I might wind up like
George Morales or Johnny Molina.
[ Al Martin, "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider," p. 194-195]
Jeb Bush and the Murders of George
Morales and Johnny Molina
[
Al Martin, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider,"
p. 195-198 ]
What
he was referring to, of course, was that, a number of months earlier, George
Morales had been set up on a cocaine charge – to distance what Morales was
doing from the CIA.
As
any serious student of Iran-Contra would know, Morales absolutely screamed
“CIA, CIA.”
But
ultimately he was convicted.
He
was bound and gagged in the courtroom before the Republican Judge Hoover, who
allowed him to present no CIA defense. He couldn’t mention any Bush names, or
North, or Secord, or anything.
He
got the standard fifteen-year sentence for cocaine trafficking. At the time, in
the State of Florida, you had to serve six years nine months mandatory.
Jeb then went on to mention to
me about Morales. He said “Of course, Morales will never leave prison alive.”
Fast forward to the time when
Morales was due to be released from prison in early 1992.
The day before Morales was to be
released, he did, in fact, slip on a bar of soap in the prisoner’s shower and
supposedly died as a result of the fall.
The following day, Morales was due
to be picked up at the Miami International Airport by a Congressional charter
flight arranged for him by Congressmen Alexander, Rose, Brooks and Gonzalez. He
was to be taken to Washington to have a detailed discussion with them and their
investigators about his knowledge of Iran-Contra.
At that moment, the threat Jeb
was making to me – the sublime threat about not wanting to wind up like Johnny
Molina – really didn’t mean anything to me because I knew as of the day before
that Molina was still alive and well.
I didn’t think anything of it until
the next day when I got into my office and opened the Miami Herald.
I read that Mr. Molina had in fact
“committed suicide” that evening in the parking lot of a restaurant in
Pensacola, Florida.
He had “committed suicide” by
discharging an entire twenty-round clip of a MAC-10 into his own body.
Of course, by the following day, the
body had quickly been cremated – before his family was notified and before an
autopsy could be done.
It’s the same old story.
It was interesting to note that Jeb
had issued that threat at that meeting which was held at about 10:30 a.m.
Molina “committed suicide” at about
9:30 p.m. that evening.
I
found the connection rather humorous, but also salient in that Bush knew what
was going to happen a number of hours before it actually did.
A
second interesting and humorous story I can relate from that September meeting was
not only the discussion of Barry Seal, but the general discussion of narcotics,
wherein Jeb was talking to Oliver North.
Dewey
Clarridge and Joe Fernandez were there and Jeb was whining about how they were
importing so much cocaine for the purposes of maintaining illicit covert
revenue streams that, in fact, they were depressing the street value of the
price of cocaine.
Revenues
were in fact diminishing.
And
North chuckled, and said that he had already made arrangements, that he, Dewey,
Fred Ikley and Clair George had made arrangements.
What
they were referring to by “arrangements” was the opening of the so-called sea routes
to substantially increase the amount of cocaine that was being imported.
Jeb Bush said to Oliver North,
“All you would manage to do is to further the price of cocaine.”
North’s attitude was, “Well, we’ll
simply bring in more and more of the stuff to maintain revenues.”
As
it has been pointed out in the past, CIA-assisted enterprise narcotics
trafficking managed to depress the street price of a value of cocaine from
$30,000 in early 1985 to $12,000 by mid-1986.
Later in the conversation, Jeb,
wanting to be helpful, threw out a suggestion regarding the separate
Guns-For-Drugs Operation being run out of Mena Airport in Arkansas.
He
suggested that North start changing the fraction vis-Ã -vis the Contras.
Instead
of one M-16 rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and the full field kit in
exchange for one kilogram of cocaine, Bush suggested that North inform Enrico
Bermudez and Eden Pastora that henceforth it was going to be two kilograms of
cocaine for the same weapons delivery as it had been in the past.
North
rebuffed this suggestion, reminding Bush that the one M-16 rifle, ammunition
and field kit cost them a total of a $1,000 net delivered and the value of the
kilogram of cocaine was still $17,000 or $18,000.
The
third and final salient highlight I’d like to point out about that meeting
(which was an important and pivotal meeting) is that General Secord had mentioned to Jeb Bush – and I
was standing not two feet from him – that some of Jeb’s hangers-on (some of the
old Cuban Bay of Pigs crowd that were Jeb Bush hangers-on vis-Ã -vis Jeb wearing his hat as a scamscateer and a money
launderer) were beginning to have big mouths.
And Jeb asked, “Who?”
Secord specifically said it was the
infamous Manny Perez, who was a very close ally of Jeb’s and had been for a
long time. Perez used to act as a straw at various fraudulent deals for Jeb. He
transported cash. He wired money into accounts he controlled through a variety
of other straws. He was also very close with Jeb at Eagle National Bank in
Miami.
Jeb asked General Secord what he,
Jeb Bush, was supposed to do about it.
And Dick Secord said, “Well, your
father controls your show and he’s got to clean up his own mess.”
History records it wasn’t long after
an article appeared in a certain major newspaper about Manny Perez.
Evidently Manny’s body was found
floating in a canal in West Hialeah, and his death was duly declared a
“swimming accident.”
Perhaps
the reader can better understand the phone call I received the day after the
November 1998 elections when Jeb Bush won the governorship of the State of
Florida.
On
that very same evening, I got a phone call from Neil Lewis in Miami, an attorney
who had previously represented both Jeb and me, and who had acted as a conduit
for people like me to Jeb and Dick Secord and a variety of others.
Neil told me that he had a
direct message from Jeb stating that if I wished to continue to be a resident
of this state and to remain at large and with life that I best not reveal
stories such as I have revealed here.
When
Neil relayed the threat to me that evening, I told Neil that when he talked to
Jeb the following day (which I knew he would because he wanted to know what my
response would be) to tell Jeb that I was aware that my former close colleague,
Larry Hamil, prior to the November 1998 elections, had been involved in a
political campaign money laundering scheme, wherein Mr. Hamil laundered certain
monies of Chinese origin to certain Republicans (not Democrats, but Republican
candidates) including the gubernatorial campaign of Jeb Bush.
Neil
laughed and said, “Are you certain you want me to relay that?”
I
said, “Yes,” and I didn’t talk to Neil after that.
