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Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King
The Franklin Scandal Tried in Civil Court

U.S. government mind control programs, like MK-Ultra and Monarch, directed
against helpless victims--human guinea pigs--have been virtually ignored by
the Big Media Cartel. On Feb. 27, 1999, however, U.S. District Court Judge
Warren Urbom found former Franklin S&L manager Lawrence E. King guilty of
numerous crimes committed against mind control victim Paul A. Bonacci.

King, serving a 15-year sentence for his role in the theft of $40 million
from Franklin, an Omaha, Neb., credit union, was ordered by Judge Urbom to
pay Bonacci $800,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $200,000 in
punitive damages.

This legal judgement against a notorious perpetrator of satanic-ritual child
abuse is unprecedented. In the Memorandum of Decision, Judge Urbom wrote,
"King continually subjected the plaintiff [Bonacci] to repeated sexual
assaults, false imprisonment, infliction of extreme emotional distress,
organized and directed satanic rituals, forced the plaintiff to 'scavenge'
for children to be a part of the defendant King's sexual abuse and
pornography ring, forced the plaintiff to engage in numerous sexual contacts
with the defendant King and others and participate in deviate sexual games
and masochistic orgies with other minor children.

"He [Bonacci] has suffered burns, broken fingers, beatings of the head and
face and other indignities by the wrongful actions of the defendant King,"
the judge declared. "In addition to the misery of going through the
experiences just related over a period of eight years [1980-1988], the
plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the present time. "He
[Bonacci] is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many as
14 distinct personalities aside from his primary personality," wrote the
judge.

"He has given up a desired military career and received threats on his life.
He suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams, has difficulty holding a job,
is fearful that others are following him, fears getting killed, has
depressing flashbacks, and is verbally violent on occasion, all in
connection with the multiple personality disorder and caused by the wrongful
activities of the defendant King."

Franklin Cover-up

Bonacci's lawyer, John DeCamp, has waged a long, lonely and expensive legal
campaign in exposing crimes involving an international pedophile-pornography
ring.

In 1991, DeCamp filed a 12-count suit in federal court, charging 16
prominent individuals and institutions, including Lawrence E. King, Omaha
World Herald Publisher Harold Andersen and the Omaha Police Department with
conspiracy to deprive Paul Bonacci of his civil rights. DeCamp's suit
detailed slander, false imprisonment, child abuse, assault, battery and
infliction of emotional distress suffered by Bonacci.

The complex case also involved high-level politicians, business leaders,
judges and police officials with connections to the drug distribution/money
laundering operations known as "Iran"-Contra which goes back to then
Vice-President George Bush. DeCamp, a former Nebraska State Senator, even
wrote a groundbreaking book about the sordid history of the case called The
Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska.

Monarch Project

The horrendous Monarch Project "refers to young people in America who were
victims of mind control experiments run either by U.S. government agencies
such as the Central Intelligence Agency or military intelligence agencies,"
writes DeCamp. "The story told by Monarch victims--one of whom was Paul
Bonacci--is that they were tortured for the purpose of creating 'multiple
personalities' within them," DeCamp continues from his book. "These multiple
personalities could then be programmed--as spies, 'drug mules,' prostitutes
or assassins."

An article by Anton Chaitkin, quoted in the book, states that "professionals
probing the child victims of 'Monarch' say there are clearly two responsible
elements at work: the government/military, and cooperating satanic (or more
exactly pagan) cults. These are multi-generation groups, whose parents
donate their own children--who are proudly called 'bloodline' or simply
'blood' cultists--to be smashed with drugs and electric shock and shaped.
Other children are kidnapped and sold into this hell, or are brought in
gradually through day care situations.

"Paul Bonacci and other child victims have given evidence in great depth on
the central role of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino in this depravity," continues
Chaitkin. "Aquino, alleged to have recently retired from an active military
role, was long the leader of an Army psychological warfare section which
drew on his 'expertise' and personal practices in brainwashing, Satanism,
Nazism, homosexual pedophilia and murder." DeCamp's victory in court and the
million dollar judgement is a vindication of mind control survivors Paul
Bonacci, Alisha Owens and others who were falsely imprisoned to keep them
from testifying against their abusers.

