ollie and drugs (excerpt) "At the present time, there is no evidence that supports the allegations made against the CIA," Reno declared on Sept. 13.
And in a masterful preemptive denial, Deutch declared a week earlier, "I believe there is no substance to the allegations," though he ordered an "internal review" of the charges.
If Deutch and Reno were really serious, they might begin by consulting the evidence gathered by the Senate subcommittee on narcotics and international terrorism.
A Sept. 26, 1984, Miami police intelligence report noted that money supporting contras being illegally trained in Florida "comes from narcotics transactions." Every page of the report is stamped: "Record furnished to George Kosinsky, FBI." Is Mr. Kosinsky's number missing from Reno's rolodex?
And how about a quick review of the personal notebooks of Oliver North? On July 9, 1984, North wrote that he "went and talked to (contra leader Federico) Vaughn, (who) wanted aircraft to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, wanted aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos." Kilos of what? Sugar?
"What the hell could North be talking about talking about?" said 25-year Drug Enforcement Agency veteran Michael Levine. "When I was serving in the DEA, if you gave me a page from someone in the government with notes like that, I would have been on his back investigating everything he did from the minute he woke up in the morning until he went to bed at night."
__________________ Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.-William S. Burroughs
“The Contras moved drugs not by the pound, not by the bags, but by the tons, by the cargo planeloads.” --Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, testimony under oath on Feb. 11, 1987
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orange county weekly ongoing coverage Vol. 10 No. 34 Apr. 29 - May 5, 2005 Dr. Death Revisited May 5 ,2005
In French TV documentary, ex-CIA official admits ties to CIA-cocaine scandal character
Ink-Stained Wretchedness April 25, 2005
http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/05/33/media.php
 BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, PART 1 While he was still alive, the mainstream media savaged investigative reporter Gary Webb, whose 1996 San Jose Mercury News series “Dark Alliance” revealed CIA ties to inner-city cocaine sales. The Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Washington Post published massive front-page stories purporting to debunk Webb’s reporting, and his own newspaper cowardly backed off his stories. It wasn’t until after Webb committed suicide last December that his former employer published a belated editorial apologizing for the betrayal.
Dead End Feb 25. 2005 Feds deny connection between CIA and ex-Laguna Beach cop and drug dealer. So why are his files secret?
"crack cop" april 2002 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has always denied that former Laguna Beach cop, international arms merchant and convicted drug dealer Ronald J. Lister ever worked for the CIA or other U.S. intelligence agencies. But the FBI also insists that revealing the details of Lister's various Iran-contra-era arms deals would compromise U.S. national security. ....
"crack cop" july 2001 FBI documents recently released to the OC Weekly show that a former top agency official met throughout that period with Ronald J. Lister, an ex-Laguna Beach cop who claimed to be the CIA's link between the South American cocaine trade, the Nicaraguan contras and LA's most notorious drug trafficker......
"secret agent men" oct. 1997 (excerpt) The balding guy in the bathrobe and slippers was pissed. Several police cars were parked outside his upscale Mission Viejo home. Their blue and red lights flashed in the early-morning light, a rare occurrence in neighborhoods like this one. And the cop cars outside seemed to bother the bald guy more than just about anything else. Never mind that an entire team of uniformed LA County Sheriff's deputies and narcotics agents had just filed through his front door. Never mind that they had a search warrant. What seemed to bother former Laguna Beach cop Ronald J. Lister, deputies later recalled, was what the neighbors would make of all those squad cars on the street.
"You're making a big mistake," Lister warned. He paced back and forth in his living room, claimed he was already aware that his house was being staked out by police, and promised that he had nothing to hide.
But when the detectives told Lister they were looking for drugs, his _expression_ hardened. He told the detectives he did business in South America and claimed that his "friends in Washington" weren't going to be pleased with what the cops were doing in his house. The police continued to rifle through his belongings.
Suddenly, Lister did something no one expected: he grabbed his telephone and threatened to dial the Langley, Virginia, headquarters of the CIA. "I'm going to report you to Scott Weekly of the CIA," he declared.
"tracks in the snow" may 1997 (excerpt) David Scott Weekly was first profiled in these pages when Lister's notes were released last year. That story was based largely on interviews with Bo Gritz, Weekly's sometime partner in paramilitary operations, as well as records from a 1987 Oklahoma City trial in which Weekly was convicted of smuggling C-4 explosives onto two civilian flights.
Weekly declined to be interviewed for that story and, when questioned by sheriff's investigators, acknowledged working with Lister but declined to answer direct questions about possible intelligence connections. He refused to say whether he had ever worked with the CIA, and then asserted he wouldn't admit such a relationship even if he had.
In fact, Weekly has in the past admitted to having exactly such a relationship. The comments surfaced in connection with the 1987 trial, but have not been made public until now.
Court records from that trial show that the explosives in question were used in a short-lived training operation for a handful of Afghan rebel leaders at a remote desert airstrip near Sandy Valley, Nevada. Gritz said the prosecution was part of a White House effort to discredit him and Weekly after they returned from a secret POW mission to Burma with videotaped interviews asserting that top CIA officials were involved in the Iron Triangle heroin trade.
Additional new background material on Weekly turns up in notes made by Mark Richard, a U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., based on conversations with Weekly's federal prosecutor. Richard submitted them to congressional investigators in 1987 as part of a deposition for the initial Iran-contra hearings. Those notes, obtained from the National Archives through a FOIA request, show that Weekly had ôpost[ed] on tape that he's tied into CIA and Hasenfus, and that Weekly ôsaid he reports to people reporting to [George] Bush.ö Richard's memo also reveals that Weekly had made a number of toll calls to the National Security Council.
Finally, Richard's notes say that Oklahoma City prosecutors found evidence that Weekly worked for Bo Gritz and ôTomö Lafrance in San Diego.
Weekly was convicted in Oklahoma City, but after spending 14 months of a five-year prison sentence, he was granted a resentencing hearing based on evidence that Weekly's Nevada training mission had indeed been carried out with the knowledge of U.S. government officials. On July 15, 1988, his sentence was reduced to time already served, and he was released.
Located late last month at his San Diego home, Weekly refused an offer to be interviewed for this story and chased the reporter from his front door.
NEW DOPE ON THE CONTRA-CRACK CONNECTION:
MYSTERY MAN LISTER HAD TIES TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE, AS DID HIS PARTNERS dec 1996 BY NICK SCHOU
LA Weekly October 04, 1996 HEADLINE: CONTRAS CROP UP IN L.A. COURTS NAMES, SCHEMES OF CONTRA TRAFFICKERS FIRST SURFACED HERE
__________________ Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.-William S. Burroughs
“The Contras moved drugs not by the pound, not by the bags, but by the tons, by the cargo planeloads.” --Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, testimony under oath on Feb. 11, 1987
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