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>
> THE PEGASUS FILE
>
> A former CIA deep-cover agent turns whistleblower at great risk.
> His shocking allegations expose powerful names controlling the international drug
>trade in very high places.
>
> Vietnam Special Forces Air Combat Controller; 25-year CIA deep-cover agent; US Army
>pilot flying classified missions during the US invasion of Grenada;
> Iran-Contra pilot flying cocaine shipments labelled as medical supplies; and member
>of the ultra-secret, international G7-run Pegasus "hit team"...this is the
> extraordinary story of Gene "Chip" Tatum.
>
> >From sensitive, highly secretive (and hitherto largely unknown) Special Forces
>covert operations in Cambodia, to wandering CIA asset; through to "black ops"
> activities in Grenada and Oliver North's Iran-Contra "Enterprise", as well as
>membership in an international "hit team", Gene "Chip" Tatum has seen it all, done it
>all
> and is now telling it all.
>
> Tatum claims to know where the skeletons are buried. Above all, he is aware that his
>testimony implicates serving and former US Presidents plus a whole list of
> high-level government officials and others in a welter of nefarious activities -
>including assassination, blackmail, coercion, gun-running, money-laundering and
> cocaine-trafficking.
>
> Tatum, a lanky Floridian, turned whistleblower following his arrest on a treason
>charge in early 1995. The charge was both astonishing and patently ludicrous, and
> was later dropped and replaced by a fraud charge - a drastic step-down. Found
>guilty, he was sentenced to serve a 15-month sentence. In March 1996, an
> additional charge - conspiring to embezzle - was brought against him. Found guilty,
>he was incarcerated in Jesup Federal Correctional Facility, Georgia, where he is
> serving a 27-month concurrent sentence. Ensuing press interest resulted in one
>article appearing in the Tampa Tribune on 4 May 1996.
>
> Many questions continue to hang over the conduct of the trial. His defence lawyer
>refused to call any of the 80 witnesses whom Tatum nominated for the defence.
> Later, his lawyer freely confessed to having come under pressure from the US
>Department of Defense. Tatum says the first charge was a set-up to discredit him
> following his "resignation" from "Operation Pegasus". The second charge he views
>with greater scepticism and concern.
>
> Tatum's resignation from Pegasus followed his refusal to "neutralise" a leading US
>political figure in the 1992 US presidential elections. Tatum declares he will not
> "participate in assassinations of any sort, character assassinations or anything, of
>American citizens". He goes on to explain that back in 1994, in a telephone
> conference call involving Oliver North, Felix Rodríguez and the late William Colby
>of the CIA, he was warned to turn over incriminating documents and tapes he had
> accumulated for his "retirement". He wryly observes that had he done so, he would
>probably have been quickly "terminated" in an "extreme" way - a speciality of the
> Pegasus team of which he was once a member.
>
> Countering this demand, Tatum volunteered to plead guilty on a fabricated felony
>count and serve a 12-month sentence - so that his credibility would be damaged in
> the event he ever decided to speak out. His incarceration for the second charge -
>and especially the six- month sentence of his wife, Nancy - led him to speak out
> about his life, almost 30 years of which he served as a "black" operative, and to
>reveal and destroy the command structure of Pegasus. It is an extraordinary story.
>
> "OPERATION RED ROCK"
>
> Tatum has written of his early career in the military, and his involvement in a
>highly sensitive and classified operation, in an unpublished manuscript entitled
>"Operation
> Red Rock". Joining the Air Force in February 1970, he went through Army jump school,
>escape and evasion training, jungle training, sea survival school and diving
> school and was assigned along with six others as "Combat Controllers" (the USAF
>equivalent of Special Forces), receiving his distinctive Special Forces
> burgundy-coloured beret. From there he was assigned to Tinker Air Force Base,
>Oklahoma, and then on to Fort Bragg, North Carolina - home of the "Green
> Berets" - for training in C4 plastic explosives, mines, nuclear, biological and
>chemical warfare, plus indoctrination in electronic and psychological operations.
