Article: 32875 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,soc.veterans Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 1, A NATION BETRAYED: CIA Sacrifices POWs for Drug Profits Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 22:11:48 GMT Lines: 179 Part 1, A NATION BETRAYED: CIA Sacrifices American POWs for Drug Profits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following is a transcript of the video, "A NATION BETRAYED". It documents alleged CIA involvement in covert drug running activities and how they supposedly interfered with the nation's attempts to recover American prisoners of war and those missing in action. You may find it unbelievable. You may not be surprised at what it says. I have several comments which I will append to end of the document. Suffice it to say that information of this type is its own shocking kind of pornography. As far as I can see Gritz's, arguments are more or less sound. The evidence from three separate sources is even more compelling. As I watched this video I felt thoroughly violated. It is not enjoyable reading, but it may well be true. Be careful when you seek the truth. Upon finding it you may be forced to change your view of the world. Jim Burnes _______________________________________________________________________ (apologies to the original quote) (Transcriber's note: The following is a transcription of spoken English and as such can be difficult to read, much less transcribe. I have tried to preserve exactly as was spoken except for a few places where I have organized the language used to clarify meaning. I am not an English major so don't slam me for not using perfect English punctuation in the sometimes rather strange usages.) ---------------------------CUT HERE---------------------------------- Colonel Bo Gritz Addressing the American Liberty Lunch Club: What I want to tell you very quickly is something that I feel is more heinous than the Bataan death march. Certainly it is of more concern to you as Americans than the Watergate. What I'm talking about is something we found out in Burma - May 1987. We found it out from a man named Khun Sa. He is the recognized overlord of heroin in the world. Last year he sent 900 tons of opiates and heroin into the free world. This year it will be 1200 tons. (video showing discussion at Khun Sa's headquarters -- some translation of Burmese to English going on..Bo Gritz still talking to Lunch club in the foreground) On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: that US government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have been for the last twenty years. I wouldn't believe him. We fought a war in Laos and Cambodia even as we fought whatever it was in Vietnam. The point is that there are as many bomb holes in those two other countries as there are in Vietnam. Five hundred and fifty plus Americans were lost in Laos. Not one of them ever came home. We heard a president say, "The war is over, we are out with honor - all of the prisoners are home." and a few other lies. Now we got rid of that president, but we didn't get rid of the problem. We ran the war in Laos and Cambodia through drugs. The money that would not be appropriated by a liberal congress, was appropriated. And you know who we used for distribution? Santos Trafficante, old friend of the CIA and mobster out of Cuba and Florida. We lost the war! Fifty-eight-thousand Americans were killed. Seventy-thousand became drug casualties. In the sixties and seventies you saw an infusion of drugs into America like never was before. Where do you think the Mafia takes the heroin and opiates that it gets through its arrangement with the US government? It doesn't distribute them in Africa or Europe. This is the big money bag here. We're Daddy Warbucks for them. So I submit to you that the CIA has been pressed for solutions. Each time they have gone to the sewer to find it. And you can't smell like a rose when you've been playing in the cesspool. We've been embracing organized crime. Now you've all looked and heard about Ollie North, about the Contras, about nobody knowing anything. (cut to part of Iran Contra hearings with Ollie North explaining the flow of funds from Iran to the Contras) North: And Mr. Gorbanifar suggested several incentives to make that February transaction work. And the attractive incentive for me was the one he made that residuals could flow to support the Nicaraguan resistance. Legislator: Even Gorbanifar knew that you were supporting the Contras. North: Yes he did. Isvestia knew it. The name had been in the papers in Moscow. It had been all over Danny Ortega's newscasts. Radio Havana was broadcasting it. It had been in every newspaper in the land. Legislator: All our enemies knew it and you wanted to keep it from the United States Congress. North: We wanted to be able to deny a covert operation. (back to Bo at the Luncheon Club) We have a constitution that says that the laws will be made by the Congress, enforced by the executive branch, interpreted by the judicial branch. But in reality we have an executive branch that has for more than a twenty years operated in what what Ollie North called a parallel government. When the Congress says no, it makes no difference. They're gonna do it anyway. And it is special intelligence - top secret. Why? Not because the communists don't know what were doing, it's to keep it a secret from you. You're not capable of making those kinds of decisions according to those in parallel government. The reason I know ... I was there. I've been a product of parallel government myself. (Narrator) Lieutenant Colonel James 'Bo' Gritz is the most decorated Green Beret commander of the Vietnam Era. General William Westmoreland, in writing his memoirs, singled out Bo Gritz as the "American Soldier" for his exemplary courage in combat and outstanding ingenuity in recovering a highly secret black-box the Viet-Cong had taken from a crashed U2 spy plane. The feature films "Rambo", "Uncommon Valor" and "Missing in Action" were based in part upon his real-life military experiences. (Back to Bo) Dick Secord, General, United States Air Force, a man I know well, said it best. Before the senate investigating committee Dick Secord was asked - if we were supporting the Contras, why were we selling them arms bought from a communist block nation at exorbitant profit rates. (skip to scene from hearings) Senator: If the purpose of the enterprise was to help the contras, why did you charge Colero a mark-up? Secord: We were in business to make a living, Senator. We had to make a living. I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time. It was a commercial enterprise. Senator: Oh..I thought the purpose of the enterprise was to aid Colero's cause. Secord: Can't I have two purposes? I did. Senator: Oh..allright. (back to Bo) And then Dick Secord said in his playboy interview: "I think I deserve the eight million that we made from the Iran arms sale for all the hard work I did." If you've got to pay a patriot, you've got the wrong guy. (applause from audience) These are patriots for profit. There has been a guise of patriotism that a lot of people have been hiding behind. War is their business. Business has been good. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ordering information for this video can be gotten by phoning 1(702)723-5266. John DiNardo