- A Closer Look...
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- Was Gary Webb on PORTER GOSS' Purge List?
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- "Going back a bit in time, Goss was also intimately
involved in the Congressional investigations into Iran-Contra, and with
the expose by Gary Webb of the Mecury that indicated CIA knowledge of the
drug importation into LA. This connection came to light again when Brian
Downing Quig, an investigative journalist, uncovered large scale deals
involving Goss in the varoius laundering scandals surrounding Iran-Contra
{see} The Death of Brian Downing Quig. (Quig was murdered June 16, 2003.)"
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- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Mol8dFLtH08J:
www.uncommonthought.com/
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- It was after reading,"Who Killed Gary Webb?"
an article, by Havana based journalist Jean-Guy-Allard that I initially
got interested in the likes of Porter Goss and Posada, and started to wonder
how they might have figured into Webb's death.
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- http://granmai.co.cu/ingles/2005/enero/mar4/2gary.html
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- Who is Porter Goss, Really?
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- Was it time for the 9-11 beleaguered CIA to act preemptively
and remove an investigative journalist who still posed a threat to "The
Company" (CIA)? This is the question I had in mind when I started
looking into Porter Goss' background..
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- I think Porter Goss is a key figure because shortly after
his nomination to head the CIA, Posada and his friends were welcomed back
to the USA with open arms.
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- And Goss has revealed for all to see, with his CIA housecleaning
tactics, that he's a man who will exert all the power at his disposal to
achieve his mission. Goss strikes me as an "ends justify the means"
type of guy. Could Gary Webb have been on Porter Goss' TO DO LIST? Could
Gary have been on a special CIA PURGE list of some sort?
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- Goss was nominated by President Bush to be the head of
the CIA on August 10, 2004. Some news sources claim it was August 11th.
The 11th would denote an Illuminati numerology signature. Porter Goss
was a Yale graduate, he majored in Ancient Greek, graduated in 1960, and
was recruited to work for the CIA as early as the "50's. He was a
member of yet another Yale secret society, "Book and Snake."
In Kris Milligan's superb tome, "Fleshing Out Skull and Bones",
you'll find the original 1960 roster of "Book and Snake" members,
which confirms Goss' membership.
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- http://www.madcowprod.com/B&S19601.jpg
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- Here's additional information from Milligan's book about
Yale's "Book and Snake" secret society:
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- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:mOa19q8g9dMJ
:www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/book%26snake
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- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ioNpTesPM_wJ:
www.madcowprod.com/mc6512004.html
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- According to an article at Mad COW Press: "More
Secrets in the Secret Sauce" by Daniel Hopsicker, this picture was
taken on January 21, 1963 in a Mexican nightclub frequented by the CIA
and Mafia secret Assassination squad known as "Operation 40."
Hopsicker believes, partially based on a letter he had received, that
Porter Goss is sitting on the left side of the table. He's the second
person from the front, and he's leaning back with his head tilted slightly
to the left in the picture. To locate and compare the alleged Goss, 24
years old at that time, in the above picture with other, more current pictures
of Goss, go here:
- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ioNpTes
PM_wJ:www.madcowprod.com/mc6512004.html
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- Then go to the upper left side of that web page, just
under the photo, and click on: see a comparison -- decide for yourself.
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- Jean-Guy on Operation 40:
- "As a secret element of the Bay of Pigs invasion,
the CIA organized Operation 40, in which Posada and dozens of Cuban Americans
participated together with hired assassins from the Italian-American mafia.
Operation 40's network was used for terrorist activities against Cuba
until 1970, when one of its planes crashed in southern California with
a huge quantity of heroin and cocaine on board. That same year, the FBI
arrested 150 suspects in the "biggest anti-drug operation in the history
of the federal police."
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- Jean-Guy adds:
- "Goss, a former CIA agent who in 1972 participated
in operations at the JM/WAVE base in Miami including terrorist operations
against Cuba." The JM/WAVE Base was actually a Central Intelligence
operations base south of Miami, Florida. Its sole purpose was to attack
Cuba, and it was established in 1962.
