Tom Clines...
Subject: Re: C-SPAN: Newspaper "coverup" of CIA/cocaine
From: "Joseph M. Knapp" <jmk@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 1996/10/25
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Jim Hargrove wrote:
> JACK WHITE: Well, I think, as I said earlier, there is a core of
> this story, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency may
> well have known about drug smuggling by people involved in the
> Contras and turned a blind eye on it. This was found by the Kerry
> Commission--no, I'm sorry--by an investigation led
> by Senator Kerry of Massachusetts during the 1980s.
Re: Contra arms supermarket
The supermarket was created after the Boland amendment prohibited
lethal aid to the contras. Miami-based arms dealer and sleazeball
Ron Martin was approached by Col. James McCoy, former U.S. military
attache to Nicaragua, about supplying the arms. Col. McCoy assured
Martin that such sales had US Government approval. The Honduran
military would issue phony "end user" certificates that they were
the end users of the arms, but would pass them to the Contras "as
needed on a cash-and-carry basis." Where to get the cash? Well...
Notes of Col. Oliver North, July 12, 1985, re meeting at home of
Richard Secord:
--mtg. tonight w/Dick/Rafael/Tom w/Romero FDN Log Chief
--[CIA Subject #1] discussions re Supermarket
--HO [Honduran] Army plans to sieze all mat'l when
supermarket comes to bad end
--$14M to finance came from drugs
--[Subject #1] expects HOAF to sieze the supermarket's
assets when the supermarket folds.
--[Subject #1] likes light A/C [aircraft] ASAP
--Doesn't like goons [slang term for C-47]
--Should get CASA 212's
[Lawrence E. Walsh, "Iran Contra: The Final Report," p. 299]
FYI:
Dick = Richard Secord
Rafael = Rafael Quintero, ex-CIA, old associate of Secord
Tom = Thomas Clines, ex-CIA, old associate of Secord
CIA Subject #1 = senior field officer, Cent. Amer., served with
Clines and Secord in covert operations in Laos
The supermarket assets at the time were $17 million. [Walsh, p. 298]
So we see that ex-CIA officials and a then-current CIA official
involved in this scheme, in addition of course to the Executive
Branch.
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Joe Knapp |
