From: Duane Roberts <[eaou 669] at [taurus.oac.uci.edu]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:10:42 -0700
Subject: Senator "absolutely convinced" CIA has worked with drug traffickers

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COMBATING INTERNATIONAL DRUG CARTELS: ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY
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Report prepared by the Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress, on a seminar held on May 8, 1987 for
the Caucus on International Narcotics Control of the
United States Senate.
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Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs.,
Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O., 1988.
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GOV DOC # Y 1.3:S.prt.100-45.
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The following is an excerpt from a report entitled "Combating International
Drug Cartels: Issues for U.S. Policy." These comments were made by
Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-New York) and can be found on page 19 of
this document.



       SHORTCOMINGS OF U.S. POLICY - PAST COOPERATION WITH DRUG
                           TRAFFICKERS, ETC.

   Now, if good relationships with the United States are not of paramount 
concern, well, then you go ahead and do what you have to, but we should
do what we have to. I am absolutely convinced that we have engaged over
the past two decades in a policy that has deceived and entrapped our allies
and other countries that we have dealt with, that we have had various 
branches of our government - CIA, etc. - who have operated, who have 
worked with drug traffickers for various geopolitical reasons, etc. That 
is absolutely intolerable.
   And I view the threat of the domination of this country by the drug 
culture far more seriously and as more ominous than the threat of 
communism. We will stand up to communism. We will handle it. And I can't 
countenance having had, at various times, law enforcement people, or 
people connected with the intelligence community selling out, allowing 
because of their so-called sensitive positions the drug traffickers, 
whether they be major or not, to be shielded, so to speak, to be 
countenanced, so to speak, by operators from our Government. Incredible. 
Intolerable.