Consider the career of Jose Bueso-Rosa whose work is described in the following two passages. According to Marvin Lee at The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com), this is the same Bueso-Rosa. Excerpts from: DISPOSABLE PATRIOT: REVELATIONS OF A SOLDIER IN AMERICA'S SECRET WARS Terrell, Jack with Martz, Ron Washington, D.C., National Press Books, 1992 ISBN 0-915765-38-1 (Pg. 71) A day earlier (November 1, 1984) the FBI arrested eight people in the United States and charged them with plotting to assassinate Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova and take over the government. The plot, which included General Jose A. Bueso-Rosa, the military attache at the Honduran embassy in Chile and a favorite of American military officials, was to have been financed by $10 million worth of cocaine. That was the wholesale price. Retail it could have brought as much as $40 million. The 760 pounds of coke in 15 duffel bags was confiscated by the feds at a small airport in Keenansville, Florida, on October 28th, shortly before the arrests were made in Miami. (Pg. 72) Implicated in the plot by Sikaffy and Latchinian (two coup conspirator who did face justice), but never charged, were retired Army Colonel "Charging Charlie Beckwith of Delta Force fame and Desert One infamy, and U.S. Army Major Charles Odorizzi. Sikaffy and Latchinian charged that the CIA, through Beckwith and Odorizzi, were interested in getting rid of Suazo because of what were perceived as his "Communist leanings." The conspirators planned to have Suazo killed sometime in the next few weeks and take over the government in the ensuing unrest. Latchinian laid out the plan for me from his jail cell in Florida several years later. He told of pressure being put on Suazo's government to cooperate with U.S. plans to expand its role in the country. Since there had been a growing disenchantment among the public and some politicians with both the U.S. and Contra presence in Honduras, (Suazo) Cordova threatened to oust the U.S. military unless hundreds of millions of dollars were paid. U.S. officials, through the CIA, put together contingency plans for a coup attempt against Suazo and let it be known in certain circles so it would get back to him. A last-minute deal was cut for nearly $150 million dollars in aid to Honduras, thus scuttling the overthrow plan. According to Latchinian, cocaine was planted on the yacht that was being used by the conspirators and the DEA was tipped off. Suazo was not exactly the most stable of the Central American leaders. But he was certainly pliable, especially from external pressure from the U.S. State Department and the CIA. That made him the perfect leader for those interests. (Pg 73) Latchinian and Sikaffy later were convicted of their part in the conspiracy to assassinate Suazo and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Bueso-Rosa pleaded guilty to three of nine counts against him and was sentenced to five years in prison, but not before throwing his weight around and, not surprisingly, getting a lot of support from the Pentagon. Another of Bueso-Rosa's allies just happenedto be a U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel named Oliver North. By the time of Bueso-Rosa's sentencing North has become an incredibly powerful figure in the White House, possibly the first four-star lieutenant colonel in history. According to his notes, he was concerned that the Honduran might start "singing songs nobody wants to hear" if he went to prison. Eventually, efforts to get Bueso-Rosa's sentence reduced involved the likes of Admiral John Poindexter, head of the NSC; Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs; Dewey Clarridge of the CIA; Nestor Sanchez, deputy assistant secretary of defense; and several U.S. Army generals. The capper on the whole Bueso-Rosa affair came in the spring of 1986. Two days before he was to plead guilty to charges he conspired to assassinate the duly elected president of his country, Bueso-Rosa was slated to be the guest of honor at a lunch sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Pentagon's executive dining room. After several lengthy meetings among senior officials from the CIA, the DIA, the Department of Justice and the State Department, DIA finally was convinced that the lunch wasn't such a good idea after all. ------------------------------------------------------------------ not to be used for commercial purposes posted with permission THE SUPER CIA AND THE OCTOPUS The CIA was formed to protect our form of government from foreign threats. Top employees, however, realized that Congressional interference, Congressional funding limits, and U.S. law was an impediment in carrying out that mission efficiently. They secretly formed a Super CIA to avoid these constraints. A source who was being recruited for this