flashback: Mena is no myth

"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, 

we would be chased down the streets 

and lynched."
- George Bush Sr. *Sarah McClendon Newsletter (June, 1992)*

Following the loss of Vietnam, the collapse of the supply route for Khun Sa’s heroin through Vietnam, Hawaii, and to the US mainland via Air America, the CIA started funding unapproved covert operations with money raised through the importation and sale of cocaine from South and Central America.

During Iran-Contra, CIA planes flew guns down and cocaine back up, ending (we are told) with the crash of of a CIA airplane and the subsequent capture and confession of Eugene Hassenfuss, which triggered the public Iran-Contra scandal.

Now, as revelations surface of a massive covert program send high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels fighting for control over the Juarez drug route into the US, one has to wonder if once again the CIA is up to their necks in drug money, and once again law enforcement being hamstrung to allow CIA insiders and their enablers to get rich.

"The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in the DEA database as documented drug traffickers.
"When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised me to move on to other investigations."
- Celerino Castillo, former DEA agent *PowderBurns (1992)