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Its run by Theodore Shakley, the former director of covert opera- tions worldwide by the CIA under George Bush when George Bush was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency int976. And this crowd has set up the off the shelf operation and is car- rying out not only a partnership with the drug dealers from Central America and from Southeast Asia, but also carrying out a major political assasination program which was participated in by William Buckley who was the Beirut section chief for the CIA who was kidnapped in March of 1984 and who was the subject of all the real negotiations for the sale of the TOW missiles to fran. It was not a sale to open any openings to the moderates in Iran, nor was it in fact a negotiation to negotiate for the general release of hostages. It was initiated solely and exclusively to obtain the release of William Buckley because he knew about the whereabouts of the off-the-shelf operation. It was a criminal enterprise and they feared that if the American people found out about that there would be a huge constitutional scandal and the President of the United States would be impeached." [Back to Bo at luncheon] Bo: (referring to The Christic Institute) If they’re telling the truth in this case, then we should look at the evidence they have. I’ve been told by my friends in the Central Intelligence that they are, “funded by who doesn’t even know Armitage, other than for the fact that he is the bagman. _ _ H. Ross Perot gaining it from government testimony of agents inves- ligating. But have you ever seen Armitage indicted? But if you look at these reports the agents have been farmed out. Anyone who comes up with a report of investigation against Armitage gets reassigned or retired. You'll recognise some of this. This is back to Khun Sa’s letter: “After 1979, Richard Armitage resigned from the US embassy's posting and set up the Far East Trading Company as a front for his continuation in the drug trade. Soon after, Daniel Arnold was made to handle the drug business as well as the transportation of arms sales. (Daniel Amold was a CIA Station Chief). Jerry Daniels then took over the drug trade from Richard Armitage.” Jerry Daniels was a CIA member. Jerry Daniels died mysteriously in Bangkok, Thailand. 1 wonder why. I swore to defend this constitution. As a soldier | was brainwashed. And I wasn’t a dumb soldier either. I’ve got advanced degrees in col- lege, honors graduating from the Command and General Staff College of the United States Army, given the high command, served in the highest level staff positions in the Pentagon, And yet I thought that as a soldier I was to be apolitical. I was to never question what our exec- utive branch civilians told us to do. Just do or die. What an education I got. Back in 1975-76 I commanded special forces in Latin America. Same time George Bush was head of the CIA. We knew that Noriega was not only a drug smuggler then but we knew that he was a commu- nist besides. He was the intelligence officer under Omar Terrijos (sp?). We, the United States, payed Noriega three times what we pay our President to be our friend. I recommended more than ten years ago that we dump him. We didn’t and now were seeing the result of it. My point is George Bush knew what was going on then. He was head of Central Intelligence. 1t was his OK that said pay Noriega hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. He knew what the intelligence reports were. That Noriega is a brother to Fidel Castro, Don’t ever let him tell you he didn’t know. I think a lot of the truth would come out if we tried General Noriega because he knows what happened and would be willing to tell what happened, but there is nobody in the administra- tion that wants to hear what happened. We know were not going to try him. That's just a ruse. Read the newspapers about three months before we indicted him. I saw where Armitage went down to Panama to warn Noriega, that if he didn’t get under control that we were going to eliminate him. Well, Noriega has bigger cajones than any bureaucrat that you’ll ever meet. He’s a little guy like H. Ross Perot, but he is tougher than Texas cowhide and he will pull the plug on the Panama Canal if we wry to force him out. I think Noriega is going to come out the winner. And by the way, can you imagine what Armitage did? See, Tom Harvey and Armitage are best friends. They lift weights every day in the Pentagon athletic club. I know when we got back from Burma that Harvey rubbed his hands together and said, “Hey Dick, come on over to the White House. Bo Gritz just got back from Golden Triangle with information on POW’s from Khun Sa.” Can you imagine what happened when Khun Sa said, “... and I will disclose every government official I’ve dealt with for 20 years?” | bet you Dick Armitage involuntarily urinated right there! (much laughter) And all of a sudden US declares 'no mercy’. Its a war of words. No president that’s ever declared a war on drugs has ever fought one. But there’s a way to do it and end-running the Constitution is not the way. But here’s what we've done. You saw Ollie North stand up and become an acclaimed hero. Now Ollie North is a Marine that I believe has done everything he thought was right to stem the rising tide of communism. But | want to give you some facts and you decide for yourself. I think Ollie North had good intentions but he was manipulated and used. Have we won the war in Nicaragua? Has the end justified the means because the planes carrying arms to the Contras came back loaded with “Mort Abromowitz, the U.S. Ambassador at the embassy in Thailand, came to know of Armitage’s involvement in the secret handling of opium funds, and called there to be initiated, an internal State Department heroin smuggling investigation directed against Richard Armitage.” the KGB.” Well, when they tell me that and it’s because Christic is talking bad about the government, it makes me think that maybe some- body higher up has told them, “hey go tell ‘em that they’re being fund- ed by the KGB.” I don’t know too much more than that, but I do know ironically enough, can H. Ross Perot, General Khun Sa and the Christic, three different totally separate entities come up with the same information if it's not true? This affidavit though by Daniel Sheehan ... there’s his signatures swearing that it is the truth. He has uncovered information ... I just want to read you a couple of sentences. Its says here that, “One of the officers in the US embassy in Thailand, one Mort Abromowitz (he was the Ambassador as a matter of fact), came to know of Armitage’s involvement in the secret handling of opium funds and called there to be initiated a internal state department heroin smuggling investigation directed against Richard Armitage.” It says, “Armitage was a target of embassy personnel complaints to the effect that he was utterly failing to perform his duties on behalf of American MIA's.” And Armitage reluctantly resigned as DOD special consultant on MIA’s at the end of 1977. It says, “From 1977 to 1979 Armitage remained in Bangkok opening and operating a business named the Far East Trading Company.” It says that, “This company was in-fact merely a front for secret opera- tions conducting opium money out of Southeast Asia to Tehran, Iran and the Nugan-Hand Bank.” It goes on ...There’s three fingers now. One, twelve thousand miles from here, from an infamous warlord 32°NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992