Article 19843 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 2, CLINTON/BUSH: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling Message-ID: <1993Jan28.163203.27511@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: CLINTON/BUSH: Co-Conspirators in CIA Drug Smuggling Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:32:03 GMT Lines: 169 GEORGE WASHINGTON: Gee, Ben, how come WE never thought of selling narcotics to the American People and weapons to America's enemies? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Because in our day, George, they used to hang men for treason, NOT elect them president !! PREVAILING WINDS RESEARCH ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ From THE NATION Magazine, February 24, 1992: By Alexander Cockburn * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) Reed, in a suit filed July 5, 1991, has charged the two with preparing and presenting false evidence for the purpose of furthering a false prosecution. We do know a number of things already. Buddy Young made his calls from Bill Clinton's mansion. Young and Baker have admitted to entering Reed's hangar three times without a warrant. They have admitted to tampering with the plane. When they finally did obtain a warrant, it was on the basis of misrepresentations. They subsequently made false statements to a federal grand jury as well as, on more than one occasion, in hearings related to United States vs. Reed. Finally, evidence that might have helped Reed's case was secreted in Young's office in Clinton's mansion when it was supposed to have been in federal court. A federal judge involved in the case, Frank Theis, declared that Baker and Young had acted with "reckless disregard for the truth." Reed was acquitted when the court determined that the government did not have enough legitimate evidence to convict him. Reed's lawyer, John Wesley Hall, told my colleague Bryce Hoffman that it is extremely unlikely that a police officer would ever be convicted of perjury in Arkansas. In early 1988, while his security chief was embroiled in the case against Reed, also while Lawrence Walsh was accumulating evidence for his prosecutions in the Iran/contra affair, Bill Clinton gave a job to another contra veteran recently returned from Honduras--Larry Nichols. As I described here two weeks ago, Nichols was set up with a job as director of marketing in the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Later in 1988, asked about this by a journalist, Clinton hastily fired Nichols. Seeking retribution, Nichols prepared a lawsuit, from whose allegations Star drew its story concerning Gennifer Flowers. As these allegations caught fire in January, Nichols confided --so a member of the Arkansas Committee in Fayetteville tells us --that Buddy Young had phoned to tell him as an old friend that if he kept this up he was "a dead man." On January 25, the night before Bill Clinton was scheduled to go before the nation on 60 Minutes to deny an affair with Flowers, Nichols put his name to a statement crafted to discredit all his previous assertions, concluding that "in trying to destroy Clinton" it had turned out that "there's not a whole lot of difference between me and what the reporters are doing today." Final thought. If, in the old days, a gentleman had no secrets from his valet, a modern governor has no secrets from his personal security chief, particularly in the matter of making unofficial assignations. (end of article) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A telephone interview with Mark Swaney from "Faithful Arkansas", a citizens group, revealing Bill Clinton's and George Bush's partnership in the CIA's drug smuggling industry which for years has been funneling tons of narcotics through Mena, Arkansas and into the hands of America's youth. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * MARK SWANEY: ..... they set up a front company in Guadalajara, Mexico, the purpose of which, he [Terry Reed] was told, was to smuggle weapons to the Contras in Central America. And he was to be the front man -- he was to provide the front cover for this company, but he was given to know that behind the scenes they [the CIA] would be using this company to smuggle weapons. So he was okay with that and he went down to Guadalajara and was down there until the summer of `87. Actually, the plane was shot down in `86, so this operation in Mexico continued for a year after the Iran-Contra story was breaking, and that's something that a lot of people don't know. They think that Iran-Contra/Contra Resupply stopped when the revelations were made in '86, but they actually continued. Anyway, in the summer of `87, even as the hearings were going on in Congress, Terry Reed began to suspect they were using his front company for something other than smuggling weapons. And one day he was looking for a lathe in one of his warehouses by the airport there in Guadalajara, and he went in and opened up an air freight shipping container (which are very large; they're about 28 feet long, 7 feet high, 8 feet wide), and he found it packed full of cocaine when he opened it up. He immediately realized he was in a very precarious situation because he was the only one on paper who had anything to do with that company, and if they had ever gotten caught, there was nobody to stand up and say: "Well this guy didn't know anything." He was going to be a patsy if anything went wrong. So he decided he wasn't going to play the part of the patsy. The man who was his contact man for the CIA in Mexico was Felix Rodriquez. So he confronted Felix Rodriquez and said: "Well listen. I didn't bargain on getting into narcotics smuggling, and I'm out of this altogether, guys. I'm leaving now. I refuse to have anything further to do with this." And Felix Rodriquez said: "Okay, fine. If you want to be out, you're out." Now before he was able to return even to Little Rock, Arkansas where his home was at the time, Governor Clinton's Chief of Security, a man named Raymond Buddy Young, and another man, Tommy Baker, private investigator and, I'm told, former member of the Arkansas State Police, were framing Terry Reed for mail fraud. What this involved was the so-called Project Donation that Oliver North had set up. Terry Reed's plane had been stolen a number of years earlier, and used in drug missions and such without his knowledge. And he claimed the insurance money for his plane being stolen. And so, to set him up, what they did was take the airplane and put it back in his hangar before he got back to Arkansas. Governor Clinton's Chief of Security just supposedly happened --and this is what he tells the press -- he says: "One day I just happened to be walking by this hangar, and the wind just happened to blow the door open and I just happened to look in and see this airplane that was stolen four years earlier in another state and I realized that was the plane." And so this is how the case got started. PAUL DeRIENZO: How would he have known that was the plane? MARK SWANEY: Oh, that's never been explained, along with a number of aspects in this famous story. We're in contact with Terry Reed's defense attorney in Wichita and she's promised to send us all of the documents. We have some of the documents already that indicate he would be found not guilty. Well, he never went to trial. PAUL DeRIENZO: Is that the same Buddy Young, by the way, who's head of Governor Clinton's security detail? MARK SWANEY: Yes, he is. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is one of countless stories unveiling the subverted, corrupt and fascistic state of our theoretically democratic Government. This story makes it disgustingly obvious that true patriotism is not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the mindless supporting of our Government, just because it happens to be ours. You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it. True patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country in order that they may unite to conquer this anti-democratic cancer that is gradually destroying ours and our children's freedom. So please post the installments of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed. John DiNardo