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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 26


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 26
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period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 7.
 
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CONSPIRACY: 
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT 
 
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United       
 States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
  Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
   Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
 
 
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
 
(continued)
 
 
30.  Scott, Peter Dale, Deep Politics And The Death Of JFK, 
Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1993.  
Scott is a Professor of English at the University of California, 
Berkeley.  He has also written other relevant books, two of which 
are, Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas- 
Watergate Connection, and Cocaine Politics:  Drugs, Armies, and 
the CIA in Central America.  Summary:  He defines deep politics 
as "all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or 
not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged."  He 
further states, "...the fact that certain procedures are 
repressed from public consciousness becomes itself suppressed. 
Occasionally, however, such 'connections' between overworld and 
underworld impact radically upon the public realm, and we have 
unexplained crises such as the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, 
and Contragate."  He also shows connections with S & L scandal, 
bank failures, and many others.
 
His book is not about the Kennedy assassination.  His book is 
about government corruption, government involvement with old 
Nazis, the wide-spread use of prostitution in Washington, DC 
merely to hold our elected officials for ransom, drug 
trafficking, intelligence agencies, terrorism in foreign 
countries, private wealth, multinational corporations, the 
international scope of organized crime, BCCI & Nugan-Hand Bank & 
other financial institutions used by the CIA to launder drug 
money, and the military industrial complex. He uses the JFK 
assassination merely as a vehicle to give specific examples.  He 
contends that if you were to deeply investigate any particular 
scandal you would come up with the same list, the same names, the 
same scenario basically.  (He gives specifics to back up his 
assertion relative to other scandals.)
 
He states, "Conspiracy theories 'encourage a belief that if we 
get rid of a few bad people, everything would be well in the 
world.'...The conspiracies I see as operative, in other words, 
are part of our political structure, not exceptions to it."  In 
other words, a conspiratorial approach is built into, 
institutionalized, into "the way we are systematically governed."
 
"It is certainly true, as the establishment press reiterates from 
time to time, that many people are psychologically disposed to 
conspiratorial explanations for events like political 
murder....Such psychological explanations can be put forward in 
an open-minded and truth-seeking spirit, but only if their 
proponents concede that the opposite is also true.  That is, many 
people, particularly those whose productive careers have 
prospered under the status quo, are equally disposed on 
psychological grounds to reject conspiratorial explanations for 
events that affect the legitimacy of the society they live in."
 
He investigates that repressed area where political and criminal 
activities interface.  "To the twenty-one or more who are 
supposed to have died violent deaths during the Warren Commission 
investigation, Anthony Summers adds a supplementary list of 
sixteen, who died at the time of the Garrison investigation of 
l967, Church Committee investigation of l975-76, and House 
Committee investigation of l977-78."  He proposes a symbiosis of 
crime and federal law enforcement that "used and/or protected 
international narcotics traffickers as agents against communism, 
not just informants."  He points to the flood of drugs into this 
country since WWII as an "unspeakable" issue leading to the many 
cover-ups, and that "men of enormous private wealth and power who 
both sustained and profited from the symbiosis of crime and 
government."
 
"[A retired Washington detective] is convinced that the 
systematic sexual seduction of Congress and the Administration is 
an ongoing, highly organized, and protected operation.... 
Subsequent revelations about Watergate in l972, and the so-called 
Koreagate scandal of l978, corroborates his hypothesis that mob- 
supplied call girls, with their phones bugged by intelligence 
agents, have driven the major scandals of Washington since at 
least the beginning of the Cold War."
 
He contends that the assassination caused a great upsurge in 
domestic intelligence gathering on political dissenters, as well 
as on congress, an informed electorate, and the press - three key 
elements of a democracy.  "There are those who argue that the 
FBI's primary institutional goal was never the prosecution of 
crime, but the surveillance and repression of political dissent."
 
He states, "There is a deep pattern in this country where mob- 
controlled funds, licit and illicit, are brought in to revitalize 
declining 'old wealth' firms."  He shows connections between the 
Nugan-Hand Bank, BCCI, S & L scandal, and other financial 
institutions with organized crime.
 
"It is normal, not unusual, for the entry of major U.S. firms 
into Third World countries to be facilitated and sustained, 
indeed made possible, by corruption.  More often than not, from 
China and Southeast Asia to Lebanon and South America, the key 
corrupters have been simultaneously CIA-connected and major 
figures in the international narcotics traffic."
 
"To now recognize a transnational dimension to [deep politics] is 
not to refute our earlier model, but to refine it:  to recognize 
that the American political system is of necessity an open one, 
and thus increasingly susceptible to the growing influence of 
money and intelligence penetration from abroad.  The systemic 
adjustment of which we have spoken is thus one not confined to 
the perimeters of U.S. sovereignty.
 