>
> Posted to South-East Asia as Airman First Class (A1C) in December 1970, he was
>assigned as a radio operator on a Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft attached
> to Task Force Alpha at Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. In short order he was recruited (an
>involuntary "volunteer") to "Team Red Rock". The team was composed of
> eight US Army Green Berets, three US Navy SEALs and two "cowboys" - a euphemism for
>CIA paramilitary specialists. With Tatum attached, Team Red Rock
> totalled 14 in all, and was about to be tasked with an operation that came directly
>from the White House.
>
> In January 1971 the team received a final briefing from General Alexander Haig, who
>had flown in specially, along with CIA Saigon Chief William Colby -
> nicknamed by the team as "Mr Peepers" because of his resemblance to a well-known
>character in a TV sitcom. Haig and Colby outlined the plan, stressing its
> importance and extreme classification. President Nixon, desperate to quell domestic
>riots over an increasingly unpopular war, sought to withdraw all US personnel
> from South-East Asia. Withdrawal would - and, in the end, ultimately did - cause a
>military vacuum, quickly leading to the defeat of South Vietnamese forces.
>
> During those years, Nixon was also running a "secret war" in Cambodia and Laos. In
>Laos, a dwindling number of Meo tribesmen, together with covert US
> personnel employed by the CIA proprietary company, Air America, were battling
>against superior North Vietnamese ground forces. A much similar pattern was
> occurring in Cambodia, amid grave fears that the "domino theory" would result if
>either of these two nations were to fall to the Communist North Vietnamese. Nixon
> hoped that the vacuum caused by the withdrawal of US covert forces could be filled
>by native Cambodian forces. Lon Nol, the Cambodian leader, stubbornly
> continued to resist Nixon's diplomatic overtures to take up the slack, being anxious
>to hedge his bets and realistic about his chances of survival as Khmer Rouge and
> Vietnamese forces prepared to swarm in, unhindered by US air power.
>
> A plan had been drawn up at the highest levels of Nixon's administration. Team Red
>Rock were to enter Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in secret and attack the
> airport and military and civil installations, wreaking as much havoc as possible.
>The plan called for the team to parachute into the outskirts of Phnom Penh, carrying
> captured NVA "Sappers" with them. Taken in unarmed and alive, the Sappers would be
>"sacrificed" and their bodies left to be discovered by Cambodian forces. A
> furious Lon Nol would assume North Vietnam was to blame. It was hoped that such an
>act would stiffen Lon Nol's backbone. With nowhere else to turn, the US
> puppet would urgently seek US hardware to strengthen his forces and continue the
>battle.
>
> The team members were not told that they, too, were to be sacrificed by their
>President to ensure that word of the operation never reached the light of day. A
> detachment of Montagnard tribesmen ("the Yards"), in the pay of the CIA, was
>assigned to liquidate each member of the team and dispose of the bodies. The attack
> went successfully, but the team's suspicion of "the Yards" foiled the betrayal.
>Using their knowledge of "escape and evasion" tactics, the team decided to trek to the
> Vietnamese border and back to safety with US forces.1
>
> Casualties thinned out their numbers until only eight of them remained. Soon these,
>too, were captured by NVA regulars and underwent hideous torture at the hands
> of Chinese and Russian interrogators. Ultimately, only Tatum and one other team
>member survived the ordeal.
>
> Convalescing, Tatum was debriefed by CIA station chief, William Colby, and told he
>would, in future, be kept close to "the Agency". Recruited into the CIA, the
> yawning door of future "black" operations creaked open. Life would never be the same
>again for Chip Tatum.
>
> CIA DEEP-COVER AGENT
>
> For the next 10 years or so, Tatum's covert activities were varied. For a while, he
>worked out of Homestead Air Force Base where he was NCIOC of the tower
> receiver sight and MARS station. This was the base which then-President Nixon used
>for his frequent visits to the Key Biscayne, Florida, "White House". Much of
> this period remains obscured behind a thick blanket of classification.
