Clinton Bush and CIA Conspiracies by Attwood Shaun

Author:Attwood, Shaun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Gadfly Press
Published: 2019-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Ex-Cop Exposes CIA Director

In November 1996, with the black community of Los Angeles enraged by Gary Webb’s exposure of the government’s role in trafficking cocaine, Representative Maxine Waters invited the CIA director, John Deutch, to offer an explanation at a town hall meeting at a high school in Watts. The former MIT professor showed up to a crowd of 1,000 angry people. All of the major newspapers and network news teams were present, including Ted Koppel’s Nightline.

A Congresswoman who used to be a teacher approached the microphone. “It’s not up to us to prove the CIA was involved in drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. Rather, it’s up to them to prove they were not.”

As Deutch got up to speak, the crowd booed and jeered. “I’m going to be brief. I want to make four points, and only four points. First, the people of the CIA and I understand the tremendous horror that drugs have been to Americans, what drugs do to families and communities, and the way drugs kill babies. We understand how ravaging drugs are in this country. CIA employees and I share your anger at the injustice and lack of compassion that drug victims encounter.”

“He sounds just like Clinton!” someone yelled.

“During the past two years,” Deutch said, “while I have been director of Central Intelligence, our case officers’ intelligence operations have directly worked to capture all of the Cali Cartel drug lords. We have seriously disrupted the flow of coca paste between the growing areas of Peru and Bolivia to the cocaine processing facilities in Colombia. We have seized huge amounts of heroin grown in the poppy fields of Southwest Asia. Our purpose is to stop drugs from coming into the US. So my second point is that the CIA is fighting against drugs.”

The audience grumbled.

“Our activities are secret. Accordingly, there’s not a lot of public understanding of what we do. I understand that people are suspicious of the CIA, and in the course of recruiting agents to break up those groups that bring drugs into the US, our case officers, our men and women deal with bad people, very bad people, sometimes at great risk to their lives. These are criminals with which we must deal if we are going to stop drugs from coming to the country. They frequently lie about their relationships with us for their own purpose. So it is hard for members of the public to know what is true and what is not true …

“Now we all know that the US government and the CIA supported the Contras in their efforts to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the mid-’80s. It is alleged that the CIA also help the Contras raise money for arms by introducing crack cocaine into California. It is an appalling charge that goes to the heart of this country. It is a charge that cannot go unanswered,” Deutch said, pounding on a table. “It says that the CIA, an agency of the United States

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