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Subject: The Coke Was Stored in Hangers 4 and 5
The Coke Was Stored in Hangers 4 and 5
by J. Orlin Grabbe
"In Panama, we had
Noriega. We knew he was
laundering money. We
knew he was running dope.
But we went ahead and let
him. When he didn't want
to play ball, we took him
out. And guess what?
There's more banks in
Panama now laundering
money than when he was
there."--Celerino Juan
Castillo III
Celerino Juan Castillo III is a Texan and former
Vietnam veteran who was hired by the DEA in 1979.
>From October 1985 to 1990, he was assigned to
Guatemala City, from which point he covered four
countries--Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
He says he was told, "Cele, you're going to be
covering El Salvador, but be careful, there's a covert
operation being conducted by the White House, being run
by Oliver North, at Ilo Pango Airport."
Later he discovered that the Ilo Pango Air Force
Base in El Salvador was a storage and distribution center
for cocaine.
"Earlier part of '86 again I
received a cable from Sandy
Gonzales, DEA agent down
in Cost Rica. He says, 'Cele
we got information that the
Contras are flying cocaine
into hangers four and five at
Ilo Pango. Please check
and verify for us. As it
turned out, hangar 4 and 5,
is owned and operated by
the CIA and it was run by
Felix Rodriquez, aka, Max
Gomez.' "
Other CIA pilot sources have also confirmed to
me that hangers four and five at Ilo Pango Air Force Base
were used to store cocaine. Castillo himself says he
"documented every pilot, just about every pilot that ran
out of Ilo Pango. . . . I took surveillance pictures . . . I
took the logs, tail numbers. And they were all run into
NADDIS."
NADDIS is the DEA's centralized computer bank
which contains information about hundreds of thousands
of suspected drug traffickers, as well as leads on drug
operations and files on current investigations. Also stored
there are the details of arrests, as well as memos and
teletypes received by the DEA. (It was this system that
was penetrated by the Cali cartel, with the help of the
head of the FBI office in Bogota, Colombia. See
"Colombian cartel mole burrowed into DEA computer
files," The New York Post, August 22, 1996).
At the U.S. end of the operation, Oliver North ran
a series of secure facilities as head of the highly classified
National Programs Office, or NPO (see my "Allegations
Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions
Spying, Part XXX"). These were located not only at Mena,
Arkansas; but also Fire Lakes, Nevada (which in the general
vicinity of the atomic test range); Joppa, Missouri; and
Iron Mountain, Texas.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Oliver North
as the secret head of this secret organization, and
sometime in 1983, the NPO, which is organizationally
part of the National Security Agency (NSA), became the
effective administrator of a covert plan called Operation
Black Eagle.
Operation Black Eagle became a network of 5000
people who made possible the export of arms in the
direction of Central America, and the import of drugs
from the same direction. According to Navy Lt.
Commander Alexander Martin (ret.), he, as an assistant to
Major General Richard Secord, worked closely with
Oliver North, Richard Secord, Felix Rodriquez, and Jeb
Bush (son of Vice-President Bush) in the operation.
Different aspects of Black Eagle were consolidated under
the office of the Vice President.
The Mossad, as well as the CIA and NSA, was
heavily involved in this operation. This perhaps explains
why Accuracy in Media (AIM), which is an outlet for
Mossad propaganda, has gone out of its way to attack the
San Jose Mercury CIA cocaine story ("Dark Alliance," by
Gary Webb). The Mossad is trying to cover up its own
intense involvement in the Central American arms-and-
drugs network.
The Mossad participation is discussed in the
excellent Cocaine Politicis: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA
in Central America, by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan
Marshall:
"...Richard Brenneke [is] a
self-styled arms dealer from
Portland, Oregon.
Brenneke told the [Kerry]
subcommitte that he 'was
asked by Mossad agents to
act as a purchasing agent for
the operation, and brokered
purchases of East-bloc
weapons out of
Czechoslovakia.' He also
claimed that 'the same
planes used to ship the arms
were then used to fly
cocaine from Colombia
through Panama to the
United States in an
arrangement with the
Medellin cocaine cartel in
Colombia.' Brenneke
asserted that he had been
recruited for this work in
1983 by the Guatemala-
based Israeli arms dealer
Pesakh Ben-Or, who in turn
put him in touch with
[Bush's National Security
Adviser Donald] Gregg.
"An investigative report by
ABC News fleshed out the
story, adding that Israel had
put up $20 million to
finance the [Noriega advisor
Michael] Harari operation.
It quoted one anonymous
pilot who allegedly flew
arms into Costa Rica and El
Salvador and drugs back to
the United States: 'I guess
you'd have to say at that
time, I felt my primary
employer was Israel.
Secondarily, my employer
was the U.S. of America.'
Brenneke, interviewed on
the same newscast,
explained, 'Typically, the
drugs were run through
Panama and into the United
States. The pilots were in
most cases working for the
cartels. If the shipments
were extremely sensitive,
you'd see Israeli pilots and
aircraft' " (p. 74).
The participation of Noriega advisor (and former
Mossad agent) Michael Harari ensured that Israel got a
piece of Ollie North's action. As early as December 1983
the Israelis were using a Panamanian CIA front company,
IFMA Management Company, to funnel support to the
Contras. Harari himself would later boast of his friendship
with Donald Gregg, George Bush's national security
advisor.
The Kerry commission in 1988 asked for the
declassification of 543 pages containing references to
drugs and drug trafficking in the notebooks of Oliver
North. But most of this material was never made
available.
It's time to make the full North notebooks part of
the public record, and to put Oliver North back on the
witness stand. His recent performance on the Larry King
Live program had about as much credibility as Susan
McDougal's.
October 2, 1996
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