The Terrifying Background of the (Jew) Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit

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Enrique Prado is a Jew... --CSR

The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
By Conor Friedersdorf

Jul 18 2012, 1:39 PM ET

A federal investigation alleged Enrique Prado's involvement in seven murders, yet he was in charge when America outsourced covert killing to a private company.

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It was one of the biggest secrets of the post-9/11 era: soon after the attacks, President Bush gave the CIA permission to create a top secret assassination unit to find and kill Al Qaeda operatives. The program was kept from Congress for seven years. And when Leon Panetta told legislators about it in 2009, he revealed that the CIA had hired the private security firm Blackwater to help run it. "The move was historic," says Evan Wright, the two-time National Magazine Award-winning journalist who wrote Generation Kill. "It seems to have marked the first time the U.S. government outsourced a covert assassination service to private enterprise."

The quote is from his e-book How to Get Away With Murder in America, which goes on to note that "in the past, the CIA was subject to oversight, however tenuous, from the president and Congress," but that "President Bush's 2001 executive order severed this line by transferring to the CIA his unique authority to approve assassinations. By removing himself from the decision-making cycle, the president shielded himself -- and all elected authority -- from responsibility should a mission go wrong or be found illegal. When the CIA transferred the assassination unit to Blackwater, it continued the trend. CIA officers would no longer participate in the agency's most violent operations, or witness them. If it practiced any oversight at all, the CIA would rely on Blackwater's self-reporting about missions it conducted. Running operations through Blackwater gave the CIA the power to have people abducted, or killed, with no one in the government being exactly responsible." None of this is new information, though I imagine that many people reading this item are hearing about it for the first time.

Isn't that bizarre?

The bulk of Wright's e-book (full disclosure: I help edit the website of Byliner, publisher of the e-book) tells the story of Enrique Prado, a high-ranking CIA-officer-turned-Blackwater-employee who oversaw assassination units for both the CIA and the contractor. To whom was this awesome responsibility entrusted? According to Wright's investigation, a federal organized crime squad run out of the Miami-Dade Police Department produced an investigation allegedly tying Prado to seven murders carried out while he worked as a bodyguard for a narco crime boss. At the time, the CIA declared him unavailable for questioning; the investigation was shut down before he was arrested or tried.

There's a lot more to the story -- Wright's e-book is almost 50 pages long -- but this bit is of particular note:

    The reporting on Prado's activities at Blackwater produced no evidence that the firm's employees had ever killed anyone on behalf of the CIA. But I spoke to Blackwater employees who insisted that they had. Two Blackwater contractors told me that their firm began conducting assassinations in Afghanistan as early as 2008. They claimed to have participated in such operations -- one in a support role, the other as a "trigger puller." The contractors, to whom I spoke in 2009 and 2010, were both ex-Special Forces soldiers who were not particularly bothered by assassination work, although they did question the legality of Blackwater's involvement in it.

    According to the "trigger puller," he and a partner were selected for one such operation because they were Mexican Americans, whose darker skin enabled them to blend in as Afghan civilians. The first mission he described took place in 2008. He and his partner spent three weeks training outside Kabul, becoming accustomed to walking barefoot like Afghans while toting weapons underneath their jackets. Their mission centered on walking into a market and killing the occupant of a pickup truck, whose identity a CIA case worker had provided to them. They succeeded in their mission, he told me, and moved on to another. This contractor's story didn't completely fit with other accounts about Prado's unit at Blackwater. The e-mail written by Prado and later obtained by the Times seemed to indicate that the unit wouldn't use Americans to carry out actual assassinations. Moreover, two CIA sources insisted that the contractors I spoke to were lying. As one put it, "These guys are security guards who want to look like Rambo."

    When I asked Ed O'Connell, a former Air Force colonel and RAND analyst with robust intelligence experience in Afghanistan, to evaluate these contractors' claims, he first told me they were almost certainly a "fantastical crock of shit." But a year later, in 2011, after a research trip in Afghanistan for his firm Alternative Strategies Institute, O'Connell had changed his assessment. He told me, "Your sources seem to have been correct. Private contractors are whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA."

So there you have it: A former Air Force lieutenant colonel, speaking on the record and using the present tense, said in 2011 that "private contractors are whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA."

Says Wright:


    While Blackwater's covert unit began as a Bush administration story, President Obama now owns it. In 2010, his administration intervened on behalf of the Blackwater executives indicted for weapons trafficking, filing motions to suppress evidence on the grounds that it could compromise national security. The administration then awarded Blackwater (which is now called Academi) a $250 million contract to perform unspecified services for the CIA. At the same time, Obama has publicly taken responsibility for some lethal operations -- the Navy SEALs' sniper attack on Somali pirates, the raid on bin Laden. His aides have also said that he reviews target lists for drone strikes. The president's actions give him the appearance of a man who wants the best of both worlds. He appears as a tough, resolute leader when he announces his role in killings that will likely be popular -- a pirate, a terrorist. But the apparatus for less accountable killings grinds on.

