(Two 30 minute segments)

In this inter­view, Mike Rup­pert updates and fur­ther devel­ops a num­ber of sto­ries, begin­ning with the sub­ject of George W. Bush’s pur­chase of a kilo of cocaine. This pur­chase (allegedly in the com­pany of his brother Jeb, who also pur­chased a kilo) was allegedly caught on film as part of a DEA sting at Miami’s Tami­ami Air­port. One of the cen­tral points of dis­cus­sion con­cerns the appar­ent use of CIA-generated crack cocaine to delib­er­ately ruin neigh­bor­hoods in which there were sub­stan­tive amounts of HUD sub­si­dized hous­ing occu­pied by African-Americans. Com­ing as it does from Ms. Cather­ine Austin Fitts (con­tribut­ing edi­tor to Mr. Ruppert’s From the Wilder­ness newslet­ter and a for­mer Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of HUD under George Bush), this dis­clo­sure is as com­pelling as it is dis­turb­ing. Ms. Fitts and Mr. Rup­pert noticed an unnerv­ing over­lap between the areas of Los Ange­les in which the CIA-connected crack cocaine dis­tri­b­u­tion oper­a­tion of “free­way” Ricky Ross was located and the areas in which there was HUD hous­ing. (The story of Ricky Ross is detailed in Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance series.) The dev­as­tat­ing effects of the crack epi­demic of the 1980’s dec­i­mated these neigh­bor­hoods, forc­ing the African-American res­i­dents to flee and open­ing up their prop­er­ties to re-sale for pen­nies on the dol­lar. It is the con­sid­ered opin­ion of Ms. Fitts that this pol­icy was delib­er­ate and con­sti­tutes a delib­er­ate pro­gram of eth­nic cleans­ing or even geno­cide. Ms. Fitts was a first-hand wit­ness to dis­cus­sions with asso­ciates of Newt Gin­grich, in which they openly expressed the view that African-Americans were genet­i­cally infe­rior and implied that they should be exterminated.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: dis­cus­sion of Ms. Fitts’ ill-fated attempts to restruc­ture HUD projects in African-American inner-city areas in such a way as to per­mit many of the sin­gle moth­ers with chil­dren to do com­puter data pro­cess­ing (pro­vid­ing them with income and sav­ing HUD money); the dis­missal by HUD offi­cials of Ms. Fitts’ pro­posal as “com­put­ers for nig­gers;” Mr. Ruppert’s rumi­na­tion about the prospects of the United States going to war in Colom­bia; analy­sis of the sig­nif­i­cance of drug money for the long Wall Street invest­ment boom; dis­cus­sion of Mike Ruppert’s inter­ac­tion with Con­gres­sional per­son­nel inves­ti­gat­ing the CIA-cocaine link; the progress of sev­eral class-action suits filed against the CIA in con­nec­tion with the Contra-cocaine con­nec­tion. (See also: RFAs 20, 24–30, 32–35, as well as Mis­cel­la­neous Shows M-39, M-40, M-41, M-43, M-44, M-47, and FTRs 01, 02, 41, 43, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 137.)