Police and FBI Cover-Up

According to the sworn testimony of Noreen Gosch, an activist on behalf of
"Missing Children," whose own 12-year-old son Johnny, a West Des Moines,
Iowa paperboy kidnapped in 1991, was drugged and sold into prostitution and
pornography. "There was no law on the books in Iowa or most any other state
in the country specifying that the police would have to act sooner than 72
hours-even though we had five witnesses that could describe the car, the man
and various details of the kidnapping. So I wrote the first piece of
legislation which became the Johnny Gosch Bill.

Gosch also alleges that the FBI were active in quashing a TV expose. "Just
prior to the 'America's Most Wanted' story going on the air...within a week
or two of airtime, the FBI in Quantico, Virg. contacted 'America's Most
Wanted' and told them to kill the story," Gosch continued. They did not want
the Johnny Gosch story broadcast," she says. The only reason the story went
on is because John Walsh is a personal friend, and he stood up to them, and
he said this story goes. This woman does not lie. I've known her for years.
We're going with the story. You can fire me afterwards. We're doing the
story.

And they did the story. But the FBI tried to kill this story."

When DeCamp, the attorney, asked her if she knew why, she replied, "Well, of
course. It would have opened up the biggest scandal in the United States,
bigger than the Iran-Contra story. Bigger than President Clinton's
infidelities." The Satanic-Military MK-Ultra Mind Control Connection
Continuing her sworn testimony, Noreen Gosch spoke about "the MK-Ultra
program developed in the 1950s by the CIA. It was used to help spy on other
countries during the Cold War because they felt that the other countries
were spying on us. It was very successful.

"...Then there was a man by the name of Michael Aquino. He was in the
military. He had top Pentagon clearance. He was a Satanist. He's founded the
Temple of Set. And he was also a very close friend of Anton LaVey [the late
founder of the Church of Satan].

The two of them were very active in ritualistic sexual abuse. And they
deferred funding from this government program to use this experimentation
upon children where they deliberately split off the personalities of these
children into multiples, so that when they're questioned, or put under oath,
or questioned under lie detector, that unless the operator knows how to
question a multiple personality disorder they turn up with no evidence.

"They use these kids to sexually compromise politicians or anyone else they
wish to have control of," Gosch continued. "This sounds so far out and so
bizarre. I had trouble accepting it in the beginning myself, until I was
presented with the data. We have the proof. In black and white."

DeCamp asked her, "You known that Colonel Aquino was drummed out of the
military?" "He was," replied Gosch. "But then there were no charges filed
against him that stuck [the San Francisco Presidio child abuse
allegations]...I know that Michael Aquino has been in Iowa. I know that
Michael Aquino has been to Offutt Air Force Base [described by numerous
victims as a center of mind control-ritual abuse]. I know that he had
contact with many of these children."

Bonacci's Story

One of the most heart-rendering parts of the court transcript is the
testimony of Paul A. Bonacci, the mind control victim survivor, on whose
behalf DeCamp sued Lawrence E. King. Bonacci testifed that King took him on
many trips to Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Chicago, Minnesota and Los
Angeles, where he prostituted the kidnapped and drugged youngster to the
rich and famous--and depraved.

Bonacci said that "one person I'm not afraid to talk about because Larry
King always said him and this guy were on opposite ends of the field because
this guy was a Democrat and Larry King was a Republican...And this
guy--every time I see him on TV, my wife knows my hatred for him...His name
is Barney Frank."

When asked if he "relationships" with him, Bonacci replied, "In Washington,
D.C. And also I was sent to a house, I believe it was in Massachusetts in
Boston where I believe it was his house because there's pictures on the wall
with him and different people and stuff, that he had met I guess, but it was
in his basement.

Suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, currently called
Dissassociative Identity Disorder (DID), Bonacci testified that as one of
his alters called Wesley, he lured Johnny Gosch into the van when he was
kidnapped.

"I went up to him, asked him [Gosch] a question," said Bonacci. "At that
point he was close enough to the car where Tony [another kidnapper] had
pulled up in the van and they pushed him in the car and they had a rag with
chloroform in the bag that they had us stick over his face. And then put it
back in the bag after he was out...We drove several miles...we met up with a
station wagon and a van several times."

After switching vehicles and changing direction, the kidnapping of Johnny
Gosch was over.