"Transnational connections are common modes of interaction 
between intelligence agencies, often in intrigues of which heads 
of government may be, at best, only dimly aware.  Sometimes they 
may give rise to more overt, structured arrangements or forums, 
such as the World Anti-Communist League, a forum, financed over 
the years by countries like Nationalist China and Saudi Arabia, 
with recurring links to the international drug traffic.
 
"These transnational connections can be thought of as rather 
clumsy efforts to fill what I see as the great governmental 
vacuum which has existed, especially since World War II, when 
sovereignty has not expanded to deal with the multinational 
society, economy, and even polity in which we live. Transnational 
connections have thrived in this vacuum, some to fill human 
needs, and many, many others to exploit them."
 
He goes on to tell the story of two brothers who emerged as 
popular leaders 100 years before Rome perished.  They were 
determined to check corruption in their government.  They were 
murdered by the senatorial class who had felt threatened by the 
reforms.  As its army's conquests impressed many, more men and 
resources were given to it.  "Even after the imperator Augustus 
took up permanent residence in Rome, the Senate continued to 
meet. Historians wrote about decadence, and moralists vowed to 
revive the old family virtues.  A class accustomed to participate 
in civic institutions continued to do just that and no more, for 
generations.  People found it preferable to ignore the fact that 
real power had migrated out of these institutions, into an 
imperial regime, the armies and the courts of the army 
commanders.  The self-respect of the senatorial classes depended 
on this denial.
 
"I do not wish to make too much of this cliched analogy, only to 
draw attention to the social function of denial in masking 
political change. We still talk of an America of constitutional 
government.  But in crisis after crisis the real power centers 
turn out to be institutions like the CIA, or the National 
Security Council, which the Constitution never contemplated and 
arguably cannot survive."
 
 
 
31.  Levine, Michael, The Big White Lie, New York, New York, 
Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.  Levine is a 25 year veteran and 
former agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency and author.  Summary:  
Expose of how the pro-DEA ruling government in Bolivia was 
overthrown by a CIA-sponsored coup and the ex-government members 
tortured and killed by CIA-sponsored paramilitary terrorists 
under the command of fugitive Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, a 
man protected by the CIA.  The torture methods used were taught 
by the CIA.  Those killed are now being found in mass graves.  
The primary goal of the coup was protection and control of 
Bolivia's cocaine industry.  During this CIA-sponsored coup, 
"thousands were herded in sports stadiums in a style reminiscent 
of the 1973 Chilean Coup [another CIA-sponsored event], from 
where special groups were selected for torture and 
execution....The main enemies of the revolution were union 
leaders, student leaders, journalists, progressive clergy, 
political activists, and just ordinary Bolivians who happened to 
be in someone's gunsight."  Klaus Barbie's neo-Nazi goons were 
furnished a private torture house (with thick walls so the 
victims' screams would not be heard) belonging to a CIA asset 
named Sonia Atala, who was the "chief international sales rep" 
for the Bolivian drug running government.  Sonia Atala was 
protected by the CIA, brought to the U.S., entered by the CIA 
into the Witness Protection Program, and under new ID again began 
her drug trafficking, later again arrested but again protected by 
the CIA. Further, with full cooperation, aid and knowledge of the 
U.S. government, all her wealth and properties in Bolivia were 
returned to her as she was returned to Bolivia.
 
Documents "how the CIA created La Corporacion, the 'General 
Motors of cocaine,' which led directly to the current 
cocaine/crack epidemic."  Senator John Kerry said, "Our system of 
justice had been perverted; that [our covert agencies] had 
converted themselves into channels for the flow of drugs into the 
U.S."  Evidence which should have jailed high government 
officials for ten to twenty years was heard in "secret session" 
and will never be revealed to the American people.  This secrecy 
was allegedly for reasons of national security.  Drug-using 
federal judges and prosecutors implicated by informers are 
protected by the CIA from investigation, let alone indictment, 
trial or sentencing. Critical U.S. evidence against drug 
traffickers is suddenly missing after being sent by diplomatic 
pouch.  Word on the street among DEA agents is that one of their 
own was assassinated by the CIA because "he was involved in cases 
that overlapped CIA interests" and "knew too much about the CIA 
smuggling drugs into the U.S. to support its own interests.
 
Michael "Pat" Sullivan, a Miami Assistant U.S. Attorney, released 
and failed to indict drug trafficker and murderer Jose Gasser 
from the CIA connected family that had funded the coup.  Levine 
had seen drug traffickers be held, indicted, tried, convicted, 
and sentenced to thirty years on less evidence than what Sullivan 
had on Gasser, yet Sullivan set Gasser free to return to Bolivia 
where the CIA then helped him to overthrow the Bolivian 
government.
 
