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THE CIA, HEROIN, AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
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by
Paul L. Williams
(author of Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia)
The shipments of heroin arrive at Joint Base Andrews, a military facility under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force, in Camp Springs, Maryland.
The drugs come by U.S. military transport planes and commercial jets from the Netherlands, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, and, most pointedly, Brussels, Belgium, the headquarters of NATO.
The planes transport U.S. military officers, government officials, foreign dignitaries, munitions, materiel, and an array of CIA operatives, along with crates of smack.
The crates are loaded onto trucks and transported to Paterson, New Jersey, Chicago, and Baltimore for distribution to dealers throughout the country.[1]
Drugs also arrive at the Chicago International Airport on 747 jets. These shipments come from the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, which is rapidly replacing Afghanistan as the center of poppy cultivation.
The trafficking remains a covert activity of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“Many of us at the base know what’s going on,” says David T, an Andrews official, who would only speak under assurance of anonymity, “but nobody wants to talk. This shit has been going on for decades. But, if you open your mouth, your career – – hell, maybe even your life – – is over.”
Sibel Edmonds, a former translator of Turkish and Farsi languages for the FBI and the country’s leading whistleblower, verifies this contention, though she remains aware that the public may be hard-pressed to accept her allegations.
“If I were to tell you that huge amount of this heroin was coming to the United States through Andrews Air Force Base,” Ms. Edmonds says, “most people would say, ‘That is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard!’ OK? Because people want to believe that that would be crazy. . . Because it’s more convenient to think that way. . . Because that’s gonna change their viewing of the world and their nation and nationalism.”[2]
At the FBI, Ms. Edmonds acquired access to documents detailing the CIA’s trafficking at Andrews and other military facilities throughout the country.
But she maintains that even producing these documents may not convince the American people of the true cause of the nation’s heroin epidemic:
“Even if you were to come and show the documents where FBI is tipped off, or DEA, about certain military people coming through Andrews Air Force Base. . . from either Netherlands or from Brussels, and they land in Andrews Air Force Base — and knowing that this plane is also loaded with heroin — but they can’t do anything about it — I mean, who are they going to go after at the FBI? “First of all, they have to be given the OK by the FBI’s boss. And this plane is loaded only by Americans and the diplomatic community — the military, NATO community. So even if you were to put all these documents and if you make it public, people would look at you with the blank eyes, and they would say, ‘That’s not possible.’ Or, ‘Maybe our government has a very good explanation for this. There must be an explanation for this.’”[3]
There is an explanation. The sale of the heroin to dealers throughout the country supports the CIA’s off-the-books undertakings in such places as Central Asia, where the Agency has mounted a massive operation to gain control of the vast oil, natural gas, and uranium deposits at the Basin of the Caspian Sea.[4]
A retired Air Force master sergeant, who spent over 27 years on active duty, supports the allegations of Ms. Edmonds. Robert Kirkconnell, who now works as a school teacher, says that the CIA has been bringing heroin into the country since the Vietnam era, when the bodies of American soldiers killed in action were gutted, stuffed with smack, and transported via military cargo planes to Andrews and other bases.
“I have never been stationed on an Air Base that I didn’t suspect was being used for drug smuggling,” Mr. Kirkconnell says.[5]
The CIA’s involvement in the drug trade has been well-established. It has been exposed by such investigative reporters as Alfred McCoy, Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Kwitny, and Gary Webb. It has been revealed by raids on heroin networks, including Stibam International in Milan. And it has been verified by hearings before the United States Senate.
At present, thanks largely to the CIA’s trafficking, heroin has become the third most valuable commodity on planet earth.
It is readily available within American’s black communities.
It is cheap.
And it is deadly.
For proof, take a glimpse at Baltimore, which has become America’s heroin capital.
The city has a population of 640,000 – – 64% African American, and over 62,000, according to Leana Wen, Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, are addicted to heroin.[6] Baltimore’s overall poverty rate is just above 25%, leading a large number of young African American men to peddle the product for a quick buck.[7]
There were 104 overdose deaths in Baltimore during the first quarter of 2015, a 49 percent increase over the 70 reported during the same period in 2014. The problem is so pervasive that the Baltimore police are now required to carry emergency doses of naloxone that can reverse the effects of an overdose.[8]
At the Lexington Market, a well-known center for drug dealing, a hit of heroin can be had for less than $10 – – proving that the supply is nearly exceeding the demand.[9]
Deals are made in broad daylight before the eyes of police officials.
In the place now known as “Bodymore,” since it has become the second most violent city in America, prison space has become too valuable to waste on enterprising hoods selling smack on street corners.[10]
The white powder that nearly one in every ten city dweller snorts, smokes or shoots into his/her veins is significantly more potent than the heroin sold in many other areas of the country. The increased potency is due to the fact that much of the product is now laced with fentanyl, a potent pain-killer.[11]
Although there is a sharp rise in heroin use and addiction among whites and Hispanics throughout the country, the plague remains most virulent within the African American communities. It is within these communities that smack is bought and sold; that heroin-related crimes take place; and that death by overdose is most likely to occur.
The National Survey on Drug Use shows that African Americans report higher rates of heroin use than other racial sectors of the population. The rate of substance abuse for this sector ages 12 and up was 10.5% in 2013, up from 8.7% in 2003.[12]
Federal, state and local governments have responded to these findings by providing a steady flow of cash to treatment facilities and counseling centers.
[1] Philip Giraldi, “Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?” American Conservative, November 1, 2009, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-sibel-edmonds/
[2] Sibel Edmonds, “Sibel Edmonds on Gladio B – Part 4,” Corbett Report. February 22, 2013, https://www.corbettreport.com/gladio-b-running-drugs-and-laundering-money/
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] “Military Smuggling Drugs,” Want to Know, Info., http://www.wanttoknow.info/militarysmuggledheroin
[6] “Baltimore Fights Heroin Overdoses with Antidote Outreach,” NPR, September 9, 2015, http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/09/437599795/baltimore-fights-heroin-overdoses-with-antidote-outreach
[7] Aaron Ellis, “Black on Both Sides,” Quota, July 7, 2015, https://www.quora.com/Do-black-people-use-heroin
[8] “Baltimore Fights Heroin Overdoses with Antidote Outreach.”
[9] David Zurawik, “National Geographic Depicts Baltimore as ‘Heroin Capital of America,’” Baltimore Sun, August 25, 2014, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-08-25/entertainment/bal-national-geographic-channel-baltimore-heroin-capital-of-america-20140823_1_heroin-capital-lexington-market-baltimore
[10] Mark Reutter, “Baltimore Surges Past Detroit in Number of Homicides in 2015,” Baltimore Brew, August 7. 2015, https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/08/07/baltimore-surges-past-detroit-in-number-of-homicides-in-2015/
[11] Meredith Cohn, “Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Surge,” Baltimore Sun, July 6, 2015, http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/blog/bs-hs-fentanyl-in-heroin-20150706-story.html
[12] “The National Survey on Drug Use,” SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), February 21, 2013, http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH124/NSDUH124/sr124-african-american-treatment.htm
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