How the CIA gets away with it: Our democracy is their real enemy

[JonLP24]

43. In addition to all these great CIA articles

I'd like to add "The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read" -- this one has numerous sources

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The Reagan Commission on Organized Crime spent much of 1984 attacking Deak’s global foreign exchange firm, Deak-Perera. By the end of the year, Deak was forced to appear before the commission in a testy public interrogation; his financial empire collapsed within days.

A year later, in 1985, Deak was assassinated in his Wall Street high-rise by a paranoid-schizophrenic bag lady from Seattle, who’d been hired for the job by Latin American mobsters, according to a private internal investigation led by former FBI detectives. The assassin, Lois Lang (pictured above), had previously spent several murky years in the underbelly of Silicon Valley, where she fell under the care of a famous Stanford Research Institute psychiatrist, Frederick Melges — an expert on dosing his subjects with drugs and hypnosis to induce “artificial” dissociative states. Perhaps not surprisingly, Dr. Melges was up to his eyeballs in secret CIA behavior modification programs that were going on at Stanford until they were exposed in Congressional hearings in 1977. [For more on this stranger-than-fiction story, read “James Bond and the Killer Bag Lady” co-authored with Alexander Zaitchik.]

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Nicholas Deak should’ve been the least likely target for a Reagan Administration takedown over cocaine money laundering, and not only because the same Reagan Administration was busy aiding and abetting the CIA’s mercenary army, the Contras, as they moved cocaine into the US, and illegal weapons into their Honduras bases. What made targeting Deak all the stranger was that one of Deak’s closest longtime friends, William Casey, was head of Reagan’s CIA at that time. And as Gary Webb’s reporting (and Robert Parry’s exposés before and after Webb) have shown, Casey’s CIA was at that very same time aiding and protecting the Contras’ cocaine-running operation.

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Kristof did enough of his archive searching to uncover Deak’s role in some spectacularly shady intelligence operations, but somehow managed to miss Deak’s own intelligence links — including Deak-Perera’s central role in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal, the “Watergate of Corporate America,” under which the CIA funneled millions of bribe dollars to a Japanese war criminal-turned-Yakuza don, who used the funds to influence Japan’s ruling party. Deak-Perera moved the CIA’s funds; Lockheed reps and a Spanish-born priest in Macao carried the cash. Here, however, Kristof leaves out the CIA’s role, so that it all appears, in Kristof’s limited grasp, to reflect “the peculiar world of high finance”:

http://pando.com/2014/10/26/the-biggest-cia-drug-money-scandal-you-never-read/

Probably more important than whatever it is, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, oil production, etc, is for some reason following the money doesn't interest people or viewed as a similar concern but what is more important or more harmful is where the money goes.

Wachovia launders $378 billion in drug money, hit with $70 million fine, invest in for-profit prisons. It implies the higher up you go the pyramid, the more you begin to see in political & business connections.

Follow the oil money, private defense contractors, Saudi Arabia--Kuwait--Qatar, the information wars. Why the media hypes a bad guy. I wanted to scream when the panel on Real Time expressed a desire for Saudi Arabia to be more involved in battling IS. Really, IS can only be marginally worse than the 'House of Saud'. Follow the money which the above article does an excellent job of.