WMR-Venezuala-DEA spying & narcotics trafficking

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Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:25 -0700 (PDT)

WMR-Venezuala-DEA spying & narcotics trafficking.DEA & US

 

 

 

St.Dep.counter-narcotics contracts in Latin America are now being used

2 recruit mercenaries 4 Iraq.

 

 

Wayne Madsen Report

 

 

" From Deep Inside the Washington Beltway "

 

August 16, 2005 --

 

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is claiming U.S. Drug Enforcement

Administration (DEA) agents in his country are involved in espionage

and narcotics trafficking. DEA and U.S. State Department

counter-narcotics contracts in Latin America are now being used to

recruit mercenaries for Iraq.

 

 

 

Chavez is blowing the whistle on a return to the Iran-contra days of

U.S. involvement in covert activities, mercenaries, and narcotics and

weapons smuggling in Latin America. These activities now involve Iraq.

Venezuelan authorities are now investigating the activities of DEA

agents attached to the U.S. Embassy in Caracas and their diplomatic

immunity has been revoked by the Venezuelan government. Now comes word

that Ecuador's Minister of Information Mauricio Gandara has ordered an

immediate investigation into the activities of U.S. firm EPI Security

and Investigation in recruiting activities at the U.S.

 

EPI Security has, according to Bogota's El Tiempo and Mexico City's

La Jornada, been involved in recruiting 1,000 former Colombian

military and police personnel for contract work in occupied Iraq. Many

of the former policemen and military members were trained by U.S.

Special Forces in Latin America, including by trainers from the

infamous School of the Americas (now Western Hemisphere Institute for

Security Cooperation), once based in Panama and now in Fort Benning,

Georgia. Three other U.S. mercenary companies are also reportedly

active in recruiting at the Manta airbase. They are Dyncorp,

Blackwater, and Halliburton. EPI Security, headed by a former US Air

Force officer and former Dyncorp official named Jeffrey Shippy, also

maintains a representative in Baghdad and an office in Bogota.