I
can only presume Neil did, in fact, relay that message because the next morning
when I got out of bed, I was greeted by a view (outside of my bay windows) of
two unmarked cars parked directly in front of my townhouse. They were of the
sinister variety I’m used to – dark Chevy Caprices, darkened windows,
black-wall tires, four or five aerials coming out of the back of them,
Washington D.C. plates.
There
was enough sunlight that I could see two men sitting in each vehicle.
And
that’s all they did.
They
simply sat there and looked directly at my unit. They stayed for a few hours in
that position and then drove off.
I
had one of my neighbors record the D.C. plates on the car and upon checking
them out later in the day, I was informed that no such plates existed.
But
nonetheless, the message was sent.
[
Al Martin, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider,"
p. 195-198 ]
Oliver North speaking to Jeb Bush and Dewey Clarridge in
the 1980's: "Well, we haven't
decided how we will rule his demise yet - whether it will be accident, natural
causes, or suicide."
[Al Martin, The Conspirators: Confessions of an Iran-Contra Insider, p.201]
"As
I am a middle-aged man, I have worked or been involved in illegal covert
operation of government all my adult life.
How
many others in my age group can say they have personally known in their adult
lifetimes almost 400 people who have died under clouded circumstances?
The
common thread among the deaths of these 400 people was not anything they did
- but what they knew.
I
wonder how many others can make the same comment about their lives.
It's
an indication of the type of life I've led.
Even
what I have revealed thus far - it isn't
a tenth of what I know. And it is such a task. That's the type of life I've led
and what I know. I hope that the flavor of this comes out of what has happened
to my friends, those I've known, who became inconvenient to their superiors and
who died to maintain the deniability of others.
The
egregious nature of the conspiracy surrounding their death goes to a level that
is virtually humorous.
When Jeb Bush, Oliver North and Dewey Clarridge once
spoke about an individual, North laughed and said, "Well, we haven't
decided how we will rule his demise yet - whether it will be accident, natural
causes, or suicide.""
[ Al Martin, "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider," p. 201]
Jeb Bush to Al Martin: “Al, there are no heroes, and there are no
tooth fairies.”
The others are those who know too much about those
in power to both draw and enforce that line. And what pisses me off about Jeb Bush – and why I have a
particular dislike for him – is how he ground me into me in subsequent periods
when I had some contact with him through Neil Lewis, when I was trying to work
something out in 1992.
He said, “Al, there are
no heroes, and there are no tooth fairies.”
That
comment will stick in my craw and it will do so forever.
The
reason it sticks in my craw is because he’s right.
What
he was referring to was the life I have to lead.
[Al Martin means living as a middle
aged man who has worked or been involved in illegal covert operation of
government for all of his adult life.]
[ Al Martin, "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider," p. 199]
Al Martin on just how far Oliver North
was willing to take things: a nuclear “incident” with the USSR to divert
attention away from Bush/North/Casey epic criminality!
“The Enterprise,” “The Cause” – had gone
so far beyond what it was originally intended to be the diversion of money from
an Iranian operation to arm Contras.
As a cover story underneath,
there would be narcotics trafficking, fraud, weapons, things like that to
generate a certain number of billions of dollars to replenish the proverbial
coffers.
But
in fact, we’ve gone way beyond that, and North was even now talking about this
Operation Orpheus – what would happen if everything fell apart and everything
was to be revealed.
What
the public reaction would be to the enormity of the fraud, of the narcotics and
weapons trafficking so that as George Bush later said the people would have
chased everyone in Washington and lynched them all.
With North being the Chairman of
the National Programs Office (NPO) and the NPO building up sizeable assets of
its own covertly, North was talking about Operation Orpheus, which included
potentially instigating an incident with the Soviet Union to divert U.S. public
attention should our involvement be known.
This was very dangerous in an era of
heightened tensions, particularly with North being as powerful as he was.
Being so far out of the loop, taking
naps through meetings, Reagan had no real control at that time.
North, Casey and George Bush. They
were “The Three.” And they were it.
With god-like powers, they could act
with absolute impunity.
And
God knows what these guys would have done to protect themselves because had
Iran-Contra become revealed, policies going back decades may have also become
revealed in the interlinkages and that would have been one hell of a problem.
To
even start a limited thermonuclear exchange with the Soviet Union, I would not
have put that past “The Three,” as they call themselves.
[ Al Martin, "The Conspirators:
Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider," p. 205-206 ]
Chip
Tatum - CIA operative who worked closely with Oliver North in the 1980's: Says
Oliver North said GHW Bush was going to have Jeb Bush “arrange something out of
Colombia.”
Mr. North stated the following to the other passengers, "One more year of this and we'll all retire." He then made a remark concerning Barry Seal and Governor Clinton. "If we can keep those Arkansas hicks in line, that is," referring to the loss of monies as determined the week prior during their meeting in Costa Rica. I stood silently by the vat of leaves, listening to the conversation. General Alverez had gone with the Contra leader to discuss logistics. The other three - North, Rodriguez, and Ami Nir - continued through the wooden building, inspecting the cocaine. North continued, "...but he (Vice President Bush) is very concerned about those missing monies. I think he's going to have Jeb (Bush) arrange something out of Columbia," he told his comrades, not thinking twice of my presence. What Mr. North was referring to ended up being the assassination of Barry Seal by members of the Medellin Cartel in early 1986.
"Compromised: Clinton, Bush &
the CIA; how the Presidency was Co-opted by the CIA" by Terry Reed &
John Cummings, pp. 211-213]
CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal thought he had blackmail info on the
Bushes, until he ended up riddle with bullets on Feb. 19, 1986 in Baton Rouge,
LA
"As the two walked away, Terry
could hear Seal say, "Well, I'm sorry Leroy, if they feel like I'm
blackmailin' 'em. But this is business and I just gotta do what I gotta do
..."
At
10 AM, after saying goodbye to Tracta, the two prepared to depart. Terry felt
that he would be home for dinner with any luck. He was wondering what new
excitement would be awaiting him on the trip back.
It
didn't take long for him to find out. As soon as the two were airborne, Seal
laid it on him. He was full of pent-up emotion and startled his flying
companion as they exited Howard airspace.
Seal
began yelling at the top of his voice, something out of character for him.
Terry had never seen him this euphoric.
"YEE-HAWWWWWW,"
he screamed. "I'm gonna fuckin' make it. We're gonna do this, Terry. We've
got these assholes eatin' outa our hands. YEE-HAWWWWWWWWW. Give me the fuckin'
airplane.
