There’s a new movie coming out on Oct. 10 called, Kill
the Messenger. This description is from Rotten Tomatoes:
QUOTE:
Two-time
Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner ("The Bourne Legacy") leads an
all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which
leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the
nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers
who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels
fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA
operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a
conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons
of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in
Washington, D.C. - and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his
career, but his family and his life.
:UNQUOTE:
There are two elements to consider carefully here: How the CIA
finances its operations and the war it decided to wage against US inner-city
minorities as payback for the Black Panthers.
Perhaps the CIA thought drug profits were an acceptable means of
financing the Contras. And perhaps those profits would have been sufficient.
However, these days, the CIA has found a far more efficient way of raising
money than depending on Congress or dealing in drugs. All they have to do is
turn on one of those printing presses which the Treasury Dept uses to print
hundred-dollar bills. My best guess is that CIA stole the necessary gear with
Treasury looking the other way.
Makes a certain amount of sense. For isn’t this an easier way to
raise money – real money, made on real money-making machines – than messing
around in the drug trade?
I remember hearing about how those fiendish North Koreans had
somehow managed to flood the market with high-grade counterfeit US
hundred-dollar bills. Oh, well, I guess someone had to be blamed, but I assure
you – this wasn’t the work of the North Koreans.
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Steven Searle, just another member of the
Virtual Samgha of the Lotus and
Former candidate for US President (in 2008 & 2012)
Contract me at bpa_cinc
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