A Mexican plane crash, the CIA, and 3.3 tons of cocaine (crikey.com.au)

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Jeff Sparrow

drug trafficking of

Central Intelligence Agency

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What’s the link between a plane crash landing in Mexico, the CIA and 3.3 tons of cocaine?, asks Jeff Sparrow.

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Once you set up a covert operation to supply arms and money, it’s very difficult to separate it from the kind of people who are involved in other forms of trade, and especially drugs. There is a limited number of planes, pilots and landing strips.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. James Madison, Political Observations (20 April 1795)

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https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1iqvok6/mexican_president_blasts_us_for_harboring_drug/

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The lady doth protest too much, methinks (Wikipedia) “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle’s guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.

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https://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/a-mexican-plane-crash-the-cia-and-33-tons-of-cocaine/

when

2008-09-01