CIA,DEA. Drugs and assassinations in El Salvador.

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http://www.akha.org/content/drugwar/ciacocaineelsalvador.html

WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CELERINO CASTILLO III, (D.E.A., RETIRED) FOR THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT
COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
April 27, 1998



For several years, I fought in the trenches of the front lines of Reagan's "Drug War", trying to stamp out what I considered
American's greatest foreign threat. But, when I was posted, in Central and South America from 1984 through 1990, I knew we
were playing the "Drug War Follies." While our government shouted "Just Say No !", entire Central and South American nations
fell into what are now known as, "Cocaine democracies."

While with the DEA, I was able to keep journals of my assignments in Central and South America. These journals include names,
case file numbers and DEA NADDIS (DEA Master Computer) information to back up my allegations. I have pictures and original
passports of the victims that were murdered by CIA assets. These atrocities were done with the approval of the agencies.

We, ordinary Americans, can not trust the C.I.A. Inspector General to conduct a full investigation into the CIA or the DEA. Let
me tell you why. When President Clinton (June, 1996) ordered The Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct an investigation into
allegations that US Agents were involved in atrocities in Guatemala, it failed to investigate several DEA and CIA operations in
which U.S. agents knew before hand that individuals (some Americans) were going to be murdered.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Thanks for posting this document. I need to study more closely.

What a shame information like this has been completely hidden, denied, buried, when it's so overwhelmingly serious. F'r instance:

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When the Boland Amendment(s) cut the Contras off from a continued U.S. government subsidy, George Bush, his national
security adviser Don Gregg, and Ollie North, turned to certain foreign governments, and to private contributions, to replace
government dollars. Criminal sources of contributions were not excluded. By the end of 1981, through a series of Executive
Orders and National Security Decision Directives, many of which have been declassified, Vice President Bush was placed in charge
of all Reagan administration intelligence operations. All of the covert operations carried out by officers of the CIA, the Pentagon,
and every other federal agency, along with a rogue army of former intelligence operatives and foreign agents, were commanded
by George Bush. Gary Webb (San Jose Mercury News) acknowledged, that he simply had not traced the command structure over
the Contras up into the White House, although he had gotten some indications that the operation was not just CIA.

On Dec. 01, 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed a secret order authorizing the CIA to spend $19.9 million for covert military
aid to the recently formed Contras--- hardly enough money to launch a serious military operation against the Cuban and
Soviet-backed Sandinista regime.

In August 1982, George Bush hired Donald P. Gregg as his principal adviser for national security affairs. In late 1984, Gregg
introduced Oliver North to Felix Rodriguez, (a retired CIA agent) who had already been working in Central America for over a
year under Bush's direction. Gregg personally introduced Rodriguez to Bush on Jan. 22, 1985. Two days after his January 1985
meeting, Rodriguez went to El Salvador and made arrangements to set up his base of operations at Ilopango air base. On Nov. 01,
1984, the FBI arrested Rodriguez's partner, Gerard Latchinian and convicted him of smuggling $10.3 million in cocaine into the
U.S.

On Jan. 18, 1985, Rodriguez allegedly met with money-launderer Ramon Milan-Rodriguez, who had moved $1.5 billion for the
Medellin cartel. Milan testified before a Senate Investigation on the Contras' drug smuggling, that before this 1985 meeting, he had
granted Felix Rodriguez's request and given $10 million from the cocaine for the Contras.

It's no small matter. Unbelievable. It needs proper exposure. Thanks.

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2. Castillo's Web site:

http://www.powderburns.org/archives.html

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5. Donald Gregg, Commerce Secretary nominee.

Someone didn't do their homework.......

[Wednesdays]

3. K&R

:kick:

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4. DOJ file on Castillo

The other side of the coin:

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch10p1.htm

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch10p2.htm

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch10p3.htm

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch10p4.htm