Needless to say, this ought to spark an investigation, but more than that, it should cause Americans to step back and reflect on how vulnerable we've made ourselves to bad actors in the post-9/11 era. We're giving C.I.A. agents and even private security contractors the sort of power no individual should wield. And apparently our screening apparatus turns out to be lacking.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... it/259856/

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Friday, June 29, 2012
THE MAFIA AND THE CIA
Enrique Prado, 'mafia hitman and CIA spy'.

In a new book, How to Get Away with Murder in America, journalist Evan Wright writes about the Mafia hitman who worked as a top spy for the CIA.

Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman | Danger Room - Wired

Top CIA spy Enrique 'Ricky' Prado reportedly worked as a hitman for mobsters in Miami.

According to Wright, Prado continued to work for the mob even after joining the CIA.

Apparently, he 'moonlighted' as a killer for the mob.

Prado worked for the CIA in its murderous Central American wars, ran the CIA's operations in Korea, was part of America's spy programs against China, was part of a top assassination squad, was a senior manager inside the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station and worked at Blackwater.

Writer Evan Wood reports that the Miami mafia were apparently protected by the CIA.

Journalist Evan Wood reports on how top people made sure that police investigations into the Miami mafia got nowhere.

Prado had cocaine trafficker Alberto San Pedro as one of his childhood friends.

Reportedly, San Pedro hosted parties for Miami's top people and imported cocaine into the United States.

Reportedly, the Miami-Dade Police Department's organised crime squad suspected Prado of involvement in at least seven murders.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1z9uGlEfj

TOP PEOPLE AND DRUGS

Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla

On 3 August 2011, it was reported that US government agents brought several tons of cocaine into the United States from Mexico.

These federal agents then 'allowed' Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic the drugs.

This is according to court documents filed in a US federal court.

(Court documents say US knew about coke‎ UPI.com /Targeted dead journalist further vindicated: Feds' tons of drug ...‎ /Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine ...‎ /Federal Agents Allowed Tons Of Cocaine To Be Smuggled Into The US ...‎)

Chicago, home of David Headley, was used as a distribution point for the rest of the country.

Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who is facing drug-trafficking charges in Chicago, is part of the Sinaloa drug gang.

In April 2011, Zambada claimed to have been working with the U.S. government for years.

He was working "on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration ('DEA'); and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ('FBI'); and the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ('ICE')."

THE MAFIA FASCISTS AND DRUGS

Your kids and drugs: Children as young as eight are smoking dope / what they could be doing to your children

On 31 July 2010, we were reminded that a Mexican drug trafficker used a CIA aircraft to smuggle drugs into the U.S. (Mexican Drug Cartel Leader Linked to CIA.)
The USA is not the only victim of the drugs trade.

The top six countries for drug abuse are reported to be Costa Rica, Mauritius, Russia, Afghanistan, Iran and Scotland. (Scotland is among world's worst for drug abuse)

Scotland was recently named the worst in the world for drug-related crime. (Scotland is among world's worst for drug abuse)


The Lockerbie Bombing was reportedly an attempt to destroy evidence of the CIA's heroin smuggling. (aangirfan: Lockerbie Evidence)

And sections the Scottish elite, who have long had connections to the drugs trade, are reportedly part of the cover-up. (Views on Megrahi and Scotland. aangirfan: SACK KENNY MACASKILL)

Billionaire Mexican drugs baron GUZMAN, the boss of Ignacio Coronel. (Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?)
On September of 2007, there was a plane crash in Yucatan.

When authorities arrived at the crash site, they discovered well over 3 tons of cocaine onboard the Gulfstream II aircraft. The narcotics reportedly belonged to the cartel under the local control of Nacho Coronel.

After further investigations into the origins of the aircraft's markings and registration number (N987SA), it was discovered that the plane was used for CIA rendition flights.

DAWOOD IBRAHIM, LINKED TO BOMBINGS ...

According to Peter Dale Scott (Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Deep Forces, Coups ...), "The more than doubling of Afghan opium drug production since the U.S. invasion of 2001 merely replicates the massive drug increases in Burma, Thailand, and Laos between the late 1940s and the 1970s.

"These countries also only became major sources of supply in the international drug traffic as a result of CIA assistance to what would otherwise have been only local traffickers."

Sibel Edmonds has alleged that there is a network of drug-financed and intelligence-related terror activities stretching from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, Chechnya, and Turkey. (Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Deep Forces, Coups ...)
A victim of the MAFIA-FASCISTS.

In August 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb, in the San Jose Mercury, wrote the following about the CIA's involvement in the drug trade (Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?):

"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

"This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.

"It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas'' of Compton and South-Central Los Angeles." ("America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war", Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News)

The MAFIA-FASCISTS appear to be pulling the strings within certain governments.

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/06/m ... d-cia.html