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Politicizing the CIA for Bush -- professionals counter-attack with leaks and stories linking Bush, Sr. and Goss to past drug smuggling.
WMR has received information from a veteran member of the U.S. Intelligence
Community that the firing of CIA Inspector General (IG) officer, 61-year old
CIA veteran Mary O. McCarthy, was the result of a White House-launched political
vendetta designed to ferret out pro-Democrats in the CIA. The source also revealed
that McCarthy, who was fired rather than being permitted to resign, is almost
certain to write a tell-all book that will reveal even more misconduct and illegal
activity, in addition to secret prisons and rendition flights, on the part of
the Bush administration and CIA director Porter Goss. These may include CIA
drug smuggling activities to support off-the-books operations and targeted assassinations.
McCarthy, as an IG officer, would have known about all CIA misdeeds reported
through her office.
Inside sources report that McCarthy must have ran afoul of the Bush administration
early on. After serving as a National Intelligence Officer
and liaison to the White House National Security Council, it was clear that
McCarthy was purposely kept out of clandestine operations, science and technology
operations, and analysis. Instead of being assigned to writing CIA histories
or arranging for special guest visits, where she could have been kept under
surveillance by security, McCarthy was placed within the IG. However, if retaliation
against McCarthy was the goal of the White House, assigning McCarthy to the
IG turned out to be the worst thing the Bush team could have done. There, McCarthy
was able to amass complaints about abuse and other activities from scores of
CIA agents -- information that was later leaked to the media. There is still
no confirmation that McCarthy was the leaker, however, the fact that she had
already been reassigned from mainstream CIA operations and supposedly failed
a polygraph, made her a convenient target for the Bush administration.
An intelligence professional who knows McCarthy reports that she discovered
sensational illegal activities by the CIA and was stymied by the Inspector General
senior management. McCarthy is said by a colleague to be a
devout Catholic who must have bent the rules only out of religious impulses
and a high degree of frustration.
The intelligence community source also confirmed past CIA activities in drug
smuggling, which have now been resumed by Porter Goss. Three CIA proprietary
airlines that flew in Laos during the Indochina war flew heroin from the Golden
Triangle in Burma to South Vietnamese and American intermediaries for street
distribution to U.S. troops in South Vietnam. The CIA proprietary airlines involved
were Air America, Byrd and Sons, and Continental Air Services, Inc. (CASI).
CASI, based in Vientiane, Laos, flew the most lucrative aircraft for hauling
large amounts of heroin -- ironically, the Swiss-built Pilatus "Porter"
-- which could haul large amounts of drugs, 15 armed men, and land uphill on
remote airstrips in Laos.
Porter Goss was a clandestine CIA officer in Latin America during the height
of the CIA's illegal drug smuggling activities. The current
leaks of information about renewed CIA drug smuggling activities are clearly
an attempt by some CIA professionals to link Goss to past illegal activities.
