An interesting reading for the week-end from the group SomeUnknownUSHistory:
Confessions of a US death squad member - Chip Tatum
Gene "Chip" Tatum joined the Air Force Special Force as a forward air controller, 70's, at age 19. He went to US Army Special Forces school and was assigned 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 (secretly under operational controlled of the CIA, but on paper it looked like it was under the 56th Special Operations Wing, and under the major command, US Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), under the Joint Chief of Staff and Secretary of Defense.
56th Special Operations Wing and Task Force Alpha were operating out of Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base Phanom, Thailand. As to how much of a secret this was I don't know, but it appears the US did whatever we could to keep our operations there secret. I have noted more about 56th Special Operations Wing at the end of this article.
Shortly after being assigned to Thailand, Airman Chip Tatum, assigned to a task force code-named, Team Red Rock. The team was composed of Airman Tatum, eight US Army Green Berets, three US Navy SEALs and two CIA paramilitary officer or (aka direct action) or contract agents/soldiers (a total of 14 US men) that was under operational control directly from the White House.
A plan had been drawn up and ordered by President Nixon, Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig. Team Red Rock was to enter Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, and secretly attack the Pochentong airport, military and civil installations, and destroy all of the Cambodian air force parked there, or as many as possible. The plan called for the team to parachute into the outskirts of Phnom Penh. They were tasked to take with them two formerly captured, North Vietnamese Army (NVA) POWs wearing their NVA uniforms, but were unarmed and alive. The plan was to murder the POWs and their bodies left to be discovered by Cambodian forces. The purpose of this was to makes the Cambodian leaders come to the false conclusion that the North Vietnamese were responsible for the attack. This kind of operation is called a "False Flag" operation. This whole plan including the murders was approved and ordered by President Nixon, Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig.
According to Tatum, he and the rest of his team were dressed in North Vietnamese uniforms as were the NVA POWs, This is a violation of the Geneva and Hague convention (a war crime) and the team could be shot as spies if were captured.
It was also part of the secret mission, and ordered by Pres.Nixon, Kissinger, and/or Haig, that Team Red Rock was not to come back from this mission alive.in Cambodia alive. A detachment of Montagnard tribesmen working for the CIA, was assigned to kill everyone of the team and dispose of the bodies to make sure no word about this mission ever leaked out.
Chip Tatum is not very forth coming in his video interview with Ted Gunderson, a former FBI Chief of Station, for Los Angeles. It will help you in understanding what I am telling you here, if you watch the following video tape after reading this.
In video tape Tatum only stated that in 1971 he was many times on classified mission in Cambodia. Also he did not have a good understanding of why Nixon wanted this false flag mission done. In face, Tatum may have been lied to as to the real purpose of his mission and had never got around to doing a google search about the history of his mission. By looking at the open source history of the civil war in Cambodia, I was able to learn the date of Team Red Rocks attack and destruction of the pro-US Cambodian Air Forces' airplanes. General Lon Nol was at this time the leader of Cambodia.
A little background of events in Cambodia at the time:
On March 18, 1970 - Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia is deposed by General Lon Nol in a bloodless coup. The Cambodian National Assembly passed a unanimous vote of nonconfidence in Sihanouk and replaced him as chief of state. However, General Lon Nol had his military forces Royal Khmer Armed Forces or in French, the Forces Armées Royales Khmeres (FARK), take over the airport and radio station and standing by to fight to over-throw Sihanouk. Sihanouk was in France for medical treatment at the time. After the coup, he aligns with Cambodian Communists, known as the Khmer Rouge, in an effort to oust Lon Nol's regime. The Lon Nol government pardoned some 500 political prisoners, the majority of whom were Khmer Serei.
The Royal Khmer Armed Forces "Forces Armées Royales Khmeres" (FARK), was established on 9 November 1953 under a Franco-Khmer convention. This contributed to the termination of the French colony and protectorate, and Cambodia obtained its own authentic military organization. The French Army advisors and trainers remained in Cambodia until 1971. Now I learned that on the night of 21 January 1971, open source history noted that "North Vietnamese attacked Pochentong" airfield, Phnom Penh Cambodia, …."fought and killed the security guards of the Cambodian Army (FARK) before saturating most of the installations on the airfield with heavy fire from automatic weapons and multiple rocket launchers. A group of Vietnamese climbed even to the roof of the commercial terminal at Pochentong and started firing at the ammunition depot – full of napalm bombs. Before anybody could react the Vietnamese disappeared back into the jungle."
"When the smoke cleared on the following morning, the Cambodians could count their casualties: 39 officers and other ranks were killed and 170 injured. Fortunately no FARK pilots were killed: the pilot's quarters were not hit by the North Vietnamese mainly targeted the aircraft on apron. However, most of the FARK aircraft were destroyed, including all MiG-17s and UH-1Hs, as well as three O-1s of the SVAF. The Pochentong airfield remained closed for almost a week: the tarmac, ammunition depots and the runway had all had to be repaired and new equipment brought in from the USA. Only days earlier the Congress in Washington decided to supply equipment worth $175 million, but now the Americans were forced to further increase their deliveries in order to completely rebuilt the FARK air force.. Especially the White House felt compelled to do something: it could not send any troops officially to Cambodia, but it could organize a Military Equipment Delivery Team – Cambodia (MEDTC), which was officially to control the flow of supplies to Pnom Penh, but actually to become deeply involved in training of the Cambodian military."
Photographs of the destroyed aircraft and the Pochentong airfield in can be seen at the:
Now I think the Red Rock Team real mission was to convince Congress to authorized more money to finance new and improved aircraft in support of the pro-US and anti-commie, Lon Nol's regime. is really why President Nixon order this false flag mission.
Here is Tatum account of what happened. "So Team Red Rock goes in and just blow up the airport. We jumped in with North Vietnamese sappers, and we left their bodies there in North Vietnamese uniforms. We utilized particular airburst rounds with the aviation side, so that there wasn't a lot of damage, you know, to the tarmac itself. We had slap-pack explosives that blew up the planes. We made sure that the planes were parked close enough so that one explosion could take out three or four units, so it looked like the damage was terrible.
We had aircraft carriers sitting off the coast, waiting to replace the aircraft that were blown up on the ground. So you (the US) moved in the next day to save him (Gen. Lon Nol) from The North Vietnamese that just attacked his country. … The "Time" magazine and "Newsweek" magazine articles both said (that) Washington touted it as one of the greatest offensives the North Vietnamese have ever masterminded, a mastermind offensive."
President Nixon had ordered an invasion of Cambodia in May of 1970 against North Vietnamese safe havens and supply depots. Lon Nol in the meantime, had called up military reserves, had requested UN intervention, and, while reiterating Cambodia's position of neutrality, had issued a call for international assistance.
Chip Tatum's account of history reasons for the false flag attack on January 21, 1971, is as follows : " Lon Nol, the premier of Cambodia, was a fence-sitter. He was - you know, China was right next door, and China was the catalyst for all this. He was rocking between China and the United States, If the North Vietnamese came into his country, he'd put a Nixon decided that what we needed to do - and this was part of( Assistant Secretary of State's assistant) Haig's plan …battalion over there, just to show force, but no real battle-plans, no real alliance anywhere.It was hoped that such an act would stiffen Lon Nol's backbone. A furious Lon Nol would assume North Vietnam was to blame. With nowhere else to turn, (as a) US puppet (he) would urgently seek US hardware to strengthen his forces and continue the battle."
