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AGAINST BEAST THE HIGH-LEVEL DRUG RUNNING An imprisoned former US Green Beret Is suing the CIA, George Bush and others, to draw attention to their complicity in government- sanctioned drug- trafficking operations and cover-ups. Part 1 of 2 peculation about the mysterious origin and funding of the so-called US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has continued for decades. Most recently, the history of FEMA as an illegal, unconstitutional entity has been exposed in an unprecedented lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its alleged drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations. In September 1998, a US$63 million lawsuit (Case No. 98-CV-11829-JLT) was filed by Massachusetts attorney Ray Kohlman on behalf of former Green Beret William M. (Bill) Tyree. Kohlman, a former legal investigator for attorney William Pepper in the Martin Luther King, Jr, murder trial of James Earl Ray, filed a 101-page complaint on behalf of his client. The suit, replete with five inches of affidavits and appendices, names the Central Intelligence Agency, former Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Cellucci, former Massachusetts Attorney-General L. Scott Harshbarger, former CIA Director and US President George Bush, and self-admitted government assassin D. Gene Tatum as Defendants in a far-reaching case involving US Government-sanctioned drug smuggling, murder and cover-up. Bill Tyree is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife—a case eerily similar to that of Dr Jeffrey MacDonald, a Fort Bragg doctor who was framed for the mur- der of his wife and children in the early 1980s. "In the mid-1970s, while serving in Panama, Tyree and other Green Berets were led into Colombia under the command of Green Beret Colonels Cutolo and Baker to plant radio beacons, so that planeloads of cocaine could fly below Colombian and US radar and land undetected in Panama," writes former LAPD officer Mike Ruppert in his newsletter, From the Wilderness (PO Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA, website Www.copvcia.com). "Orders for these missions came from the CIA's Ed Wilson and Tom Clines," continues Ruppert. "Tyree had been a part of many secret missions and was losing his taste for it. His wife was keeping a diary [for which she was presumably murdered, after which the diary was confiscated and later disappeared]. "Five Special Forces Colonels—Cutolo, Baker, Malvesti, Rowe and Bayard—have died under mysterious circumstances since. The heart of the Tyree documentation consists of an affidavit allegedly written by Colonel Cutolo, who was also Tyree's commanding offi- cer at Fort Devens, Mass., at the time of Tyree's arrest. Both were then with the 10th Special Forces. "That fifteen-page document gives precise details of CIA drug operations using Special Forces personnel. It also describes how Tyree was framed for the murder of his wife and how Special Forces personnel were used to intimidate and conduct illegal electronic and physical surveillance of anyone who might expose CIA drug dealing," Ruppert concludes. Part 1 of 2 by Uri Dowbenko © 1999 PO Box 43 Pray, Montana 59065 USA Email: u.dowbenko@mailcity.com No Legal Funding For FEMA According to the actual complaint in the lawsuit: "...the Plaintiff [Tyree] alleges that the Defendants CIA and George Bush were negligent and failed at the conclusion of Operation Watchtower to monitor the post- Watchtower events and seek legal congression- al funding for the origination of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), and this failure led to the concealment and cover-up of Operation Watchtower, written about in the diaries of Elaine Tyree, seized illegally and turned over to Colonel Carone and then to the CIA which ensured that the Operation Watchtower drug trafficking operation would NEXUS - 35 I. BILL TYREE'S LAWSUIT: DRUG PROFITS ALLEGEDLY FUNDED FEMA by Uri Dowbenko © 1999 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000