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- BCCI Revelations Said To Cover CIA, DEA
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- <hdr>
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, July 23, 1991
- Cuba: BCCI Revelations Said to Cover CIA, DEA
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- <body>
- <p>["Our Opinion" commentary by Orlando Contreras. Havana Radio
- Rebelde Network in Spanish 1155 GMT 22 Jul 91]
- </p>
- <p> [Text] This morning a dispatch from the EFE news agency,
- datelined London, reports that the closure of the International
- Bank of Credit and Commerce, BCCI, is developing into a huge
- scandal after revelations that the bank served drug
- traffickers, terrorists, and financed arms sales to Iraq and
- Pakistan. I believe this is nothing new and is even less than
- the tip of the iceberg [preceding word in English] when it comes
- to illegal banking operations.
- </p>
- <p> Furthermore, the revelations concerning this bank are
- serving to throw a smokescreen over other unresolved illegal
- operations, such as the Iran-Contra scandal and the various
- revelations that Gates, Bush's candidate for Central
- Intelligence Agency director, was involved in illegal maneuvers
- of the same type during the Reagan administration when Bush,
- ex-CIA director, was U.S. vice president.
- </p>
- <p> A full investigation has never been done--and I do not
- believe one will be made--over how various Miami banks made
- their incredible fortunes. But there is evidence that they were
- involved in money laundering for drug traffickers and for the
- mafia that controls the huge business of the distribution of
- drugs in the United States, without question the largest drug
- market in the world.
- </p>
- <p> The CIA and the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], that
- is, the U.S. Government agency charged with combating drug
- trafficking, have been seriously involved in illegal activities
- related to narcotics trafficking. The CIA operated, among other
- things, air transport companies to carry out covert operations
- that included terrorist actions, drug trafficking, and money
- laundering. This is known in the United States and is known by
- international public opinion, but a dense cloud of smoke has
- been thrown over these illegal activities for obvious reasons.
- The DEA and the CIA have been involved in assassinations, money
- laundering, clandestine drug labs that manufacture
- hydrochlorate for the processing of cocaine, and the direct
- trafficking of narcotics.
- </p>
- <p> In view of this, the scandal that is developing in London
- now in relation to the illegal activities of the BCCI is less
- than the tip of the iceberg, [preceding word in English] nothing
- more than a scapegoat, when it leaves in the dark the more
- serious cases, much more closely related to politics, like
- money laundering, drug trafficking, and assassinations related
- to these activities.
- </p>
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- </article>
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