On March 16, 1998, the CIA\'s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let?the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing.
Clair show how the CIA\'s complicity with drug-dealin.
Cockburn and St.
Clair show how the CIA imported Nazi scientists straight?from their labs at Dachau and Buchenwald and set them to work developing?chemical and biological weapons, tested on black Americans, some of them?in mental hospitals.
After the San Jose Mercury News?series, for example, outraged black communities charged that the CIA had?undertaken a program, stretching across many years, of experiments on minorities.?Cockburn and St.
They show that many of even the most seemingly outlandish charges leveled?against the Agency have basis in truth.
Clair?finally put the whole story together from the earliest days, when the CIA\'s?institutional ancestors, the OSS and the Office of Naval Intelligence, cut?a deal with America\'s premier gangster and drug trafficker, Lucky Luciano.
In Whiteout, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
Most recently, in 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a sensational?series on the topic, ``Dark Alliance,`` and then helped destroy?its own reporter, Gary Webb.
The involvement of the CIA with drug traffickers is a story that has?slouched into the limelight every decade or so since the creation of the?Agency.
Hitz\'s admissions also made fools of?some of the most prominent names in US journalism, and vindicated investigators?and critics of the Agency, ranging from Al Mc Coy to Senator John Kerry.
With these two admisstions, Hitz definitively sank decades of CIA denials, ?many of them under oath to Congress.
Even more?astonishingly, Hitz revealed that back in 1982 the CIA had requested and?received from Reagan\'s Justice Department clearance not to report any knowledge?it might have of drug-dealing by CIA assets.
Hitz told?the US Reps that the CIA had maintained relationships with companies and?individuals the Agency knew to be involved in the drug business.
On March 16, 1998, the CIA\'s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let?the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing
