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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.

Hagan Statement on Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Study

Hagan has worked tirelessly to ensure that veterans and their families who were affected receive the health care they need.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, NC) - U.S. Senator Kay Hagan released the following statement after the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released a study on birth defects and childhood cancer resulting from water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

The results of the ATSDR study suggest associations between contamination in Camp Lejeune drinking water and neural tube defects (NTDs) like spina bifida as well as childhood hematopoietic cancers such as leukemia.

Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines and Red Dragonfly II

A panel discussion will follow the film with MAM organizer Tami Canal, COVVHA activist Lorena Hansen, Tim King and myself as moderator.

(SALT LAKE CITY) - Operation Red Dragonfly will be coming (former marine Tim King on his motorcycle) to Salt Lake City the weekend of may 16-17 2014. Tim and former Marine Robert O'Dowd have written the book "Betrayal: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-up." I was one of those former Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune.

We are planning a book event with Tony and Catherine Weller for Friday the 16th. we have reserved the downtown public library for the showing of the MSgt. Jerry Ensminger's (USMC ret.) documentary film "Semper Fi, Always Faithful."

California Will Add Trichloroethylene To Proposition 65 Reproductive Toxicity List

Trichloroethylene meets the criteria for listing as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity under Proposition 65, based on the findings of U.S. EPA (U. S. EPA, 2011a), as outlined below.

(IRVINE) - The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was enacted as a ballot initiative in November 1986.

Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, a Blight for Orange County Taxpayers

No veterans cemetery for my fellow Marines, no people's park, and if sports facilities do get built Irvine residents/groups will get first dibs. This is at minumum false advertising, a failed and lapsed warranty under basic consumer laws. - Salem-News.com's Roger Butow, comment in LA Times article on El Toro.

(IRVINE) - An Editorial in The LA Times called Irvine's Pretty Decent Park outlines the dilemma now facing the Irvine City Council with the now closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.

A housing developer, FivePoint Communities, has offered to construct a park that varies greatly from what was presented to Orange County voters.

One Man`s Fight for Justice

Brother of murdered Marine fighter pilot has never given up his quest for justice.

(SOMERDALE, NJ) - The Sabow brothers were only one year apart; both graduated from Georgetown University. Both dated the same girls in high school and for all practical purposes were twins. James Sabow accepted a commission in the Marine Corps and became a Marine Corps fighter pilot. The men remained close as they perused their separate careers.

In January 1991, Colonel James E. Sabow was murdered at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, CA.

U.S. Marine Murdered to Cover Up CIA-Cocaine Link?

C-130A and P-3A, former military aircraft, were used to transport weapons to Central America and drugs into the U.S. to support the Contra War.

(IRVINE Tico Times) - Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, a DEA agent and former U.S. Marine, was killed in Mexico in 1985 because he was a threat to disclose illegal narcotrafficking activity supported by the CIA to fund the Contra War.

Six year later, on Jan. 22, 1991, Col. James E. Sabow was murdered at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, because he was about to blow the whistle on the illegal narcotrafficking of cocaine into the United States on CIA proprietary airlines.

PressTV: `Google employees exposed to TCE`

Googleplex buildings in California are toxic with TCE; Google falls in step with US govt. by failing to notify employees.

(MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA) - Salem-News.com news editor, Tim King, is now writing a weekly column for Press TV.

His first article examines the plight of Google employees in California who work, many unknowingly, on heavily contaminated land once occupied by computer chip manufacturers who used the toxic chemical TCE (trichloroethylene) for years, with large amounts of the chemical spilling and leaching into groundwater in the surrounding area.

NCIS Involved in Crime Scene Tampering of Marine Colonel`s Death

Younger brother’s phone and emails monitored by government.

(IRVINE, CA) - Colonel Sabow had no idea that his life was at risk when he made the decision not to plead guilty to false charges of personal misuse of government aircraft.

He trusted that these ridiculous charges would be dropped at a court martial and other Marines to ‘always have his back’. He didn’t know that his decision was a threat to those involved in the illegal narcotrafficking of cocaine into the US.

Evidence Calls for New Investigation Into the Murder of Marine Colonel James Sabow

Marine Colonel at MCAS El Toro blew the whistle on continuing Central and South American drug shipments and was murdered; his death passed off as a suicide.

(RAPID CITY, SD) - In 1991, my brother, Colonel J.E. Sabow, USMC was murdered in the backyard of his home on the Marine Corps Air Base El Toro, California. Col. Sabow was a highly decorated Jet pilot with 221 combat missions in an A-6 Intruder.

This was followed by multiple assignments and commands stateside, as well as in South Korea, Okinawa and Japan.