Here is some more historic background on Cambodia:
Under Sihanouk Cambodia had filed a complaint in the UN Security Council against the United States and South Vietnam for their "repeated acts of aggression against Cambodia." Relations were formally terminated May 3, 1965. In 1966 Sihanouk secretly granted access to a Cambodian the deep-water port to the North Vietnamese. This port became a main entry point for North Vietnamese military supplies from China and from the Soviet Union. Armaments were then transported to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong sanctuaries on the border with South Vietnam, over a highway.. This effective supply route enabled the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong to stockpile substantial amounts of armaments and equipment for the 1968 Tet Offensive against the Saigon government.
Tatam continues to describe the secret Red Rock mission. His Special Forces team leaders got suspicious of the Montagnard set up to help them get back to our home in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand where he was based out of. The Montagnards they met had in fact been ordered by the CIA to kill the whole Team Red Rock. The team managed to kill the Montagnards, but several team members had been killed at this point.
Using their knowledge of "escape and evasion" tactics, the team decided to trek to the South Vietnamese border and back to safety with US forces. Only eight of them remained. Soon the whole team was captured by North Vietnamese Army.
Tatum says, "We didn't know that they had orders to kill us? We were ultimately captured (by the North Vietnamese). We were tortured. Many of us were killed. I was severely beaten, severely tortured… We were liberated by a routine patrol of U.S. Marines. (They) got in a fire-fight with North Vietnamese (guards) and (they) didn't know we were in the encampment, (Team Red Rock was wearing their NVA uniforms) - and three of us were running out of the camp. One of them received a gut-shot and died (from friendly fire). The other two of us received severe head-wounds, and we were both in comas with brain-trauma (and evacuated to an American hospital in the Philippines). I have discussed below in this article, Airman Tatum's the 92-day captivity as a prisoner of war and the torture of him and the other members of the team.
Tatum claims that while he was in the Philippines, he was visited by William Colby, who was the CIA station chief in Vietnam and was told by him that Pres. Nixon had order the death of all of Team Red Rock. At this time Colby recruited Airman Tatum into the CIA.
Tatum said he was later tasked to work as part of the CIA's operation Phoenix in Vietnam. He utilized a lot of military personnel, who were special-ops guys. Men who were special forces and primarily officers. He says a lot of the information the Phoenix people got was bogus, and assassinations were performed on that bogus information, so a lot of innocent civilians were killed.
In 1974 Tatum was attached to Air America as a communications specialist near the end of Vietnam, He jumped in a lot of zones, trying to move downed aircraft, downed Air America pilots, downed military pilots who were where we weren't, into safe zones to have them picked up. Air America started losing a lot of aircraft for some unknown reason. Tatum hinted that he suspects that the CIA was killing off its own Air American pilots in airplane crashes, just as they had tried to kill off his Red Rock Team. It should be noted here that Air American pilots were flying opium out of Laos to pay for their covert war there. It is possible some of the Air American pilots had ethical views about being part of such a CIA program.
Tatum says a CIA person was in charge of a program during the Vietnam War to go in behind the enemy lines and assassinate the civilian North Vietnamese and Chinese leaders, who were running things and to get rid of the commanders, and the communication.
Tatum states that his next assignment with the CIA was that he was sent to the US's Aviano Air Base in Italy, and working out of there, he would infiltrate Yugoslavia and the Communist Bloc countries, like Bulgaria.
We had received information early that there was a possibility of POW's/MIA's who were moved through Burma into this - into - sent to Communist Bloc countries to be held there, so we started looking, and I would report - every Monday, I would have to go back to Aviano Air Base, to the command-and-control center, where we had a secure line, and call in to Washington Switch, and speak with the director, and report our findings. Tatum found two US POW's/MIA's from Vietnam war that had been sent from Vietnam over into the Soviet Bloc countries, is that what you're saying?
One was named Hill or Hull. Tatum thinks was a pilot, a captain or a lieutenant. Tatum actually found them in Bulgaria.
Tatum sent a letter about this to Red McDaniel, head of the American Defense Institute from jail. McDaniel says the POW's/MIA is a cover-up.
Within six weeks after Tatum found those two American POWs, he was shipped back to the U.S. and to Colorado. This was when Bush Sr. was the director of the CIA.
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Pegasus was an organization within the CIA that spied on the spies working for the CIA and tests them to see if they were honest and not easily recruited or go public about illegal CIA drug operations, for example, drug trafficking. It has been establish right after World War II, a group within the CIA. This was a CIA operation under the direct operational control of the National Security Council. In other words, this was an illegal government Department within our government. Congress has to approval and has oversight over the Departments under the President because Congress funds all of our government.
The president wanted someone that he could trust, so he formed his own small group of operatives which he called "Pegasus." These were the people who worked and communicated their information directly to the president of the United States. Pegasus remained a part of the CIA until just after the Kennedy assassination, Tatum alleges. After that, it became a shadow CIA with other nations like Israel, UK and other foreign government foreign intelligence services as part of it, during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
The chain of command under the President for operation Pegasus was the National Security Council (NSC), the Special Situation Group and the Terrorist Incident Working Group and then the Operational Sub-Groups (OSG). These three sub-groups were the case officers or special operations military soldiers of Pegasus and not answerable to Congress. One OSG handled moving arms secretly and the anti-drug task force, the OSG /counter terror group was made up of Delta Force, and Special Operations group, Navy Seals), and one OSG handled neutralizations – to include assassinations. Each OSG unit had a commander in charge.
Tatum claims that is Maggie Thatcher would have said, "I want this done, and I want it done now, and even though she's not an active politician, you can bet your bottom dollar it would be done."
"Pegasus" is a code-name given by CIA station Chief William Colby in 1971 member of the ultra-secret international G-7-run Pegasus hit-team National Security Council, NSA , you're talking about blackmail.
Tatum said, "Depending on the mission and the goals of the mission, you may have a whole team assigned to you, you may have one person, you may have people coming in and out of your life, you know, not necessarily full-time, just, you know, here, let's spend a week with this guy and go after him. There are so many out there that we have to align."
Tatum says that he thinks Initially Pegasus was formed as a group to keep an eye on the intelligence community. Then it evolved into gathering information on politicians on certain committees, so that, if the needs be, there was enough information there to approach those people on behalf of the president, and twist their arms.
During 1980 Tatum was reactivated in the CIA, but this time into the US Army. 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. Because of his training in the Air Force as a forward air traffic controller and the weakness of radars, what thet can and can not see. He knew how to fly into and out of the US and other countries without being detected. He had trained about the EC3A advanced airborne command post and AWACS program, so that he understood what the radars were looking at and what the FAA and US air defense controllers could and could not see.
As a pilot, Tatum knew what those areas are, and he would be able to maneuver your way up into the various states, and drop major drops without being detected. One could buy a little Cobra radar-detector and put it in your aircraft, and you'll know whether you're being tracked by radar or not. You mask yourself behind some hills or something, and you drop out of that 5,000-foot range, get down into below 500 or below, and no one will catch you.
