The Cia And Central Intelligence Agency

It is claimed to be a conspiracy theory by some. In the 1980’s the CIA was linked to the Central American drug trade and the CIA and its operatives sold crack cocaine to African-American community to raise millions to support the agency's clandestine operations in Central America but that is just a theory (Delaval). Journalist Gary Webb published several articles in San Jose Mercury News called “The Dark Alliance”. In his work he clearly refuted the claim that Iran Contra did not introduce drugs to inner cities. He said “the CIA sold tons of cocaine to LA street gangs to help fund the Contras (Hannaford).” Former LAPD detective and author Michael Ruppert has written extensively about the government’s involvement in drug trafficking around the world. He says politics isn’t the only motive. “The control of the cash from the drug trade is of vital importance to wall street, because drug profits are laundered under corporations and banks net profits,” said Ruppert (“CIA Funnels

This paper will discuss how the CIA and/or the American government played a role in the death of investigative journalist, Gary Webb. Whether it is a conspiracy or not many question how the investigative journalist died and why his death was ruled as a suicide. Gary Webb was most known for tracking down corruption and exposing it to millions of Americans. He wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels, for more than thirty four years. He is most known for writing an article titled "Dark Alliance", which “linked the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra scandal. He found that drug dealers were smuggling cocaine into the United States and the CIA was using the money to arm Nicaraguan rebels.” (Webb, G. 1998) Webb is also known for writing his last article, written for the Sacramento News titled "The Killing Game”. The article exposes “the

The CIA, otherwise known as the Central Intelligence Agency, is a federal agency that is independent and has the responsibilities of providing the country of the United States with national security intelligence. The CIA is in charge of gathering information that is going on from other countries in order to help our own national security to become stronger, and to be able to protect the citizens of the United States better. However, what happens when the CIA tries to protect it’s citizens by screwing over other countries? What happens when the CIA is responsible for destroying other countries’ governments or placing leaders where we do not belong as a country to try and control politics that we should not even be involving ourselves in. While the CIA is meant to have good intentions for providing our country with national security, a lot of times the United States is responsible for meddling in affairs we never belonged in which cause harm, devastation, or death to the countries we force ourselves upon.

Customs, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement… have complained that investigations were hampered by the CIA or unnamed “national security” interests.”

In pursuit of the war on drugs, changes had been made to the nature of law enforcement and prosecution. Law enforcement have now been more empower with these new policies seem to have diminish civilians rights, such policies gave law enforcement power to violate third and fourth amendment. “Using general warrants, British soldiers were allowed to enter private homes, confiscate what they found, and often keep the bounty for themselves. The policy was reminiscent of today’s civil asset forfeiture laws.”(Balko, R, 2013) The civil asset forfeiture statute is an asset seizure of possessions that are alleged proceeds from criminal activity. Criminal activity over the decades had developed and more organized. Criminals would get their mandatory minimum sentence and the crime enterprise would just continue, but legislators’ passed a statute to dismantle entire criminal organizations and it’s known as Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations or R.I.C.O. Passed in 1970 it was used in the prosecution of Sicilian mafia in New York city. Instead of prosecuting criminals individually such as solders and capo, it was effective in shutting down entire criminal organizations. R.I.C.O statute appeared to be effective on the war on drugs. The combination of the two policies provided incentives to battle the war on drug. Assets were disseminated among various law enforcement departments, putting more officers on the streets, obtaining newer police vehicles and countless equipment for law

In 1971 President Nixon declared an all-out war on drugs, now over a million non-violent drug offenders live behind bars. The war on drugs has been the longest, most costly, and destructive war in the US history as of today (Booth , 2007). The war on drugs focuses on the poor people, and not the bankers that launder the money. In 1973 Nixon created the DEA, which stands for Drug Enforcement Agency. The DEA is a federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics, and controlled substances. Their job is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations. When Nixon declared the war on drugs in 1971, the federal budget was 101 million dollars, going into the year 2000; the federal budget allegation was 20 billion dollars. Half of what we spend in the court systems and prison is drug related (Booth , 2007).