More Chilling Memories

When the judge asked Paul Bonacci if Lawrence E. King ever sexually abused
him, he answered, "Yes, he did on numerous occasions." How many times would
you estimate, the judge then asked. "Probably a couple of hundred. Within
all of the different personalities. Beginning at the time I was
approximately 12 or 13 years old. Up until I was about 17 or 18."

And what was his primary duty, according to directions he received from Mr.
King, asked the judge. "It depended on what was needed," replied Bonacci.
"Most of the time it was to compromise politicians so he could get whatever
he wanted from them...If they wanted to get something passed, through the
legislature or whatever, he would put some people that were against it in a
compromising position, by using us boys and girls." And how often was he
used at these "parties" in Washington? the judge asked.

"Kind of hard to say," replied Bonacci. "Because there were times when there
would be four or five in a night. And I hardly knew, I didn't know most of
them. But probably a couple of thousand times." New Ramifications Since the
judgment in favor of Paul Bonacci contradicts the previous findings of the
U.S. Attorney, Nebraska Attorney General, and the entire judicial system
regarding the "Franklin Cover-Up,"

DeCamp has issued an open letter challenging the verdicts of the last ten
years of court battles regarding this case and its principals. DeCamp wrote,
"I believe that the U.S. Attorney has no choice but to either charge the
witnesses with perjury having testified under oath in a federal court...or
the U.S. Attorney has an obligation to investigate further into the Franklin
saga and reopen matters.

"This time there are pictures [tens of thousands of pornographic photos
taken by Rusty Nelson], continues DeCamp. "This time Rusty Nelson [King's
former porno photographer] exists and testified completely contrary to Chief
Wadman's testimony under oath to the legislature. This time Noreen Gosch
validated the credibility and story of Paul Bonacci...At a minimum some
Federal or State authority has an obligation to reopen the Alisha Owen
case."

Alisha Owen, another mind control victim, was sent to prison for 15 years
for refusing to recant her testimony against her abusers, namely former
Omaha Police Chief Wadman. Despite this victory, the mind control cover-up
continues-as long as Alisha Owen and others remain in prison.

And the Monarch Program? As more and more survivors appear and give
eyewitness accounts of mind control atrocities, these outrageous human
rights abuses-the Secret Holocaust of the 20th Century-will finally become
common knowledge.

Bibliography

Constantine, Alex. Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in
America (1997); $14.95; Feral House, 2532 Lincoln Blvd., Suite
359, Venice CA 90291.

DeCamp, John. The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in
Nebraska (1996); $12.95; AWT, Inc., P.O. Box 85461, Lincoln, NE 68501

Dowbenko is CEO of New Improved Entertainment Corp., and can be reached by
email at: u.dowbenko@mailcity.com.
http://208.138.42.193/forum/a37ef8e1f479f.htm

In the United States District Court For the District of Nebraska
Paul A. Bonacci, Plaintiff 4:CV91-3037
vs
Lawrence E. King, Defendant Memorandum of Decision
Filed February 22, 1999

On February 27, 1998, I found that default judgment should be entered
against the defendant Lawrence E. King in favor of the plaintiff, Paul A.
Bonacci. A trial on the issue of the damages due the plaintiff by that
defendant was had on February 5, 1999.

Two counts are alleged against the defendant: King in the complaint. Count V
alleges a conspiracy with public officers to deprive the plaintiff of his
civil rights, designed to continue to subject the plaintiff to emotional
abuse and to prevent him from informing authorities of criminal conduct.
Count VIII charges battery, false imprisonment, infliction of emotional
distress, negligence and conspiracy to deprive the plaintiff of civil
rights. Between December 1980 and 1988, the complaint alleges, the defendant
King continually subjected the plaintiff to repeated sexual assaults, false
imprisonments, infliction of extreme emotional distress, organized and
directed satanic rituals, forced the plaintiff to "scavenge" for children to
be a part of the defendant King's sexual abuse and pornography ring, forced
the plaintiff to engage in numerous masochistic orgies with other minor
children. The defendant King's default has made those allegations true
against him. The issue now is the relief to be granted monetarily.
The now uncontradicted evidence is that the plaintiff has suffered much. He
has suffered burns, broken fingers, beating of the head and face and other
indignities by the wrongful actions of the defendant King. In addition to
the misery of going through the experiences just related over a period of
eight years, the plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the present
time. He is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many as
fourteen distinct personalities aside from his primary personality. He has
given up a desired military career and received threats on his life. He
suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams, has difficulty in holding a job,
is fearful that others are following him, fears getting killed, has
depressing flashbacks, and is verbally violent on occasion, all in
connection with the multiple personality disorder and caused by the wrongful
activities of the defendant King.

