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<text>
<title>
BCCI Revelations Said To Cover CIA, DEA
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<article>
<hdr>
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, July 23, 1991
Cuba: BCCI Revelations Said to Cover CIA, DEA
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<body>
<p>["Our Opinion" commentary by Orlando Contreras. Havana Radio
Rebelde Network in Spanish 1155 GMT 22 Jul 91]
</p>
<p> [Text] This morning a dispatch from the EFE news agency,
datelined London, reports that the closure of the International
Bank of Credit and Commerce, BCCI, is developing into a huge
scandal after revelations that the bank served drug
traffickers, terrorists, and financed arms sales to Iraq and
Pakistan. I believe this is nothing new and is even less than
the tip of the iceberg [preceding word in English] when it comes
to illegal banking operations.
</p>
<p> Furthermore, the revelations concerning this bank are
serving to throw a smokescreen over other unresolved illegal
operations, such as the Iran-Contra scandal and the various
revelations that Gates, Bush's candidate for Central
Intelligence Agency director, was involved in illegal maneuvers
of the same type during the Reagan administration when Bush,
ex-CIA director, was U.S. vice president.
</p>
<p> A full investigation has never been done--and I do not
believe one will be made--over how various Miami banks made
their incredible fortunes. But there is evidence that they were
involved in money laundering for drug traffickers and for the
mafia that controls the huge business of the distribution of
drugs in the United States, without question the largest drug
market in the world.
</p>
<p> The CIA and the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], that
is, the U.S. Government agency charged with combating drug
trafficking, have been seriously involved in illegal activities
related to narcotics trafficking. The CIA operated, among other
things, air transport companies to carry out covert operations
that included terrorist actions, drug trafficking, and money
laundering. This is known in the United States and is known by
international public opinion, but a dense cloud of smoke has
been thrown over these illegal activities for obvious reasons.
The DEA and the CIA have been involved in assassinations, money
laundering, clandestine drug labs that manufacture
hydrochlorate for the processing of cocaine, and the direct
trafficking of narcotics.
</p>
<p> In view of this, the scandal that is developing in London
now in relation to the illegal activities of the BCCI is less
than the tip of the iceberg, [preceding word in English] nothing
more than a scapegoat, when it leaves in the dark the more
serious cases, much more closely related to politics, like
money laundering, drug trafficking, and assassinations related
to these activities.
</p>
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