The United States used War on Drugs as the reason to have mass incarceration and arrest people of color, especially the black people. The government arrest the black people into jail by accuse them selling or consuming crack cocaine, however, it is the government (CIA) who allowed guerrilla armies to bring the crack cocaine to the black neighborhood. The War on Drugs is just one of the excuse that government used to put black Americans into jail and this mass incarceration is their tool for social control. This way, they can separate the white people and people of color and maintain their racial hierarchy.

Upon analyzing 9/11 it was clear to focus on the limitations that the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency had faced. Security breaches and poor intelligence sharing were just some of the critical failures that were encountered. Moreover, the main focus is pointed towards the miscommunication between these two agencies. Evidently, the execution and tactical strategies went unnoticed despite the apparent red flags that presented themselves, in addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency failure to pursue threats and establish a baseline of security resulted in the disaster of 9/11. In conjunction to these mistakes, the restriction of shared information

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a unique government agency that employs intensive research and immediate actions to solve issues that the general police cannot settle themselves (Quick Facts). The FBI’s today mission statement is “to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners” (Quick Facts). Today, the organization focuses on certain threats that requires strategic intelligence to protect our nation, threats like terrorism, foreign intelligence operations and espionage, technology-based crimes, criminal

The story Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and The Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb have many topics. This book is based on “Dark Alliance”, Webb’s investigation series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. The story explains how the CIA brought cocaine to poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles to help finance war, how three people created the cocaine pipeline, and how the cocaine epidemic impacted the black community. This book also shows how The CIA used the Contras to import Cocaine. The story Dark Alliance has many plots.

You’re constantly being watched, the NSA collect the data from over 75,000 people daily. The NSA, or National Security Agency, is responsible for collecting and monitoring all this data that they gather. They collect all this data to help the government as they are a government agency. They truly do help the United States by monitoring this data to help protect the citizens, but still people find a way to oppose it. Even though it might violate people 's right to privacy, the NSA helps protect citizens with their ability to collect and search through large amounts of data, and using this information from to prevent possible attacks on the United states from actually happening.

The Iran-Contra Scandal occurred on the (insert specific dates) in the midst of the cold war. Oliver North, a member of the National Security Council of the United States, was accused of diverting money from weapon sales in Iran to support the Contras in Central America. Provide context of central America, how this was exposed, what happened to north, specific trial stuff, talk about the cold war/tensions… state thesis at end of sentence, state arguments, conclude.

Even the CIA’s creator Harry S. Truman knew this, in 1963 he is on record as saying “For some time I have been disturbed by the way [the] CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational arm and at times a policy-making arm of the Government.” Two options are readily available to curtail this rogue branch of the government. One, the entire agency must be overhauled and cleaned out. Too many people have been in power in the CIA for too long. Everyone who is in positions of power today were there during the 1980’s cocaine activities or was trained by someone who was. Worse, the CIA got away with it all without repercussions. They learned that the CIA can smuggle drugs and get away with it even of they are caught red handed. This mentality needs to be removed, and it must be abundantly clear that the CIA cannot aid the international drug trade. Regardless of how much it could help in the short

Additional evidence of that relationship can be traced to an entry from Oliver North’s diary on July 9th, 1984, just days prior to Seal’s flight. It read “DEA Miami- Pilot (Seal) went talked to Vaughn- wanted A/C (aircraft) to go to Bolivia to p/u (pick up) paste- want A/C (aircraft) to p/u (pick up) 1500 kilos.” The “paste” clearly referred to cocaine paste which is the byproduct of the coca leaf for extracting cocaine. Additionally, that entry was in reference to a conversation that he had with one of the CIA’s top agents leading the Contras, Duane “Dewey”

Likewise, the patterns of CIA complicity with drug trafficking are still visible with the war in Afghanistan. The patterns of blowback from supporting radical leaders have also had dire consequences in our homeland. Many times the “freedom fighters” of today turn into the “terrorists” of tomorrow. In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, there was a civil war among tribal leaders for control over the government and the opium supply. As mentioned earlier, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was an openly radical, fundamentalist Muslim who advocated jihad against the west. In fact, he frequently ordered terrorist attacks against Afghan citizens. He became the Afghan Prime Minister in 1994 and known terrorist leaders, including Osama Bin Laden, found safe haven in his