Almost certainly the defendant King has little remaining financial
resources, but a fair judgment to compensate the plaintiff is necessary. For
the sixteen years since the abuse of the plaintiff began I conclude that a
fair compensation for the damages he has suffered is $800,000. A punitive
damage award also is justified, but the amount needs to be limited because
of the small effect that such a judgment would have on the defendant King,
given his financial condition and presence in prison. I deem the punitive
damage award of $200,000 to be adequate.

Dated February 19, 1999.
By the Court
/s/Warren Urborn
United States Senior District Judge

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Bonacci_vs_King-Franklin_Scandal.htm

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Drugs And The Bogus 'War Against Terrorism'

What Do The 1996 Sudden Death Of Former
CIA Chief William Colby
And The Current Expanding Heroin Production In Afghanistan Tell Us About The
Bush Administration?
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATcolby.htm

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"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the Wicomico River, and
helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director William
Colby, presumed drowned in a weekend boating accident."
'Hunt for former CIA director continues'
CNN, 29 April 1996
click here for CNN 'boating accident' report on Colby's death

"Russian border guards say they have made their biggest haul of heroin in 10
years, on Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan"
Four dead in Afghan border drugs bust
BBC Online, 14 July 2002

"The presidents of Russia and four Central Asian states have begun a summit
in Kazakhstan with calls for more active involvement in helping rebuild
Afghanistan. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said they were concerned
at reports of an expected bumper harvest of opium poppies there..."
Afghan heroin threat alarms Central Asia
BBC Online, 6 July 2002

"In Chambliss' view governments often engage in smuggling (arms and drugs),
assassination conspiracies, terrorist acts, and other crimes in order to
further their foreign policy objectives.... In this section [of this
University Course] we will examine the issue of state-organized crime as it
relates to the United States ... In recent years, intelligence agencies in
the United States have sought and received assistance from drug traffickers.
While it is, of course, outrageously hypocritical for a government waging a
drug war against its own citizens to seek assistance from drug traffickers,
it is not surprising.... In the early 1970s, the CIA and organized crime
played a key role in establishing and operating the World Finance
Corporation, a Florida-based company involved in laundering drug money and
supporting terrorist activities (Lernoux, 1984).....There is precious little
difference between those people who society designates as respectable and
law abiding and those people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs. The
world of corporate finance and corporate capital is as criminogenic and
probably more criminogenic than any poverty-wracked slum neighborhood.... In
the everyday language of the police, the press, and popular opinion,
'organized crime' refers to a tightly knit group of people, usually alien
and often Italian, that run a crime business structured along the lines of
feudal relationships. This conception bears little relationship to the
reality of organized crime today... "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University

"The men who perfected the guns-for-dope traffic moved to the Middle East as
experts in the sale of sophisticated arms, protected by officials at the top
in the Pentagon and CIA. Richard Armitage, now the key Pentagon official in
counter-terror and covert operations [under President Bush Snr, former CIA
chief] is named consistently by investigators as the man who helped the drug
warlords market their crops.... The most prominent name recurring in this
[CIA drug tafficking] connection is Vice President George Bush. While he was
CIA director, much of these activities blossomed, but more serious charges
are being made by former intelligence officers ..... who fear that their
institutions have been corrupted by a few self-proclaimed patriots."
BANK OF INTRIGUE
Toronto Sun, 13 August 1987

Armitage is now Deputy Secretary of State under the new Bush Jnr
administration

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CIA and Bush Drug Crime Chronology
(Dates approximate and overlapping)

2002
"US President George W Bush has decided to waive sanctions against
Afghanistan despite acknowledging its failure to tackle illegal drugs.......
Of the 23 nations on the US drugs blacklist, all but Afghanistan, Haiti and
Burma were removed this year on the grounds that they were meeting
anti-drugs standards. But President Bush also waived anti-drugs sanctions
against Haiti in view of its extreme poverty."
US drops Afghan drug sanctions
BBC Online, 25 February, 2002

