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Noriega's RICO partners...5-30-17 Mouse Report

by DJ Mouse
Yesterday's tracks protest over dropping biggest WMD since Nagasaki on Afghanistan...on allies in contra war on Syria (???!!!)...plus poop on Noriega's boss Poppy Bush's Mena, Arkansas coke stand attendants' getaway drivers...
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Once Upon a war on Nicaragua, tracks nurse Dorothy...knocked down by cops for shining a light on my torture session...escorted an ex-mercenary to the hospital so countrymen wouldn't take revenge...and the contra told his buddies "You can't kill her, she's the only one taking care of our families"...w/ the passing of Manuel Noriega, CIA's man in Panama and Syria's mop-up of our 40,000 headmen there, we should remember that story...
from PBS documentary
"In 1984, when Congress cut off Contra funding, the White House turned to other sources for support. According to documents, Ramon Milian Rodriguez had been laundering foreign payments for the CIA up through 1982, at the same time as he was laundering cash for the cocaine cartel. He says the CIA turned to him again.
MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
To have people like me in place that can be used, is marvelous for them. The agency, and quite rightly so, has things that they have to do which they can never admit to an oversight committee, all right, and the only way they can fund these things is through drug money or through illicit money that they can get their hands on in some way.
KERRY HEARINGS
John Kerry (in hearings):
Was any of the money traceable to drugs or to drug related transactions?
Milian Rodriguez:
The money that we--you're taIking about the money that we provided?
John Kerry:
That's right.
Milian Rodriguez:
No sir.
John Kerry:
And why was that?
Milian Rodriguez:
Because we're experts at what we do.
JOSE BLANDON
Frontline:
Who is Ramon Milian Rodriguez?
Jose Blandon:
He worked for the Cartel.
Frontline:
So he was laundering money for the cartel?
Jose Blandon:
Yes.
Frontline:
And he worked with Noriega?
Jose Blandon:
Yes.
NARRATOR
Until last year, Jose Blandon was General Manuel Noriega's head of political intelligence in Panama. He was a key U.S. government witness for the grand jury that indicted Noriega for drug trafficking. General Noriega was more than ready to support the Reagan administration in the Contra war after Congress cut off funding.
Frontline:How important was Noriega to the White House in the Contra resupply effort?
Jose Blandon:He play a key role in the supply of arms to the Contras.
Frontline: So when various administration officials like Oliver North met with General Noriega, did they know that he was involved in narcotics trafficking?Jose Blandon:I think that the United States had information that Noriega is involved in drugs since at least eight years.
Frontline:
Eight years?
Jose Blandon:
Yes, so they knew about that.
Frontline:
Were they just looking the other way on his drug trafficking?
Jose Blandon:
The problem is that for the white House, I mean for the administration, the Reagan administration, Nicaragua was so important. The focus of all the foreign policy of the United States in Central America was Nicaragua and the fight against the communists, so for them drugs was something in second place.
Frontline:
Drugs took second place?
Jose Blandon:
Yes.
NARRATOR
Noriega's Contra support earned him powerful friends in Washington, including the CIA Director William Casey. Noriega was on his payroll at a reported two hundred thousand dollars a year.
Jose Blandon:
That was a very special relationship.
Frontline:
What kind of special relationship?
Jose Blandon:
Well, Noriega talked with Casey and they had at least, that I know, more than three meetings. And he always received the support of Casey.
Frontline:
What kind of support from Casey?
Jose Blandon:
All kinds of support. Political support. So when somebody tried to investigate anything, Casey stopped it, look this is a very important person in this war
Frontline:
So Casey would actually stop investigations of Noriega?
Jose Blandon:
Yes, he was a man that helped Noriega very much.
NARRATOR
According to Blandon, Noriega was not the only drug trafficker to reap the rewards of Contra support. The cocaine cartel also saw the advantages of backing U.S. policy.
Jose Blandon:
That's the reason why the Cartel of Medellin decided in 1983 to cooperate with the Contras.
Frontline:
So you're saying that in 1983 the Cartel started supporting the Contras?
Jose Blandon:
Yes.
Frontline:
And the reason was because they knew that they could therefore get protection?
Jose Blandon:
Yes.?"
by hans b.
After the U.S war of
aggression held in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (5 million locals killed by U.S. WMD in some unclassified secrets there was this info on the alternative media---The killed U.S. AGRESSOR TROOPS had their intestines removed by the C.I.A. and from the 'Golden Triangle' Heroin packets were place inside of the bodies to be shipped back to the U.S.A. The times must be a changing because the news no longer is believable, especially as the scrapping of the weapons of mass destruction is the true path to global liberation from all forms of exploitation.





















































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