He
grabbed the control yoke and executed a series of aileron rolls. Terry had
never been sick in an airplane, but he was sure about to lose his SOS.
"OK,
enough of that shit," Seal said after seeming to tire of the aerobatic
antics. "You got the airplane, I'll hook up the radios."
"Terry
sat silently at the controls, trying to figure out what was driving Seal. As
Barry emerged from under the electrical panel, after making the radio
connections, he abruptly began pounding with his right hand on the dash of the
Lear until Terry thought the avionics in the control panel would be dislodged.
"There
ain't nuthin' in this world more powerful than good ol' fucking blackmail,
Terry. And don't let anybody ever tell ya different. Jeeeeeesus Christ, I got
some good shit on some big people."
"Will
you let me in on your party? Calm down, Barry! Tell me what's goin' on."
"Terry,
what's most important right now is for ya ta play ball with these guys and get
your ass down to Mexico ASAP. You impressed the shit out of Leroy... Robert
Johnson [William Barr, later Attorney General for GHW Bush], too. I won't be
able ta come to Mexico right now, I've got a little matter to take care of. But
ya get on down there and get in a position to receive me, and I'll be joining
ya soon. Goddam, this'll be great. Won't it be fun workin' together and
spendin' all their fuckin' money?"
"What
this blackmail, you're talking about?"
"Ever
hear the old expression, it's not what ya know, it's who ya know? Well, whoever
said that just hadn't caught the Vice President's kids in the dope business,
'cause I can tell ya for sure what ya know can definitely be more
important than who you know.
"You
gotta calm down and tell me what you're talking about, if you want me to know.
What's this about the Vice President's kids and dope."
"I
don't wannna tell ya too much, 'cause truthfully ya don't have a need to know.
But Terry I been workin' with several federal agencies for the past couple of
years as ya probably suspicioned. In the course of that business, a person
can't help but run across some real sensitive information. It seems some
major players in the Medellin Cartel, whom I personally know, ran across some
knowledge that's very valuable to both the Republican and Democratic party.
Real national security stuff. It seems some of
George Bush's kids just can't say no ta drugs, ha ha ha ha ... Well, ya can
imagine how valuable information like that would be, can't ya? That could get
ya out of almost any kind of jam." Seal paused for a moment than asked,
"Ya ever play Monopoly? The information I got is so good it's just like a
get-out-of-jail-free card ... ha, ha, ha, ha YEE-HAWWWW..."
"Barry, are you telling me
George Bush's kids are in the drug business?"
"Yup, that's what I am tellin'
ya. A guy in Florida who flipped for the DEA has the goods on the Bush boys.
Now I heard this earlier from a reliable source in Colombia, but I just sat on
it then, waitin' to use it as a trump card, if I ever needed it. Well, I need
ta use it now. I got names, dates, places.... even got some tape recordins'.
Fuck, I even got surveillance videos catchin' the Bush boys red-handed. I
consider this stuff my insurance policy. It makes me and my mole on the inside
that's feedin' the stuff to me invincible. Now this is real sensitive
shit inside of U.S. Customs and DEA and those guys are pretty much under
control. It's damage control as usual.
L.D. Brown:
"Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation" L.D. Brown
for a time in the 1980's was Bill Clinton's favorite Arkansas state trooper and
Bill Clinton helped him get into the C.I.A.
Barry Seal was L.D. Brown’s CIA handler
Bill
was loving every minute of living this association with the C.I.A. through me.
Just as he enjoyed the womanizing, going to the bars and doing his best to
dribble a basketball like one of the guys, he was getting his vicarious jollies
through yet another source. But by using the C.I.A. and me, he would push my
ability to follow orders to the breaking point - and destroy our friendship.
[...]
Barry
Seal was a crazy man. He was also everything Dan Magruder [Donald Gregg, an
aide to GHW Bush] was not. Happy-go-lucky, irreverent and loud, Seal telephoned
me and told me he was the man I was told would call me. It was the mid-1980's
and with the decadence of that time and the free-flowing cocaine, Cajun's Wharf
was a hangout for the bond daddies such as Lasater and company. [...]
[L.D. Brown, Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation, p. 102-103]
The
first words out of Seal's mouth, "How's the Guv?" reminded me of
Magruder's apparent familiarity with Bill. An overweight, jovial, almost
slap-happy man as my contact with C.I.A. was not exactly what I expected. Seal,
too, knew everything about me. He focused on my D.E.A. training as Magruder had
done in Dallas.
[L.D. Brown, Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation, p. 104]
"Seal
reached back to open the duffel bag in the back. He removed a manila envelope
identical to the one he had given me after the first trip. I knew what was in
the envelope but there was something else. He reached deeper in the bag and
gave me the shock of my life.
Seal's face had a sly, smirkly, almost proud look as he
removed a waxed paper-wrapped taped brick-shaped package from the bag. I
immediately recognized it as identical to bricks of cocaine from my days in
narcotics. I didn't know what to think and began
demanding to know what was going on. I cursed, ranted and raved and I believe I
actually caused Seal to wonder if I might pull a gun and arrest him. Seal threw
up his hands and tried to calm me down saying everything was all right and
quickly exited my car. He removed the bag from the bag and hustled back toward
the plane.
I
at once felt a sense of panic and relief that Seal was gone. Had he left
something in the car? Was I about to be surrounded by the police? Wait a minute
I was the police and furthermore this was an operation sanctioned by the
C.I.A and I was recruited by them - and by Bill Clinton. [...] I would become
furious with Bill for shepherding me through this mess, indeed for getting me
involved. I would then as quickly think of explaining it all away as a 'sting'
operation designed to trap the people on the other end of our flight who maybe
had sold drugs to Seal. [...]
[L.D. Brown, Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation, p. 113-114]
The tension was building up inside me as I
saw Bill coming out the back door. I was getting mad all over again as I got
out of my car and he strode over to me. It was the first time we talked since
the trip, the trip he knew I was going to take. His
mouth opened and the words "You having fun yet?" were already forming
on his lips when I burst out, "Do you know what they are bringing back on
those airplanes?" He immediately threw up his hands in a halting fashion
and took a couple of steps back. I know he thought he was in danger of
receiving a class A state police ass-whipping. My hopes of an innocent
explanation to the whole sordid affair were dashed with the now-famous line,
"That's Lasater's deal! That's Lasater's deal!" he whined as if he
had just taken a tongue lashing by Hillary. "And your buddy [Vice
President George Herbert Walker] Bush knows about it!"
