Drug Cash Flow: Why Negroponte Goes Back to State
by AL MARTIN
The Deputy Secretary of State is a position, that, in Bushonian Regimes, is often unfilled because with the Deputy Secretary of State’s position goes control of the State Department’s FNCO, or Foreign Narcotics Control Office.
The Undersecretary of State is automatically the head of FNCO, or the Foreign Narcotics Control Office, just as Richard Armitage was, unless there is a specific appointment, as there was when Armitage was Assistant Secretary of State in the mid 1980s.
He was specifically appointed as head of FNCO. Then when Armitage, almost 20 years later, became Undersecretary of State again, there wasn’t anyone in charge.
Thus Negroponte will be filling a position that Armitage was in last.
The position went unfilled because it really is a make-work position.
The Deputy Secretary of State’s job is really an internal or political control, or political liability control job within the Secretary of State’s Office. It’s been that way almost forever, since the position was created. Click to join catapultthepropaganda |
It is really meant to control internal liability of the regime then in power. Or, in the case of Reagan or Bushonian regime, it is meant to control general Bushonian liability.
Negroponte will become head of FNCO. You will notice, under Bushonian regimes that a Bush always wants control of the Foreign Narcotics Control Office of the State Department.
Why? Because of the cash flow. Because it is FNCO that controls most narcotic-growing regions on the ground. Much more so than the CIA does. Because that is their mandate. When you hear the word ‘foreign narcotic control office,’ that’s precisely what it means.
They’re on the ground in Afghanistan and throughout Central and South America. Their real function is to coordinate with the host government anti-narcotic spending, (not efforts) not only the regime, wherein they are based, but, more specifically, they have a huge degree of control over U.S. anti-narcotic aid, which is what’s important.
FNCO has a great deal of control over the borders of the countries in which they operate, and really have de facto control of what narcotics are allowed to move out and where they’re allowed to move to.
You will see, in the Reagan Bush Regime, that wherever this regime goes militarily, FNCO soon follows. Afghanistan or anyplace that produces or has the capability to produce narcotics --
you’re going to find the Foreign Narcotics Control Office there. And then you’re going to also find, as was the case in Afghanistan, an increased CIA presence.
I think one reason Negroponte was moved over is because heroin income has been falling in the United States. We wrote about this previously on AlMartinRaw.com, anticipating that there would be a surge of heroin importation in the United States after the Bush Cheney Regime effectively occupied Afghanistan. And, indeed, there was.
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* AL MARTIN is an independent economic-political analyst with 25 years of experience as a trader on NYMEX, CME, CBOT and CFTC. As a former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, Al Martin is considered to be a source of independent analysis for financially sophisticated and market savvy investors.After working as a broker on Wall Street, Al Martin was involved in the so-called "Iran Contra" Affair as a fundraiser for the Bush Cabal from the covert side of government aka the US Shadow Government.His memoir, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," (http://www.almartinraw.com) provides an unprecedented look at the frauds of the Bush Cabal during the Iran Contra era. His weekly column, "Behind the Scenes in the Beltway," is published on Al Martin Raw.com
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