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- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjmwave.htm
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- Here's more dirt on Goss from the legendary Iran-Contra
Insider, Al Martin (ex Naval Intelligence). He alleges Porter Goss was
directly involved in protecting and facilitating CIA-Iran-Contra drug trafficking
activities. For example, he sites the Bobby Merkle Case. Merkle was the
U.S. Attorney General in Florida at that time. Martin alleges that the
Lee County Florida Sheriff's Department was complicit in allowing Iran-Contra-CIA
Drug Trafficking. And it was Porter Goss who brokered a deal with Merkle,
on behalf of the CIA, to ensure the coverup of the above fact.
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- Martin asserts:
- "Porter Goss was involved in that facilitation,"
"He was, but they'll never be able to prove that. You've got to put
Porter Goss's name on something real to fit him into it. And what nobody
has noticed except for me, because I remember it: Everyone forgets that
Porter was a member of the Vice Presidential task force on drugs in 1983
in Miami. The Task Force was instituted to prevent any further interception
of CIA authorized narcotics trafficking. Porter Goss was a commission
member. That's what gave him the legitimacy. There was also Miami Customs
Director Billy von Raab, Miami DEA Director Tommy Cash, Miami Immigration
Director George Weiss. And George Bush Sr. who was Vice President at the
time was the chairman."
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- http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:GaT-LX76BY0J:
www.rense.com/general60/goss.htm
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- Back to the future.
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- It turns out that on the morning of 9/11, Bob Graham
(D-FL), then head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was having a secret
breakfast on Capitol Hill, with Porter Goss (R-FL), then head of the House
intelligence committee and also part of the Congressional delegation to
Pakistan. The head of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, General Mahmud
Ahmed, was also part of Goss' staff, and the Pakistani General was reported
by the Times of India to be the man responsible for ordering Ahmed Umar
Sheik to wire $100,000 from Pakistan to the U.S. bank account of alleged
9-11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. Mr. Sheik is a British citizen who
was born in Pakistan and was a well known terrorist.
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- Not surprisingly, while ignoring that breakfast meeting,
the mainstream press widely reported that Goss was strongly against initiating
a full-scale 9-11 Congressional investigation. After some public pressure
and much calculated stalling, the joint House Intelligence Committees finally
agreed to initiate an official inquiry.
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- Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that Bob Graham and
Porter Goss, both of whom had unexplored ties with principles involved
in part of the covert funding of 9-11, wound-up being the lead investigators
into what actually happened on 9-11? Predictably, Goss and Graham used
their positions to implement damage control tactics that ultimately benefited
the White House and the CIA.
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- Goss wasted little time in proclaiming that the task
of a 9-11 investigation would not be to find out who was responsible for
the tragedy. It's not going to be about blaming anyone, he warned, but
instead it will be about understanding 'OUR' failings-- and about making
recommendations as to how we can do a better job of defending America in
the future. Goss stressed he was "looking for solutions not scapegoats"
(Washington Post May 17th 2002 ). And, amazingly, he even dismissed the
notion that Sept.11th was an: "intelligence failure" (Washington
Post May 18th 2002).
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- Truth is, Goss was able to successfully steer the 9-11
investigation into a perfunctory, whitewashed, dead-end limited-hang-out.
Ray McGovern, a 27 year CIA analyst, and a member of: "Veteran Intelligence
for Professionals" summed it up this way: " {Goss gave} clear
priority to providing political protection for the president." Then,
well after Goss's orchestrated 9-11 whitewash, it was time to obtain more
funding to create a Home Land Security alliance with the CIA and other
agencies. According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia:" in a sharp turn
from his earlier statements defending the CIA, Goss said the agency has
'been ignoring its core mission activities' and the clandestine service
is on its way to being "a stilted bureaucracy incapable of even the
slightest bit of success." He called the CIA's human intelligence
gathering apparatus "dysfunctional" and adverse to change, and
charged that its intelligence analysts were timid and lacked proper focus.