Mexico is one of the large transshipment points, as is now coming across the northern border of the United States. Tatum was able to fly even single-engine aircraft and take off, specially equipped single-engine aircraft, take off in Colombia, fly to the Bahamas, rest overnight, wait for a weather-window, go up into Nova Scotia, come across to the Wayburn (sp?) area of Saskatchewan, and then come down into Montana, North Dakota. This was one of his major routes to fly drugs into the US. Tatum alleges that some people that were on Customs staff that Tatum investigated were running certain (radar) sites around the Caribbean, and were shutting their radars down and letting aircraft come through.
I have a source who was told that Coast Guard in North Carolina would routinely not operating their surveillance aircraft on curtain days, allegedly because they didn't have enough money aircraft fuel.
In 1981, President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 3 that places the intelligence community, and all intelligence assets under the Vice President Bush.
During 1983, former CIA director William Colby established contact again, advising Tatum he would shortly be contacted by "a man called North", Lt Col. Oliver North. 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.
In addition to taking his orders from Oliver North and Felix RodrÃguez, Tatum was tasked to work directly for 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. Posing as a US Army medavac helicopter Tatum routinely flew/ transported of large white coolers noted as medical supplies in and out of the Contra camps, but they really contained cocaine.
From 1983-84 when Tatum was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, he regularly he would fly these 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.
On the one hand Tatum was flying classified active-duty missions for the US Army; on the other, he was flying CIA missions arranged throughMil. 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 claims the US flew over four tons of cocaine out of Honduras in the middle 1980s. He states that Major Rodriguez, who was Felix Rodriguez, was one of his bosses or handlers in Honduras . In 1985, Tatum was assigned (sheep-dipped ) into a unit at Fort Steward, GA, as an undercover Army officer flying a medical evacuation helicopter. One of the medics assigned to his helicopter was a Specialist Macdonald(sp?). There was a company called Corporate Air Services flying into Honduras was well.
Tatum also says he could call to "Washington Switch" from Pomeroy (sp?) Air Base, and he talked directly with another of his handlers, Oliver North. Tatum's missions were to fly into Contra camps and he learned that the Contras were indeed manufacturing the cocaine themselves, under the direction of a Colombia Ramon. Ramon was later assassinated just prior to the Noriega trial. He says that if someone was felt to be a problem, he would be "Arkancided" (meaning made it look like a suicide as had occurred in the death associated drug trafficking operation run out of Mena, AR) , otherwise known as "suicided " or they die in a plane crash.
Tatum said, Ollie North set these five camps up with cocaine kitchens producing 500 kilos per week. The 159th Aviation Battalion out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, super-chinooks (sp?) were flying in the fuel-pods and equipment, dropping them in, dropping bladders of acetone to manufacture the coca leaves into cocaine Tatum says drugs went to either Ilapongo(sp?) Air Base in El Salvador, or they went up to Panama. Also El Ocatal (sp?) to a meeting of this cartel.
Several of the people that Tatum flew to this meeting in El Ocatal were General Noriega, Mike Harari, who was a retired Mossad agent and was a member of a rich Jewish Panama family, Felix Rodriguez, Joe Fernandez, who was the CIA station-chief in Costa Rica, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez (sp?), who was the U.S. - or the Honduran Army chief of staff, and a guy named William Barr, who represented the assets of this enterprise. Barr became the Attorney General under President George Bush Sr., and replacing AG Thornburgh.
Tatum claims he had dinner with Vice Pres. Bush Sr's national security director, Don Gregg and Gregg discussed drugs with Tatum. He said, Gregg gave him large briefcase of money to be taken to a meeting that was going to be held in El Acatal (sp?), Costa Rica.
At this meeting there was in attendance, William Barr, Gen. Noriega, Amiram Nir, Mike Harari – both of them Mossad – Joe Fernandez, Felix Rodriguez, and Gen. Alvarez (sp?), from the chief of staff of the Honduran army.
On April 12, 1985, VP George Bush was in Honduras and he met with the president of Colombia and the president of Honduras. This was at the heights of everything going on in the Iran-Contra situation,
Tatum would soon get to meet CIA pilot and DEA confidential informant, Barry Seal and they become close friends. Seal openly boasted he had information that implicated high-level government officials, including then-Vice President Bush. Seal gave Tatum a list of the following named people in the Enterprise's narcotics-trafficking business.
1. William Casey, former Director Central Intelligence
2. Clair Elroy George, Head of CIA's Central American Task Force
3. Vice President George Bush
4. Henry Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates; former US Secretary of State; former National Security Adviser
5. General Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State
6. Donald Gregg, former National Security Adviser to VP Bush, Ambassador to Korea and alleged joint "Controller"/CIA case officer of Panama's Manuel Noriega, along with William Casey
7. Duane "Dewey" Clarradge, CIA officer
8. Joseph Fernandez, CIA Costa Rica Station Chief
9. Lt Col. Oliver North, National Security Council aide
10. John Singlaub, CIA covert operator
11. William Colby, Director Central Intelligence, 1973-76)
12. Richard V. Secord, (former General CIA black operative)
13. 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)
14. Felix RodrÃguez, CIA officer with close connection to VP Bush
15. LTG Leonard H. Perroots, USAF, Defense Intelligence Agency, 1985 – 1988. After retiring in 1992, Perroots was the president of a private military company called Group Vector Of those listed above, the following named people were also officers of the Nugan Hand Bank that has been linked to CIA drug trafficking in South Vietnam and laundering of the drug profits.
2. Major General Richard Secord
3. William Colby
During l986, Tatum had left Honduras and set up a money-laundering business in Watertown, NY, close to the home base of the Army's 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum. The location was chosen because of access to Fort Drum's telephone lines for secure communications. Tatum was assigned a Cherokee-140 fixed-wing aircraft, 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.
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.
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 withTony 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 organization of Irving Bank and Trust Company. Cocaine proceeds were laundered through these companies by an ingenious use of construction loans.
The drug-related money was placed in Arkansas, Colorado and Ohio. Tatum thinks that this was either that that banking laws were the reason or that Bush had people in his pocket in these areas. He does explain that the primary figure involved in the laundry exercise in Arkansas wasJack Stephens. Jackson Stephens, owner of Worthen Bank & Trust Company, is closely aligned with 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."
One initial "test-bed" was a small residential mortgage lender named Carl I. Brown of Commercial Investment Brokers (CIB) a commercial Real Estate brokerage 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.
Tatum says he joined Task Force 160 in 1986 at Fort Campbell. It was a Pegasus unit formed after the failed Iran Hostage recue mission, nick- named the "Night Stockers" because they usually flew at night using night vision goggles - most likely after Reagan became President. Tatum was assigned to fly a helicopter for this secret CIA air lift support unit. Tatum joined the and his groups was an international mission and had Turkish intelligence, Danish intelligence, British intelligence (MI-6), and Israeli Mossad intelligence working in with them.
Tatum's group had about 80 officers in it made up of Danish intelligence, Israeli intelligence, and British intelligence and people from the FBI, Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NSA. It didn't have any DEA agents, but on several occasions Tatum says Pegasus supported DEA and ATF operations. Each officer was a case officer, who sets up their own intelligence network. Meaning they had the cash to hire contract agents.
