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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 195
agency to perform “other functions and duties” that the president might direct—in
effect, creating the legal authority for the CIA’s covert operatives to break any
law in pursuit of their objectives. From this vague clause has sprung the entire
CIA covert action ethos and the radical pragmatism that have encouraged
repeated alliances with drug lords over the past four decades.
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McCoy further notes; “During the 1980s CIA covert operations in Afghanistan
transformed southern Asia from a self-contained opium zone into a major supplier of heroin for
the world market.”
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Rodney Stich says the CIA engages “in drug trafficking in foreign
countries and the United States.” He says it is “a key reason for the proliferation of drugs
worldwide.”
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He further writes:
The CIA has stimulated drug trafficking in the Far East, Central and South
America, the Middle East, and Africa. All of these unlawful operations escalated
the drug crisis in the United States to epidemic proportions, generating huge
profits for the U.S. intelligence agencies and many of those who participate in it.
Possibly the largest CIA drug operation was that which was carried out in
the Far East in the Golden Triangle area.”
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Many authors and journalists have documented the CIA's involvement in international
drug trafficking. Connie Chung reported on Eye to Eye on June 17, 1993 that the Air Force was
smuggling drugs in from Central and South America. A pilot appeared who was part of the
operation.
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Stories about the CIA bringing Contra drugs into the Mena airport in Arkansas has
appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and numerous books. The CIA itself
admitted that all 58 of the known Contra groups were involved in the drug trade. Michael
Ruppert, a former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Narcotics Detective says the CIA has
been involved in international drug trafficking since its very beginning. He states: “The CIA has
dealt drugs for all 50 years of its existence—50 plus years, even before it was the CIA. And the
point is that with 250 billion dollars a year in illegal drug money moved, laundered through the
American economy, that money benefits Wall Street. That's the point of having the prohibitive
drug trade, which the CIA effectively manages for the benefit of Wall Street.”
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Ruppert says
that he first became aware of the CIA’s heavy involvement in the drug trade through a woman he
“fell in love with” who was a “contract CIA agent”. He writes: “I began to see that she was
protecting drug shipments and that the Agency was actively involved in dealing drugs. This
happened with her in Hawaii, Mexico, Texas and New Orleans…”
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Ruppert comes from a CIA family and his mother worked for the NSA. The CIA
recruited him to be a covert agent and protect their drug shipments. Here’s what he said in an
interview:
I was first recruited when I was a senior at UCLA. The Agency flew me to
Washington and said: “Mike, we want you to become a CIA case officer. You've
already interned for LAPD for three years, you interned for the chief, your family
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