Tenet, the CIA Director at the time called the attacks "ill-informed"
and "absurd." And Goss was on his way being nominated as the
new CIA Director.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Goss
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- Seems like Goss was signaling his transition from 9-11
cover-up agent to CIA purger and Illuminati re-organizer. This "sharp
turn" and Goss's nomination by Bush to head the CIA enabled Goss to
further consolidate power for the Bush/NeoCon Cabal (Illuminati front),
thereby enabling his widely reported "Stalinesque" CIA PURGES
to be viewed as benign, even necessary by the mainstream press. Do you
think, perhaps, the directorship of the CIA is a payback for Goss' longtime
loyalty to the "Bush Crime Family" and the "COMPANY"
for his effective cover-up and damage control services?
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- Now that Goss's former assassination squad associate
and evil NeoCon twin, Chertoff (a reincarnation of Lenin?) has been named
the new director of Homeland Security, could things get any worse? Yes!
Now we have a new Czar of Intelligence, Mr. Pale Horse - death squads
are us - NeoCon, Negroponte. Americans should realize this grouping
of department heads signals the implementation of a centralized Soviet,
Stasi style, paramilitary police force apparatus to be used against them.
All the legal infrastructure is now in place. And lets not forget our
new attorney general Mr. Spanish Inquisition, Alberto Gonzales. We now
have the ultimate "evil doer" trifecta. All the foundational
building blocks for a domestic Phoenix Program have now been installed.
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- Also See: PORTER GOSS THE NEW CIA HEAD LINKED TO FUNDING
911 TERROR ATTACKSby Dave Williams
- http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/76366.php
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- According to official pronouncements, Goss resigned from
the CIA for health reasons (staph infection) in 1971.
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- Or did he? Was his CIA career ended 'officially' in
1971 as part of a modified sheep-dipping, the spook technique used to erase
selected histories of intel operatives in order to severe any direct link
with intelligence agencies for operations that are beneath the radar and
illegal?
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- There is more than enough evidence to indicate that Goss'
retirement from the CIA, might very well be an example of the cynical use
of a psyop to trick the public into believing that he hasn't been involved
in the many publicly known, and not so known, CIA debacles and covert/black
ops since the early-70's like Iran-Contra, and the Gary Webb expose of
CIA crack cocaine drug running in the 80's. And then there's 9-11. Goss'
Congressional record (1988-2004) indicates he sponsored a wealth of intelligence
appropriation bills. In 1997 he ascended to the head of the House Intelligence
Committee. It makes one wonder if his primary mission as a Congressman
was to act as a straw man for the CIA?
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- Here's another red flag. Goss co-sponsored the Anti-Terrorism
Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003 or HR 3179. Among other horrors,
Patriot Act 2 legalizes secret grand juries, and the 'disappearing' of
US citizens. He also helped establish and served on the Homeland Security
Committee. He is also a member of the Counsel on Foreign Relations, or
CFR, a group that is integral to the Illuminatie's NWO planning and policy
making.
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- Here's what I call the Al Martin BOMBSHELL that arguably
ties Webb's fate to Porter Goss. Excerpts from an Al Martin piece: "Who
is Porter Goss?"
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- Porter Goss had been involved in the last-ditch efforts
by the CIA to save the CIA-backed and-financed regime of Nicaraguan, tin-horn,
right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza, before Somoza's fall in 1979. After
that the Sandinistas were voted into power."
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- Porter Goss, it's interesting to note, claimed that he
was the one who turned the man who would later become a member of the Sandinista
ruling council,Tomas Borges. Borges was subsequently the CIA 's point man
in Nicaragua pursuant to the CIA's narcotics trafficking during Iran Contra
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- Goss was the Agency point man to conduct this operation
to save the flagging Somoza regime. Of course, he didn't have a title.
This was done covertly, and illegally, of course -- as always. This program
entailed the assassination of senior Sandinista members."
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- This is a few months prior to the actual elections that
elected the Sandinista regime. Porter Goss then had to leave Nicaragua.
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- The CIA made an effort to save the dictatorship by undertaking
a multi-pronged program, one with assassination. Porter Goss became too
high-profile.
