Microsoft Windows

NSA has done somethuing similar with computers. In September 1999, leading European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell revealed that NSA HAD ARRANGED WITH Microsoft to inser special “keys” into Windows software. In all versions from 95-OSR2 onwards. An American computer scientists, Andrew Fernandez of Cryptonyum in North Carolina, has disassembled parts of the Windows instruction code and found the smoking gun- Microsoft's developers had failed to remove the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for two keys. One was called “KEY” The other was called “NSKEY” Fernandez presented his finding at a conference ay which some Windows developers were also in attendance. The developers did not deny that the NSA key was built into their software, but they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without user's knowledge. Fernandez says that NSA 's “back door” in the world most commonly operateing system makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer.”

In February 2000, it was disclosed that the strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry, had prepared a report in 1999 which also asserted that NSA had helped to install secret programs in Microsoft software. According with the DAS report, “it would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely supported, not least financially, by the NSA, and that IBM was made to accept the [Microsoft] MS-DOS operating system by the same administration. “ The report stated that there had been a strong suspicion of a lack of security fed by insistent rumours about the existence of spy programmes on Microsoft , and by the ptesence of NSA personnel in Bill Cates development teams” The Pentagon, said the report, was Microsoft biggest client in the world.

From the book “ROGUE STATE”, by William Blum

1980s, the United States and the Cocaine Import Agency

In naddition to the cases cited above of drug-laden planes landing in the US unmolested by the authorities, there is the striking case os Oscar Danilo Blandón and Juan Norwin Meneses, two Nicaraguans living in California. To support the Contras (particularly during a period in which Congress banned funding them), as well as enriching themselves, the two men turned to smuggling cocaine into the US under CIA protection. This led to the distribution of large quantities of caciane into Los Angeles' inner city at a time when drug users and dealers were trying to make the costly white power more affordable by changing it into little nuggets of “crack.” The Nicaraguans funneled a portion of their drug profits to the Contra cause while helping to fuel a disastrous crack explosion in Los Angeles and other cities, and enabling the gangs to buy automatic weapons, sometimes from Blandón himself.

The ties between the two Nicaraguans and the CIA were visible not far beneath the surface, as the following indicate:

When Blandón was finally arrested in October 1986 (after Congress had resumed funding for the Contras and his services were much less needed), and he admitted to crimes that have sent others away for life, the Justice Deaprtment turned him loose on unsupervised probation after only 28 months behind bars and subsequently paid him more than $166,000 as an informer.

According to a legal mption filed in a 1990 police corruption trial in Los Angels: in a 1986 raid on Blandón' money-launderer, the police carted away numerous documents purportedly linking the US government to cocaine trafficking and money-laundering on behalf of the Contras. CIA personnel appeared at the sheriff' department within 48 hours of the raid and removed the seized files from the evidence room. At the request of the Justice Department, a federal judge issued a gag order barring any discussion of the matter.

When Blandón testified in 1996 as a prosecution witness in a drug trial, the federal prosecutors obtained a court order preventing defense lawyers from delving into his ties to the CIA.

Though Meneses was listed in the DEA's computer as a major international drug smuggler and was implicated in 45 federate investigations since 1974, he lived openly and conspicuously in California until 1989 and never spent a day in a US prison. The DEA, US customs, the Los Angeles Country Sheriff's Department and the California Bureau fo Narcotic Enforcement all complained that a number of the probes of Meneses were stymied by tha CIA or unnamed “national security” interests.

Lastly the Cia-Contra-Drugs nexus brings us the case of the US attorney in San Francisco who gave back $36,800 to an arrested Nicaraguan drug dealer, which had been found in his possession. The money was returned after two Contra leaders sent letters to the courts swearing that the drug dealer had been given the cash to buy supplies “ for the reinstatement of democracy in Nicaragua.” The letters were hurriedly sealed after prosecutors invoked the Classified Information Procedures Act, a law designed to keep national secrets from leaking out during trials. When a US Senate subcommittee later inquired of the Justice Department the reason for this unusual turn of events, they run into a wall of secrecy. “The Justice Department flipped out to prevent us from getting access to people, records – finding anything out about it, 2recalled Jack Blum, former chief counsel to the Kerry Senate subcommittee referred to above, which investigated allegations of Contra cocaine trafficking. “It was one of the most frustrating exercises that I can ever recall.”

Then more I Think about it, it's the diference between manslaughet and murder. It's the intent. The intent was not to poison black America but to raise money for the Contras, and they [the CIA] didn't care what it came from. If it involved selling drugs in black communities, well, this was the price of admission Gary Webb

From the book “ROGUE STATE”, by William Blum

The CIA and Drugs: Just Say “Why Not?”

In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigation almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA

Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit

1947 to 1951, France

Corsican and Mafia criminal syndicates in Marseilles, Sicily and Corsica – benefiting from CIA arms, money and psychological warfare- suppressed strikes and wrestled control of labor unionsfrom the Communist Party. In return , the CIA smoothed the way for the gansters tobe left unmolested, and unindicted, and to restablish the heroin racket that had been restrained during the war – the famous “French Connection” that was to dominate the drug trade for more than two decades and was responsible for most of the heroin entering the United States.

From the book “ROGUE STATE”, by William Blum

US Army, "Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla"

US Army, "Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla"
"Measures of controlling the Population and Resources:
 1. ID Cards. An effective system of identification is fundamental to the program.
 2. Registration. A program of registering families is used to supplement the system of ID cards, This is the system of inventorying all families by house, making a list of all members who live in the house along with the family's resources. One can also note the presence of insurgent tendencies and affiliations among the population.
 3. Control by block. The purpose of block-by-block control is to detect the individuals who are supporting or sympathising with the insurgents and the type of support they are providing.
 4. Police patrols. Their purpose is to detect sources of insurgent support, sympathizers, and routes used by the insurgent forces for intelligence, logistics, and routine activities.
 Curfew . The purpose is to permit the authorities to identify violators and take actions based on the premise that anyone who violates the curfew is an insurgent or sympathizes with the insurgents until he can prove the contrary.
 Checkpoints. It is of little use to establish a programme of passes and ID cards unless there is a system of verifying these official papers. Therefore, establishing checkpoints in all travel routes is necessary in all travel routes isx necessary once the use of passes has started."

From the book "Rogue State" by William Blum