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The tag 'Drug Trafficking' is associated with 131 posts.

Huffman Aviation a Factor in Legal Struggle over Classified Documents

While the media are pre­dictably obsess­ing on the NSA/PRISM non-scandal, more impor­tant secrecy issues have emerged. It devel­ops that some Sarasota-based Saudis who fled shortly after the 9/11 attacks were indeed con­nected to peo­ple impli­cated in the attacks, includ­ing indi­vid­u­als who were part of Mohamed Atta’s Huff­man Avi­a­tion milieu.


Update on For The Record Production

Because of a seri­ous ill­ness, Mr. Emory hadn’t pro­duced new pro­grams in some time. Now, new For The Record pro­grams are being pro­duced. Soon, pro­gram pro­duc­tion will be resumed on a weekly basis.


He’s BAAAAACK! Gerald Posner’s Latest Gig

Like Count Drac­ula, Ger­ald Pos­ner keeps com­ing back. Hav­ing led the media charges to dis­credit War­ren Com­mis­sion crit­ics, crit­ics of the offi­cial ver­sion of Mar­tin Luther King’s assas­si­na­tion and Ladis­las Farago’s research on Mar­tin Bormann’s pres­ence in Latin Amer­ica, Pos­ner is now defend­ing Afghan pres­i­dent Karzai’s brother against cred­i­ble charges that he has been on the CIA’s pay­roll, while par­tic­i­pa­tring sig­nif­i­cantly in the Afghan heroin trade.


The Fire This Time: Aryan Prison Syndicates, For-Profit Prisons, Government-Sponsored Drug Trafficking and “Austerity”

Recently, Aryan prison syn­di­cates have been in the news. It appears that their num­ber, sophis­ti­ca­tion, auton­omy and lethal capa­bil­i­ties are far greater than most sus­pect. With the “lock-em-up and throw away the key” men­tal­ity twin­ning with the bur­geon­ing for-profit prison enter­prises, we may well see a storm break­ing loose on the United States, as aus­ter­ity pres­sures result in more of them being released with­out any sig­nif­i­cant rehabilitation.


‘Roid Rage: The Bosches, the Bushes and Sports Doping

The Bush fam­ily has been very, very close to the anti-Castro Cuban exile com­mu­nity for decades, includ­ing and espe­cially the late Orlando Bosch, head of the CORU orga­ni­za­tion. Now, it emerges that a rel­a­tive of Orlando Bosch heads the Bio­gen­e­sis firm, under inves­ti­ga­tion for allegedly pro­vid­ing performance-enhancing drugs to pro­fes­sional athletes.


Graham Fuller Helped Start the Iran-Contra Affair

“Ex” CIA offi­cer Gra­ham E. Fuller gets around. The for­mer father-in-law of the Boston Marathon bombers was a key advo­cate of the U.S. “turn to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood,” as well as a defender of the Fetul­lah Gulen orga­ni­za­tion against charges of involve­ment with the CIA. Now, it emerges that he was piv­otal in set­ting in motion the machi­na­tions that have become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.


Reagan’s Nazis

After the death of Mar­garet Thatcher, Amer­i­cans are being treated to hagiogra­phies of her polit­i­cal ally Ronald Rea­gan. Reagan’s admin­is­tra­tion was a front for the Under­ground Reich, incor­po­rat­ing the GOP Nazi “eth­nics” who had been imported into the US fol­low­ing World War II. Rea­gan, him­self, had a long his­tory of asso­ci­a­tion with unsa­vory ele­ments, includ­ing orga­nized crime.


Rudi Dekkers Enters a Sealed Plea: May Never Go to Trial

For years, we’ve cov­ered the heroic, lonely research done by Daniel Hop­sicker on the 9/11-related flight schools in South­ern Florida. One of the prin­ci­pals in the intelligence-community-controlled drug traf­fick­ing milieu through which Mohamed Atta and asso­ciates infil­trated the United States was recently arrested in Hous­ton for drug smug­gling. Dekkers has entered a seal plea agree­ment, which will likely mute any pub­lic dis­clo­sure of the find­ings in the case.


Falling to Earth: September 11th Flight School Operator Rudi Dekkers Arrested for Drug Trafficking

Long able to escape legal ret­ri­bu­tion for his actions, Huff­man Avi­a­tion oper­a­tor Rudi Dekkers appears to have run out of luck. The Dutch/German pilot who ran the flight school through which 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and his Ger­man and Aus­trian asso­ciates infil­trated the United States has been arrested in Hous­ton for drug traf­fick­ing. It remains to be seen what comes of this inves­ti­ga­tion, but the impli­ca­tions are poten­tially staggering.


Roberto Calvi Linked to Pablo Escobar

It is now rel­a­tively well known that the late Pablo Esco­bar and the asso­ci­ated Medellin Car­tel were heav­ily involved with the Iran-Contra cocaine traf­fic of the 1980’s. Press accounts have now sur­faced in Italy and the UK about Esco­bar hav­ing banked some of his pro­ceeds with Roberto Calvi’s Banco Ambrosiano. Found mur­dered in Lon­don in late 1982, Calvi was the adviser to the IOR, hav­ing suc­ceeded the late Michele Sin­dona in that regard. (Like Calvi, Sin­dona was a mem­ber of the Licio Gelli’s P-2 Lodge.) Dis­clo­sure of the Calvi/Escobar link sug­gests another link between the Iran-Contra affair and the Stibam arms for drugs ring that heav­ily over­lapped the milieu of the P-2, Vat­i­can Bank and the Banco Ambrosiano.


Recommended Reading

The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer; Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists—in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League—planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Read more »