Tatum says that usually these groups had about 50 or 60 people. All officers in a group reported back to three different leaders, back over at CIA Headquarters or in the Executive Office Building Over the years he had worked with several FBI intelligence officers, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Institute of Health, and Department of Energy personnel.
Mossad has about 25 active Kochsas (sp?) (CIA type officers). Tatum supervised his own people working for him, an independent network. All the 80 operatives activities are compartmentalize, so one doesn't know who the other is. If Tatum needed specialists, if he need an archer team – (aka a assassination team) they would be assigned ( most likely by the OSG unit commander). Tatum alleges that he probably only flew as the pilot, out of 18 archer missions, only flew the same individuals maybe three times. A mission would come down, and then Tatum would decide what type of aircraft he would use for the mission.
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 organization of Irving Bank and Trust Company. Cocaine proceeds were laundered through these companies by an ingenious use of construction loans.
Tatum stated in some case he had the opportunity also to utilize civilian assets. He took part in setting up civilian proprietary companies and utilize those companies. He knew of one company that he had up in upstate New York, in Watertown, New York, during the construction of Fort Drum, the 10th Mountain Division. Pegasus was there to oversee, to investigate, and to look into these companies, look at the engineers, see if they were doing anything, see if they were bugging the buildings in which war planning and highly classified information would be discussed. He was supplied with a $250,000 signature line of credit. I could walk into Key Bank, and, on any given day, take out $250,000 cash. Tatum says he had learned third-hand hearsay, that the lines of credit were set up by Henry Hyde, the congressman from Illinois. He set up the accounts for Tatum through an attorney out of upstate New York by the name of Whittaker (sp?).
As a member of OSG, Tatum didn't report any longer to his originating agency. In other words, if he was on an OSG mission, he wouldn't report directly to the CIA any longer. He would report only to my OSG commander.
Colin Powell had personally signed off on all the military planes that we flown by Task force 160, because one week you're flying for the CIA on civilian status, and the next week you're in the military. Mr. Powell had that position for a while...not the full time. Tatum hinted that if he need to a military installation and requisition a Defender airplane with 16 missiles on it was the reason he had to have Powell signature military orders. Tatum's undercover orders were signed by a two- or three-star general holding the position of the deputy commander, or deputy person of intelligence attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, deputy director.
An archer team had four five men. At least two of them were assassins or snipers, and one was usually a recon man who would -- whose set-up was communications equipment, reconnaissance equipment, and so forth, to find the target, and then my side was to get them in and get them out.
One of the preferred method in a neutralization, was/is to use the mind-altering drugs to control our targets. It's odorless and tasteless. "borodanga" (sp?), and you can tell them to go to the bank and withdraw all their funds from the bank, and they'll go do it. They'll return it to you, and the following day, when they go to the bank, or two days later, when they go to the bank, to get their money out, they won't remember that they withdrew it all and gave it to you. Complete amnesia is one of the effects of it. You could actually tell somebody, "Go shoot somebody," and they'd do it.
The man in Israel that shot Yitzhak Rabin is, the man in Israel admitted to it initially, and then comes back and said he doesn't recall any of those instances. That's escopolaminia.
Once they had a person on a derivative of scopolamine, escopolaminia (sp?), they didn't need anything else. They could control them for up to three weeks, and, during that three weeks, they could actually alter their personality, so there was no real requirement for shock-unless, for some reason, there were some discipline problems, or the body-size required too much of the drug to take effect. But that was rarely the case. You know, we lost a few people, from overdoses, but that's about it.
Tatum got advanced training in using these drugs new drugs would come out. He would be trained on the product, maximum utilization of the product, dosage and so forth.
Tatum's archer-teams were five-man teams, he was the fifth man. The pay was $50,000 per mission to complete the mission. Some people were paid $25,000 a mission. That's members of OSG-2 who are intelligence-officers or civilians. Tatum was given $25,000 for each assignment. His job was to get the teams there. The number of teams Pagasus had in various places around the world were enormous. Some teams only got a couple of missions. Tatum claims he has heard, that there as many as 3,000 professionally-trained assassins around the world.
Sometimes he delivered computer-technicians into other countries to collect data, to move financial accounts around, so that certain leaders wouldn't have access to their money, and neutralization teams told them, "If you want your money, do what we say."
The OSG-1, was the anti-drug task force, which was run by Vice Pres. Bush, and he was assigned as the leader of the South Florida anti-drug task force.
Tatum says was aware of 15 countries that were put under US control (or incumbent governments overthrown), and all theses 15 countries were involved in international trafficking of drugs in one phase or another and arms sales, in which our US leaders profited and that was the main reason for doing "aligning" these countries. Tatum says he refused to neutralize an American citizen, on many occasions, but he says it has been done for 25 to 50 thousand dollars.
Tatum claims CIA director Bill Colby once told him how Gen. Omar Torrijos was killed after someone put a large cooler on board Torrijos' aircraft marked "Medical Supplies." It blew up on the aircraft and killed everyone on board on July 31, 1981. His death deprived Central America of a potential moderating influence. Although he was considered a leftist dictator, he simultaneously had the support of the US as he opposed communism. His politics were based instead on progressivism. John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
, that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft. The alleged motive is that some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal. Just three months after Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós died in strikingly similar circumstances. Tatum said that when Pegasus kills someone they use "compound poisons and so forth that imitate heart attacks and don't show up… Neutralizations and assassinations aren't blatant, but sometimes they are. Pegasus will use a South African to kill a leader in Sweden. OSG-1 was the arms-trading arm. The arms-business is what is what caused the death of the prime minister of Sweden."
There was a connection between George Bush, North, Don Gregg and Olof Palme . Olof Palme was a prime minister of Sweden. One of the things that needed to be done was to get, for all the weapons that were being purchased for the Contras and built-in without serial numbers End-user certificates for all these weapons needed to be obtained, so that it could be stated the weapons came from a different country than the United States, for example Sweden, because the Boland Amendment didn't allow the Reagan administration to provide weaponry into Honduras and El Salvador. Olof Palme chose not to participate and he was dead within weeks, assassinated in 1986.
Tatum claims that in 1989, Vice President Bush gave the order to President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, so he agreed to have elections. Members of an alignment subgroup went in, told Ortega what date they would assassinate his second cousin, who was a very good friend of his (intimidated and coerced). They told him to put as many armies around that man that he wanted, but that man was going to die. That man died on that date. Two weeks later, President Ortega announced that there would be free elections. Tatum is aware of 18 of these types of missions involving national leaders of other countries but did not say whether people were murdered or how.
Enrique Bermúdez founded the largest Contra army in the war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, from 1979 until the end of the military conflict in 1990. Bermudez was the Contras' top military commander. In addition to being responsible for all of the Contras' military operations. A 1988 General Accounting Office document showed that Bermudez earned at least $2,750 monthly in CIA salary. When he joined the Contras' political arm in August 1988, Bermudez received $180,000 a month in CIA "political funds." http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/who.htm Evidence gathered during congressional hearings in the mid-1980s suggests that Bermudez himself had previously had a hand in the drug trade. "Bermudez was the target of a government-sponsored drug sting operation," said Senator John Kerry, who chaired a committee that investigated charges of Contra cocaine smuggling. "He has been involved in drug running." Kerry charged that the CIA had protected Bermudez from arrest. "The law enforcement officials know that the sting was called back in the interest of protecting the Contras," Kerry concluded.
