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SPOOKS, WHISTLEBLOWERS AND FALL Guys SPOOKS, WHISTLEBLOWERS Guys FALL AND Whistleblower Rodney Stich exposes the crimes and entrenched corruption behind the scenes of US government, big business and the intelligence community. Part 1 of 2 n his monumental book, Defrauding America, former US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigator Rodney Stich writes: "After Clinton was elected President of the United States, his administration and its Justice Department halted all investigations and prosecution of the crimes related to Inslaw, October Surprise, CIA drug trafficking and money laundering, BNL, BCCI and Iraqgate. "Clinton had much to hide when he left Arkansas to assume the presidency of the United States," Stich continues. "His misuse of government facilities and power to feed his sex drive, his use of drugs, his cover-up of the CIA's unlawful arms shipments from Arkansas and related drug trafficking, were crimes. The mysterious deaths, killings and beatings of people possessing information that would expose these corrupt activities added further to Clinton's problems. He certainly needed a thick armor of protective offi- cials in government. Fortunately for him, the US media kept the lid on these major crimes." That must be what what they mean by "Don't ask, don't tell". Defrauding America, Stich's classic study of 20th-century history, contains hard evi- dence of state-sponsored terrorism by the US Government. In fact, the cross-corroborated testimony of over three dozen federal agency whistleblowers contributed to the unprece- dented information in this astounding book. DOES "CIA" STAND FOR "COCAINE IN AMERICA"? In a chapter called "Evidence on Top of Evidence", Stich recounts the testimony of vet- eran FBI Special Agent Richard M. Taus who recalls uncovering and reporting evidence of CIA drug trafficking by a group called "K-Team". According to Stich: "The K-Team had a front operation with the patriotic-sounding name, National Freedom Institute, and called its operations 'the Enterprise’. Taus said that this was 'the Enterprise’ that repeatedly surfaced in the Iran-Contra congressional hear- ings... Taus' team discovered that the K-Team was a CIA operation, and that it was engaged in drug trafficking, looting of savings and loans, and activities related to what later became known as Irangate and Iraqgate." Another of Stich's informants, Gene "Chip" Tatum, confirmed these allegations. He was the helicopter pilot who actually ferried Oliver North, Felix Rodriguez (aka Max Gomez) and William Barr (attorney of the CIA's Southern Air Transport and later US Attorney General under George Bush) in Central America. Tatum, according to Stich, described one meeting that was held "to determine where over $100 million in drug money disappeared on the three routes from Panama to Colorado, Ohio and Arkansas. This theft was financially draining the operation known as ‘the Enterprise’... The first call was made by Fernandez to Oliver North, informing North that 'the money loss was occurring on the Panama to Arkansas route, and that means either Seal, Clinton or Noriega’." No honour among thieves, since CIA pilot Barry Seal, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Panama's General Manuel Noriega were all suspected of skimming George Bush's cocaine profits. And here's how the Dixie Mafia and the Yankee Mob work together, according to Gene "Chip" Tatum. "Fifteen minutes later, the portable phone rang and Vice-President George Bush was on the line talking to William Barr," Stich records. "Barr said at one point, referring to the missing funds, 'I would propose that no one source would be bold enough to siphon out that much money, but it is more plausible that each [is] siphoning a portion, causing a drastic loss’... by Uri Dowbenko © 1998 "alt.media" PO Box 43 Pray, Montana 59065, USA Website: u.dowbenko@hitp://www.mailcity.com NEXUS - 21 by Uri Dowbenko © 1998 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1998