Levine was sent on wild goose chases when he got too close to the 
truth.  He was set up by the DEA to testify against a major drug 
baron, but with no protection.  After calling headquarters to 
complain, he was told to cool his heels, that the DEA official 
would straighten it out. The DEA official never provided Levine 
protection that whole week and never even called Levine back.
 
The coup was instigated and supported by the CIA for two reasons:  
First, because the newly elected government was leftist; and 
second, to insure that President Carter would lose the election 
if it appeared that he lost an entire country to drug 
trafficking. (Simultaneous with the Bolivian Coup, the alleged 
"October Surprise" was being mounted, wherein "the CIA and Reagan 
election committee conspired to delay the release of American 
hostages in Iran to insure Carter's defeat.")
 
Levine discovered that "the less enforcement [he] did, the better 
[he] got along with [his] bosses."  Everything he observed in the 
media was incomplete, uninformed, poorly investigated or 
carefully edited such that it would not expose special interests.  
The general media intent was to leave the American people with 
the impression that American leaders were actually trying to win 
the drug war.
 
After Reagan was elected, DEA was informed it was being taken 
over by the FBI.  The ensuing changes included impractical 
approaches seemingly designed to slow down enforcement (i.e., all 
DEA agents were to now wear "business type suits, shirts - off 
white, white, or pale blue, only - and ties at all times," and 
reorganizing DEA by drug of choice, the marijuana desk, the 
heroine desk, the cocaine desk, etc., making the investigation of 
any drug dealers involved with trafficking more than one drug (a 
usual and expected phenomena) almost impossible to investigate.
 
Levine was removed from his Argentina post and put under 
surveillance and investigation, not the first agent to have 
stepped on the toes of special interest and then been 
neutralized.  A DEA agent in Honduras had documented that "the 
Honduran Military - which was then helping Oliver North and the 
CIA to support the anti-Sandinista Contras in Nicaragua - was the 
source of more than 50 tons of cocaine smuggled into the U.S. in 
a 15-month period, or half the estimated U.S. consumption.  The 
DEA suits (the bureaucratic armchair generals directing the drug 
war) promptly transferred that agent out of Honduras and closed 
the office."
 
Levine quotes other sources as well.  James Mills says in his 
book, The Underground Empire, "The CIA in its pursuit of 
intelligence and influence, often courts the same powerful 
figures [DEA] pursued as criminals...and intelligence wins 
precedence over law enforcement.  The highly connected tuxedo- 
clad criminal is left in place to provide intelligence to the US. 
- and drugs to its citizens."
 
Levine's partners and colleagues were interrogated numerous times 
in an intimidation attempt to get them to change their statements 
to incriminate Levine.  The DEA street agents don't understand 
the DEA suits since the suits' decisions often appear incompetent 
and even make the street agents wonder which side of the drug war 
the suits are on. Examples are given of two DEA agents sent to 
Columbia into a hazardous situation unarmed and with no backup, 
and who were consequently kidnapped and shot.  Other agents have 
been tortured and killed.  But this is covered up to this day.  
For example, in the case of the two DEA agents in Columbia, a 
high level DEA official rushed to Columbia and wrote a report to 
absolve the top suits of any blame in which he stated that "the 
fact that [the agents] were unarmed may have actually worked to 
[their] advantage," an idea that was greatly disputed by the 
agents who were shot.
 
Many tax dollars are wasted, by weeks, months, and even years of 
DEA meetings, preparation, training and investigations only to 
have the criminal targets set free in the end because they are 
CIA assets.
 
Levine was assigned to do "a reverse undercover sting with DEA's 
best informant and its worst dope."  The dope was so diluted, it 
would be difficult to sell on the street, much less to major 
dealers.  Either the investigation was being sabotaged or someone 
within DEA had stolen some dope and diluted the rest to cover the 
theft."  Levine made video tapes of the big time dealers testing 
the dope, coming up short, getting suspicious, and refusing the 
buy.  "The tapes should have been more than enough to start a 
dozen classic Internal Security investigations."  He had also 
lodged complaints with the three DEA suits in charge of the 
sting.  "Not only had no investigation been started, but [he] was 
forced to continue the undercover sting using the same suspicious 
cocaine." Consequently, few if any dealers took the bait.  Yet, 
the DEA has tons of pure cocaine just sitting in warehouses 
waiting to be destroyed.
 
"The difference in purity indicated that a minimum of twelve 
kilos of cocaine, having a street value of $2.4 million, had been 
removed or stolen in the midst of what DEA had described as its 
highest-priority investigation."
 