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- Goss then won the seat for Sarasota, Florida and subsequently
he started to become involved in 1983 in Iran-Contra profiteering with
Jeb and Neil Bush. (end of excerpts)
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- http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?
channelid=49&contentid=1554&page=2
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- Jean-Guy reminds us that it was Goss who stopped further
investigation into the allegations raised by Webb's "Dark Alliance"
series, in exposing the CIA involvement in drug trafficking for the Contras.
"When the House of Representatives finally agreed to take up the
issue, after a report was issued by the CIA inspector general concerning
drug trafficking by the agency, Porter Goss, who had directed the Intelligence
Committee since the previous year, decided at a preliminary hearing that
the allegations were "false."
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- Al Martin establishes connections with Porter Goss, the
CIA, and the drug trafficking for the Contras, which is what Gary Webb
exposed in his "Dark Alliance" series. It certainly could indicate
that Porter Goss had a professional axe to grind with Gary Webb! And Jean
Guy brings to our attention the FACT that it was Goss, who in true cover-up
fashion, nixed the investigation into CIA drug trafficking and the Contra
cocaine scandal.
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- Another Usual Suspect: Luis Posada Carriles
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- "Luis Posada was a veteran CIA agent with a history
of involvement with drug traffickers, mobsters, and terrorists. He was
recruited by the CIA in the 1960's after years of working with anti-Castro
Cubans in Miami and was implicated in a number of terrorist incidents conducted
by various Cuban extremist groups."- Webb ( Dark Alliance p. 246)
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- Luis Posada
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- Luis Posada , Gary Webb, and Porter Goss connections.
- Jean-Guy makes the connection between Webb and Posada:
- "He {Webb} denounced narco-terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles and his accomplices who were involved in that criminal transaction
{Contra-crack-cocaine}." Jean-Guy continues: "In June 1976 Guillermo
Novo and Posada participated in forming the terrorist organization CORU,
whose ranks were comprised of the likes of Félix Rodriguez, Frank
Castro and other criminals involved in drug trafficking operations authorized
by the Reagan administration in support of the Nicaraguan Contras, which
Gary Webb had covered."
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- Here's a thumbnail sketch of Luis Posada's checkered
past. Posada entered the world via Cuba in 1928. As a young man, he established
a respectable career in Havana as a pediatrician. His next profession
was a mother's worst nightmare: a CIA terrorist and drug trafficker. Predictably,
he was fervently anti-Castro, participated in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, was
a member of the infamous Operation 40, and even a Lieutenant in the U.S.
Army. Officially {emphasis mine} he worked for the CIA only until 1967.
Around 1971 he moved to Venezuela. He found employment with the Venezuelan
Secret Police (DISIP).
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- While living in Caracas, Venezuela, he and two associates
were reportedly plotting sundry ways to assassinate Castro, who was to
visit Caracas soon. As part of the plan, Posada had set up counterfeit
documentation and false-trails implicating two innocent Russians as the
assassins. Obviously, that plan for Castro's demise never materialized.
Next, Posada started a security business in Venezuela.
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- In 1976 a Cabaña Airline exploded in mid-air after
taking off from Barbados. All 73 passengers were killed, including 24
members of Cuba's gold medal fencing team. Eventually, two Venezuelan's
were arrested in connection with the bombing of the Cabaña flight.
One of the two arrested, Herman Ricardo, had previously worked for Posada's
security agency in Venezuela. Ricardo wound up confessing that he and
Freddy Lugo had planted two bombs in the Cabaña plane. He also
informed the police that Posada and Orlando Bosch were the masterminds
behind the black-op.
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- Eventually, Posada was caught and jailed in Venezuela
to await trial for his part in the Cabaña affair. In 1985, Jorge
Mas Canosa, head of the CANF, or Cuban American National Foundation, paid
$26,000 to 'officials' enabling Posada to 'escape' from prison. CANF
is a front group for broadcasting USA propaganda to Cuba via Marti TV.
Posada is still wanted in Venezuela for his part in the Cabana Air tragedy.
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- In the mid-80's, Posada re-emerged as a CIA crack
cocaine contra - man. Here's where he stepped into the pages of
Webb's "Dark Alliance Series". Additionally, Peter Dale Scott
asserts in his book, Cocaine Politics : "Posada was second in charge
of a major Contra re-supply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base in El
Salvador. He was recruited by Felix Rodriguez, a long-time CIA operative
who was with the Bolivian forces that captured and executed Che Guevera."
