"In congressional hearings about the internal CIA report this spring, it was disclosed that in 1982, William French Smith, then attorney general, and William Casey, then director of the CIA, formally agreed that CIA ``assets'' - contract operatives and groups - would not be required to report ``narcotics violations'' to the Justice Department.
``This is an extraordinary admission,'' said Parry, the former AP reporter. ``Casey engineered the removal of drug trafficking from the list. The CIA is required to report murder, hijacking, serious crimes, and the one he chose to pull is drug trafficking. Why?''
``This agreement is the most important thing to come out of the investigation,'' said Alfred McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, who has done extensive research on the drug trade in Southeast Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. ``It's extraordinary corroboration that [Central America] became a zone free from external investigation.''"
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EDIT: And now the US is engaged in Afghanistan. M2 |