>
> >From there, he was stationed in northern Italy, tasked with visiting the border
>towns of Yugoslavia and Italy. Colby felt that as a young Air Force man, Tatum might
> be "approached" in these towns for "information". The idea was to make contact with
>foreign agents and covertly gather information about them and their operations.
> Later, he was tasked with infiltrating Yugoslavia in order to gather intelligence on
>potential successors to the then Yugoslavian President Tito.
>
> Tatum was also sent to search for missing US POWs from Vietnam and elsewhere in
>South-East Asia.
>
> By 1976, Tatum was operating out of Lamar, Colorado, in a communications facility
>called OLAB. His contact there was Don Holmes, president of Valley - a
> Savings & Loan bank.2 Tatum acted as his courier, shuttling between Lamar and
>Springfield, Colorado, with transaction files. From there he was transferred to
> MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida.
>
> Shortly before his MacDill posting, Tatum received a call from Colby telling him he
>was resigning his position as Director, Central Intelligence, and recommending
> Tatum should deactivate his clandestine CIA activities. Colby continued, saying that
>remaining active without Colby there to protect him might place him in personal
> "jeopardy", as he had powerful enemies in Washington. This warning referred to
>Nixon, Kissinger and Haig, and Tatum's role in and survival from "Operation Red
> Rock".
>
> Tatum took good notice of the warning and became deactive. Later, in 1979, he
>requested and was granted entry into a USAF Reserve program. Leaving active
> military service he moved to Gunnison, Colorado, and took up a position with Bo
>Calloway, owner of the Crested Bute ski area. The appointment was arranged by
> Colby.
>
> During 1980 he received a visit from two men who informed him he was being
>reactivated, but into the US Army instead of the Air Force. He was sent to the US
> Army Flight School for rotary- wing training at Fort Rucker. From there he was
>assigned to the 160th Aviation Battalion/Special Forces at Fort Campbell,
> Kentucky. Shortly afterwards, the 160th combined with others to form Task Force 160.
>
> It was in this unit that Tatum played a "spooky" role in the US invasion of Grenada.
>A photograph of him standing in front of his MD-500 Defender gunship on the
> beach-head in Grenada, appeared along with a feature story in the Louisville
>Courier-Journal. Tatum will only say of this episode that he "wasn't there", in the
>same
> sense that he "wasn't in Cambodia".
>
> At that time he was attached to the US Army's 160th air wing at Fort Campbell. Not
>only was the Hughes helicopter then not in the Army's inventory, but the 160th
> didn't officially exist. Jim Malone, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, finds this
>extraordinary. He has documents showing the 160th was stationed at Fort Campbell,
> even though officials in the Pentagon continue to deny it - as they deny the wing's
>role in Grenada. Malone, in a telephone conversation with this writer, advised that
> the 160th is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - home of the famous
>Special Forces, the Green Berets. Their mission is to fly "Delta teams" on covert
> assignments, Malone added.
>
> THE CONTRA COCAINE TRAIN
>
> During 1983, Colby established contact again, advising Tatum he would shortly be
>contacted by "a man called North". This, as Tatum was to discover later, was
> none other than Lt Col. Oliver North - the central architect of America's Nicaraguan
>Contra campaign. Besides fighting a covert war, North was also the link-man in
> much, much dirtier work.
>
> The "Contragate" years teem with well-documented accounts of illicit wholesale
>gun-running and dope-smuggling. The exposé series published in Autumn 1996 by
> the San Jose Mercury-Post, entitled "The Dark Alliance", openly finger-points at the
>CIA and the Reagan administration for turning a blind eye to massive cocaine
> smuggling. Moreover, the series of articles claims that the explosion of "crack
>cocaine" in Los Angeles resulted entirely from the Contra leaders-cum-dope peddlers
> who made vast personal fortunes from their activities. Today, the official argument
>remains that the Contras were "freelancing" without the knowledge or consent of
> their CIA "handlers" or North's so-called "Enterprise". Despite these assertions,
>mountains of hard evidence point in a different direction. Included in this evidence
>is
> an entry from North's own diary which shows his knowledge of cocaine shipments.
>
> In stark contrast to these denials, Tatum says that North's "Enterprise" not only
>set up the cocaine factories and "ran" the Colombian cartels, but was also responsible
> for masterminding the massive shipments of narcotics into the US. Significantly, he
>is not alone in making these accusations. A number of those involved in Col.
> North's operations have subsequently come forward and spilled the beans. Almost all
>of these "whistleblowers" have been hounded and imprisoned. Some have
> died, whilst others have fled. The whole Contra thing, Tatum states, was also being
>used by an extremely covert group called Pegasus.
>
> During February 1985, Tatum was piloting "Dustoff" (Medevac) flights for the US
>Army's 3/498th Medical Company, stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Two flight
> crews, including Tatum's, were transferred to Palmerola Air Base, Honduras. Each
>flight consisted of a pilot, copilot, medic and crew chief. Once familiarised, they
> assumed the Medevac mission for Joint Task Force Bravo. Previously, in 1984, Tatum
>infiltrated the 3/498th on the instructions of Lt Col. Oliver North who had
> established contact under the code-name "Jake" (North had "control" of the 160th air
>wing and was also deeply involved with the tactical planning of "black ops"
> missions in the Grenada invasion).
>
> On 15 February 1985, during a flight to La Ceiba, Honduras, he was instructed to
>contact his local "handler", Major Felix Rodríguez - later to prove a major figure
> in the Iran-Contra investigation. Rodríguez informed Tatum that in addition to his
>Army "Medevac" duties he was to support covert "Pegasus" missions. These, he
> was told, would take priority over his other duties. He was also given his "chain of
>command": three individuals, any of whom could authorise Pegasus missions.
>
> In addition to Oliver North and Felix Rodríguez, Tatum would henceforward take
>orders from Amiram Nir, a former Mossad agent and advisor to Vice President
> Bush. Aviation support for Pegasus missions operated out of Ilopango Air Base,
>Honduras (home of the CIA proprietary airline Corporate Air Services) plus
> numerous Contra camps located in the jungles and mountains along the
>Honduras-Nicaragua border.3 A common feature of all future Pegasus missions was the
> transport "of large white coolers in and out of the Contra camps".
>
> On 26 February 1985, Tatum and his crew were instructed to fly two individuals to
>one of the larger Contra camps on the Honduran border. His flight log lists the
> names of the two individuals as Bill Cooper and Buzz Sawyer, both of whom worked for
>Corporate Air Services. Following a meeting between the CIA agents and
> Contra leaders, Tatum was given a sealed cooler, marked "Vaccine", weighing
>approximately 200 pounds, and instructed to deliver it to a USAF C-130 transport
> plane at La Mesa Airport, Honduras. Two crew members offloading the cooler
>accidentally dropped it, breaking the seal. Inside were over 100 bags of cocaine.
> Tatum resealed the cooler and later watched as it was transferred aboard the C-130,
>outward bound for Panama.
>
> On his return to Palmerola Air Base, Honduras, Tatum phoned Col. North to advise him
>of his discovery. North replied that it was "a trophy of war" and that the
> "Sandinistas are manufacturing cocaine and selling it to fund the military". North
>closed the conversation by saying that "the cocaine was bound for the world courts
> as evidence" against the Sandinistas.
>
> The whole incident struck Tatum as odd and reminded him strongly of earlier missions
>dating back to 1983-84 when he was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky,
> as a Special Operations pilot. Regularly he would trans-ship white coolers, marked
>as "Medical Supplies", to Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. On two
> occasions he carried similar coolers to Mena Airport, Arkansas. Deliveries of
>medical coolers to Little Rock AFB were picked up by Dr Dan Lasater - a close
> confidant of the then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.
>
> By now, almost two years later, Tatum had decided to document his discovery to
>safeguard his "retirement". Thereafter, he documented all Pegasus flights on the
> reverse of his flight logs.
>
> This was a difficult time for Tatum, since he had three balls to juggle at the same
>time. On the one hand he was flying classified active-duty missions for the US Army;
> on the other, he was flying CIA missions arranged through Mil. Group A (CIA),
>located at the embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; and thirdly, he was flying Pegasus
> missions under the control of William Colby, Oliver North and George Bush following
>his recruitment into Pegasus by Colby in 1986.
>
> Tatum completed numerous missions during his rotation out of Honduras. Picking up
>and trans-shipping coolers containing cocaine was a regular event.
> Extraordinarily, this included infiltrating Nicaraguan airspace (Tatum says it was
>not difficult to infiltrate any country and that "foreign powers" would kill to know
>how
> it is done), and landing at Bluefields Air Base with deliveries for placement aboard
>civilian C-123s and C-130s.4 This mission was followed by a brief stint in
> Colombia, where he was assigned to assist the Drug Enforcement Administration's "War
>on Drugs", only to discover the DEA was heavily engaged in narcotics
> trafficking.
>
> THE "BOSS HOG" LIST
>
> One of the most flamboyant individuals involved in the cocaine trail from Columbia
>through Honduras to Panama and on into the United States, was Barry Seal. Seal
> flew an assortment of aircraft, offloading shipments of weapons in South America and
>picking up deliveries of cocaine for his return flight to the US on behalf of Col.
> North's Enterprise. His primary base of operations was Mena Airport, Arkansas.
>
> A CIA "asset", Seal was later arrested and became a DEA informer. Prior to his
>killing in 1986 - allegedly by a Medellín cartel assassination squad in revenge for
> informing on them - Seal openly boasted he had information that implicated
>high-level government officials, including then-Vice President Bush, in the
>Enterprise's
> narcotics-trafficking business.
>
> Tatum would soon get to meet Barry Seal and become close friends. Tatum recalls
>being present during a meeting between Oliver North, Felix Rodríguez, Amiram
> Nir and General Alvarez from Honduras, when North stated that Vice President Bush
>was going to have his son Jeb arrange "something out of Columbia". This
> conversation focused on Barry Seal's increasingly notorious activities. When Tatum
>later heard Seal had died, he immediately understood who was behind the killing.
> The discussion also made it clear that VP Bush, Governor Clinton and his three
>respective "handlers" were knee-deep in the cocaine venture and making fistloads of
> money.
>
> Unknown to all those present, Seal had earlier provided Tatum with a list of names
>of those high-level government officials deeply involved with or responsible for
> controlling the narcotics business. Seal called them the "Boss Hogs". Tatum has kept
>this list a tightly-held secret until recent weeks. The list cites the surnames only,
> and is reproduced above, as I received it, complete with misspellings as written. I
>have appended their full names and titles in brackets.
>
> "BOSS HOGS" &emdash; UNITED STATES
>
> ¥ Casey (William Casey, Director Central Intelligence)
>
> ¥ Clair-George (Clair Elroy George, Head of CIA's Central American Task Force)
>
> ¥ Bush (Vice President George Bush)
>
> ¥ Kissinger (Dr Henry Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates; former US Secretary
>of State; former National Security Adviser)
>
> ¥ Haig (General Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State)
>
> ¥ Greg (Donald Gregg, former National Security Adviser to VP Bush, Ambassador to
>Korea and alleged joint "Controller" of Panama's Manuel Noriega, along with
> William Casey)
>
> ¥ Clairage (Duane "Dewey" Clarradge, CIA)
>
> ¥ Fernandez (Joseph Fernandez, CIA Costa Rica Station Chief)
>
> ¥ North (Lt Col. Oliver North, National Security Council aide)
>
> ¥ Singlaub (John Singlaub, CIA covert operator)
>
> ¥ Colby (William Colby, Director Central Intelligence, 1973-76)
>
> ¥ Secord (Richard V. Secord, regarded as a "brilliant" CIA black operative)
>
> ¥ Weld (William Weld, head of Criminal Division, US Department of Justice;
>instrumental in "blocking" Senate investigations into narcotics, according to
>testimony of
> former Senate special investigator, Jack Blum)
>
> ¥ Rodriguez (Felix Rodríguez, CIA officer with close connection to VP Bush)
>
> ¥ Peroot (General Peroot, Defense Intelligence Agency)
>
> Most, if not all of these names are readily familiar to Contragate investigators and
>journalists covering this story. Allegations regarding the involvement of former
> President George Bush in the cocaine business are by no means new - they abound in
>plentiful supply. The fact that Bush pardoned a number of his closest advisors,
> who were facing criminal prosecution and possible imprisonment, late on Christmas
>Eve 1992, just weeks before Bill Clinton's inauguration, left a sour taste in the
> mouths of many. If prosecuted, they clearly would have fingered the President
>himself.
