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— Dope, Incorporated — ies also engaged in training the cartel hit Mossad and the CIA. Colonel Herrera was Hogan in his hotel room at St James Club squads, and even participated in paramili- then relocated to the United States by and I requested of him some investigation tary operations inside Colombia. Among _ Elliott Abrams and was put formally on the into Spearhead, Ltd and the colonel and his the British soldiers of fortune were David CIA's payroll. Colonel Klein was assigned trainers. I also discussed Spearhead, Ltd Tomkins and Peter MacAleese, a veteranof to work with Herrera on a plan to create a and Colonel Klein with Chief of the CIA the Rhodesian Army. Most of the British Panamanian ‘contra’ force that would be Eastern Caribbean Mr George Kenning, mercenaries were former Special Air sponsored by the United States to oust the Barbados Embassy, in my office, and also Services (SAS) officers. Panamanian general, who had become a_ in the VIP Lounge at Grantley-Adams The involvement of British intelligence _ thorn in the side of George Bush. Airport.". Some months later, says Walker in the CIA-Mossad Colombia deal was fur- On behalf of this secret project, Klein in his affidavit, CIA Chief of Eastern ther confirmed when Louis Blom-Cooper _ visited Antigua in early 1989 to solicit per- Caribbean George Kenning “told me and Geoffrey Robertson, both officials of | mission from the local authorities to estab- Spearhead, Ltd appears to be all right". Amnesty International which is funded by _ lish a "VIP security guard" training acade- In spite of that CIA green light, the pow- British intelligence, were deployed to cover my. Sarfati, a longstanding Mossad opera- ers that be on Antigua decided in March up the official US, British and Israeli gov- tor who had purchased a melon farm in 1989 not to approve Klein's request for the , ernment sponsorship of the Klein operation Antigua with US Government funds training school. and to pin the blame solely on officials of arranged through Bruce Rappaport (a At that moment, a shipload of Israeli the tiny island of Antigua, a British Crown Swiss-Israeli Iran-Contra figure who was a arms was steaming across the Atlantic on colony. golfing partner of the late William Casey), board the Danish-flagged ship, Else TH. Shortly after the Medellfn Cartel assas- set up the local contacts. On 24 April 1989, the arms were trans- sins school got going, Klein was brought According to Col. Clyde Walker, at the ferred at the Antigua port onto a into a sensitive covert action program time the chief of Antigua’s tiny national Panamanian-registered ship, Sea Point, and being run by the Reagan-Bush administra- defence force, after he had met with shuttled off to Rodriguez Gacha in tion: the plot to overthrow Panama's Gen. Colonel Klein and Sarfati in January 1989, Colombia. Manuel Antonio Noriega. In 1988, Klein he made formal inquiries with CIA offi- The money to purchase the 1989 was brought to Miami for a series of secret _cials in charge of the eastern Caribbean. In weapons shipment had come from a State meetings with Col. Eduardo Herrera, the a sworn affidavit, Walker stated, "I pre- Department-administered account under former Panamanian Ambassador to Israel. pared an intelligence report on Colonel the control of Assistant Secretary for Inter- Herrera got the boot from the Tel Aviv Klein and all the other names in the American Affairs, Elliott Abrams. The assignment after General Noriega discov- [Spearhead] pamphlets,..and I gave the ered that he was working with both the report to United States CIA agent Robert ontinued on pag NEXUS * 81 Continued on page 82 Ss | Nn el | FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995