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- In a 1998 New York Times interview, Posada admitted he
had been fronted $200,000 by the U.S. government, via CANF, to plan a series
of terrorist attacks in Cuba. Then in 2000 Posada and three other Cuban
terrorists: Gaspar Jimenez, Guillermo Novo, and Pedro Ramon were arrested
in Panama, for planning to kill, guess who - Castro! It seems Castro has
used several of his nine lives just avoiding assassination by Posada.
Castro was scheduled to speak at the University of Panama where hundreds
of students would have been in attendance to hear him speak. In other
words, there could have been many lives lost in the process of taking him
out.
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- All four Cuban exiles were arrested and jailed in Panama.
Then something very out of the ordinary happened. In August 2004 the
outgoing U.S. backed, puppet President of Panama, Mireyas Moscoso, pardoned
all four confirmed terrorists. This in turn created a political firestorm.
As you recall, Posada was still wanted in Venezuela for the airline bombing
As an act of protest, Cuba broke off all diplomatic relations with Panama
and Venezuela retracted its ambassador.
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- It gets better. Finally we get 'to see compassionate
conservatism' in action. President Bush actually granted the three known
terrorists: Jimenez, Novo, and Ramon POLITICAL ASYLUM in the United States.
And off to Florida they went. Hmmm? Then there's Luis Posada. He went
to Honduras, but didn't stay long. Here's the rub. Posada wound up mysteriously
in the United States in September 2004 with a U.S. passport.
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- So much for no-fly lists and abusive pat downs and strip
searches at U.S. Airports, or stopping terrorists from entering the country.
Honduran president, Ricardo Maduro had this to say; "I will demand
that the United States and Panama explain how Posada used a false U.S.
passport. How did that airplane leave Panama with Posada, reach Honduras,
and wind-up in the United States? We know we're dealing with an international
influence."
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- http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:K3pA0zUYwq
gJ:www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
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- POSADA UPDATE
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- Venezuela won't get Posada, Immigration judge rules
- By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
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- http://www.amcostarica.com/morenews3.htm
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- EL PASO, Texas - "A U.S. immigration judge has
ruled that Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile wanted in Venezuela on terrorism
charges, cannot be deported to Cuba or Venezuela."
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- Some synchronicity here: Posada Carilles is sneaked into
the U.S., Porter Goss becomes head of the CIA, and Gary Webb is shot twice
in the head at close range in an attempt to make it look like a suicide.
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- WACKENHUT WALTZ
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- "Wackenhut was very active in El Salvador during
the Contra war, providing employees to protest the U.S. embassy and other
installations, and doing "'things you wouldn't want your mother to
know about'," one Wackenhut employee told Spy Magazine in 1992."-Webb
(Dark Alliance, p.113)
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- And there are more dots:
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- An integral part of the police state drug war is the
prisonindustrialcomplex. And the drug war has certainly fueled
that system where prisoners, many of whom are incarcerated for minor drug
offenses, are contracted out as slave labor pools for large corporations.
In other words, prisons are thinly disguised, government/corporate forced
labor camps. It's offical! America now has the highest incarceration
rate in the world. We've even surpassed China and Russia. According to
the latest figures: 1 in 138 Americans are currently behind bars. But how
many people realize that before the so-called "drug war" was
declared by President Regan, in 1980's America's prison population was
actually declining. Hmmm! Who benefits? The Illuminati, ofcourse.
- http://mediafilter.org/caq/Prison.html
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- One of the sleaziest players in the prison for profit
growth industry is a company called Wackenhut. But did you know that Wackenhut
is a CIA front?
- http://mediafilter.org/caq/Prison.html
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- "GEORGE WACKENHUT, an ex-FBI man, formed his namesake
security company in Florida in 1954. Closely tied to the Mob, radical
Cubans, and right wing nuts including WACL. Since the company's inception,
its board has been packed with "former" CIA, FBI, and military
agents. The company guards the US's most sensitive facilities, and runs
vast domintel ops. Was a key player in the Inslaw/Octopus affair, and reportedly
smuggled arms to Iraq during the BUSH Administration. Wackenhut Corrections
Corp. is now the no. 2 private prison contractor. Mr. Wackenhut once called
George Bush "pink".
