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The CIA: The Cartel Infiltrating America

Biden has 'relinquished our borders to the cartel': Texas congressional candidate

June 26, 2022

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6308530273112

 

Guns, Drugs, and the CIA

Tonight's FRONTLINE investigation traces the CIA's involvement with drug lords back to the agency's birth following World War II. It is a long history that asks this question: "In the war on drugs, which side is the CIA on?"

Original Air Date: May 17, 1988

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html

 

CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection

The author contends that, since World War II, one of the most critical sources of institutional protection for the drug trade has been the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This contention is illustrated using the example of the rise of the [Guadalajara Cartel] in Mexico, one of the largest drug suppliers to the North American market in the late 1970's and 1980's.

The cartel's success is explained by its connections to the Mexican intelligence agency and the CIA.

Version of essay appeared in "Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America," by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall (University of California Press, 1991)

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/cia-assets-and-rise-guadalajara-connection

Federal authorities assess new witness claims that a DEA official and CIA operative were tied to DEA agent Enrique Camarena's 1985 murder in Mexico.

Before Camarena’s death, DEA units in Mexico destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of marijuana grown on farms for the Guadalajara Cartel

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2020/02/27/enrique-camarena-dea-agent-murder-narcos-mexico/2566023001/

 

CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says

Chihuahua state spokesman Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva told Al Jazeera that the CIA and other international “security” outfits “don’t fight drug traffickers.” Instead, Villanueva argued, they try to control and manage the illegal drug market for their own benefit.

July 28, 2012

https://thenewamerican.com/cia-manages-drug-trade-mexican-official-says/

 

Panama's Noriega: CIA spy turned drug-running dictator

Noriega showed an early flair for “psyops” - [psychological warfare operations]

A paid CIA collaborator since the early 1970s, Noriega at first worked closely with Washington, allowing U.S. forces to set up listening posts in Panama, and use the country to funnel aid to pro-American forces in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

May 30, 2017

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-noriega-obituary-idUSKBN18Q0NW