Bill
had done to me what I had seen him to do so many other people. I, too, had now
been used and severely betrayed. I immediately ran to Becky, who lived in a
small house on the mansion grounds. I told her of the incident and cried with
the pain it caused me.
[L.D. Brown, Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation, p. 116]
But
I was not done with the C.I.A. In early 1985, I received a telephone call from
a man at the Mansion who identified himself as Felix Rodriguez. A man who claimed he was Barry Seal's boss.
He asked if he could come to Arkansas and meet me and I agreed. Could it have
been that Seal was doing drug transports on his own? I was more curious than
anything else and had to find out. Rodriguez was the man to tell me.
Felix
Rodriguez is a Cuban-American with a long history of intelligence work. He had
telephoned me at the Mansion and wanted to meet me there in the parking lot.
When he arrived, he drove in the back gate as if he had been there before. We
sat in his rental car and shook hands. Felix was a polished, articulate man and
it was obvious he did not like Seal. He had already been told by someone about
my experiences with Seal and was obviously upset with what Seal had done. I am still puzzled over how Rodriguez found out
about the incident. When I telephoned C.I.A. personnel in Dallas I never
mentioned what had happened with Seal. It must have come from Bill through
whomever his contact at the Agency was. Rodriguez made me feel comfortable. He
had C.I.A. credentials which he showed me. "Don't worry about him. We'll
take care of him," is how he assured me of the 'problem' with Seal. Indeed
Seal would die a violent death a year later- at the hands of whom is still a
point of controversy in some circles.
[L.D. Brown, Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation, p. 118]
Former (honest) DEA agent Cele Castillo on George Herbert
Walker Bush and his participation in drug smuggling.
"The end of my
career with the DEA took place in El Salvador. One day, I received a cable from
a fellow agent, saying to investigate possible drug smuggling by Nicaraguan
Contras operating from the Ilopango Air Force Base.
"I quickly
discovered that the Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling narcotics back into
the United States - using the same pilots, planes and hangers that the Central
Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, under the direction of
Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain their covert supply operation to the
Contras."
Instead of playing along
with the criminals inside government profiting from cocaine trafficking,
Castillo attempted to seek justice, naming many high-level officials along the
way, including North and former President George H.W Bush.
In fact, after Castillo blew the whistle, Bush made a
point to seek out Castillo during one of his South of the border visits, in
essence trying to "feel out" Castillo, but at the same time careful
not to make any incriminating statement.
"When Bush confronted me and then just walked away
after I told him some of the evidence I had, it was obvious he knew what was
going on and was involved in the illegal drug trade," said Castillo.
And when Castillo's allegations first went public, he was
the first government DEA agent with first-hand knowledge of North's drug
dealing sanctioned by Bush and other higher-ups.
DEA agent Cele Castillo knew all about Contra
Drug Smuggling at Ilopango Air Base in El Salvador; GHW Bush most certainly did
not want to discuss it at a 1986 meeting!
On January 14 [1986], Vice President George Bush visited
Guatemala City to put the U.S. stamp of approval on Cerezo’s inauguration. I
met Bush at the obligatory cocktail party at the ambassador’s residence.
Embassy personnel and Guatemalan dignitaries elbowed through the crowd,
jockeying for floor space near the Vice President. I was standing alone,
watching the steel-faced secret service agents watching everyone else, when
Bush approached. He read the tag on my lapel identifying me as a member of the
U.S. embassy, and asked what I did. As he shook my hand, someone snapped a
photo. I told him I was a
DEA agent assigned to Guatemala. He said, “Well, what do you do?” I knew
it wasn’t wise to bring up the Contras – this man was part of the
Administration, and Reagan had even declared himself to be a Contra.
I just
blurted it out. “There’s some funny things going on with the Contras in El
Salvador.”
Bush
didn’t reply. He simply smiled and walked away, seeking another hand to shake.
After that exchange, I knew that he knew.”
[Celerino Castillo &
Dave Harmon, Powderburns: Cocaine,
Contras & the Drug War, p. 132]
FBI Undercover Agent Darlene Novinger on the
involvement of Jeb Bush and Vice President GHW Bush in the drug trade in
Florida. Cocaine deliveries to VP office; drug lords providing prostitutes for
Jeb Bush & VP GHW Bush
[Rodney Stich, Drugging America: a Trojan Horse – FBI, CIA
and Other Insiders Reveal Greatest Threat to America’s Men and Women From
Government’s Fraudulent War-On-Drugs, pp. 425-426 ]
After testifying in Harrisburg, Darlene returned to her
Florida assignment with the South Florida Drug Task Force. Because of her
earlier associations with the Smatt brothers, who by now were reportedly major
drug smugglers, the FBI suggested that Darlene renew her contacts with them. In
December 1982 she called Raymond Smatt in Jamaica, who invited Darlene to his
mansion, where she stayed for several weeks. Raymond then suggested that
Darlene stay with another brother William, who had a mansion in Miami, where
she stayed for several days before going back to Jamaica.
Claiming Vice President Involved in Drugs
During
one of many conversations with William Smatt at his Jamaica mansion, William
started talking about the corrupt nature of the American judicial system and
the White House. In one instance he said, “Let’s take, for instance, the vice
president and his son, referring to George Bush and his son, Jeb Bush.”
Darlene
asked, “What about them, you mean George Bush and his son; which son?” Smatt
responds, “Jeb.”
Darlene
responded, “You mean, Jeb with the Miami Republican party?” “Yes,” he replied.
Darlene started explaining what occurred:
I was in one of the
drug lords mansions which I was trained to encounter and infiltrate. I was
sitting on a couch and a conversation turned up that would lead to something
that would change the rest of my life. I was sitting and talking about justice
in the judicial system. Well, these people were not American citizens, but they
had strong opinions about the American judicial system, and how it worked, and
they wanted to express it to me. I’ll never forget this day. What came out was
the following.
They proceeded to
tell me how money is the way to justice. Without it, there is no chance. You’re
living in a Disney World to believe otherwise. This is what I was told by them.
