The Cocaine Intelligence Agency: Still In Business?
Writer Bill Conroy at Narcosphere says … perhaps:
A twin-propeller Cessna 402C aircraft was seized near Carepa, Colombia, just across the border from Panama in mid-December of last year while it was in the process of attempting to transport about 850 kilos of cocaine to a suspected destination in Central America - and an ultimate arrival point in the United States.
… the Cessna sported a U.S. tail number and FAA registration history that connect it to a number of other “cocaine planes” that have apparent links to covert U.S. intelligence operations
Conroy’s article is quite involved and, as should probably be expected in these matters, the evidence he uncovers is primarily circumstantial. But aside from all the cloak-and-dagger stuff and oblique connections between the CIA and drug trafficking, Conroy makes an interesting argument at the end of his piece:
The mainstream media, and the American public in general, now accept the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies, specifically the CIA, employed rendition [kidnapping] and torture as tactics in the war on terror. So how is it possible, despite the mountain of evidence over the years attesting to it, that the same mainstream media is still in denial over the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies are up to their eyeballs in the narco-trafficking business?
Even if the CIA has given up the drug business, the fact that it has been involved in so many other questionable actions over the years definitely doesn’t help to dispel the conspiracy theories out there. Think about it. Given the agency’s checkered past, including the quite recent past, is it really so hard to believe that it’s still smuggling dope?
The fact that this is even a question to be asked, let alone taken seriously, proves that the worst “dirty trick” the CIA has ever played was on itself and the rest of us, the very people it was formed to protect. Talk about “blowback.” How about the massive erosion of faith in our own government this out-of-control agency has caused? How about the great toxic cloud of cynicism it has unleashed among our population?
PS: We almost forgot, this is the same CIA that was charged with shooting down suspected drug planes in South America. Surprise, surprise, it didn’t do such a good job at that either.
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