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— Dope, Incorporated — Continued from page 81 owner, along with Rodriguez Gacha, of the rights violations—that Ben-Or would fill ; . drug money’ laundering Banco _ all their arms and military training require- escrow deposit, to ensure that the hundreds jrrerocesnico, ments with the secret blessing of ous rae bnnch at had come When the lid blew on the Mossad- Washington. Ben-Or did just that—at a e : Medellin connection in early 1990, the 600 per cent mark-up. A decade later, Bank Hapoalim. any doubt that the armin Israeli Government scrambled to deny that + Ben-Or was stil] wheeling and dealing with y 8 Klein was on ‘official business' when he Guatemala—out of offices he shared in ord panel ofthe care progetmn that inclad trained and armed the narcoterrorists. Miami with General Sachar and Colonel ed the 20 December 1989 US invasion of Unfortunately for this story's credibility, Klein. eo Panama and overthrow of General Noriega, rere nae pee wi only linked to Sarfal in consider the following: . his Caribbean adventures but, back in After the smoke cleared in Panama— Miami, Klein's Spearhead, Ltd had been thousands of dead bodies and billions of ™anaged by two rather important Israeli dollars in bombed-out property later—the Peratives, Gen. Pinchas Sachar and Bush administration succeeded in installing Pesach Ben-Or. Both men were officially into the presidency a local Panamanian designated representatives of the Israeli lawyer, Guillermo "Porky" Endara. A Government's Israeli Military Industry, and review of court records shows that it was Sachar's account at the Bank President Endara and several of his law Hapoalim that had received the funds from partners were the owners of record of the Elliott Abrams to purchase the guns routed ship Sea Point in April 1989 when the ship to Colombia. : had delivered the Israeli weapons to Pesach Ben-Or had been installed back Rodrfguez Gacha! They still owned the during the Carter administration as the ship in late 1989 when it was stopped off Mossad's principal arms merchant in the coast of Mexico and busted for carrying Guatemala City, a hub of later Contra sup- a massive shipment of cocaine. For good ply action. According to eyewitness measure, over half of the crew members accounts, Carter's National Security busted by the Mexican authorities were Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski quietly also on board when the gun delivery was informed the Guatemalan junta in 1978— made to the Medellin Cartel, Back on dry after Carter shut down all American mili- land in Panama City, Endara was the co- tary aid to the country over alleged human -Copi eS of pepe i In be tage at the cost of —————$—— A$$ ~ 82 © NEXUS ‘ woe tere to rr ee eee Bee Bony eee eee See | FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995 —