They proceeded to tell me
how they had to pay the Republican Party in Miami. At that time, Jeb Bush was
the chairman of the Republican Party in Florida [editor’s note: Jeb was Dade
County GOP chairman in the early 1980’s]
They told me about the visits Vice President George Bush
made to their mansion. The story that unfolded was incredible that I thought I
had heard everything until this gentleman was done showing me correspondence.
His office phone was ringing at this time. Lo and behold, it was the Miami
Republican Party calling. He was screaming at them because he said, “I just
gave you a couple hundred-thousand dollars and I want this done!”
Darlene explained how Smatt told her about providing pharmaceutical-grade
drugs to aircraft arriving from Washington, DC, which were then flown back to
Washington and delivered by courier to the Bush White House. [editor’s note:
Office of the Vice Presidency] Smatt told Darlene of the money that he provided
to the head of the Republican Party in Florida, and the relationship he had
with Florida politicians. He was complaining
that they kept asking him for more money. Darlene explained:
I asked him why he
continued to do business with them if he didn’t like them. He said it was very
simple. His contributions were going to the vice president and his sons’
interests because he was going to be appointed roving ambassador in the
Caribbean. Meaning something called the Caribbean Basin
initiative, which was to their benefit to get passed because they would make a
lot of money, on top of everything else.
He proceeded to tell me how he
and his family, particularly he, furnished prostitutes to Jeb Bush and George
Bush when they were in Miami, Florida, and of the use of cocaine by these
individuals and George Bush’s staff in Washington, D.C. He proceeded to also
tell me about flying pharmaceutical grade cocaine, and how the currier
delivered it to the vice president’s office in Washington, D.C.
Darlene continued to
explain what was said:
At that point I was
sitting there with absolutely nothing to say other than, I could not believe
it. I then sort of regrouped and said, “How do I know that what you’re saying
is true? That just seems so incredible.”
Darlene explained William Smatt opening his desk drawer
and “showing me personal correspondence from the vice-president , his son, photographs, and checks. I had
no reason to believe that this man who I had known for years made this up.”
At another
time, while staying at Raymond Smatt’s Miami mansion, Raymond said that Vice
President George Bush and Jeb Bush had used cocaine at his Miami home.
[Rodney Stich, Drugging America: a Trojan Horse – FBI, CIA
and Other Insiders Reveal Greatest Threat to America’s Men and Women From
Government’s Fraudulent War-On-Drugs, pp. 425-426 ]
Darlene Novinger and her 1982 Report to the FBI
Office in Harrisburg
Darlene said that after she submitted her report in
December 1982, an investigation was commenced. Darlene said that in January 1983, newspapers reported
that Vice President George Bush’s entire staff on the South Florida Drug Task
Force was replaced. She assumed this was due to her report. She also
remembered a Washington Post article
in January 1983 that stated many members of the South Florida Task Force were
using drugs…
[Rodney Stich, Drugging America: a Trojan Horse – FBI, CIA
and Other Insiders Reveal Greatest Threat to America’s Men and Women From
Government’s Fraudulent War-On-Drugs, pp. 427]
Darlene Novinger was Set Up to be Murdered by
Drug Traffickers by Justice Department
personnel who intentionally blew her cover, revealing she was an informant.
Someone in government wanted Darlene dead. She survived.
Darlene
returned to her assignment in Florida and found herself being set up by someone
in the Miami U.S. attorney’s office to be killed. She explained that
while staying at the Raymond Smatt mansion in Jamaica, and while talking to
Raymond, the phone rings. It was a call from his brother, William Smatt in
Miami, who stated that his contact in the Miami U.S. attorney’s office found
out that Darlene was an FBI informant. Darlene explained:
That particular
office, the Miami U.S. attorney’s office, almost cost me my life. I was at the
mansion of a major drug lord in Jamaica, and a phone call was made when I was in
the living room of their house. I could hear part of the conversation and they
were talking about me. I could hear Raymond acting, “The FBI in Miami said who
was working for them?” They were talking about me!
I felt trapped.
There I was in his home, on an island, trapped, and I’m hearing this man get
this call, and I thought, “I’m going to die.” I really did. I thought, whew, it
was a close one, I’ll tell you. And he kept looking at me and he was a little
grumpy. I said, “The next thing you know, they’ll have me working for the CIA.”
Eventually he
lightened up, and I talked my way out of that one. Later, I found out that that
gentleman was very heavily involved and he was not playing on the up and up….
Apparently,
whoever told William Smatt that Darlene was an FBI undercover agent knew that
Darlene was staying in Jamaica at the Raymond Smatt residence, and wanted
Darlene killed. That would solve the problem with the report on Vice President
George Bush and his son, Jeb.
[Rodney Stich, Drugging America: a Trojan Horse – FBI, CIA
and Other Insiders Reveal Greatest Threat to America’s Men and Women From
Government’s Fraudulent War-On-Drugs, pp. 428-429]
Bo Gritz Letter to VP GHW Bush in 1988 and regarding US
government Heroin Smuggling
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Bo
Gritz Letter to George Bush
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1 February 1988, Sandy Valley,
NV
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Honorable George Bush, Vice President,
United States of America, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Why does it seem that you are saying "YES" to illegal narcotics
in America?
I turned over video tapes to your NSC staff assistant, Tom Harvey,
January 1987, wherein General KHUN SA, overlord of Asia's "Golden
Triangle", offered to stop 900 tons of heroin/opium from entering the free
world in 1987. Harvey told me, "...there is no interest here in doing that." General Khun Sa also
offered to identify U.S. Government officials who, he says, have been
trafficking in heroin for more than 20 years.
November 1986, Scott Weekly and I went into Burma in coordination and
cooperation with The White House. Tom Harvey told me you received a letter from
Arthur Suchesk, Orange County, CA, dated 29 August 1986. Dr. Suchesk said that
Gen Khun Sa had access to U.S. POWs. Harvey said the letter had received
"highest attention". He gave me a copy along with other case
documents. I was asked if it was possible to verify the information. According
to Harvey, the CIA said Khun Sa had been assassinated some months before.
Harvey supplied Scott and myself with language under White House and NSC
letterhead that would help us gain access to Khun Sa. It worked. Unfortunately,
Khun Sa knew nothing about US POWs. He did, however, offer to trade his
nation's poppy dependence for a legitimate economy.