'The Immaculate Deception : The Bush Crime Family Exposed' - Amazon.com
Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion -
Amazon.com
The Mafia, CIA and George Bush - Amazon.com
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE

2001
"[In 2001]Pakistan and the United States have turned to a tried and trusted
'friend' in their efforts to exert control over events in Afghanistan -
convicted Pakistani drug baron and former parliamentarian, Ayub Afridi....
Without fanfare, Afridi was freed from prison in Karachi last Thursday after
serving just a few weeks of a seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons
of hashish, seized at Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1980s. No reasons were given
for Afridi's release..... It is a matter of record that top US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials believed in the early 1980s that they
would never be able to justify a multibillion-dollar budget from the
government to provide support to the mujahideen in the fight against the Red
Army. As a result, they decided to generate funds through the poppy-rich
Afghan soil and heroin production and smuggling to finance the Afghan war.
Afridi was the kingpin of this plan.... "
US turns to drug baron to rally support
Asia Times, 5 Dec, 2001

For more on US current support for drugs baron Haji Ayub Afridi in
Afghanistan see bottom of page

"...Pakistani Major General Zafar Abas has gone on the public record,
confirming my claim that the American military has not in the past, and is
not now, bombing Afghan drug assets, including heroin laboratories and drug
dumps. Speaking on Australian SBS Television on 14 January, Major General
Abas said, 'It is common knowledge that southern Afghanistan, which is
infested with narcotics dumps and factories, has not been bombed by the
Americans at all.' Major General Abas, commander of the southern
Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, agreed to the interviewed after his troops
intercepted and seized a large shipment of pure heroin on its way to Europe.
The single half ton shipment, the first intercepted since the 'downfall' of
the Taliban, is estimated to have a street value of US$1 billion."
Pakistani General confirms publicly that 'War on Terror' is all about Heroin
Joe Vialls, January 2002

"Bush [Jnr] has been choosing people [for his post 2000 election
administration] from the most dubious part of the Republican stable of the
1980s, those engaged in the Iran-Contra [US government illegal arms and
drugs running] affair... Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs in the Reagan years, but a 1989
appointment in the elder Bush administration was withdrawn before hearings
because of controversy over Iran-Contra and other scandals. Armitage was one
of the main architects behind US covert support to the Mujahedin and the
militant Islamic base, both during the Afghan-Soviet war as well as in its
aftermath. US covert support was financed by the Golden Crescent drug trade.
This pattern has not been fundamentally altered. It still constitutes an
integral part of US foreign policy by the Bush Administration and the basis
of CIA covert operations."
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11
Attacks
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montr�al, 2 November 2001

1996
"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the Wicomico River, and
helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director William
Colby, presumed drowned in a weekend boating accident. The search was called
off for the night late Monday.... He was dismissed by Ford because of a
growing feeling in the White House that he was cooperating too freely with
congressional investigators looking into allegations of CIA wrongdoing."
Hunt for former CIA director continues
CNN, 29 April 1996

"... a few days prior to his disappearance, Colby was in Texas at a
university seminar on the Viet Nam War. Some thought maybe Colby was
knowledgeable about POWs who the U.S. government cannot admit still exist in
Southeast Asia: are the POWs made into 'mules' in the dope trade for the
reported benefit of Colin Powell and his pals George Bush [Snr] and Richard
Armitage? Did Colby whisper explosive items into some ears in or near the
seminar? Former CIA Director William Colby was too involved. So, the
mysterious 'they' used the boat trick, to make him disappear ... At the time
of his disappearance, Colby was under Congressional subpoena to testify...."
'WILLIAM COLBY and CIA DIRTY TRICKS' - click here
Sherman H. Skolnick - 1996

"Much of the opium profits from CIA involvement with drug traffickers in the
Golden Triangle were laundered through the Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. A
network of high-ranking U.S. military officers and intelligence officers had
links to the Nugan-Hand Bank, which was charged by an Australian commission
of investigation with narcotics trafficking, gun-running, money laundering,
and massive fraud (Kwitny, 1987, New York Times, March 8, 1987). In his
investigation of the Nugan- Hand Bank, Jonathan Kwitny charges that the bank
laundered billions of dollars, helped finance the heroin trade in the Golden
Triangle and engaged in tax fraud and theft (Kwitny, 1987: 76). Who were the
officers of this 'heroin' bank? The president of Nugan-Hand was retired U.S.
Admiral Earl F. Yates. Its legal counsel was former CIA director William
Colby...."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University