Super CIA in the 1970s by an agent using the name Bueso Rosa told the Washington Weekly that the Super CIA was formed outside the United States and was funded in part by drug money. "They were originally going to achieve self sufficiency by dealing in drugs. But they were only going to do it long enough to get money together to start legitimate businesses and then they would stop that," the source says. But the drug importation at Mena, Arkansas to fund the covert CIA war in Nicaragua shows that drug smuggling continued up through the 1980s. And reporter Scott Wheeler says he has documentary evidence suggesting drug activity at Mena airport during the past year. He has documented arrivals of planes with non-registered tail numbers, suggesting illegal activity. The corrupting influence of this Super CIA reached into the Justice Department, the FBI, the DEA, and other agencies. "I realized that the FBI was in on all that stuff. The FBI and the DEA - these guys are getting their take." Reporter Danny Casolaro was tracing the tentacles of this Super CIA and referred to it as the Octopus when he was found dead in his hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1991. "That's what it is, that's what the Super CIA is, it's the Octopus. It's just another name for the same thing," the source says. But members of this Super CIA did not necessarily consider what they were doing as being wrong. "Bueso Rosa said that they consider themselves the real American Patriots of this century. They were doing it to fight Communism. Any means justified guaranteeing the continued existence of the U.S. form of government... smuggling drugs, counterfeiting, blackmailing, they assassinate people, they have accidents, they do anything that they need to do to get the job done." The source also says that the Super CIA funded political campaigns both abroad and in the U.S. - even presidential campaigns. This corroborates the claim made by Terry Reed in his 1994 book "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA," where he asks: "Does the CIA sponsor candidates to the office of U.S. President? The answer is yes." Reed was referring to Bill Clinton, who facilitated the use of Mena airport for CIA activities. We may be seeing the latest tentacle of this Super CIA right before our eyes. The string of announced retirements by Congressmen allegedly is caused by them being caught with stashes of money in foreign bank accounts. "People would not believe the number of U.S. Congressmen and Senators that have huge bank accounts in Grand Cayman Island," the source says. Reporter James Norman, who has made similar claims, told the Washington Weekly that the two Congressmen who announced their retirement last Monday, Toby Roth and Sam Gibbons, received manila envelopes exposing their secret accounts the weekend before. He says that three more envelopes were delivered last week (the week of 3/3/96). Copyright =A9 1996 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com) _________________________________________ So "Honduran General" Jose Bueso-Rosa claims he is a "real American Patriot," while he plots assassinations, including allegedly illegal ones against foreign elected presidents, smuggles drugs into the USA, counterfeits, blackmails and funds American presidential campaigns. He believes, "Any means justified guaranteeing the continued existence of the U.S. form of government," while he destroys democracy in the USA. This "American Patriot" engages in extralegal actions in the name of the United States, and is beyond the reach of judicial and Congressional scrutiny and accountability. How can our democracy be a "nation of laws" when thugs like this have so much power? How long can our nation survive as a democracy when self-proclaimed "Patriots" like Bueso-Rosa undermine our leaders with drug corruption? How do we stop anti-democracy spooks like Bueso-Rosa? Larry ************************************************************************* These sites are filled with facts about CIA covert operations and how they work against the best interests of the citizens of the United States. David Feustel's great archive on CIA cocaine smuggling: http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/ Lisa Pease's Real History Archives: http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/ Bob Parry's The Consortium is filled with important investigative reporting that the mainstream media won't touch: http://www.delve.com/consort.html Whitewater & Vince Foster site: http://www.cris.com/~dwheeler/n/whitewater/whitewater-index.html Covert Action Quarterly home page: http://www.worldmedia.com/caq/ Federation of American Scientists' library of U.S. intelligence documents http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/fas/ *************************************************************************