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Kiki Camarena and Colonel Jim Sabow

Kiki, in his investigation of the drugs for weapons, was a threat to blow the whistle on illegal narcotrafficking of cocaine into the US. Col. Sabow, a straight arrow Marine, tried to blow the whistle on the continued transport of cocaine into the US in an illegal covert operation conducted by the NSC and approved by Bush and Reagan.

(IRVINE) - Two Mexican witnesses claimed that Felix Rodriquez, a CIA operative and active player in Iran-Contra, murdered Kiki Camarena.

Rodriquez, born in 1941 in Cuba, was a rabid anticommunist, involved in the Bay of Pigs, later joined the US Army, served in Vietnam flying choppers and was active in the Phoenix program and an early recruit for the CIA.

Fiefdoms of Narco Death

According to the Zeta newspaper, more gangland-style murders were committed during the first 11 months of the Pena Nieto administration than in the last 11 months of the Calderon administration.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - When Enrique Pena Nieto assumed office as Mexico’s new president in late 2012, an expectation floated in the air of a reduction in the narco-violence that marred the country during the presidency of Felipe Calderon.

Yet an investigation by a Tijuana weekly contends that exactly the opposite has happened.

Reagan Administration, CIA Complicit in DEA Agent’s Murder, Say Former Insiders

First in an exclusive Tico Times series in two parts

(SAN JOSE, Coast Rica Tico Times) - Two former DEA agents and a former CIA contract pilot claim that the Reagan Administration was complicit in the 1985 murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena at the hands of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.

The administration’s alleged effort to cover up a U.S. government relationship with the Mexican drug lord to provide for the arming and the training of Nicaraguan Contra rebels, led to Camarena’s kidnap, torture and murder, according to Phil Jordon, former head of the DEA’s El Paso office, Hector Berrellez, the DEA’s lead investigator into Camarena’s kidnapping, torture and murder, and CIA contract pilot Robert “Tosh” Plumlee.

23 Pounds of Cocaine Discovered and Seized

Estimated Value is a Half Million Dollars.

(CENTRAL POINT OR) - Two California residents were arrested Tuesday night when an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper discovered approximately 23 pounds of cocaine in their vehicle during a traffic stop on Interstate 5 near Central Point. OSP Drug Enforcement Section detectives are continuing the investigation.

On December 3, 2013 at approximately 10:24 p.m., an OSP trooper stopped a Chrysler Sebring four-door displaying California license plates northbound on Interstate 5 near milepost 32 for a speed violation

FNS Feature: The Waitress Who Shook New Mexico

In all the instances, organized criminal activities and suspected political corruption were the backdrop to violence against women.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - At 83, Gerald Smith still vividly recalls that Saturday right before Easter Sunday back in 1949 when he and his friends went rabbit hunting on a whim outside Las Cruces, New Mexico.

“It’s hard to understand the spontaneity of teenagers,” Smith reflected, while reminiscing inside his country home in the pecan-shaded Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico.

DEA Announces Guilty Plea of U.S. Congressman on Cocaine Charges

An undercover officer provided Radel with a package of cocaine.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - DEA and other federal officials today announced that U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, 37, pled guilty today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to a misdemeanor charge of possession of cocaine.

As a first-time offender, Radel was able to ask the Court to defer entering a judgment of guilty and place him on probation.

NCIS Implicated in Crime Scene Tampering

Covert operation flew cocaine into the U.S. on CIA proprietary airlines. A Marine colonel who threatened to blow the whistle on illegal narcotrafficking murdered. Other Marines linked to the operation met violent deaths. NCIS agents witnessed and participated in crime scene tampering.

(IRVINE) - Colonel Sabow was found dead on his quarter’s patio at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, CA, on January 22, 1991 by his wife.

The government called his death a suicide but the forensic evidence and motive support murder by a government assassination team.

State Department Offers $5 Million Reward in Enrique `Kiki` Camarena Murder

Two retired DEA agents say Kiki uncovered the connection between the cocaine and the crack epidemic and the CIA operation to support the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Nicaragua's govt.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The AP reported today that the State Department is “offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of freed Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero.”

The timing of the reward and the breaking news story in early October 2013 from two Mexican reporters that Kiki’s death was ordered by the CIA and not done by Rafael Quintero may not be just a coincidence.

Americans Turn Out in Droves for DEA`s Seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

Prescription drugs that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday citizens turned in 647,211 pounds (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 4,114 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.

This is the second-largest collection of medications in seven Take-Back Days.

BETRAYAL: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up - Costa Rica Sun

“Colonel Sabow’s death could not have been a suicide but had to have been a homicide inflicted by the hands of another.” - Michael A. Jacobs, former Orange County prosecutor

(SAN JOSE) - Six years after Kiki, a former Marine and DEA agent, was murdered in Mexico, Col. James E. Sabow was murdered at Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California.

He was a threat to blow the whistle on the use of El Toro to service CIA proprietary C-130’s to fly cocaine into the US.