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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 08 Num. 71
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 71
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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FROM THE DESK OF J. ORLIN GRABBE -- AUGUST 3, 1996
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The Governor of Kentucky to be
Indicted Soon?
by J. Orlin Grabbe
Operation BOPTROT lives. Federal authorities are
looking closely into the campaign finances of Governor Paul
Patton (D) of Kentucky. According to Charles "the Angel of
Death" Hayes, Jones will soon be indicted and there will be a
top-to-bottom shake-up of the Kentucky State Police.
Operation BOPTROT was supposed to have
concluded. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader,
detailing the big stories of 1995:
"All good things must come to an
end, including federal investigations.
The feds closed the most successful
investigation of public corruption in
Kentucky history--Operation
BOPTROT.
"Nabbed: 20 people, including 15
current and former lawmakers, a top
governor's aide and a former state
auditor . . ." [December 30, 1995].
But Hayes says the BOPTROT investigations are
continuing.
Corruption in Kentucky has been around for some
time. Sally Denton's *The Bluegrass Conspiracy* (a book,
not the band), published in 1990, tells about gun and drug
smuggling in Kentucky, and the connections between the Las
Vegas Mafia and the highest levels of state government.
Some find the real origins of Operation BOPTROT
in drug smuggling into and out of the Mena, Arkansas, airport.
Mena represented the brainchild of the CIA's Bill Casey,
who wanted to do to Russian soldiers in Afghanistan what had
been done to U.S. soldiers in Korea and Vietnam: namely,
turn them into drug addicts.
The idea was to take cocaine confiscated in U.S. drug
raids and to collect it in places like Mena. Then it would be
flown to Miami and then on to Turkey, and finally carried
overland into Afghanistan to be sold cheaply to Russian
soldiers. When the operation began in 1983, there was only
modest skimming by the drug couriers: 3 or 4 kilos per
hundred. But since few records were kept comparing the
amount arrived to the amount shipped, the skimming
percentages quickly increased. Sometimes 30 to 40 percent,
or even an entire shipment, would disappear. The skimmers
were making lots of money selling the confiscated cocaine
back into the U.S. market. Whatever the individual roles and
motivations, the system acted in such a way that the U.S.
government stole cocaine from the Medellin cartel and sold it
themselves on the U.S. market.
This is not to say that the effects in Afghanistan were
not a success also. The demand for coke by Russian soldiers
increased not only because of the growing personal use by
them, but also because the soldiers would buy supplies to take
home when on leave. But by 1985 the demand for cocaine,
both for sale in the U.S. and for distribution in Afghanistan,
exceeded the supply obtained by confiscation. So elements of
the U.S. government made a deal with the Medellin cartel for
increased supplies.
When people complained to Casey about the
diversion of his original plan, Casey would point to the high-
level U.S. government officials involved--ones he indicated he
was afraid to cross.
Some of the pilots carrying cocaine between Mena
and Miami would air-drop quantities at designated locations
in Kentucky. Officials were bribed to look the other way, or
were consulted to help manage the operation. This may have
been the real beginnings of the corruption that lead to
Operation BOPTROT.
What, specifically, the more-recently elected
Governor Paul Patton was involved in remains to be seen.
But the AOD says his days are numbered.
August 3, 1996
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