Instead of receiving an "Atta Boy" for bringing back video tape
showing Khun Sa`s offer to stop 900 tons of illegal narcotics and expose dirty
USG officials, Scott was jailed and I was threatened. I was told that if I
didn't "erase and forget" all that we had discovered, I would,
"hurt the government". Further, I was promised a prison sentence of
"15 years".
I returned to Burma with two other American witnesses, Lance Trimmer, a
private detective from San Francisco, and Barry Flynn from Boston. Gen Khun Sa
identified some of those in government service he says were dealing in heroin
and arms sales. We video taped this second interview and I turned copies over
in June 1987, to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence; Chairman
of the House on Foreign Affairs Task Force on Narcotics Control; Co-Chairman,
Senate Narcotics Committee; Senator Harry Reid, NV; Representative James
Bilbray, NV; and other Congressional members. Mister Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs, is one of those USG officials implicated by
Khun Sa. Nothing was done with this evidence that indicated that anyone of
authority, including yourself, had intended to do anything more than protect
Mr. Armitage. I was charged with "Misuse of Passport". Seems that it
is alright for Oliver North and Robert MacFarlane to go into Iran on Irish
Passports to negotiate an illegal arms deal that neither you nor anyone else
admits condoning, but I can't use a passport that brings back drug information
against your friends.
Lance Trimmer and I submitted a "Citizen Complaint of Wrongdoing by
Federal Officers" to Attorney General Edwin Meese, III on 17 September
1987. Continuous private and Legislative inquiries to date indicate that the
Attorney General's Office has "lost" the document. Congressional requests
to the Government Accounting Office have resulted in additional government
snares and stalls.
January 20, 1988, I talked before your Breakfast Club in Houston, Texas.
A distinguished group of approximately 125 associates of yours, including the
Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, expressed assurance that you are a
righteous man. Almost all of them raised their hand when I asked how many of
them know you personally. If you are a man with good intent, I pray you will do
more than respond to this letter. I ask that you seriously look into the
possibility that political appointees close to you are guilty of by passing our
Constitutional process, and for purposes of promoting illegal covert
operations, conspired in the trafficking of narcotics and arms.
Please answer why a
respected American Citizen like Mister H. Ross Perot can bring you a pile of
evidence of wrongdoing by Armitage and others, and you, according to TIME
magazine (May 4, page 18), not only offer him no support, but have your
Secretary of Defense, Frank Carlucci tell Mr. Perot to "stop pursuing Mr.
Armitage". Why Sir, will you not look into affidavits gathered by The
Christic Institute (Washington, D.C.), which testify that Armitage not only
trafficked in heroin, but did so under the guise of an officer charged with
bringing home our POWs. If the charges are true, Armitage, who is still
responsible for POW recovery as your Assistant Secretary of Defense ISA, has
every reason not to want these heros returned to us alive. Clearly, follow on
investigations would illuminate the collective crimes of Armitage and others.
Several years ago a secretary working for Armitage asked me "Why
would he have us expunge his official record of all reference to past POW/MIA
assignments and activities?" Not knowing, I ventured a guess that maybe he
was considering running for public office and didn't feel the POW -Vietnam
association would be a plus in his resume. It was about the same time a CIA
agent named by Khun Sa turned up dead in Bangkok under "mysterious circumstances".
Also about this time, as an agent of NSC's Intelligence Support Activity, I was
told by ISA Chief Jerry King, "...there are still too many bureaucrats in
Washington who don't want to see POWs returned alive". I failed to realize the fullness of his meaning,
or these other events, until in May 1987, Gen Khun Sa, in his jungle
headquarters, named Richard Armitage as a key connection in a ring of heroin
trafficking mobsters and USG officials. A U.S. agent I have known for
many years stopped by my home last month enroute to his next overseas
assignment. He remarked that he had worked for those CIA chiefs named by Khun
Sa, and that by his own personal knowledge, he knew what Khun Sa said was true.
He was surprised it had taken so long to surface.
I am a registered Republican. I voted for you twice. I will not do so
again. If you have any love or loyalty in your heart for this nation; if you
have not completely sold out, then do something positive to determine the truth
of these most serious allegations. You were Director of the CIA in 1975, during a time Khun Sa says
Armitage and CIA officials were trafficking in heroin. As Director of
Intelligence you were responsible to the American people for the activities of
your assistant - even as you should know what some of these same people are
doing who are close to you now as our Vice President because I feel these
"parallel government" types will only be promoted by you, giving them
more reason to bury our POWs.
I am enclosing some documentation that supports the charges made. Chief
is a letter from Khun Sa to the U.S. Justice Department dated 28 June 1987,
wherein Richard Armitage is named along with Theodore Shackley (your former
Deputy Director CIA from Covert Operations) and others. Please also note
William Stevenson's article, "Bank of Intrigue-Circles of Power".
You, Armitage, and General Richard Secord are prominently mentioned. Stevenson,
you might remember, authored A MAN CALLED INTREPID. Also Tom Fitzpatrick's
article, "From Burma to Bush, a Heroin Highway", should interest you.
Both of these men are prize winning journalists. The book, CRIMES of PATRIOTS, "A True Tale of Dope,
Dirty Money, and the CIA", by Jonathan Kwitny, reporter for the Wall
Street Journal, details for you the bank connections that Khun Sa mentions.
Finally, the basic primer that spells out exactly how this dope for covert
operations gambit began, is Alfred McCoy's THE POLITICS OF HEROIN IN SOUTHEAST
ASIA. All of these should be required reading for the man appointed chief cop
by our President to safeguard America from illegal narcotics. These are just a
sampling of many works now available that chronical disgraceful conduct by
those sworn to protect and defend our Constitution.
Parting shot Mr. Vice President: On 28 January 1988, General Khun Sa
tendered an offer to turn over to me one metric ton (2,200 pounds) of heroin.
He says this is a good faith gesture to the American people that he is serious
about stopping all drugs coming from the infamous Golden Triangle. I, you and
Nancy Reagan are really serious about saying "NO" to drugs, why not
test Gen Khun Sa? I challenge you to allow me in the company of agents of your
choice to arrange to receive this token offer worth over $4 billion on the
streets of New York City. It will represent the largest "legal"
seizure of heroin on record. You can personally torch it, dump it in the ocean,
or turn it into legal medication; as I understand there is a great shortage of
legal opiates available to our doctors. I think Gen Khun Sa's offer is most interesting.
If you say "YES" then the ever increasing flow of heroin from
Southeast Asia (600-- tons-- '86, 900 tons-- '87, 1200-- tons'88) may dry
up--not good for business in the parallel government and super CIA circles
Oliver North mentioned. If you say "NO" to Khun Sa, you are showing
colors not fit for a man who would be President.
What is your decision? I
challenge you to demonstrate exactly where you stand with respect to
big-business-drugs, parallel government, misuse of U.S. tax-payer dollars in
foreign drug supression programs that don't work, no interest in dialogue that
will stem the flow of illegal narcotics, return of POWs while they are still
alive? I for one am not for a "USA, Inc." with you or anyone
else as Chairman of the Board.
Respecting Your Office,
James "Bo" Gritz, Concerned American, Box 472 HCR-31Sandy
Valley, NV 89019, Tel: (702) 723-5266
Chip
Tatum: VP GHW Bush was at one point on the verge of Murdering Oliver North (a
loose cannon) and U.S. intelligence *did* Murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof
Palme (2/28/86) to keep a lid on Iran-Contra
Sounds
awful? Remember these are Machiavellian CIA Mafia types and there is no honor
among thieves or murderers. People have a hard time accepting such material but
this is par for the course for these folks. Note bene: the murder of Olof Palme
(2/28/86) came within two weeks after the murder of Barry Seal (2/19/86), so
desperate measures were being taken to keep Iran-Contra secret in early 1986.
It later broke wide open on Oct. 5, 1986 with the downing of the American C-123
cargo plane over Nicaragua and capture of Eugene Hasenfus. - Robert
From Jon Gentry of Dallas who
interviewed CIA Pegasus agent and assassin Chip Tatum in 1997; that is the
“agent” who Jon Gentry is referring to below and Gentry interviewed Tatum 4
times:
Many people have reported on the activities of GHW
Bush. In 1997, I interviewed one of Bush, Sr's top CIA agents who refused
an unethical order and went AWOL, subsequently got charged with treason for
refusing a direct order from the President. This guy had been one of Bill
Colby's close group and actually retired when Bush became DCI, only to be
dragged out of retirement by Bush. Long story. Interviewed him in
1997 and again in 1998, both times at the behest of a former head (SAIC) of the
Los Angeles FBI. Real interesting stuff. But perhaps most
interesting is that this agent made statements in the form of predictions, but
they weren't predictions, per se. They were the culled intel from being
in over a hundred eyes-only planning sessions with Bush. Stuff like the
plan for a global governance, a New World Order; the bringing down of the
American economy and the splitting of the currency into domestic and
international, two separate systems to protect against hyper-inflation as the
dollar dies in world currencies. Many other things. All these
"predictions" came from meetings no later than early 1992 when he
walked out. Our current maladies have been in the works that long.
And I'll throw this in just for Kensley. This agent participated in the hit on Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden. The hit was ordered because of an unwise conversation Lt. Col. Oliver North had with Palme in reference to illegal firearms dealing. "Loose lips sink ships," was one of Bush, Sr's favorite axioms. In this case a foreign head of state died because of North's "loose lips." North has no idea how close he came to sharing the same fate. The agent had orders that if a handkerchief was not dropped after a conference with Gorbanifar, the entire room including North were to be eliminated. That was after another North gaff. But Bush's "loose lips" policy extended to those who could give testimony in congressional hearings, also. I believe an Israeli by the name of Amiram Nir got a subpoena. The agent I spoke of actually knew Nir, but he was not told whose plane it was he was ordered to bring down. Nir died in the crash and subsequent fire, another victim to Bush's "loose lips" policy. I don't know, but I am told that Amiram Nir had about the same public interest in Israel as JFK, Jr. had in America. Bush, Sr gave the order for Nir's elimination to cover his own trail. Bush proclaimed, "I was not in the loop," on Iran Contra. Yeah, right.
Kensley, how naive do you wish to remain? Bush headed the CIA before becoming Vice President. An international child kidnapping-trafficking organization with its hub in Washington, DC was being investigated by Customs, the DC Police and the FBI. The investigation into this horrific monstrous operation was shut down with notes that it was "a CIA internal matter." With the current internet snooping I don't recommend checking it out but the org was The Finders. Yes, it made the papers. Yes, there are Customs documents pertaining to their interrupted investigation. Let me assure you, Bush, Sr. IS in the loop.
And I'll throw this in just for Kensley. This agent participated in the hit on Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden. The hit was ordered because of an unwise conversation Lt. Col. Oliver North had with Palme in reference to illegal firearms dealing. "Loose lips sink ships," was one of Bush, Sr's favorite axioms. In this case a foreign head of state died because of North's "loose lips." North has no idea how close he came to sharing the same fate. The agent had orders that if a handkerchief was not dropped after a conference with Gorbanifar, the entire room including North were to be eliminated. That was after another North gaff. But Bush's "loose lips" policy extended to those who could give testimony in congressional hearings, also. I believe an Israeli by the name of Amiram Nir got a subpoena. The agent I spoke of actually knew Nir, but he was not told whose plane it was he was ordered to bring down. Nir died in the crash and subsequent fire, another victim to Bush's "loose lips" policy. I don't know, but I am told that Amiram Nir had about the same public interest in Israel as JFK, Jr. had in America. Bush, Sr gave the order for Nir's elimination to cover his own trail. Bush proclaimed, "I was not in the loop," on Iran Contra. Yeah, right.
Kensley, how naive do you wish to remain? Bush headed the CIA before becoming Vice President. An international child kidnapping-trafficking organization with its hub in Washington, DC was being investigated by Customs, the DC Police and the FBI. The investigation into this horrific monstrous operation was shut down with notes that it was "a CIA internal matter." With the current internet snooping I don't recommend checking it out but the org was The Finders. Yes, it made the papers. Yes, there are Customs documents pertaining to their interrupted investigation. Let me assure you, Bush, Sr. IS in the loop.
JON GENTRY 6/8/11 email to Robert Morrow and tlcdallas list serve
Thanks for the dissertation. I saved the entire email to a file to
study.
I noted you
underlined threaten to murder, talking about Pegasus and Perot. Tatum did explain that a neutralization was a
three-step process. First would come
intimidation-coercion. If that did not
work, or jointly in conjunction would be a compromise phase. Only if intimidation and compromise failed
would the stage three assassination be carried out. What Tatum was not telling is that by the
time he received the tasking, initial stages had already been tried in almost
every case. The Operational Sub-Group
which Tatum/Pegasus worked for was the assassination group. They were the Jackals which John Perkins
referred to in his book, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." When Perkins failed, Pegasus got the call.
