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til stede som siler ut pinlige rapporter og sørger for at politimennene på lavere
nivåer underordner seg karrierebyråkratenes ambisjoner.
Denne praksisen er minst like utbredt i dag som den var for femti år
siden, og vi kommer snart tilbake til den. Men for FBNs del så vi den spesielt
godt på agenter som Anslinger selv, og hans høyre hånd George White (om
han) 329 . Professor Alan Block beskriver FBNs symbiose med CIA slik:
”The FBN’s history (and those of its successors) reveals that its enforcement tasks have
been secondary, the result of a subordinate relationship with the intelligence
establishment. Drug enforcement abroad has been compromised because intelligence
agencies care nothing about drug enforcement, although they often care quite a lot
about narcotics. They have used it as a common coin for the purposes of espionage,
paramilitary operations, covert trade and counterintelligence.
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics provided cover for the Central Intelligence Agency
since just about the day it [the CIA] was formed. That has meant profound drug abuse
at home in the name of counterintelligence experimentation, and support for anticommunist
drug dealers abroad. It is simply impossible to take pronouncements about
federal drug policy at face value given the history of compromise and prevarication.” 330
Douglas Valentine er den som har gitt oss det mest inngående blikket i
FBNs historie. Han utdyper videre hvordan CIAs infiltrasjon, innen 1960-tallet,
hadde lammet organisasjonens handlekraft:
”As the Kennedys burst upon the scene, the CIA had turned the FBN completely upside
down. CIA agents were blackmailing spies, diplomats, and politicians at three bureau
safehouses. With the support of complicit FBN agents, the CIA was hiring Corsican drug
smugglers as assassins and using Mafiosi to smuggle MKULTRA poisons into Cuba to
assassinate Fidel Castro. On behalf of the Agency, FBN headquarters focused public
attention on the phantom Chinese Communist-Cuban connection — even going so far,
(…) as to allow top members of a Kuomintang drug smuggling ring in San Francisco to
escape punishment, while George White covered up for them by telling the press that
their heroin had come from Communist China. Meanwhile the CIA’s anti-Castro
terrorists were smuggling spies and assassins into Cuba, and returning with shiploads
of narcotics for sale in America.” 331
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