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even now, in the first or second week in going directly into Wall Street—well, why September of 2000, we're starting to have not, you know, if you're a cop... co body counts turn up in the news. It's just like Vietnam, but the Press is having a real hard time dealing with it. This is the sign of the end of the road for this system. It's About the Interviewer: Guerrilla News Network (GNN) inter- starting to crumble right now. viewed Mike Ruppert at the ClA-Drugs But they are reporting this like Vietnam. Symposium II in Los Angeles on And I will never forget the coverage from September 23, 2000. GNN is an under- Vietnam exactly the way it played out, ground news organisation based in New because these were my high school class- York City, with production facilities in mates that were dying. And it's sounding Berkeley, California. Its mission it is "to very similar right now. expose people to important global issues through guerrilla programming on the Last question. What is the power of web and on television". Visit GNN's money? At the end of the day, drugs website at www.guerrillanews.com. means money. Talk a bit about that and going directly into Wall Street—well, why not, you know, if you're a cop... oo So we're going in to suck out. You see, body counts turn up in the news. It's just for twenty or thirty years now, the drug like Vietnam, but the Press is having a real money has been building up in Colombia. hard time dealing with it. This is the sign There's trillions of dollars in equity that's of the end of the road for this system. It's accumulated and it's become a threat to __ starting to crumble right now. Wall Street's control, so we have to go But they are reporting this like Vietnam. down and blow the country up to take the And I will never forget the coverage from money back to make sure it doesn't become Vietnam exactly the way it played out, powerful. Venezuela is not going along _ because these were my high school class- with this, like Cambodia would not go mates that were dying. And it's sounding along with the Vietnam War and Laos _ very similar right now. wouldn't either. President Hugo Chavez is denying overflight to American planes, so Last question. What is the power of we're gonna sabotage the Venezuelan econ- money? At the end of the day, drugs omy! This is going to suck us into a hemi- means money. Talk a bit about that and spheric conflict just like Vietnam. what it does to policemen, or to law and This is the difference. With Vietnam, we order? were told we were going in to fight the evil Well, I think it's the whole system. Most Communists. Well, we don't have any rank-and-file policemen on the street are more Communist bogeymen. I mean, not what I would call innovative free- China is there but it's not really a military thinkers. They aren't the kind of guys who threat unless you're on the far right and —_ would see an opportunity to go illegal and totally needing lithium. But what we see is just kind of do that on their own initiative. that we're being told that we're going to They have to see or sense that it's going on fight the evil drug lords. Well, the ina climate that allows them to get away American Press even now is having trouble with it. So we see the corruption working selling that to the American people. And throughout society. When drug money is About the Interviewee: Michael C. Ruppert, former LAPD offi- cer, is Editor/Publisher of From The Wilderness newsletter. His article, "The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire", was pub- lished in NEXUS 8/02. He can be con- tacted at: PO Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413, USA, tel +1 (818) 788 8791, fax +1 (818) 981 2847, email mruppert@copvcia.com. Visit his web- site at www.copvcia.com. NEXUS = 83 Wall Street, CIA and the Global Drug Trade Continued from page 82 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com