Levine mailed a letter to Newsweek Magazine detailing the fraud, 
the cover-up, and the complicity of our own U.S. government in 
the drug trade. [CN -- Levine sent his letter to Newsweek with 
return receipt requested. He received the return receipt, 
indicating that Newsweek had received his letter. Newsweek 
neither followed up this lead by contacting Levine, nor printed 
Levine's letter.] Representative Larry Smith, pursuant to the 
House investigation of the torture death of DEA agent Enrique 
"Kiki" Camarena, stated, "What has a DEA agent who puts his life 
on the line got to look forward to? The U.S. government is not 
going to back him up.  I find that intolerable."
 
When the CIA is involved, defendants are mysteriously released 
from jail and the case destroyed, evidence mysteriously 
disappears, investigative leads strangely never followed, 
evidence illegally destroyed and tampered with and no one 
questions the matter, in violation of all DEA and Department of 
Justice regulations and federal laws.
 
In part, the reason CIA assets guilty of drug dealing were 
protected from the U.S. criminal justice system was that if any 
of them were indicted, the CIA's "role in the takeover of Bolivia 
by drug dealers, rapists, and murderers - and perhaps their role 
in drug dealing, too - might be revealed to the American people."  
Senator John Kerry said, "Our covert agencies have converted 
themselves to channels for drugs."
 
"In her book, Out of Control, (New York:  Atlantic Monthly Press, 
1987), investigative journalist Leslie Cockburn shows quite 
conclusively that the only official inquiry into the U.S. 
government's involvement in the trafficking of drugs to its own 
people was a sham, the purpose of which was to cover up the very 
crimes it was supposed to be investigating."
 
After two and a half years of their attempt to indict Levine, all 
they could come up with were three petty questionable violations 
and one week suspension without pay.  "[He] was being charged 
with a questionable transaction with an informant (a transaction 
DEA had ordered [him] to do with Tanya), unauthorized phone calls 
from the American embassy (the phone calls to [his] kids when 
Suarez [a Columbian drug dealer] put a price on [his] head), and 
failure to keep receipts and records of expenses while working 
undercover during the Suarez operation (an offense that can only 
be likened to charging a soldier on combat duty with failure to 
file an income tax form)."
 
As Levine retired from the DEA, his one trustworthy supervisor 
told Levine, "It's f------ getting worse and worse and worse.  
Expose this f------ fraud, Michael.  Expose it."
 
To the Bolivian drug lord government, the drug war was a dog and 
pony show to trot in front of U.S. politicians and media to keep 
U.S. aid flowing into Bolivia.  It was rumored that at least one 
of the biggest cocaine labs - the one at Huanchaca - belonged to 
the CIA to help finance its covert operations in South America.  
Eyewitness reports place Oliver North at the Huanchaca lab.
 
The Columbian Government and the U.S. Government knew that the 
Columbian economy was far too dependent on drugs to risk real war 
on them.  "Besides, drug money was the only thing repaying the 
huge debts owed by countries like Columbia, Bolivia, and Peru to 
already nervous U.S. bankers."  Ultimately, the Bolivian 
Government served up Arce-Gomez, an aging, penniless, broken man 
long out of the drug business and no longer a threat to anyone 
but himself.  The U.S. Government and DEA suits claimed, "We 
never gave up.  We kept looking for him."  They claimed that Arce- 
Gomez' arrest ended a six-year search.  "'Bringing [him] to trial 
is a significant strike against the danger posed to the U.S. by 
those who deal in narcotics....Similar statements would be made 
by every politician who ever won a vote supporting our war on 
drugs and every suit whose job depended on its continued 
existence.  Soon after, Bolivia received an increase in U.S. aid 
dollars."
 
"However, Arce-Gomez was "found" on his mother's farm near Santa 
Cruz, where DEA agents in Bolivia had reported seeing [him] 
openly shopping in [the] downtown [area] for the past several 
years."
 
"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," including the 
Mujahedin in Afghanistan (heroin), the Contras in Central America 
(cocaine), the DFS in Mexico, the Shan United Army in the Golden 
Triangle of Southeast Asia, and "any of a score of other groups 
and/or individuals like Manuel Noriega. Support of these people 
has been secretly deemed more important than getting drugs off 
our streets."
 
After thirty years of paying countries like Bolivia, Peru, 
Columbia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Ghana, Nigeria, Iran, 
India, Pakistan, Mexico, and Southeast Asia billions of aid and 
hundreds of millions in drug war funds, drugs continue to pour 
into the U.S. at an ever increasing rate.
 
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
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