From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Feb 1 13:13:41 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA25080; Mon, 1 Feb 93 13:13:39 -0500 Message-Id: <9302011813.AA25080@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 13:10:29 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 19872 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.latin-america Subject: Part 3, U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers Message-ID: <1993Jan29.191746.5936@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Lines: 148 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) PAUL DeRIENZO: Then you wound up in South America. Why don't you tell us about your book, "DEEP COVER". MICHAEL LEVINE: There'll be another book out called "THE QUEEN OF COCAINE" that will cover, in detail, these years. In `78, `79, `80, `81, I was stationed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was the country attach'e for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. I covered Argentina and Uruguay. This was during the years of "the dirty war", "la guerra sucia" when the Argentine hit-squads were disappearing any number of young Argentines for being political activists. And I was there on a holy mission from the "War on Drugs," -- as focused on the "War on Drugs" as I ever was. I was blind to anything else. I was there for MY country, to protect the AMERICAN children from "the white death." And I quickly penetrated an organization called "the Roberto Suarez Cocaine Organization." I should say that, during my years in Argentina ..... of course, I've been criticized as being some sort of a low-level DEA employee, which is not true. During my years in Argentina -- during two years -- I was THE senior U.S. law enforcement representative in the southern cone. The FBI closed their office. I fielded their work. Bolivia closed down the DEA operations. I fielded their work. I was THE senior man! So I penetrated the Roberto Suarez Cocaine Organization. It's an INCREDIBLE story. But let me put it this way. I was being offered THOUSANDS of kilos of cocaine a month, at a time when the then- biggest drug seizure was two hundred and forty kilos of cocaine, on a casual stop by border patrolmen. They found it in the trunk of a car. The first man I met was Marcello Yban'ez, who was the ex-Minister of Agriculture of Bolivia, who told me there's a man named Roberto Suarez, who was now putting together ALL the drug producers in Bolivia under one umbrella organization, which later became "La Corporacion," the General Motors of cocaine. Now, I go to DEA and ask for funding and approval to set up a sting operation. And I'm called a liar! I'm told that Roberto Suarez isn't in the computer. Neither was Marcello Yban'ez. I go to the CIA and check his name. They have NOTHING on him. Of course, three or four months later, on SIXTY MINUTES, Mike Wallace called him "the biggest drug dealer who ever lived." There had to be something wrong at that point. But I continued to desist. The lie .... I was, at one point, accused of trying to run a scam on DEA -- getting an all-expenses-paid undercover trip up to the States. I kept meeting with these Bolivians, still pretending to be a half-Sicilian, half-Puerto Rican drug-buyer, representative of the Mafia. Finally, I literally forced DEA into setting up a sting operation, and they did all they could to destroy the case. But they set up the operation. I managed to rally a team of undercover agents who, like me, didn't believe that anybody [in the U.S Government] could go AGAINST an operation like this. We got the support of elements of the Bolivian Government, the Litiagala[sp] Government -- who were genuinely, then, in 1980, ANTI-DRUG! -- to carry out a huge sting operation that ended with the seizure of about a thousand pounds of cocaine, with me paying nine million dollars to Jose` Roberto Gasser, one of the richest and most powerful Bolivians from one of the most powerful Bolivian families -- again, parenthetically, a family that had long been linked to the World Anti-Communist League [Gen. John Singlaub's right-wing, fascist, militarist, imperialist, old-boys-from-the-Pentagon cabal] and the CIA. He was arrested leaving the bank with my nine million dollars, along with Alfredo Cutucci Gutierrez, a man who was, in fact, in the DEA computer as one of the biggest drug dealers in the World. And before I could get back to Argentina, my post of duty, the United States Attorney in South Florida -- a man who is now prosecuting Noriega, Michael Sullivan, RELEASED Gasser without putting the case before a grand jury. He just dropped all charges! Again, these details will be in a forthcoming book [QUEEN OF COCAINE]. Some of it is in DEEP COVER. But I'll explain why I didn't write this in detail with the chronology of my life. Gasser goes back to Bolivia, publishes a full-page replica of his release, making a laughing stock of the American "War on Drugs". Where? Not in America, but where it really counts: in South America. Within months, Alfredo Gutierrez is released -- walks free. So the biggest drug sting in history -- as it was called by Penthouse Magazine and others -- was left without any of its defendants. The American People were the only ones who didn't know that. Now, what do these people do? Jose` Roberto Gasser, Roberto Suarez, Gasser's father, Edwin Gasser, have a meeting with the Military. They begin to foment what became "the Cocaine Coup", the 1980 Bolivian Revolution, in which, for the first time in history, drug dealers -- the people I was investigating, the people I had indicted, the people I had arrested -- NOW TOOK OVER THEIR COUNTRY! During that coup, all the people who had helped DEA with this sting were either exiled or killed or tortured. During my time in South America, I learned that the CIA was a supporter of this revolution. Then, it seemed really clear to me -- at least I had a strong circumstantial-evidence case -- that that was why Gasser was released in the first place. How else would he be released? There was no other logical explanation! So, at that moment, I began, for the first time in MY LIFE, to see the truth! In SPITE of everything else, I had no CHOICE, but to look at the truth! And that is that this "War on Drugs" was not for real. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As you can see, this story is one of the most appalling, infuriating, explosive and vital expose`s that could ever be brought before the eyes of the American People. Don't let these episodes go by the boards without saving them, because we have a patriotic duty to disseminate, circulate, deliver, pass on this information in the cause of millions of people on the American Continent, including those in the United States, who are or who will become victims of the CIA-sponsored War FOR Drugs which is resulting in wholesale, continent-wide murder, torture, imprisonment, street crime, life-destroying addiction, and even the takeover of governments by fascist drug barons, further intensifying the poverty, misery and despair that is rampant among entire national populations. Please post the episodes of this series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The dial-in numbers of many BBSs can be found in the Usenet newsgroup "alt.bbs.lists". 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