Following the Sandinista defeat in the 1990 elections, Bermúdez returned to Managua. Bermúdez ultimately helped manage the Contras' transition to an opposition political. Following the Nicaraguan war, Bermudez sought a prominent position in the new government. Spurned by President Chamorro, he 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. Gary Webb a reporter in the Mercury News Sacramento bureau broke a news story about a group of Nicaraguan exiles who had set up a cocaine ring in California, establishing ties with the black street gangs of South Central Los Angeles who manufactured crack out of shipments of powder cocaine. Webb also reported on the profits made by the Nicaraguan exiles had been funneled back to the Contra army, with the mission of sabotaging the Sandinista revolution that had over threw the dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
Webb wrote, "For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the CIA." That San Francisco drug ring was headed by a Nicaraguan exile named Norwin Meneses Cantarero. Meneses served "as the head of security and intelligence" for the leading organization in the Contra coalition, the FDN or Fuerza Democratico Nicaraguense. The FDN was headed by Enrique Bermudez and Adolfo Calero, with the help of the CIA. Meneses came from a family intimately linked to the Somoza dictatorship. One brother had been chief of police in Managua. Two other brothers were generals in the force most loyal to Somoza, the National Guard. Norwin Meneses immigrated to the US and he ran a car theft ring and was also one of the top drug traffickers in Nicaragua, where he was known as El Rey del Drogas (the king of drugs). Meneses worked with the approval of the Somoza clan, which duly received its rake-off. The Meneses gang murdered the chief of Nicaragua's customs. Owing to Norwin's powerful family, the case was never prosecuted. The US Drug Enforcement Agency and other agencies had been keeping files on Meneses since at least 1974. Yet he was granted political refugee status in July 1979.
Meneses's contact in Los Angeles was another Nicaraguan exile, Oscar Danilo Blandon. Blandon had left Managua in June 1979, on the eve of Somoza's downfall. The son of a Managua slumlord, Blandon had headed Somoza's agricultural export program. Agricultural exports were an important component of the country's mainly ranching- and coffee-based economy, with the Somoza family itself owning no less than a quarter of the nation's agricultural land. Blandon had developed close ties to the US Department of Commerce and the US State Department. He secured $27 million in USAID funding. Blandon's wife, Chepita, also came from a powerful clan, the Murillo family. One of her relatives was the mayor of Managua. Like many other Somoza supporters, both the Blandon and Murillo families lost most of their fortunes in the 1979 revolution.
Testifying on February 3, 1994 as a government witness before a federal grand jury investigating the Meneses family's drug ring in San Francisco, Blandon testified that at a meeting with Meneses and Bermudez, the need for drug money to finance the Contras was proposed. "There's a saying," Blandon testified, "that `the ends justify the means.' And that's what Mr. Bermudez told us in Honduras." In 1981 alone, Blandon later testified, the Meneses ring moved 900 kilos of cocaine. In 1981 alone, Blandon later testified, the Meneses ring moved 900 kilos of cocaine and two years later the numbers had surged to around 5,000 kilos a year At that time the wholesale price of a kilo of cocaine was $50,000 or a total of $250,000,000 per year. The powder cocaine at this time was being converted into a more highly addictive called "crack." Several law enforcement officers have complained publicly that actions targeted against Meneses were blocked by NSC officers in the Reagan administration and by the CIA.
In February 1983 the FBI had scored one of the largest cocaine seizures in California history, the Frogman case. Members of the Meneses drug syndicate had been caught attempting to swim ashore at the San Francisco docks from a Colombian freighter, with 400 pounds of cocaine. According to the DEA, the drugs had a street value at that time of more than $100 million.
During the trial of Frogman, on November 28, 1984, Carlos Cabezas testified that this cocaine-smuggling operation was a funding source for the Contras. Furthermore, he testified that the cocaine he brought into the US came from Norwin Meneses's ranch in Costa Rica. His testimony at the trial was limited, because the judge would not allow the defense to explore the CIA's role in any detail. In a later British TV documentary, Cabezas said that the CIA was aware of, and in fact had supervised it.
DEA agent Susan Smith began an investigation of Norwin Meneses. Smith had picked up rumors that a group of Nicaraguan exiles headed by Meneses was selling cocaine and sending money and weapons back to Central America. She checked the DEA files on Meneses and found a bulging record of the man's criminal activities, dating back to a 1978 FBI report charging that Norwin and his brother Ernest were "smuggling 20 kilos of cocaine at a time into the United States." One of the entry points for Meneses's cocaine was apparently New Orleans, where Smith came across records from the DEA's "Operation Alligator." This government sting had busted a large cocaine ring in New Orleans. One of the arrested men, Manuel Porro, told DEA agent Bill Cunningham that Meneses was the source of the cocaine. However, Meneses was never arrested.
Smith's superiors abruptly terminated her investigation and she was reassigned to cover drug dealing by motorcycle gangs in Oakland. Despite her huge file on Meneses, Smith told Gary Webb, DEA managers evinced no interest. Smith quit the DEA in 1984.
Dennis Ainsworth, a former Cal State/Hayward economics professor who was a well-connected Reagan Republican and active in the Contra cause. Ainsworth gave a detailed interview to the FBI on February 27, 1987, that has now been declassified. In this interview, Ainsworth not only backed the contention that Meneses was using drug profits to buy weapons for the Contras, but also gave details of how US Customs and DEA agents "felt threatened and intimidated by National Security interference in legitimate narcotics smuggling investigations." DEA had a drug file on Meneses "two feet thick.
In 1987, Jack Blum, an investigator for Senator John Kerry's committee, was probing the stories of Contra drug running. Blum and Kerry called US District Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello, to ask about the Frogman case. Blum recalled during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on October 23, 1996 and stated, "We had a telephone conversation with Mr. Russoniello and he shouted at us. He accused us of being subversives for wanting to get into it." Julio Zavala, a brother-in-law of Cabezas had had $36.800 cash on him when arrested with the other Frogmen. During his arrest, FBI agents seized $36,800. Russoniello had been urged by the CIA to return the drug money to Zavala and he got his money back, but went to prison after conviction.
Meneses was finally arrested in 1990 in Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan police and the Nicaraguan judge presiding over Meneses's trial expressed outrage that the United States had known about the drug lord's activities for fifteen years, but had never arrested him.
In Somoza's final days, President Jimmy Carter had made a last-ditch effort to maintain a US-backed regime in Nicaragua even if Somoza should be forced to quit. The plan was to preserve the bloodthirsty National Guard as the custodian of US interests. When this plan failed and the Sandinistas swept to power, Carter ordered the initial organization of what later became known as the Contras, operating out of Honduras. The CIA mustered Argentinian officers fresh from their own death squad campaigns, and these men began to organize the exiled National Guardsmen into a military force. Duane "Dewey" Clarridge was the CIA officer in charge of covert operations in Latin America.