- http://www.subliminal.org/mugbook/spooks/wackenhut.html
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- Here's an eye-opener article, Wackenhut: "Prisons,
profits and golf umbrellas"BY ARUN PRADHAN
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- "Wackenhut maintained files on over four million
suspected dissidents. "
- "William Corbett, who worked for the CIA for 18
years, told the US-based "Spy Magazine", " 'For years Wackenhut
has been involved with the CIA and other intelligence organizations. Wackenhut
would allow the CIA to occupy positions within the company [in order to
carry out] clandestine operations.' "
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- "He also said that Wackenhut would supply intelligence
agencies with information, and that it was compensated for this "
'in a quid pro quo arrangement'."
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- "Retired FBI agent William Hinshaw also told the
magazine about Wackenhut's ease in snaring lucrative governmental contracts
as being governments' way of " 'pay[ing] Wackenhut for their clandestine
help' ".
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- " 'It is known throughout the industry that if you
want a dirty job done, call Wackenhut' ", Hinshaw said.
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- http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/450/450p15.htm
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- Let's see if I've got this straight:
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- 1. The CIA sells and supplies the drugs.
- 2. The CIA launders their drug profits vis-a vis proprietary
CIA banks around the globe and Wall Street at home.
- 3. The CIA is also involved in the slave labor, prison-for-profits
racket, where drug offenders comprise the largest segment of the prison
population?
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- From: www.thoughtpolicy.com
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- "THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL"
NOT LOOK source unknown
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- "Although the original media reports of multiple
gunshot wounds were confusing, the coroner's public-information officer,
Ed Smith, since has explained that a single shot is not always fatal. Since
1995, said Smith, Sacramento County has had 13 such suicides."
- (http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-12-23/news2.asp)
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- THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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- Isn't it strange that Mr. Smith failed to any reveal
significant, distinguishing details about the 13 suicides that Sacramento
County has had since 1995. For example, how many of the two shot suicides
cited were two shots to the head? And of the 13 that were two shots to
the head, how many were accomplished with a .38 revolver? And by the way,
how many of the 13 two shot suicides had a sufficiently thorough homicide
investigation to confirm suicide beyond a reasonable doubt? Mr. Smith
what are you hiding? Mr. Smith, please supply the details behind your
generality.
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- Webb, : "So, the one thing that I've learned from
this whole experience is, first of all, you can't believe the government
-- on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking
about important stuff, like this stuff. The other thing is that the media
will believe the government before they believe anything"
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- Transcript Excerpts: Gary Webb Speaks on CIA Connections
to Contra Drug Trafficking (and Related Topics)
- Date: January 16, 1999 Time: 7:30 p.m.
- Location: First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive St.,
Eugene, Oregon
- Sponsored By: Eugene Media Action; Eugene PeaceWorks;
Hungry Head Books; The Committee in Solidarity With Central American Peoples;
Support Coalition International.
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- Email From Paul Fassa
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- LOGISTICS AND LIES: THE SMOKING GUN
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- I am not an expert on guns, but I have dealt with and
used them, rifles, shotguns, and handguns, for fun and games from age 12
to 35. I do know enough to communicate some basics regarding the gun used
on Gary Webb on December 10, 2004. When the confusion form inaccurate reports
immediately after Gary's demise settled, I focused on the logistics of
the gun used. On that basis alone, the suicide claim did not hold up with
me. Michael Rupert wrote an article shortly after Webb's death entitled
"Saying Goodbye to a Giant" on his website using the gun logistics
to assert his claim that Gary undoubtedly did himself in.
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- I say that is quite a feat considering the reality of
the gun used and the wounds that resulted. Ruppert stated that the .38
revolver used was a "relatively weak" handgun using inappropriate
"target bullets." Interesting. Is that why almost all police
departments used the .38 revolver for decades until most, but not all,
switched to 9mm semi-automatics in the past several years?
