IRAN-CONTRA ERA
C.I.A. & DRUGS FACT SHEET

"We don't need to investigate [C.I.A's role in drug dealing]. We already know. The evidence is there."  Jack Blum, former Chief Counsel to John Kerry's Subcommittee on Narcotics and Terrorism in 1996 Senate Hearings -- The Medellin Cartel gave more than $10 million to the Contras.

"In my 30 year history in the DEA, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." Dennis Dayle, chief of an elite DEA unit in Central America.

"With respect to [ drug trafficking by ] the resistance forces...it is not a couple of people. It is a lot of people." Alan Fiers, former CIA Deputy for Central American Operations.

"Without the Honduran military there would have been no Contras. $14 million to [finance arms] came from drugs." [ through Honduras. ] Oliver North's diary. - Oliver North then intervened to get an absurdly lenient sentence for General Jose Bueso-Rosa who had been convicted of smuggling tons of cocaine into the U.S.

FOUR FIRMS LISTED AS MAJOR SMUGGLING OPERATIONS BY DEA WERE ON CIA'S LIST OF APPROVED VENDORS AND EACH RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN STATE DEPARTMENT SUBSIDIES WHILE THEY WERE DEALING DRUGS:

Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro-Quintero supplied the Contras with
guns and money. Caro ran a Contra training camp in Veracruz.
Together they smuggled 4 tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. Both were later tied to the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE PILOTS WHO FLEW DRUGS ON CIA PROTECTED FLIGHTS INTO THE U.S.:
Michael Palmer * Werner Stoltz * Floyd Carlton * Bill Cooper * Tosh Plumley * Marcos Aguado * Bo Abbot * Gerardo Duran * Pat Foley * Frank Moss * Tito Carrasco * Barry Seal * John Allen * Cesar Rodriguez * Teofiolo Watson * Alfredo Caballero * Gary Betzner

CIA FUNDED AIRLINES CONNECTED WITH DRUG OR WEAPONS SMUGGLING:

IN A COURT OF LAW THE STRONGEST FORM OF DIRECT EVIDENCE IS TESTIMONY BY EYEWITNESSES. THE FOLLOWING ARE EYEWITNESSES TO CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO TESTIFY: