-Caveat Lector- >From the NewAustralian http://www.newaus.com.au/news142dcastro.html {{<Begin>}} Clinton and Castro's drug-running business: is there a connection? Special report from Washington No. 142, 15-21 November 1999 Despite Fidel Castro's well-documented drug-running activities Clinton personally intervened to keep Cuba off the list of major drug transit countries, even though the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) protested his move. This intervention by Clinton will have the convenient effect of significantly reducing scrutiny of Havana's 'counter-narcotics' activities, which the DEA has privately stated to be a sham. Clinton claimed his intervention was justified because drug trafficking in Cuban air and sea space had fallen significantly against last year's level. Missing from this explanation is the fact that drug flights over Cuba leapt by 50 per cent in 1998. This alone justified putting Cuba on the list of major drug transit countries. But the White House refused. Why? Equally curious is Clinton's attitude to a 7.2 metric ton shipment of cocaine, with a street value of about $US1.5 billion, which was seized in Colombia in December 1998 by Colombian police. Shipping records show the Cuba as the destination. Drug agents reported that the drugs were ultimately destined for the US. Moreover, the DEA is convinced that Castro has formed an alliance with Central American drug lords. However, Clinton made the remarkable statement, despite intelligence reports to the contrary, that the drugs were really heading for Spain. Even more curious is that Clinton's bizarre claim, which no one supports, flies in the face of the findings of a recent investigation by House staffers that clearly indicated Cuban officials were directly involved in the $US1.5 billion drug shipment. There is also the testimony of the defector Juan Antonio Rodriguez, who was a Cuban official, that Castro had organised drug trafficking in the US and that he had competitors murdered. Rodriguez only confirmed what the FBI and the CIA have known for years. Castro's drug trafficking first came to public attention in 1982 the head of the Cuban Navy and a number of Castro's officials were indicted by a Miami grand jury for running drugs. Clinton's benign view of Castro running cocaine into the US has set the rumor mill spinning again. Is Castro blackmailing him? Is it a payoff for campaign funds? Whatever the reason, the stink just gets worse. Editor's note: Australia's Leftist media, as expected, has suppressed reports of Castro's drug-running activities. Visit The Media Wall of Shame http://www.newaus.com.au/mws.html and discover just how bad Australian journalism really is. 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