Michael Levine & Laura Kavanau-Levine
THE EXPERT WITNESS radio show
March 24, 1998
As an ex DEA agent I found the complete lack of coverage by mainstream
media of what I saw last night during the congressional hearings into CIA
Drug
Trafficking, on CNN both depressing and frightening.
I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General, testify that
there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department,
wherein
"during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug
trafficking its assets did to the Justice Department." (This
is the agreement, by the way, that lead directly to events described in
our non-fiction books, The Big White Lie and Deep Cover. Those many
who have read the boosk will know instantly what I am talking about).
To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted
a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license
that
lasted-so CIA claims-from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans
paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs. Of course the evidence
indicates that they did not stop obstructing justice in 1995 either,
but that I suppose is going to be another congressional hearing.
As far as the current
hearings go this Catch 22 "revelation" means that all the present
hearings are for nothing; that-if they are caught violating the drug laws-they
had been
given "secret" license to do so by our Justice Department. This
might also explain Janet Reno's recent and unprecedented move in blocking
the release of
a Justice Department investigation into CIA drug trafficking.
God, with friends like these, who needs enemies? It is now clear
that this agreement began with the events described in THE BIG WHITE LIE;
that the top drug traffickers in Bolivia, then supplying virtually all
the world's cocaine-including Sonia Atala-were CIA assets that had to be
protected from our deep cover probe.
Laura and I still have the proof of this that we used to back
up the publication THE BIG WHITE LIE. The same proof was later incorporated
into
other data backing up the publications of DEEP COVER and TRIANGLE
OF DEATH.
Our evidence-which congress has been craning its neck not to see- for
instance, shows clearly that during Operation Hun (the story in The
Big White
Lie), secret meetings were held with CIA and Justice Department wherein
all indictments of top government officials in Bolivia were blocked.
We now
believe this agreement began because of Operation Hun.
CIA had to hide the fact that they were supporting the people manufacturing
virtually all the
cocaine being produced in the world, at that time.
In Deep Cover we showed that, during Operation Trifecta-a
highly successful deep cover probe into the top of the drug world in three
countries (Panama,
Bolivia and Mexico) -Attorney General of the US Ed Meece found it necessary
to warn the Attorney General of Mexico about DEA's case. We, (undercover
DEA
agents and Customs agents), found links between top US government officials
and the people who murdered DEA agent Kiki Camarena, that to this day go
unexamined by our congress or anyone else.
In "TRIANGLE OF DEATH, a work of "faction" we showed CIA's real-life
involvement in the protection and creation of one of the most murderous
criminal organizations to ever plague America, an organization created
by escaped Nazi fugitives under CIA protection-events occurring long before
this
alleged CIA Justice agreement.
And so the dance continues.
If anyone watched the CNN show you cannot have helped but notice
the snickering on the part of Congressional chairman Porter Goss (an ex
CIA
officer), as congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke. Now here's the
reason why: Sources of mine, who speak to me from inside this veil of secrecy
out of
conscience and because I am cheaper and more reliable than a psychiatrist,
have already told me the following:
1. There is secret communication between CIA and members of the
Congressional staff-one must keep in mind that Porter Goss, the chairman,
is an ex CIA
official- indicating that the whole hearing is just a smoke and mirror
show so that the American people-particularly the Black community- can
"blow off some
steam" without doing any damage to CIA. The CIA has been
assured that nothing real will be done, other than some embarrassing questions
being asked.
2. That the hearings will result in the CIA receiving even a larger
budget than the current $26 billion that they admit to. One
of the most distressing things for me, a 25 year veteran of this business,
to listen to was when Congresswoman Waters said that the hearings were
not about CIA officers being indicted and going to jail. "That is not going
to happen," she said. Almost in the same breath she spoke of
a recent case in Miami wherein a Venezuelan National Guard general was
caught by Customs agents smuggling more than a ton of cocaine into the
US. Despite named CIA officers being involved in the plot, as Congresswoman
Waters stated, the Justice Department will not tell her anything about
the case because of "secrecy laws." No wonder chairman Goss
was snickering. She could not have played more
neatly into CIA hands than to surrender before the battle was engaged.
For the entire existence of CIA they have gotten away with doing more
damage to the American people than all our traditional enemies combined,
precisely because no one was ever prosecuted. From the
CIA protection of Nazi criminals from war crimes prosecution as they set
up criminal
organizations that preyed on America (Triangle of Death),
to their lies to President Kennedy that dragged us into Bay of Pigs, to
their lies to President
Johnson that dragged us into the Vietnam War, to their creation of
a pan Arab army of American hating, drug trafficking terrorists during
the Afghan War,
to the Church Commission hearings, to MK-Ultra, to the Bolivian Cocaine
Coup ("The Big White Lie"), to their protection of the world's top cocaine
traffickers as they laid waste to American streets (Deep cover) , the
CIA has acted exactly as Senator Frank Church once described them:
"a runaway rogue
elephant...completely unresponsive to Congress...they (the CIA) have
not only been unproductive, they have been contraproductive..they have
brought great
shame on America."
And the dance continues.