The initial appropriation was meager, amounting to only $19 million in 1982 for the CIA's covert operations against Nicaragua. In the spring of 1982 such covert costs soared when the Argentinians who had been supervising day-to-day military training for the fledgling Contra force in Honduras pulled out at the onset of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Later that year, Congress moved to restrict CIA aid for the Contras. At the last second Rep. Edward Boland of Massachusetts introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill for fiscal 1983, prohibiting the CIA from spending any money "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." The Agency was given only $21 million outside Boland's restrictions for activities related to the Contras. In December 1983 Congress capped Contra funding for fiscal 1984 at only $24 million.
The shortfall was what drove Robert McFarlane and Oliver North to hunt for alternative sources of funding -- for example, asking the Saudis for $1 million a month. Clarridge went on a similar mission to South Africa. North was in the process of setting up covert bank accounts in mid-1984.
In April 1984, it emerged that the CIA had undertaken the mining of Nicaraguan harbors. The political uproar in the US resulted in the most restrictive of the Boland amendments, passed by Congress in October 1984. During fiscal 1985, the amendment read, "no funds available to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States involved in intelligence activities may be obligated or expended for the purpose or which have the effect of supporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any nation, group, organization, movement, or individual." The year 1985 also marked the peak of the Meneses-Blandon drug sales, at the time of the CIA's greatest need for money for its Contra army. The Boland amendment expired on October 17, 1986, and immediately the portion of the CIA budget allocated for the Contras rose to $100 million.
One of Hitz's most dramatic findings was evidence implicating Southern Air Transport, the principal airline of North's Iran-contra operations and a former CIA-owned airline.
In the mid-1980s, Southern Air flew missiles to Iran as well as supplies to the contras. SAT crewmen were involved in one flight that was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, 1986, exposing part of North's Iran-contra network.
After that event, Attorney General Edwin Meese III briefly blocked a federal investigation into Southern Air on national security grounds.
On Oct. 8, 1998, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz confirmed they knew about the cocaine trafficking by contra forces. Hitz identified more than 50 contras and contra-related entities implicated in the drug trade. He stated that the Reagan administration protected these drug operations and frustrated federal investigations which threatened to expose these crimes in the mid-1980s.
Hitz published evidence that drug trafficking and money laundering tracked directly into Reagan's National Security Council where Lt. Col. Oliver L. North oversaw contra operations.
Hitz revealed that the CIA placed an admitted drug money launderer, one of the CIA contract agents, in charge of the Southern Front contras in Costa Rica. Hitz made clear that the contra war took precedence over law enforcement and that the CIA withheld evidence of contra crimes from the Justice Department, the Congress and even the CIA's own analytical division.
On one occasion in 1989, Tatum was tasked by the Defense Intelligence Agency, to go and interview Ellis Mackenzie (sp?) in Honduras. When he got down there, we found Ellis Mackenzie was actually an employees of CIA officer and pilot Berry Seal. Seal had used his name when he was dealing with the Colombians. Berry Seal was working for Oliver North and George Bush in the drug for arms operations with the Contra.
Mackenzie was trying to implicate a Col. Castro of the Honduran Air Force, who was one of our people, in some independent drug-running, and Tatum wanted to find out if Castro was indeed involved in that, so that was one of the purposes.
It should be noted here that Berry Seal was a CIA officer and pilot who as admitted flying drugs into Mena, AR and had personal contact with Vice Pres. Bush and Oliver North. He also accused Bill Clinton of being part of the conspiracy to traffic in drugs and arms in and out of Mena, AR.
Tatum recalls being present during a meeting between Oliver North, Felix RodrÃguez, 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 in 1986 and he immediately understood who was behind the killing. Seal was allegedly gun down by a MedellÃn cartel assassination squad. In other words, Tatum is suggesting that Seal was probably assassinated by the Pegasus archer-team.
Tatum states that he flew to Little Rock Air Force Base. He was met by three vehicles, a plain, unmarked police vehicle, a limo, and a van. Out of the limo stepped Dr. Dan Lasater, who we delivered several coolers to. He walked over with another man, introduced the other man as thegovernor of Arkansas. We had two coolers, a heavy one, a light one marked "donor organs, and the heavy one, it was all cocaine, and the light one, there was three kilos of cocaine and money."
Tatam stated that he gave over 110 kilos to Lasater and three kilos went with Governor Clinton Clinton and Jackson Stephens were in the limo. These guys were accompanied by a plain-clothes policeman, Mr. Young, Buddy, Governor Clinton's bodyguard. Dan Lasater was later convicted of drug-trafficking.
Prior flying, Tatum looked inside the coolers marked medical supplies, and on finding the cocaine and cash, he then took some $25,000 out of it, left an I.O.U. in the cooler. He then sent that 25,000 to Bill Colby, and I asked him what was going on. "I called him on the phone, and over-nighted the money to him, asked him what the heck was going on here. And he said, "Chip, just stay out of it."
Tatum states that this big operation was called "Operation Green Belt." He says it was very easy to launder drug profits in the construction business. "By utilizing construction moneys, a small mortgage-company or a mortgage-lender could go in, and they could provide construction-loans to builders, and that's the one thing a builder is always shy of, you know, he needs construction-money. They go into the building-profession, it gives the builder an opportunity to get cash, and then get the money and get the house up in an expedited fashion."
He states this money laundering occurred in Colorado, Ohio, and in Arkansas. "The money from Mena, Arkansas, Arkansas Development Finance Authority, that money went to Rostenkowski's bank in Chicago and a BCCI Bank in Atlanta and also one in Florida. Neil Bush was involved in banking in Denver, Colorado at that time, right in the middle of everything. Mr Milman (sp?), with his group, Larry Mizell and the MDC Group, all of that group heavily involved in illegal moneys.
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CIA contract pilot and front company manager, Terry Reed, has worked closely with the late Barry Seal and he tells all this in his book, Compromised, co-written with veteran journalist John Cummings.
Rodney Stich, wrote in his book, Defrauding America that former FBI asset Darlene Novinger was a "former FBI operative who reportedly discovered during an FBI investigation that Vice President George Bush and two of his sons were using drugs and prostitutes in a Florida hotel while Bush was vice president.""She reported her findings to FBI supervisors and then (was) warned no to repeat what she had discovered."
According to Reed, "the FBI had inserted a female undercover agent into the inner circle of Medellin Cartel founder Pablo Escobar. Her name was Darlene Novinger and she got very close to an Escobar cousin named Steve Plata."
"Novinger had been requested to infiltrate drug trafficking operations in South America and the United States. She was pressured to quit her FBI position; her husband was beaten to death; and four hours after she appeared on a July 1993 talk show describing her findings (after she was warned not to appear), her father mysteriously died. A dead white canary was left on his grave as a warning to her. After receiving death threats she went into hiding"
According to a later 1998 edition of Defrauding America, Novinger was a former investigator for the Federal Crime Task Force working with the FBI as a confidential informant. She was not paid a salary, either, but received periodic payments based upon assets seized or the value government agents placed upon her information.
Her success led her to be assigned to Atlanta and she discovered the involvement of the Smatt family, headed by William Smatt with a the Lebanese Phlangee drug trafficking group.
Novinger said that "the investigations showed that the drug trafficking operation involving the Smatt group also implicated Vice President George Bush and his son Jeb." Novinger said that after submitting the report to the FBI concerning Bush's involvement, orders came from Washington to stop the entire investigation and destroy all reports.
