CBS News Transcripts 60 MINUTES November 21, 1993

HEADLINE: THE CIA'S COCAINE; CIA APPARENTLY BEHIND SHIPPING OF A TON OF COCAINE INTO THE US FROM VENEZUELA

BODY: THE CIA'S COCAINE

MORLEY SAFER: A ton of cocaine–pure cocaine, worth hundreds of millions—is smuggled into the United States. Sound familiar? Not the way this ton of cocaine got here, according to what the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told Mike Wallace. This drug shipment got here courtesy of what he calls drug trafficking by the CIA, in partnership with the Venezuelan national guard. While rumors of CIA involvement in drug trafficking have circulated for years, no one in the US government has ever before publicly charged the CIA with this kind of wrongdoing. It is not the kind of accusation anyone in government would make without thinking long and hard.

MIKE WALLACE: Let me understand what you're saying. A ton of cocaine was smuggled into the United States of America by the Venezuelan national guard…

Judge ROBERT BONNER (Former Head, Drug Enforcement Administration): Well, they…

WALLACE: …in cooperation with the CIA?

Judge BONNER: That's what–that's exactly what appears to have happened. (Footage of Wallace and Bonner walking)

WALLACE: (Voiceover) Until last month, Judge Robert Bonner was the head ofthe Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA. And Judge Bonner explained to us that only the head of the DEA is authorized to approve the transportation of any illegal narcotics, like cocaine, into this country, even if the CIA is bringing it in.

Judge BONNER: Let me put it this way, Mike. If this has not been approved by DEA or an appropriate law-enforcement authority in the United States, then it's illegal. It's called drug trafficking. It's called drug smuggling.

WALLACE: So what you're saying, in effect, is the CIA broke the law; simple as that.

Judge BONNER: I don't think there's any other way you can rationalize around it, assuming, as I think we can, that there was some knowledge on the part of CIA. At least some participation in approving or condoning this to be done. (Footage of Wallace and Bonner; the CIA seal)

WALLACE: (Voiceover) Judge Bonner says he came to that conclusion after a two-year secret investigation conducted by the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility, in cooperation with the CIA's own inspector general. And what reason did the CIA have for promoting this drug smuggling?

Judge BONNER: Well, the only rationale that's ever been offered is that that–this would lead to some valuable drug intelligence about the Colombian cartels. (Footage of a drug inspection; a ship; trucks; a building; General Ramon Guillen Davila)

WALLACE: (Voiceover) Over half of the Colombian drug cartel's cocaine crosses the border with Venezuela on its way to the United States and Europe. Back in the 1980s, the CIA was mandated by then-President Reagan to develop intelligence on the Colombian drug cartels. And so the CIA, with Venezuela's Guardia Nacional, or national guard, set up an undercover operation, a drug-smuggling operation in Venezuela that could handle the trans-shipment of the Colombian cartel's cocaine on its way to market.

http://www.gangstersout.com/cia_cocaine.htm

Well worth the watch if you want a better understanding of what is going on

AMERICA UNDER SIEGE: THE DEEP STATE

Published on Jan 13, 2018

Venezuelan President Says CIA is Using Its Drug War to Frame and Jail Venezuelan Officials

Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro vowed on Tuesday he would expose the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for paying Chavista leaders to frame the socialist government for drug trafficking — and he claims the accusation will be proven with intelligence reports in the coming days.

“I am going to reveal the evidence of how they have worked with the CIA and the NSA,” Maduro told a televised Presidential Council meeting, as reported by multi-State-run TeleSUR.

“The evidence will give them cold sweats and diarrhea.”

Maduro asserted the suspects — whom he described as “a group of traitors who were from the Bolivarian Revolution” — are based primarily inside the United States, but some still operate in Venezuela.

As TeleSUR explains, “Last month, the U.S. Treasury Department put Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami on a sanctions list for allegedly aiding drug traffickers. They claimed El Aissami is linked to coordinating drug shipments to Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas and a Colombian drug lord.

In February, the New York Times reported, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control alleges El Aissami “facilitated shipments of narcotics from Venezuela, to include control over planes that leave from a Venezuelan air base” and “oversaw or partially owned narcotics shipments of over 1,000 kilograms.”

Sanctions followed El Aissami’s being placed on the U.S. list of drug ‘kingpins,’ under the premise he “facilitated shipments of narcotics from Venezuela,” by working in conjunction with Walid Makled García — a well-known Venezuelan drug trafficker — to bring illicit substances north to Mexico and the states. Officials say El Aissami coordinated these efforts with the Los Zetas cartel.

Notably, the vice president and former head of the nation’s police force has fought stridently — at least in the public eye — against international drug trafficking, and thus took umbrage with the accusation.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/venezuelan-president-cia-framing/

>>4956888

Installed by the C_A and the world cabal not Trump don't confuse the two

>>4956917

Yeah like he's in control of them .and the plan they had for years even before Trump decide to run for president …don't be silly

>>4956952

Who made peace with NK who is getting us out of 'Syria and Afghanistan … what the FK is wrong with your thinking

>>4956977

Bullshit .. Trust is the topic and stopping human/drug/money trafficking is the goal and peace is the goal .. how many years and lives in Syria and Afghanistan and how much money and then you say not the topic .. again what the FK is wring with your thinking

>>4957009

True but I said getting us out and you think after 17 years there it can happen over night .. Trump made amazing progress more then any other president in that last 15 years to get us out.. plus the C_A still is running drugs out of there

>>4957027

Don't be a FKwit here ,, try and educated yourself Venezuela under Chávez

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