| By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter May | | | | agents, but when it comes to the gargantuan |
| 29, 2008 3:00 p.m. PDT | | | | sprawling U.S. Government agencies like the CIA |
| The Laguna Journal reported following last | | | | drug smuggling racket, the silence is deafening. |
| September's crash of a Gulfstream jet operated | | | | Still the Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # |
| by the CIA allegedly for torture flights to | | | | N987SA which was forced to crash land in |
| Guantanamo and to other countries with loose | | | | Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula after it ran out of fuel |
| torture laws. That particular aircraft it was found | | | | news investigatorsdiscovered that the same |
| by rescue workers to have contained 4 tons of | | | | Gulfstream jet had been used in at least three |
| high grade Columbian cocaine. With the raging war | | | | CIA "rendition" trips to Guantanamo Bay between |
| on drugs and terror authorities on both sides of | | | | 2003 and 2005. |
| the border are on the take. In a war that has | | | | Kevin Booth's underground hit |
| cost billions of American tax dollars and a business | | | | documentary American Drug War |
| that is believed by many to profit in the hundreds | | | | features footage of former DEA head Robert |
| of billions it is no wonder that officials from the | | | | Bonner admitting that the CIA was involved in |
| street cops in the borders cities to the highest | | | | cocaine smuggling operations. |
| levels of both governments are benefiting | | | | Former DEA agent Cele Castillo, says he |
| financially from the illegal trade of smuggling drugs, | | | | personally witnessed CIA drug smuggling |
| humans, and terrorist into the U.S. via Mexican | | | | operations funneled through terrorists that were |
| drug cartel smuggling routes. More U.S. officials | | | | also involved in kidnappings and the training of |
| and cops have been caught in criminal activities | | | | death squads on behalf of the U.S. government. |
| then ever before. | | | | Investigative reporter Gary Webb was |
| Customs supervisor Walter Golembiowski and | | | | instrumental in exposing CIA cocaine trafficking |
| Officer John Ajello face narcotics, bribery and | | | | operations before his alleged suicide in 2004. In |
| conspiracy charges after they were arrested for | | | | the You Tube clip below, Webb traces the history |
| helping smuggle drugs and contraband through | | | | of Agency involvement in drug smuggling and its |
| New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. | | | | links to financing wars in Central America. |
| "The investigation has led to the indictment and | | | | Judicial Watch reports that corruption among |
| prosecution of more than 20 people - "from | | | | federal officers guarding the U.S.-Mexico border is |
| distributors to overseas sources of supply" - and | | | | so rampant that the government created an |
| the seizure of more than 600 pounds of imported | | | | internal web site devoted to recently convicted |
| hashish and other drugs from the United States | | | | border agents and lie detector tests will be |
| and France," | | | | administered to ensure future applicants don't |
| Some Mexican legislators claim there is already | | | | already work for smuggling organizations. |
| clandestine covert action taking place in Mexico by | | | | The report further points out that the alarming |
| the Americans and has taken many different | | | | growing number of agents with the Homeland |
| forms reflecting the diverse circumstances in | | | | Security agency in charge of protecting the U.S. |
| which it is being used. | | | | from terrorists, drugs and illegal immigrants are |
| However the circumstances have eroded to such | | | | collaborating with Mexican smuggling operations to |
| a point that many Mexican leaders that have no | | | | allow illegal immigrants, drugs, weapons and |
| ties with the cartels are desperate and are | | | | possibly terrorists into the country. |
| encouraging an out right overt U.S. military boots | | | | Mexican drug cartels use some of the same |
| on the ground operation, and accelerate training | | | | methods they use to attract Mexican officials to |
| using U.S. military, CIA, DEA, FBI and U.S. Police | | | | attract U.S. officials some of those tactics are |
| advisers. | | | | used to also lure the American officials with |
| According to a high ranking Mexican official who | | | | attractive women and lots of sex and cash. In |
| wants to remain anonymous indicated that the | | | | return, those hired to guard the border assure |
| U.S. Mexican border is a primary focal point for | | | | the safe passage of truckloads of illegal |
| military operations. "There are U.S. Army Special | | | | immigrants, drugs and other contraband into the |
| Forces secret operation bases both in Mexico and | | | | United States. Some have even used their |
| the United states, run by the California National | | | | government-issued vehicles to shuttle illegal aliens |
| Guard, who are on temporary border | | | | from Mexico to safe houses north of the border. |
| reconnaissance missions and are due to end within | | | | Numerous border agents have been convicted for |
| the next month or so." | | | | accepting bribes from Mexican smugglers in the |
| While reports of federal agents and cops being | | | | last few years alone and investigations are |
| involved in drug and other crimes like smuggling | | | | pending against hundreds of others. This month |
| humans, drugs, guns and cash are almost routine. | | | | alone, four agents were arrested in Arizona, |
| Many believe the estimates of corruption among | | | | Texas and California for helping smuggle illegal |
| our own officials are much higher. This problem is | | | | immigrants into the U.S. |
| seriously hurting America. As a result of the flow | | | | Most of the corrupt employees worked |
| of these drugs into the U.S. which end up on | | | | at (CBP), the nation's largest law |
| America's streets are financing terrorist, and wars | | | | enforcement organization. CBP was created after |
| in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the | | | | the 2001 terrorist attacks to be the unified border |
| world. These terrorist and other wars are killing | | | | agency by combining the inspectional and border |
| American sons and daughters and the war in Iraq | | | | forces of U.S. Customs, U.S. Immigration, Animal |
| alone by the end of this year will have cost us a | | | | and Plant Health Inspection Services and the U.S. |
| trillion dollars. | | | | Border Patrol. The idea was to create a powerful |
| According to Paul Watson of Prison Planet | | | | force that would effectively protect America's |
| the corporate media will report on lesser drug | | | | borders. |
| smuggling scandals involving cops and customs | | | | |