During the investigation of this case, a veteran U.S. Customs investigator Joe Price, had filed similar reports involving high level drug trafficking, including the George Bush involvement. "After Price had filed his report in September 1983 concerning Bush's involvement in drugs, the FBI arrested Price on false narcotics trafficking charges."
A private investigator Stewart A. Webb claims that George Jr., Jeb, Neil Bush and George Bush Sr. are implicated in many top level criminal activities. Webb had been investigating government corruption since 1986. Webb uncovered key evidence linking government officials with illegal drug smuggling and money laundering, as well as data on the Savings & Loan Scandal of the 1980's. In his research, Webb also discovered the connection between the so-called HUD scandals in which $50 billion was stolen in U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development fraud and the Junk Bond Scams/Loan Swaps of Michael Milken, Larry Mizel and Charles Keating which claimed over $6 billion.
Stew Webb claims to have evidence that Leonard Yale Millman (MDC Holdings, National Brokerage Companies) has been one of George Bush's primary money launderers for the last 20 years. "MDC Holdings is a large Denver based home builder and residential developer headed by Larry Mizel,"
Webb tried to get his findings presented to a Grand Jury and had could get a dozen secret witnesses selected from more than 200 potential witnesses, but this never happened. Webb stated that these witnesses would testify about Leonard Yale Millman, Larry Mizel (MDC Holdings), Norman Brownstein (chairman of the board of Denver law firm and Director, MDC Holdings) and others involved in an ongoing criminal enterprise." Brownstein he is considered to be one of the country's top five campaign fund-raisers at the national level.
The CIA knew the criminal nature of its contra clients from the start of the war against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government. The earliest contra force, called ADREN or the 15th of September Legion, had chosen "to stoop to criminal activities in order to feed and clothe their cadre," according to a June 1981 draft CIA field report. ADREN employed terrorist methods, including the bombing of Nicaraguan civilian planes and hijackings. The CIA corroborated the allegations about ADREN's cocaine trafficking.
In the Southern Front, in Costa Rica, the drug evidence centered on the forces of Eden Pastora, another leading contra commander. Hitz revealed that the CIA's contract agent, an admitted drug operative -- known by his CIA code name, "Ivan Gomez" – was tasked by the CIA to supervise and control the activities of Pastora.
Now let me get back to the claims and statements of Chip Tatum
Another Pegasus assassination was that of General Gustavo (Dr Gus) Alvarez Martinez, the "cooperating" Honduran Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief. 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.
The following is Chip Tatum account how someone was neutralized.
One method of killing someone uses a binary poison "The first section of the compound is given to the target, and then, within three weeks, you can hit him with the second part, so it never shows up as a poison, but it does give him a heart attack and all the symptoms of a heart attack, and it is a heart attack. However, you don't – an autopsy doesn't reveal a poison, it just reveals a compound that's normally found in the body.
Tatum goes on to state that in 1990, when Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega announced there would be "free elections", a Mr.X (name withheld) was ecstatic. He began jostling for position and asked President Bush to ensure he be given a prominent position in the new Nicaraguan government - in return for his years of toil at the behest of the CIA and in Oliver North, et. al, Enterprise. The pressure came in a form that Bush could not ignore. Failure to help his friend would result in X's intimate knowledge of Bush's involvement in the dope trade being made public. His threat left Bush with a sour taste. A Pegasus team was assigned to "neutralize" him in early 1990.
Tatum states, Mr. X, "fancied himself a lover of women. Tall, large-breasted blondes were his favorites. It was determined that, if effectively neutralized, Mr. X could be an asset. Therefore, it was decided that intimidation would be used to control him."
They chose to use the drug Scopolamine, which also went by the nickname "Burundanga" or "the Voodoo drug". The drug is extracted from the pods of a flowering shrub that grows in remote regions of South America. In its processed, powdered form, Scopolamine is "void of smell, void of taste". When properly administered "it causes absolute obedience" without this being "observable by others". Importantly, the target will not recall any of the events that occurred during the period they were under the spell of the drug.
Dr Camilo Uribe, head of Bogotá's toxicology clinic, says "it's like chemical hypnotism" and confirmed that this drug is well known to cause both amnesia and a zombie-like trance in which the target follows all orders. See Wall Street Journal, 3 July 1995.
In outlining these details, Tatum adds that it is important to administer the drug in the correct dosage, for he has known targets to die from too high a dose. Others have "remained under the influence of Burundanga for up to three weeks". Precise dosage can be achieved by liquid ingestion, the powder being readily soluble. Ingestion via cigarettes is also an optimum method of ingestion. It is fast-acting and takes no more than 20 minutes to work.
Tatum states that X was invited to spend a relaxing weekend at a luxury hotel as a guest of his friend George Bush. His host for the weekend was a trusted 18-year veteran field-intelligence officer. The evening started with cocktails and was followed by a fine meal. "'Nothing but the best' were the orders."
Following the meal, he was ushered into the suite of a "blonde bombshell" supplied by the CIA. Mr. X had already ingested a dose of Burundanga during pre-dinner cocktails. X was gallant with the blonde as they both moved into the bedroom where video cameras were already set up in one corner. In short order, the blonde had X standing naked in front of her and began to indulge his desires. All the while, the video cameras whirred. Slowly stripping off, the "blonde" revealed his manhood in all its glory. Mr. X was instructed to reciprocate the favor and perform fellatio. He obliged, his intimate activities recorded at 24 frames a second on videotape.
Tatum says the male prostitute was hired from a bar in New York. Two weeks later, X - wholly unaware of the events of that evening - was visited in Nicaragua. He was presented with a copy of the video footage, along with instructions. Tatum says that X can never allow that video to be seen: "Not only does it reveal his homosexuality, but it also reveals his bestiality and satanic worship rituals." Mr. X reportedly wept, as he was forced to watch the video tape of himself killing his homosexual "lover" and then engage in the most grisly cannibalistic ritual imaginable.
Neutralized, Mr. X became a leading member of the Nicaraguan government a few short weeks later. Tatum states, Mr. X was a leader of one of the largest CIA-backed Contra group and had 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.
The CIA installed Adolfo Calero, formerly the Coca-Cola concessionaire in Managua, as the FDN's civilian head, operating mainly out of the United States, where he was under tight CIA supervision.
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.
SETCO was an air services company owned the Perez brothers. They were associated with Juan Matta Ballesteros, a major cocaine kingpin connected to the murder of a DEA agent, according to reports by the DEA and U.S. Customs. Despite its drug ties to Matta Ballesteros, SETCO emerged as the principal company for ferrying supplies to the contras in Honduras.
During congressional Iran-contra hearings, FDN political leader Adolfo Calero testified that SETCO was paid from bank accounts controlled by Oliver North. SETCO also received $185,924 from the State Department for ferrying supplies to the contras in 1986.
Tatum claims he was tasked to take a large briefcase with about 23 million dollars in it and deposit it in the amalgamated account in Panama. The money came from Clinton, was delivered at the embassy in Tegucigalpa and it was to go to Gen. Noriega.