An example of the intimidation/coercion/assassination
being all wrapped into one was the case of Daniel Ortega. The US was demanding Ortega hold democratic
elections. Ortega refused until he was
contacted and told to put a whole battalion around his nephew Raul (I think I
recall) and he would still die on the specified date. The nephew died and Ortega held democratic
elections. That was a Pegasus operation.
In the case of Perot, I've talked to some of Perot's
people, one bodyguard in particular.
Perot had his own Merc's. This
one stated his opinion that no one would have been able to get by them and get
to Perot; that it couldn't happen; which is just ridiculous. But it presents the state of mind that
threats would likely not work to intimidate Perot and his encampment. I'm guessing Perot had already been contacted
in some way previous; that this was no surprise.
I can't claim to understand Tatum's mind. But from putting things together he said
another possibility also occurs to me.
Within the covert ops community it was well-known that an operative
involved in a high profile incident would likely be disappeared afterwards,
have an accident. Tatum was no friend of
the Bush crowd. What do you do when
you're expendable? You receive a
high-profile assignment? Time to resign. So he makes his resignation count by sending
word through a trusted FBI friend to Ross Perot that an assassination would be
attempted if Perot did not step down.
Perot was informed at Saddlebrook Academy in Florida. What more compelling threat could be delivered
than having one of the country's top assassins inform you he had just refused
the mission, but someone else would be found who would carry it out? It worked.
Perot stepped out of the race.
JG
Watch the YouTube interview of CIA
Pegasus assassin Chip Tatum about his orders from GHW Bush to neutralize
(murder) Ross Perot in 1991-1992 period:
"CIA +George HW Bush,Gary Hart,H Ross
Perot,Blackmail" is name of YouTube video.
Also, watch this extremely valuable video
of CIA Pegasus Assassin Chip Tatum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHV68fjDiCE Entitled "Presidential Secrets - Former
CIA Black Op Speaks Out with ex-FBI Ted Gunderson.
“The Crimes of Mena” by Sally Denton and Roger Morris
Another excellent article to read is: “The Crimes of
Mena” by Sally Denton and Roger Morris from the July 1995 issue of Penthouse
Magazine (this story was set to run in the Washington Post and it
got spiked by an editor for political reasons in 1996.)
A Slew of other Articles on CIA Drug Smuggler Barry Seal
& his Murder in Baton Rouge in February, 1986
Ross Perot knew all about the CIA/governmental drug trade and it was a big
reason that he ran for president in 1992 although he would never say this
publicly. Here is a hit job NYT piece by Richard Bernstein on Ross Perot who
was incensed over CIA drug smuggling. Perot is quoted as saying – and this is
extremely important to understanding the Perot- GHW Bush epic rift – “When you look into the [American Vietnam POW] prisoner
cover-up, you find government officials in the drug trade who can’t break
themselves of the habit.”
Barry Seal: Set up for Murder:
This is a must read letter from the Louisiana Attorney General William
J. Guste, Jr. to the US Attorney General Edwin Meese on March 3, 1986,
complaining about why Barry Seal was not given governmental protection.
Attorney General Guste was enraged at how such a valuable drug asset like Barry
Seal could be assassinated and not protected by the government. My response:
well, if you are about to plea bargain and take down high officials in
government who are drug dealing, these things tend to happen.
Web link to buy the fabulous book “Barry and the Boys” by
Daniel Hopsicker. Read this book and you will never look at modern
American politics in the same way again.
Bibliography on governmental and CIA drug smuggling and
related criminal activities:
3) Barry
and the Boys: the CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History by Daniel Hopsicker (2006, written in 2001, lawsuits delayed it for 5 years. Extremely important book.)
5) Cocaine
Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America by Peter Dale Scott and
Jonathon Marshall (1998)
8) The
Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the
Drug War: An Undercover Odyssey by Michael
Levine and Laura Kavanau-Levine (2012)
9) The
Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy (1972 and republished 2003)
10) Out
of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration’s Secret War in Nicaragua,
the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection by Leslie Cockburn (1987)
11) Blue
Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald
Aronov by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell
(1990)
16) American
Desperado: My Life - From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government
Asset by Jon Roberts & Evan Wright (2012)
17) Cocaine,
Death Squads, and the War on Terror:
U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia by Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle (2011)
18) The
Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA by Jonathan Kwitney (1987)
19) The
Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug
Industry in Central and South America by William
L. Marcy (2010)
20) How
to Get Away with Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and
the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA’s Master Killer by Evan Wright (2012)
21) Defrauding
America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and other Covert
Agencies (third edition) by Rodney Stich (1998)
24) Conspiracy
– The Secret History: The Secret Heartbeat of America, the CIA and Drugs by Daniel Hopsicker (2004)
25) Kill
the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou (2006)
29) Opium,
Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade
1750-1950 by Carl Trocki (1999)
30) The
Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother’s Crusade to Bring Her Son’s
Killers to Justice by Mara Leveritt (1999)
31) The
Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine (2004)
32) The
Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues That
Shaped the DEA by Douglas Valentine (2009)
35) Crimes
of a President: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover Up in the Bush and
Reagan Administration by Joel Bainerman (1992)
Bibliography of Books about the Darker Side of the Bushes
1)
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty the Powerful Forces
That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker (2008)
7)
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics
of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
15)
Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush
Presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater (2004)
Books by some of the perps in Iran-Contra who were
running gargantuan amounts of drugs into the USA, committing financial crime, &
murdering people to cover it up, etc. Somehow they forgot to put that in their
books.
2) Honored and Betrayed: Irangate, Covert Affairs, and the
Secret War in Laos by Richard Secord (1992)
Question: If you truly have character, do you really have
to have books written by and about you pertaining to “character” and
“integrity?”
Final note: Doug Wead is a
nice man but he allowed the Bushes to use him and his Christian credentials
like a roll of toilet paper. I wonder if
Doug Wead today (2013) fully understands the depravity of the people he was
promoting for all those years, and particularly how GHW Bush & Jeb Bush
have conducted their lives.
The wit and wisdom of
George H W Bush
"Now, like, I'm
President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White
House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would
say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.'" —speaking to a group of students
about drug abuse