>
> PEGASUS: DIRTY MONEY LAUNDERING
>
> But Tatum's story takes us even further along the dark road of power, greed and
>corruption. During l986, he had left Honduras and set up a money-laundering
> business in Watertown, New York State, close to the home base of the Army's 10th
>Mountain Division at Fort Drum. The location was chosen with care. With
> access to Fort Drum's telephone lines for secure communications, he was assigned a
>Cherokee-140 fixed-wing aircraft,5 used to ship personnel and supplies across
> the Canadian border under radar cover. His tenure with these companies lasted from
>1986 through to 1990. This was a pure Pegasus operation.
>
> It was at Watertown that Tatum was provided with a civilian cover in the form of
>three construction companies: American National Home Builders, American
> Constructors and American Homes. Funding was provided by Henry Hyde, an Illinois
>Republican politician and well known as the CIA's "black money" man. Hyde
> provided a US$250,000 line of credit with Key Bank, Watertown. Although Tatum was
>listed as the president in all three companies, in reality all were under the
> control of Ben Whittaker, a lawyer from Rochester, New York. Whittaker, Tatum says,
>is closely associated with Tony Wilson of the Wilson family who owned
> Xerox Corporation. They are extremely wealthy and "friends of the Rothschilds and
>Rockefellers". In addition, he was also closely associated with South Eastern US
> Investment Group (SEUS) - an investment bank in Savannah, Georgia - from 1985
>through to 1989. Another proprietary he was involved with was Irving Place
> Development, a service organisation of Irving Bank and Trust Company. Cocaine
>proceeds were laundered through these companies by an ingenious use of
> construction loans.
>
> In response to a question asking why the "drug-related money" was placed in
>"Arkansas, Colorado and Ohio", Tatum simply explains that he doesn't know why,
> adding that "It was being done before I got there. I assume banking laws and whether
>or not Bush had people in his pocket in these areas." He does explain that the
> primary figure involved in the laundry exercise in Arkansas was "Jack Stephens".
>Jackson Stephens, owner of Worthen Bank & Trust Company, is closely aligned
> with President Bill Clinton. Tatum states that "...Clinton received the cash and
>divided it up between Stephens and [Dan] Lasater to clean it up. Stephens' company
> [Worthen Bank] was used as the guarantor, providing 'warehouse' lines of credit."
>
> Developing this theme in more detail, Tatum explains that the Enterprise was
>receiving drugs in exchange for the guns they supplied to the Contras. The raw product
> in the form of coca leaves was supplied by the Colombians and pressed into large
>cube-shaped bales and then shipped to Nicaragua and Honduras.6 All the
> "product" was pre-sold and the delivery into the US "guaranteed".
>
> This eventually resulted in the sale proceeds being pre-paid to Panama, under
>Noriega's control. Some of this money was washed through banks and other
> companies operating in Panama and elsewhere. The rest was sent to Arkansas, Ohio and
>Colorado. Thereafter, the dirty money was filtered via construction loans
> with permanent "takeouts" "arranged by banks and mortgage- lenders". These, in turn,
>were later sold to Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's - negotiable US Federal
> Mortgage Securities that are traded globally on a daily basis. Each laundry "cycle"
>lasted from six months to a year. The result was dirty money transformed into
> good, clean, US currency.
