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Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Protects Peruvian Armed Forces Who Protect Drug Traffickers. |
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This is a document released to me by the DIA It was
penned at a time when the US was providing limited funding for the Peruvian
counterinsurgent war. It clearly ties the Peruvian Army and Navy to
narcotics trafficking. But even worse, a whole paragraph about the
Armed Forces/Narcotrafficking relationship has been redacted (blacked out),
indicating that the DIA is still, after all of these years, trying to cover
it up.
It is amazing that what is written fully excuses the Armed Forces for their involvement with narcotrafficking, and this involvement is rationalized so easily: "The financially hard-pressed military is using some of the funds to purchase basic military necessities to fight the insurgency, not for personal gain." But isn't that what the insurgents were also doing? There was certainly no personal gain among Shining Path and MRTA cadres. But at the time, all of the narcotrafficking was blamed on the insurgents and the fearful Peruvian press which knew better, and the gullible US press went along with the myth that the Armed Forces were clean. After the history of US counterinsurgency operations being involved in drug trafficking in other wars, such as supporting the opium-growing Hmong tribesmen against the Vietnamese, this document makes me wonder if the same thing isn't happening in both present-day Colombia and Afghanistan. There is another issue that needs to be considered, and that is how can the USG look the other way at multi-kilogram cocaine trafficking by its allies in Latin America and lock up tens of thousands of users here in the US who possess less than a few days' supply at a time. |
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