THE CIA: Complaint about Peruvian spy no longer `secret'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Wednesday, 09.09.09
THE CIA
Complaint about Peruvian spy no longer `secret'
The CIA has declassified a complaint about the agency's relationship with Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos that it had once classified as ``Secret.''

BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
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A CIA whistle-blower complained in 2001 that the agency may have broken U.S. laws by failing to pursue allegations that Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos trafficked in drugs and laundered money, according to the complaint.

The next week, the CIA classified the complaint as ``Secret.'' The agency finally declassified it this February, amid a long-running lawsuit by the whistle-blower, Franz Boening, arguing that was a violation of his First Amendment rights.

``I wish to call to your attention several very serious issues, including possible violations of U.S. laws, related to CIA's alleged operational relationship with Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos,'' Boening wrote in his May 10, 2001 complaint to the agency's inspector general.

``Montesinos almost certainly used CIA tools and bureaucratic support to facilitate his crimes,'' he added.

Boening's complaint was based on previously published reports about Montesinos, his tight relationship with the CIA and his involvement in drug smuggling, money laundering, weapons trafficking and human rights violations. The CIA has been often and openly criticized for its ties to Montesinos.


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[Peace Patriot]

1. The rest of this story is important. However--BIG CAVEAT: This is the Miasma Herald.

***WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!***

The Miasma Herald is a Byzantine spider's web of corpo/fascist propaganda, and very likely a direct conduit from the CIA (copies and pastes CIA disinformation). ALWAYS, ALWAYS question the Miasma's motive for publishing anything like this, and their spin (if you can unspin it).

Here's the rest of the article:

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Montesinos, now serving several prison sentences of up to 20 years in Peru, was the notorious intelligence chief and liaison with the CIA during President Alberto Fujimori's rule, 1990-2000.

But the agency classified the complaint 'because it did not want to be publicly embarrassed,'' Boening said in a telephone interview from his home in West Virginia. 'CIA should not be able to classify newspaper or magazine articles just because it doesn't like criticisms.'

Boening wrote his complaint just months after Fujimori fled Peru in 2000 amid mounting protests against alleged election fraud. The declassified version was first published by Secrecy News, part of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.

'CIA's possible violations were the unfortunate by-product of CIA's conscious policy not to act on clear indicators of Montesinos' criminal activity,' Boening wrote in his complaint. 'CIA pursued this passive policy in order to prolong this relationship . . . which it considered useful.'

'I must also emphasize that CIA's relationship with Montesinos was extraordinarily scandalous at the political level,' he added. 'In effect, during the 1990s CIA pursued a type of separate foreign policy vis-a-vis Peru. It worked with, supported apologized for' Montesinos.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1224015.html

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Some questions to ask about this story are:

WHY would the Miasma Herald print this story? How does it serve CIA interests?

Is somebody in the CIA trying to purge somebody else in the CIA (more than likely for ill purposes)?

Remember, Byzantine.

Is it cover of some kind? Perhaps to try to position the issue of official drug trafficking in the past--make it seem long ago? --cuz maybe something about Bush Cartel drug trafficking is about to come out?

WHY would the Miasma give any ink to a critic of the CIA, since their job is to provide cover for CIA activities in Latin America, and they probably are CIA?

I'm just thinking off the cuff here, but this is how you have to think about Miasma articles. They work hand in glove with the CIA and various corpo/fascist and war profiteer interests to destroy democracy in Latin America, and support the worst fascist politicians and criminals, and the truly horrendous US policies, in the region, including use of the US "war on drugs" for war profiteering, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and other crimes. Their purpose is to keep the people of the U.S. in the dark about all this. So why would they expose this piece of it?

I am not particularly suspicious that Boening (the whistle-blower) is part of any plot or dirty scheme. He could be--and likely is--just a whistleblower, pissed off at the crimes he's stumbled upon and at the secrecy surrounding them. He may be a very courageous man. But the Miasma does not reward real courage in the cause of truth. There is something else to this, that we can't see. And the first clue is that it is appearing in print at all.

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[24601]

2. This is all about stuff from the 1990s. You expect me to believe that

Bill Clinton's CIA did this bullshit? Maybe the Reagan - Bush - Bush CIA, but between the Bushes, Clinton would have not allowed it.

A bit of history on Clinton last spymaster.

George Tenet was Clinton's last DCI and CIA Chief (appointed 1996) and he was the Deputy DCI before that (95-96).

Before that he was the National Security Council Senior Director for Intelligence Programs (93-95).

Before that he was Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (89-93) under Senator Boren.

And before that, he was a SSCI staff member, designee to Vice Chairman, Senator Pat Leahy.

No doubt, he has tried and true Democratic credentials...Right up until he told Bush Iraq WMD was a slam dunk.