1991
"The world's worst banking scandal, inflicting huge financial losses on
thousands of people worldwide, surfaced in the media in 1991. This was the
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). As could be expected, it
had heavy ties with the CIA, terrorist organizations, drug traffickers, and
any other crooked financial transaction shunned by most other banks. It
financed terrorist activities, financed drug trafficking deals, defrauded
depositors. .... The BCCI scandal was related to other criminal activities,
including BNL; Iraqgate; Iran and its Contra cousin; and others. BCCI and
BNL both played a role in the Iraqi armament buildup, in which funds
provided by U.S. taxpayers were forwarded by the Atlanta branch of Italy's
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. There were numerous cross-dealings between the
banks. BCCI used its international connections to fund loans to BNL, which
funded the Iraqi weapon buildups, which then required the U.S. taxpayer to
fund much of the Persian Gulf War.... BCCI was custom-made for the covert
and corrupt activities of the CIA, the Mossad, drug dealers, and terrorists.
My CIA contacts, including Russbacher, described how CIA operatives used the
bank to launder money from CIA enterprises, including drug trafficking
proceeds, money from its various financial activities within the United
States, including its looting of savings and loans, to fund unlawful arms
shipments, finance terrorist operations,undermine foreign governments, and
other covert activities."
'Defrauding America'
Rodney Stich, 1994

Copies of 'Defrauding America' available via Amazon.com

"The close relationship between the U.S. government, the financial
community, and organized crime is nowhere clearer than in the activities of
the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) (Kappeler, Blumberg,
and Potter, 1993: 237-238). BCCI was the seventh-largest privately owned
bank in the world....Among its many criminal activities was the laundering
of at least $14 billion for the Colombian cocaine cartels; the facilitating
of financial transactions for Panamanian president Manuel Noriega and
international arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi; the funneling of cash to the
contras for illegal arms deals and contra-backed drug trafficking....
Despite the enormity of BCCI's crimes and its vital role in drug
trafficking, the U.S. Justice Department was more than reluctant to
investigate. In fact, the Justice Department had complete information on
BCCI's drug and arms operations and its illegal holdings in the United
States for over three years before it even initiated an inquiry. Perhaps the
reluctance of American law enforcement to interfere with such a major
organized crime entity can be explained by the proliferation of what some
have perceived as BCCI's 'friends' in the U.S. government holding high
office. "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University

Bush and the Iran-Contra arms and drugs scandal - click here
Bush, Harken, BCCI and the Contras - click here
Bush, Harken, BCCI and Bin Laden - click here

1987
"A drug warlord in Burma accuses Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard L.
Armitage and others of drug trafficking to fund anti-communist operations,
the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Thursday... In a three-hour
videotape interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within the past week,
Khun Sa said high-ranking American officials were involved in drug
trafficking between 1965 and at least 1979."
Associated Press Article 4 June, 1987
Cited by Newsmax 1 March 2002

"After his appointment in 1981, Armitage began working in Southeast Asia to
track down reports of MIAs ['Missing In Action' soldiers] in Viet-Nam;
[Ross] Perot suspected him of not doing enough. Last October, Perot met with
Armitage at the Pentagon and bluntly demanded that he resign. Perot's stated
reason was that Armitage had written, on Pentagon stationery, a glowing
character reference for a Vietnamese woman refugee, Nguyet Thi O'Rourke, who
had been convicted of running a gambling operation in Virginia. Armitage
later conceded that using Pentagon stationery had been 'dumb', but not
illegal or improper. At the meeting, Armitage vigorously denied any
implication that he had anything to do with an illicit arms or drug network,
Perot then took his case to George Bush [Snr]. The Vice President's office
has confirmed that Perot raised 'what he considered to be evidence of
wrongdoing ' by Armitage. Bush told Perot to go to the 'proper authorities.'
So the billionaire called on FBI Director William Webster. Perot has also
made at least one visit to the White House carrying a pile of documents. Yet
he has received no support from the Reagan Administration. In fact, National
Security Adviser Frank Carlucci in January called him in to ask him to stop
pursuing Armitage....."
PEROT'S PRIVATE PROBES
Time Magazine, 3 May 1987

