From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Feb 3 08:21:02 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA08925; Wed, 3 Feb 93 08:20:59 -0500 Message-Id: <9302031320.AA08925@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 08:14:14 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 20018 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 4, U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers Message-ID: <1993Feb2.170715.12311@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: University of Virginia, FREE Public Access UNIX! Lines: 165 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) MICHAEL LEVINE: Well, I began to complain. And my complaints went unheeded within DEA. I wrote a letter to the media. A month later, I was mysteriously put under investigation -- a very, very heavy personnel investigation. It went into every corner of my life. I was falsely accused of everything from black marketeering to "playing my radio too loud in the American Embassy." This is on paper. And no stone was left unturned in trying to make me an incredible person. No stone was left unturned in trying to destroy my career, my reputation and my credibility. I managed to survive that, but they did frighten me into keeping my mouth shut. I was force-transferred up to the U.S. from where I was put undercover in an operation called "Operation Hun", which was even more -- more of a fiasco -- more of a scandal than the Suarez case. During my entire time undercover in "Operation Hun", I was kept under investigation by DEA, and I was frightened to death. During this same investigation, we learned that my daughter had become a cocaine addict. So most of my attention then went toward getting a hardship transfer back to New York. I wanted to just forget everything that had happened to me. I just didn't want to believe what I had just lived through for the previous five to six years. And I managed to get a transfer back to New York. I probably would have gone to the end of my career keeping my mouth shut, had not "Operation Trifecta" happened at the end of `87. And "DEEP COVER". When "DEEP COVER" happened, that was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I decided that I'd have to speak out. I couldn't keep my mouth shut. ..... I think that there are two books which every American should read before they even think of voting. One is "COCAINE POLITICS" by Peter Dale Scott, and the other is my own book ["DEEP COVER"] which I would GIVE to every American, if I could afford it, and could afford to stop looking over my shoulder. It's such a sad commentary to spend almost twenty-six years of my life as a Government agent, believing in what I was doing for a good part of that time, and then coming to the realization that I have to be more afraid of my own leaders than I ever was of a drug dealer. PAUL DeRIENZO: Did you receive threats? MICHAEL LEVINE: Yes. I've been threatened throughout my life, but one of the scariest threats that I've ever had came in the form of advice from a friend of mine in DEA, who is now one of the high-level people in DEA, who called me during the hottest part of their investigation into me, when I was criticizing the Government. I guess I'll have to tell a quick, little story that will clarify this comment that I'm about to tell you. Sandy Barrio was a DEA agent who was sent to Mexico. I considered him a well-motivated -- one of the top undercover agents in DEA, who became involved in all kinds of CIA-type operations with drugs. He was involved in "Operation Silver Dollar". He eventually ended up being arrested, smuggling drugs himself. He was held in jail on the Texas-Mexican border. He was a senior official when he was arrested in Mexico where, of course, there is no such thing as law and order -- really; and where the "War on Drugs" is really not a drug war. It's really just a drug economy. And Sandy was part of that. I won't even comment on whether he became corrupt or whether the whole system is so corrupt that no one can go into it without becoming corrupt. But Sandy took a bite of a peanut butter sandwich in the jail, fell down in convulsions, went into a coma. The initial tests indicated that Sandy had been poisoned with strichnine. He died three or four weeks later, and the final autopsy said, "death by asphyxiation on a peanut butter sandwich," that he choked on .... which was incredible! In DEA, half of the DEA agents I knew believed that he was either offed by some covert agency in the Government, and possibly by some elements within DEA. I didn't want to BELIEVE anything like that. I COULDN'T believe anything like that. Now we cut to several years later, and here I am under investigation by DEA, criticizing my own government. And a DEA official calls me and says: "Mike, I like you. Remember -- a peanut butter sandwich!" And I said: "ARE YOU KIDDING??" He said: "No, not at all. And I'm only telling you this because I like you." And he and I never spoke again. So that was probably one of the most chilling threats I ever got. And it wasn't a threat. It was a guy I know, who really liked me. And .... yeah, it's such a sad commentary, that, by criticizing your government ..... I think I earned the right to criticize my government's "War on Drugs" because I laid my butt on the line -- twenty-five years in it. And then, to have to be afraid for either my freedom or my life FOR criticizing my government -- that's such a terrible, sad thing. PAUL DeRIENZO: Operation Trifecta. Briefly, what was that? MICHAEL LEVINE: Operation Trifecta was a three-pronged probe into the top of the drug world. It went into "La Corporacion" in Bolivia, where myself and a team of undercover agents (actually, one other undercover agent, Jorge Ochijo, who was still with U.S. Customs in California) .... we made a fifteen-ton cocaine deal with people in this corporation who were producing four hundred kilos of cocaine a day in their lab. Just think about that: four hundred kilos. And they were only a small part of this huge corporation. In this same operation, we met the top money launderer in Panama, Ramberto Rodriquez, to whom we were instructed to pay our first five million dollar payment. This was a man whom we believed was closely linked to Noriega, when Noriega was being protected [by the U.S. Government]. This was three months before Noriega's indictment. We then met with the grandson of the man who wrote the Mexican Constitution, a Mexican colonel, Colonel Carranza. I bribed him with a million dollars to land the first shipment of cocaine, from Bolivia, in Mexico and to get Mexican military protection in ferrying that load up to the United States. The case, in all three countries, was truncated by my own government's actions. We were not allowed to go any further than we went. That's when I wrote "DEEP COVER". Then I retired from the Agency. (end of interview) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 suffering 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. 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