hey, sell something or print more money and watch the dollar plummet,
take your pick.. nobody ever bats an eye when we sell F15's , but
everybody knows what they'll be used for.. drugs just destroy lives
in a different way..

i don't think it's common knowledge the feds deal in narcotics though..
hence the knee-jerk reaction by stevie who wants to dive in front of
the michael hayden and give his life so the drugs and arms might flow
more freely.

On Dec 16, 6:44 am, John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote:

On Dec 16, 8:46 am, Woodswun <woods...@tepidmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:38:15 -0600, Pers3id wrote:

John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote in news:a8578c9f-ef98-47a2-8478-
65fcdae6b...@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

On Dec 15, 9:12 am, Pers3id <pers...@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote:

So the CIA was aware of the FDN's drug trafficking activities and did
nothing to stop it. That is a huge step from implying the CIA were
trafficking in drugs themselves. Ya gotta love those rags to riches to
rags stories though.. poor south LA boy does well, owning properties all
over southern California, then winds up in Federal prison for life.

Feast:

http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/outline.html#intro

Lovely. Why do you suppose the cia would need to raise money selling drugs?
I mean, I'm sure they get hundreds of billions each year in play money from
the US taxpayers.

Well, they can always bank the info on their drug dealers for later
rendition when they are no longer useful to us. Noriega springs to mind ....

Woods

It's simply a fine way to raise money for "clandestine" operations.
Goes back to Vietnam, Air America and opium taken out of Laos and
other places.

Did you see that in a movie? I don't suppose you'd believe an actual
scholar instead. No, I'm sure you'd rather go on believing the worst
of your own country. It's what you do.

CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974
By William M. Leary

[excerpt] My nearly two decades of research indicate that Air America
was not involved in the drug trade. As Joseph Westermeyer, who spent
the years 1965 to 1975 in Laos as a physician, public health worker,
and researcher, wrote in Poppies, Pipes, and People: "American-owned
airlines never knowingly transported opium in or out of Laos, nor did
their American pilots ever profit from its transport. Yet every plane
in Laos undoubtedly carried opium at some time, unknown to the pilot
and his superiors--just as had virtually every pedicab, every Mekong
River sampan, and every missionary jeep between China and the Gulf of
Siam."

If the CIA was not involved in the drug trade, it did know about it.
As former DCI William Colby acknowledged, the Agency did little about
it during the 1960s,

On Dec 16, 6:44 am, John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote:

On Dec 16, 8:46 am, Woodswun <woods...@tepidmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:38:15 -0600, Pers3id wrote:

John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote in news:a8578c9f-ef98-47a2-8478-
65fcdae6b...@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

On Dec 15, 9:12 am, Pers3id <pers...@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote:

So the CIA was aware of the FDN's drug trafficking activities and did
nothing to stop it. That is a huge step from implying the CIA were
trafficking in drugs themselves. Ya gotta love those rags to riches to
rags stories though.. poor south LA boy does well, owning properties all
over southern California, then winds up in Federal prison for life.

Feast:

http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/outline.html#intro

Lovely. Why do you suppose the cia would need to raise money selling drugs?
I mean, I'm sure they get hundreds of billions each year in play money from
the US taxpayers.

Well, they can always bank the info on their drug dealers for later
rendition when they are no longer useful to us. Noriega springs to mind ....

Woods

It's simply a fine way to raise money for "clandestine" operations.
Goes back to Vietnam, Air America and opium taken out of Laos and
other places.

Did you see that in a movie? I don't suppose you'd believe an actual
scholar instead. No, I'm sure you'd rather go on believing the worst
of your own country. It's what you do.

CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974
By William M. Leary

[excerpt] My nearly two decades of research indicate that Air America
was not involved in the drug trade. As Joseph Westermeyer, who spent
the years 1965 to 1975 in Laos as a physician, public health worker,
and researcher, wrote in Poppies, Pipes, and People: "American-owned
airlines never knowingly transported opium in or out of Laos, nor did
their American pilots ever profit from its transport. Yet every plane
in Laos undoubtedly carried opium at some time, unknown to the pilot
and his superiors--just as had virtually every pedicab, every Mekong
River sampan, and every missionary jeep between China and the Gulf of
Siam."

If the CIA was not involved in the drug trade, it did know about it.
As former DCI William Colby acknowledged, the Agency did little about
it during the 1960s, but later took action against the traders as
drugs became a problem among American troops in Vietnam. The CIA's
main focus in Laos remained on fighting the war, not on policing the
drug trade. [end excerpt]