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Elaine Tyree's Diaries: To Die For? "You had NSC staffers that were tied right into the drug traf- In August-September 1996, former Army CID investigator Bill ficking themselves, like Ollie North," Carone said, continuing his McCoy introduced Bill Tyree to Dee Carone-Ferdinand, the history lesson. "Hell, his diary had everything in it. Between his daughter of Colonel Carone. diary and your wife's [Elaine Tyree's] diaries, the whole thing is According to the lawsuit, after a two-year-long correspondence blown. Totally compromised. by phone, a stunning breakthrough occurred in the case when "I remember seeing him [North] write over 200 entries in his ".,.Dee Ferdinand at a point notified the Plaintiff [Tyree] that she diary that related to major drug profits being used to buy weapons was the daughter of Colonel Carone, and said: 'My father had the for the Contras," continued Carone. "The diary of Ollie North diaries that belonged to your wife Elaine. He went to Langley, alone would prove what I've told you and show the violation of 50 Virginia, to drop them off with "the boys". That's what he said. I USC §403 and everything." read some of the diaries, or at least the parts that my father North's diary, for example, contained the following entry: "July showed me. I saw the photograph in the front of the diaries that 5, 1985 — $14 million to buy arms came from drugs." was of you and your wife."" Unindicted drug kingpin Oliver North is still free, while Unfortunately, in 1997, CW4 William H. McCoy was found William Tyree has served 20 years in prison. Why? Because cor- dead in his home in Fairfax, Virginia, and was immediately cre- rupt officials in the CIA, Department of Defense and Department mated before the medical examiner could determine the cause of of Justice continue the cover-up. death. Colonel Carone told Tyree that "Operation Watchtower provid- According to the lawsuit, McCoy told Tyree: "No matter what ed cocaine that was sold to finance anti-communist operations in happens, if I die and you're not sure Latin America because the US what I died from, have my family get Congress has shut down general an independent medical examiner to funding of anti-communist activities check me out. Be sure. Give me "_.there were some at the CIA that in that area", while heroin trafficking your word." y the CIA in Southeast Asia was McCoy, after all, was concerned felt that physical slavery could be used to fight communism there. that people just seemed to drop dead replaced by pharmaceutical slavery, Selling drugs to fight communism after they delved into the CIA d that' hy Afri A . as to be one of the biggest ironies of cocaine operation at Mena, Arkansas. an ats why Airican-American the 20th century. Among the dead were Stanley gangs, i.e., Bloods’ and ‘Crips’, "At the CIA there were a few peo- Keith MeCaskell Greg Collins Jeri | W@t@ singled out for distributing Ff: f.ctine ot American culture on Rhodes and Richard Winters. Or the drugs brought into the eople of color living in the United ey got suicided” ke wits: | United States by the CIA." Sisal Cars The lane of Wilcher and NSA Colonel Vince with the creation of the National Foster. Etcetera. Etcetera. Security Memorandum 200, which stated among other things the concern Fighting Commies With Drug Profits: Al Carone's Story of overpopulation in the United States. Many at the CIA attrib- "The CIA had predicted a large communist build-up in Latin uted it to the birthrate among people of color, and there were America in the early 1970s," Carone told Tyree. some at the CIA that felt that physical slavery could be replaced "Operation Watchtower was initiated to pre-position drugs in by pharmaceutical slavery, and that's why African-American Panama/Central America from South America to fund covert gangs, i.e., ‘Bloods’ and 'Crips', were singled out for distributing actions against the predicted communist threat. The prediction the drugs brought into the United States by the CIA." became reality and the flow of cocaine into the United States Carone also told Tyree that he had "...delivered money to the increased as a result of the prediction. The American people Los Angeles-based gangs, 1.e., the Bloods and the Crips, which wouldn't sufficiently fund a covert action anywhere, following are among the most violent African-American gangs in the United Vietnam, for the amount of money which was needed. The States. He had delivered money to the gangs because they were cocaine couldn't be moved into the United States until an avenue on the CIA payroll under Executive Order 12333 which allowed was established that took the CIA out of the picture, because the for the CIA to hire outside sources to help the CIA perform their CIA was already busy fending off allegations of trafficking drugs jobs. He had delivered money to the gangs because they trans- out of Southeast Asia and Europe, and the CIA couldn't be tied in ported drugs across the United States, i.e., Atlanta, Norfolk, to the Latin American cocaine at all. Philadelphia, New York and Boston." "Once Ronald Reagan became President," Carone continued, Carone's information dovetails exactly with the in-depth inves- "his oldtime friend William Casey, the head of the CIA, was able tigations of Gary Webb in his book, Dark Alliance (Seven Stories to convince him to sign Executive Order #12333 into effect, Press, 1998). which...took the CIA out of covert operations business..., autho- Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... rized the use of private assets/entities to be used by the National Security Council to conduct covert operations including the drug About the Author: [smuggling]... Allowing private assets and entities to do the dirty Uri Dowbenko is CEO of New Improved Entertainment Corp. work meant the CIA could do whatever it wanted to do, in or out. ~~ Most recently he has completed a joint venture with publish- of the United States..." er-editor-author Kenn Thomas, launching a new online ver- In other words, EO #12333 privatised CIA's drug smuggling, sion of the respected US-based alternative publication making the Agency even more insulated from discovery of its Steamshovel Press (www.steamshovelpress.com). Uri can be criminal activities. reached by e-mail at u.dowbenko@mailcity.com. About the Author: Uri Dowbenko is CEO of New Improved Entertainment Corp. Most recently he has completed a joint venture with publish- er-editor-author Kenn Thomas, launching a new online ver- sion of the respected US-based alternative publication Steamshovel Press (www.steamshovelpress.com). Uri can be reached by e-mail at udowbenko@mailcity.com. 40 - NEXUS Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000