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- The "inappropriate target bullets" assertion
is disinformation. First, let's be clear, the bullet is the nose of what
most consider bullets. It is the smaller portion that is projected from
the casing or shell that contains the powder that explodes when the firing
pin of the gun strikes the back of that shell or casing.
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- History
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- Until the "60's, rounded lead bullets were used
in the police special .38's. Experience in the field exposed problems with
that bullet or projectile. The issues were not because of a lack of power.
That type of bullet penetrated through, yes through, a body too cleanly
and easily, causing damage to others near the targeted individual. It also
ricocheted easily, injuring others not being targeted including the police
involved in a shootout. Probably because the wound inflicted was so clean
and exited the body, it sometimes did not cause enough internal damage
to immediately stop a determined assailant from causing damage to whomever
was firing the .38. But these were problems with the bullets, not the
gun.
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- Those problems were resolved with changes in the bullet
design, most notably the hallow point, which is just that. A hole in the
front or point of the bullet causes the bullet to "mush" on impact.
There were also flathead and ball bullets introduced to replace the rounded
lead bullets. These designs helped keep the bullet from exiting the body
rapidly or even at all in many cases, and increased internal bodily damage
in the process as the bullet flattened out in the body. Ricochets were
lowered considerably because the bullet "mushed" so much on striking
all hard objects, which absorbed enough energy to lessen the "bounce"
velocity..
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- The .38 revolver remained in service through the "60's
and "70's with most law enforcement agencies. It was bullet design,
not power that was the issue. Since then, that rounded lead bullet, once
the standard, was considered appropriate for target practice, but not appropriate
for self-defense. Go to a gun store and look for yourself. The old rounded
tip bullets that are not hallowed or flattened are usually sold and purchased
when you are planning to visit the firing range or go "plinking"
cans and bottles in a large open field. The power is not diminished in
those bullets. The shell or casing of each cartridge and the powder content
remain the same! Get it? The lethal capacity from shooting someone, even
yourself, at point blank in the head is not hampered by using "target
bullets".
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- What's wrong with this picture?
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- Back to the "relatively weak handgun" statement
by "ex-cop" Ruppert. Weak compared to what? I have read that
even a .32 caliber handgun, I once had a .32 semi-automatic, can be used
for defensive purposes, though "anything less than .38 caliber is
risky". The 9mm semi-automatics that have been adopted by most law
enforcement agencies are virtually the same size as a .38 caliber revolver
in all respects. They simply use different measuring systems, comparable
to adopting metric measurements over our English standards.
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- All caliber and mm sizes refer to the internal diameter,
or bore, of the gun's barrel. That, of course, determines the thickness
of the bullet itself. In handguns, the shell casing that contains the
powder and holds the bullet is usually the same diameter as the bullet.
The length of the casing and the amount of powder may vary, but the .38
revolver and 9mm semi-automatics use cartridges that are closely similar
in size and power.
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- So why the shift from .38 revolvers to 9mm semi-automatics
by most law enforcement agencies? The 9mm does have a little more muzzle
power than the .38, but it is more compact than the bulky .38 revolver.
More importantly, consider the fact that in a shootout, a semi-automatic
puts one in a better defensive or attack situation because it is so easy
to rapidly and repeatedly fire and reload! Which would you rather have
in your possession in a dangerous environment? The trigger mechanism in
a semi-automatic handgun is sensitive enough, after the first cocking action,
to require a safety button or switch to prevent inadvertent firing, which
would make the two shots to the head suicide more plausible with an involuntary
muscle reaction on the trigger.
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- It is not so easy with a revolver. There are no gas activated
or spring loaded recoil mechanisms, essential to the semi-automatic, that
re-cock the revolver. It is completely mechanical. One can manually cock
a revolver by pulling the hammer back completely, thus creating an easy,
low resistance trigger squeeze to fire the gun. Otherwise, the resistance
of the trigger is such that it takes a good pull or squeeze to move the
revolving chamber into the firing chamber mechanically. Comparing the firing
actions of a revolver to a semi-automatic is like comparing the shifting
actions of an old stick shift truck to a new automatic transmission sports
sedan.
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