According to Tatum, a deal was arranged in the early to mid-eighties between VP George Bush and Panama's Manuel Noriega. Pablo Escobar the Colombian Cocaine king had deposited sum of $8 billion in the Banco Nacional de Panama. VP George Bush arranged for a short term loan of $8 billion from the Banco Nacional de Panama.
In the late sixties or early seventies, the CIA had secretly provided to the Shah of Iran a perfect set of printing plates that could reproduce $100 bills without blemish, aka super bills. . Also provided was an intaglio printing press. This special printing press ensures that the etched plate meets paper with tremendous force, creating the distinctive embossed feel of a genuine banknote. In addition, the Shah was also given the ink and banknote quality paper enabling him to produce perfect counterfeit US Dollar banknotes. The Shah later fled Iran and left the plates and press behind in his confusion.
Of the money from Escobar account, $4 billion was shipped by plane to Iran where it was exchanged at a ratio of one good bill for two counterfeit super bills. On the return trip, the aircraft, an 707 cargo container carried two shrink-wrapped pallets, each containing $4 billion in counterfeit bills. The 707 arrived at Howard/Albrook Air Force base in Panama where the pallets were off-loaded under armed guard of the Panamanian military.
The $8 billion in counterfeit super bills was re-deposited back into Escobar's account at the Panama central bank. Under no circumstances could the counterfeit bills be permitted to leave the bank vault - for fear of devaluing the US currency.
The other half of Escobar's "good" money was placed into the hands of Nana DeBusia, the grandson of Guyana's first democratic leader. DeBusia was chosen by the CIA's William Casey to launder the massive sum into numerous bank accounts under the joint signature of VP George Bush and Director Casey. The next leg of the operation was to retrieve the $4 billion in real money. This was facilitated by selling the Iranians military equipment - arms, ammunition and replacement parts for weapon systems. This part of the deal was arranged by Col Oliver North on behalf of the CIA's William Casey.
The results of these complex maneuvers were twofold. On the one hand the CIA acquired $4 billion - via the arms sales - for use in future black operations without the need to rely on Congressional oversight or authority.
If later caught, Tatum says "... the CIA can report the source of funds as being from an arms transaction with Iran." Part of these funds were used to support the Contra's, whilst the rest disappeared down the ultra-black hole of the Company's covert finances.
Meanwhile, Nana DeBusia had begun laundering the remaining $4 billion through various banks, including the Vatican bank. For his trouble, DeBusia was entitled to take a commission amounting to $200 million.
To neutralize the CIA launderer Nana Debusia, he was indicted by the U.S. on 32 counts to include bank fraud. The CIA stepped up in his behalf and stated that it would not be in the best interest of the U.S. to prosecute Debusia. He was facing several hundred years in prison if convicted. He was subsequently acquitted on all counts. Debusia is the grandson of Guyana's first democratic leader and owner of many U.S. and foreign banks.
In 1987, DCI William Casey died of a brain tumor - just days before he would have been required to attend the Senate hearings into the Contragate affair.
Tatum says that Pres. George Bush went down in 1989, invaded Panama in order to get his hands on Noriega who double crossed him and was defiant.
"By the time the US found Noriega, the news media got on it, and, when they did find him, there was too much publicity, there were too many western press around." He was captured and later convicted and placed in federal prison under constant US guard to ensure his silence.
In July 2010 Noriega, 76 and in frail health, was extradited from Miami and sent to La Santé prison in Paris. He was sentenced to seven years in jail after a French court found him guilty of laundering of drug profits during his time in power. Noriega spent the past 20 years in jail the United States
There were estimated probably 4,000 civilians were killed, and, in order to cover up these deaths, the bodies were put in mass graves. The Panamanians discovered the graves after US left.
Tatum says that "American soldiers took people out of the cars that were going from one part of the city to the other, during the Panama invasion – these were family-members – put them face down on the ground and blew them away, shot them, killed them in cold blood."
In 1989, Pablo Escobar was targeted by an intensive US-Colombian "War on Drugs" campaign. He flees into hiding, in fear of his life. Eventually, in 1993, he is tracked down and killed in a police shoot-out.
Tatum states Ramon Navarro was approached by an archer-team late at night, the night before he was to go and testify in a collateral trail related to Noriega. He died in an auto accident the night before.
Tatum started to become disgruntled around 1989 and making notes and keeping records as evidence of what was going on with operationPegasus was the National Security Council (NSC), the Special Situation Group and the Terrorist Incident Working Group and then the Operational Sub-Groups (OSG). In January of 1992 he finally walked out of black ops.
Tatum says that, in 1992, President Bush instructed him to "neutralize" presidential runner Ross Perot, but he refused to do so. Tatum turned over a copy of an incriminating tape to President Bush, explaining that it would not be released - providing that he, his family and Perot were kept safe. He also told the President that copies of the tape had been placed in six different locations worldwide, saying, "if I didn't contact these capsule-holders by a certain time each year, they are to be sent to the addresses on the packaging". He closed the conversation by stating that when he originally "placed the packages, I gave explicit instructions that if I asked for them to be sent back to me, they were to send them to the addresses on the packages."
Tatum says he is only exposing direct evidence against the crimes, which include violations of the RICO Act, are Mr. North, Mr. Barr, Don Gregg, several members of the Bush staff, including Mr. Bush. Tatum says he will not expose what he calls the "Olympic Cartel," I have not exposed and I will protect that information, and I will protect them."
It's the group of men who are working with Mr. Bush et al., who are overseeing everything. They're not working in just drugs. They're working in food, they're working in oil, they're working in anything that can control the world economy. Groups like the International Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers.
In 1996, Chip Tatum self-published his book about all this and copyrighted it through the Library of Congress, and he sent a copy to the White House library.
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David Guyatt is a freelance investigative journalist whose former career in stock broking and banking gave him the background that inspired his research into the shady world of international weapons financing, drug-running and money laundering.
Guyatt states Tatum's covert role in the CIA is additionally confirmed by military papers provided to he got a hold of. In one dated 1974, Tatum's assignment orders were "cut" by a Lt General USAF (name redacted) who was Chief Military Intelligence Adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
David Guyatt also had a copy of a TWIX message from the Commander US Forces, Honduras (Task Force Bravo), stating to his superiors that "It has become increasingly evident during the past six weeks that Medevac A/C, in direct support of JTFs, in some cases are being utilized for other than Medevac requirements and are being controlled by other than Medevac Officials." Tatum says he obtained a copy of this message from his Pegasus controller.
Guyatt also got a copy of Tatum's full book manuscript, "Operation Red Rock", together with a letter he sent to William Colby, dated 6 March 1996, which threaten: "I will not only write about the missions but about the NWO (new world order) timetable and planned events, including a chronology. And I will name names."
Tatum says that, through 1985, "aviation support" for Pegasus was primarily out of Palmerola Air Base, Honduras. Ilopango Air Base is in El Salvador and it had "operational" support.
Tatum told Guyatt that he had limited flights to Bluefields Air Base, Nicaragua, but "primarily the military aircraft used were USAF C-141s and C-130s at Palmerola, La Mesa and San Lorenzo, Honduras. At San Lorenzo there were also civilian aircraft, including civilian C-123s." In addition to flying rotary-wing aircraft, Tatum was also competent flying smaller fixed-wing craft. He had access to both at Fort Drum.