"Michael J. Hand, a Vietnam war hero and later a CIA agent in Asia,
disappeared after his founding-partner of the Australian Nugan-Hand Bank was
found dead. Four Australian government investigations produced voluminous
reports that do little to clear up the mystery of a financial operation said
to have become a 'giant theft machine.' Some of the Iran-Contra hearing's
characters came under scrutiny: Gen. Richard Secord, the CIA's Tom Clines
and Ted Shackley .... That's why the Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry
began its work after former U.S. government officials shredded Nugan-Hand
records when the bank failed seven years ago. ....The bank laundered money
from the Southeast Asian drug trade. Profits bought arms to be sold to the
world's trouble spots... Former chief of special operations for the U.S. Air
Force, Fletcher Prouty, says it began when drugs were used to pay
anti-Japanese tribesmen in World war II. Out of this sprang a drug trade
that then became the means by which U.S. run guerrillas fought the secret
wars of Indochina. This drug trade, he states, was the reason for starting
the Nugan Hand Bank and 'Michael Hand worked out of my office before going
to Indochina'....The men who perfected the guns-for-dope traffic moved to
the Middle East as experts in the sale of sophisticated arms, protected by
officials at the top in the Pentagon and CIA. Richard Armitage, now the key
Pentagon official in counter-terror and covert operations is named
consistently by investigators as the man who helped the drug warlords market
their crops. Gen. Khun Sa, who governs the Shan territory of Upper Burma
with an army that dominates the infamous Golden Triangle, the world's
biggest single source of dope, testified recently that U.S. officials
facilitated his business running funds through the Australian bank with
Armitage's help.... Daily News Digest reports, 'There is an enormous amount
of coroborative material being sent to our office nearly every day. It
supports the conclusion that a formal or informal organization of high CIA
and military officers, some former, some present, exists which has for
decades been a major, if not the major importer of heroin and cocaine into
the U.S.' The most prominent name recurring in this connection is Vice
President George Bush. While he was CIA director, much of these activities
blossomed, but more serious charges are being made by former intelligence
officers who believe passionately in the need for a powerful secret
intelligence capability but who fear that their institutions have been
corrupted by a few self-proclaimed patriots."
BANK OF INTRIGUE
Toronto Sun, 13 August 1987

"Aronow's role in marijuana smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill
Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the Miami US Attorney's office
and thus the top federal drug prosecution official in south Florida.....
Aronow was reportedly a close friend of George Bush.... As one local
resident recalled of that time, 'everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a
favor from Bush, you spoke to Aronow.' It was proverbial among Florida pols
and powerbrokers that Aronow had the vice president's ear.... Don Aronow was
murdered by Mafia-style professional killers on February 3, 1987. During the
last days of his life, Aronow is reported to have made numerous personal
telephone calls to Bush. Aronow had been aware that his life was in danger,
and he had left a list of instructions to tell his wife what to do if
anything should happen to him. The first point on the list was '#1. CALL
GEORGE BUSH.' .... Starting in 1985, and with special intensity during
1987-88, more than two dozen persons involved in various aspects of the
Iran-contra gun-running and drug-running operation met their deaths... the
overall pattern of these deaths strongly suggests that they are coherent
with a damage control operation by the networks involved, a damage control
operation that has concentrated on liquidating those individuals whose
testimony might prove to be most damning to the leading personalities of
these networks. The death of Don Aronow occurred within the time frame of
this general process of amputation and cauterization of the Iran-contra and
related networks. Many aspects of Aronow's life suggest that his
assassination may have been a product of the same 'damage control'
logic...."
The Phony War On Drugs
'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

1986
"Global International Air was part of Oliver North's logistical network
which shipped arms for the U.S. government on several occasions, including a
shipment of 23 tons of TOW missiles to Iran by Race Aviation, another
company owned by Azima. Pete Brewton, in his investigation of the Indian
Springs bank collapse was told that FBI had not followed up on Indian
Springs because the CIA informed them that Azima was 'off limits' (Houston
Post, February 8, 1990). Similarly the assistant U.S. Attorney handling the
Indian Springs investigation was told to 'back off from a key figure in the
collapse because he had ties to the CIA.' Global International's planes
based in Miami were maintained by Southern Air Transport, another CIA
proprietary company. According to Franck Van Geyso, an employee of Global
International, pilots for Global International ferried arms into South and
Central America and returned to Florida with drugs.... In the 1980s the CIA
also began operations in support of the Mujahadeen, a fundamentalist Moslem
group of rebels fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Like his Nicaraguan
'freedom fighters' (discussed below), Reagan's Mujahadeen allies financed
their war through drug trafficking, in this case heroin. Mujahadeen leaders
supervised the growing of the opium poppy and with the assistance of the
CIA, which had reopened trade routes to supply the Mujahadeen with weapons,
smuggled the drug onto the world market. The net result of CIA assistance to
the Afghani rebels was that the areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan they
control had become 'the world's leading source of heroin exports to the
United States and Europe' by 1986, according to a State Department report. "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University