>
> This system wasn't arbitrary or accidental. One initial "test-bed" was a small
>residential mortgage lender named Carl I. Brown (CIB) in Kansas. Others were larger,
> and still others became national. All were ultimately destined to be purchased by a
>bank (proprietary) from Japan within a specific time-frame, 1996, as part of
> ongoing Pegasus plans. Eric Brown, the son of the founder of CIB, was heavily
>involved in these activities. Three additional companies were involved, to Tatum's
> knowledge: US Homes, Pulte Homes and Richmond Homes. All became very successful,
>providing "the American dream - as VP Bush put it in a meeting in 1987".
>
> PEGASUS: ASSASSINATION & NEUTRALISATION
>
> Tatum has gone into considerable additional detail regarding the role of Pegasus as
>he knew it. He believes Pegasus was established during the Eisenhower years as
> a secret group inside the CIA to spy on that agency on behalf of the President. At
>some point - believed to be after the assassination of President Kennedy -
> Pegasus went AWOL from direct US Government control and came under the direction of
>an international Board of Directors which Tatum alleges now includes
> George Bush and Henry Kissinger.
>
> The directors of Pegasus meet once a year in secret conclave following G7 meetings.
>The group has "representation" from a number of intelligence agencies
> throughout the world. Included are the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the
>Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
> Firearms (ATF) as well as agents from British, Israeli, Turkish and Danish
>Intelligence plus "others who performed various functions for Pegasus".7 The mission
>of
> Pegasus, Tatum explains, is "to 'align' world leaders and financiers to our [US]
>policies and standards".
>
> One of Tatum's Pegasus duties included flying "Archer Teams" (four-man hit teams) in
>his helicopter to their insertion point.8 He states that Enrique Bermudez was
> assassinated in 1991 by a Pegasus team, adding he "was shot in the back of the head
>while walking down the street...from about 150 yards". Bermudez, known as
> "Commander Three Eight Zero" was the senior Contra leader. Tatum received two broken
>ribs when he came under small-arms fire during the assassination.9
>
> Following the Nicaraguan war, Bermudez sought a prominent position in the new
>government. Spurned by President Chamorro, "Commander 380" tried to pressure
> George Bush to intercede on his behalf, threatening to expose Bush's role in the
>cocaine trafficking enterprise. According to Tatum, Bush ordered his disposal.
>
> Another Pegasus assassination was that of General Gustavo (Dr Gus) Alvarez Martinez,
>the "cooperating" Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, Honduras. Alvarez
> was assassinated in 1989, following his demand for a bigger split of the cocaine
>profits.
>
> Tatum also describes his involvement in the assassination of Amiram Nir, the former
>Israeli Mossad agent who went under the assumed name of Pat Weber. Nir was
> scheduled to testify to the Senate subcommittee and it was feared he would reveal
>the truth. He perished, following the shooting-down of his aircraft with missiles
> from Tatum's helicopter.
>
> Other "neutralisations" verge on the bizarre. An individual who must remain nameless
>for a variety of reasons - but whose name is known to this writer - underwent
> an experience that is both horrific and chilling. Readers are warned that what
>follows is not at all pleasant. For the sake of ease, I shall call this individual
>"Mr X" or,
> simply, "X".10
>
> Mr X was a leader of one of the largest CIA-backed Contra groups. He recently
>testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee. Formerly, X was a senior
> executive in a South American subsidiary of a leading US soft drinks corporation.
>During his Senate testimony, he denied any knowledge of CIA involvement in the
> narcotics trade, adding that condoning such activity would have been foreign to his
>way of life. Not so, says Tatum. Mr X had been recruited into the CIA by
> then-Director William Casey, with the assistance of Oliver North.
>
> In 1990, when Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega announced there would be "free
>elections", X was ecstatic. He began jostling for position and asked Presid
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be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
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