Iran-Contra National Security Archive - George Washington University - click
here

1975
"The nomination of George Bush [Snr] to succeed Colby [as CIA director]
disturbed Senator Church and he wanted to wind up the speech by opposing the
nomination.... Church wanted ... to stress how Bush 'might compromise the
independence of the CIA -- the agency could be politicized.' .....Senator
Church viewed the Bush appointment in the context of a letter sent to him by
Ford on October 31, 1975, demanding that the committee's report on US
assassination plots against foreign leaders be kept secret. ... on November
3, Church was approached by reporters outside of his Senate hearing room and
asked by Daniel Schorr about the firing of Colby and his likely replacement
by Bush. Church responded with a voice that was trembling with anger. 'There
is no question in my mind but that concealment is the new order of the day,'
he said. 'Hiding evil is the trademark of a totalitarian government.' Schorr
said that he had never seen Church so upset.... He told reporters: 'Now
comes the firing of Colby ..... and the general belief that Secretary
Kissinger is behind these latest developments... clearly a pattern has
emerged now to try and disrupt this [Senate Intelligence Committee]
investigation'..."
Chapter -XV- CIA DIRECTOR
'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

1973
"More obscure was one Michael Hand, who had been a CIA contract agent in
Laos. In 1973, Hand and his partner Frank Nugan established the Nugan Hand
Bank in Sydney. A slew of top-level retirees from the CIA and U.S. military
intelligence were associated with this bank; William Colby served as its
attorney. Nugan Hand collapsed spectacularly in 1980. After three major
investigations, Australian officials concluded that the bank had been
primarily involved in laundering money for arms and drug traffickers."
Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media
NameBase NewsLine, No. 16, January-March 1997

"During the Vietnam War, the CIA supplied, financed, and supported a
renegade Laotian army made up of members of the Hmong (or Meo) tribe.
General Vang Pao commanded this 36,000 man secret army in a war against the
Pathet Lao in an attempt to disrupt North Vietnamese supply routes to Viet
Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam. Vang Pao's army was under the command of
veteran CIA officers and was totally supplied, financed, and equipped by
U.S. funds... The war interfered with their opium trade, so the CIA supplied
them with aircraft from a CIA proprietary company called Air America to
transport their opium from the Laotian hills to a massive CIA base at Long
Tieng, Laos. At Long Tieng, Vang Pao had established a massive heroin
refinery. DEA's Far East regional director, John J. O'Neill, said, 'I have
no doubt that Air America was used to transport opium' (Kwitney, 1987: 51).
Some of the Laotian heroin was transported to South Vietnam, where it was
sold to U.S. troops, 20% of whom came home addicted to heroin."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University

"The names of some of those who have been connected to CIA drug trafficking
by a multitude of sources are: Ted Shackley (CIA Station Chief in Laos and
later Saigon), Tom Clines (Shackley's deputy), Richard Secord (Air Force/CIA
liaison to Shackley after flying many missions as a fighter pilot), General
Heinie Aderholt (Chief Air Operations strategist for CIA's undeclared war in
Laos), Richard Armitage (former Navy officer and covert operations
specialist charged with removing key materiel from Vietnam in 1975), Erich
von Marbod (Defense Department), John Singlaub, William Casey, William Colby
and Oliver North.... And Colby, who ran the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, was
DCI [Director of the CIA] from 1973-6 and on the Board of Directors of the
Nugan-Hand Bank. The Nugan-Hand Bank and its successor firm BBRDW were high
rolling investment-banking operations, both of which laundered covert drug
profits for CIA."
THE POWs, CIA and DRUGS
From the Wilderness Publications, 23 July 1998

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