Miami, controlled by the Cuban American National Foundation.

Not exactly the biggest pals Castro and/or Cuba ever had.

Known, is CANF, to have the largest concessions on G.I. Joe action figures and sharp pins in southern Florida.

go figure something else Clinton stepped around, and stead of taking care of the problem.

Doesn't surprise me about our goverment. I know a man who works for the DEA and he told me, 15 years ago, that all the cocaine "Comes thru" Washington, DC. We are a country of "Do as I say and not as I do"

HELLOO???DOES ANY1 REMEMBER MENA ARKANSAS?? THAT WAS WARE THE COKE WAS FLOWN TO UNDER GOVERNOR BILL CLINTON'S GOVERNOR REIGN OF TERROR ON THE PEOPLE OF AR.!!BARRY SEAL TOLD THE FEDS THAT OCHOA,LEAHDER WERE KNWN TO THE MENA AIRPORT WARE TONS OF THE DEVIL DUST WAS STORED!!CLINTON WAS A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE NON-WAR ON DRUGS!!!

It is my understanding Clinton colloborated with the CIA's George H W Bush to allow the CIA to import drugs into this country through Mena AR when he was governor. The continued importation of drugs while he was prez is no surprise. This country has had successive drug dealers in chief who would assassinate whomever to attain or maintain their positions of power.

I'm not surprised the Castro brothers are involved in the drug business as I've heard they are also involved in providing medical services to the FARC leader in Colombia and then smuggling him back in the country. I doubt if Chavez in Venezuela has clean hands either.

Hey he was using the money to pay for all that free healthcare and education. Because we all know that Cuba is like Disneyland all the time right?

Maybe its time to normalize relations with Cuba. Open communication tends to solve problems.

It does not suprise me that the justice department under the clinton administration didn't try to stop this. Again we find out more things that the clinton admin didn't do for this country because he was to "busy" in his office. It is likely that Fidel is going to die in the next few years and that idiot brother of his could take over and make things worse for our country when it comes to stopping the smuggling and traffiking of drugs into our country

Mr. Ross,

This was a well-known secret among the fly-for-hire community of pilots in the Caribbean. I know because I flew all over the Caribbean.

Thankls again President Clinton! It seems your administration was a gift that just keeps on giving! I see that the public school system is in trouble, because there are still a bunch of idiots that want to put Hillary.

Oh that wonderful Clinton administration that did so much for the USA!!!

WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!

"There were numerous national security and intelligence issues that would have made the case difficult"

there is the interesting part of your article. oh if we could actually know the juicy stuff

No Bush-Bashing story??? What's wrong with Ross?

Legalize it!

OH!!! It's a cocaine story, that's how Bush's name will come up... At least Ross is not giving away surveillance secrets this week...

Cocaine Import Agency

"The officials say Castro, as Cuban Defense Minister, permitted Colombian drug lords to pay for the use of Cuban waters and airstrips as staging grounds for smuggling runs into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s."

Hmm...let's see here...your god Reagan was president in the 1980's, with Poppy Bush as his VP for 8 years. Then Poppy Bush was president into the early 1990's. It would appear that Raul Castro stopped his bad habits WHILE Clinton was in office. But like so many other schemes (Iran-Contra), it was Republicans and the Bush machine that illegally smuggled tons of cocaine into this country, not Clinton, unleashed it in the inner cities and made it fashionable among the elite (including George Bush). There is ALWAYS an element of social engineering in politics, and those Republicans certainly know how to do it in underhanded ways.

Oh, and how much did gasoline cost per gallon under Clinton? Oh, and fewer people lived in poverty? Oh, that's right, weren't we working with a 3 trillion dollar excess because the economy did so extremely well under Clinton? and under Bush we have record deficits again? Yes Clinton-haters, YOU benefitted from his administration. You see, he governed for everyone, not just the wealthy. A rising tide then did indeed raise all boats, but somehow the Bush's (in Florida, in Texas, and in DC) are great at sinking good things straight to the bottom of the sea for all but the most expensive yachts.

Cocaine in Mena? That's up there with the little green men in Roswell. If anyone should have been indicted it was Colonel Ollie's cartel from which he skimmed millions as the Contras moved powder to the U.S.

If Clinton then Bush. All the conspiracy stories have both Bush Sr. and Clinton.

So, you can't believe those stories without painting Bush with the same brush. So what's your dang point anyway?

Agree that this is the point that needs investigation.
"There were numerous national security and intelligence issues that would have made the case difficult"
So, Brian and Vic, get back to us when you news people actually have something to say about that.

My Parents owned a hotel on south caicos another staging area for smugglers in that line of work and i had heard that story many times of pilots getting fighter escorts by the cubans and holding up a kilo to the window so the the cubans could see that were indeed smugglers carring cocane to America. But i never heard of the pilots actualy landing in cuba when there werw much more freindly landing areas in the bahamas which costed in bribes much less to use than cuba.

Wow-I see the Swift Boaters are out. What is that old saying 'if you tell a lie enough times....'

I'm going to have a bit of fun with this report although I beleive there are many Americans close to the Clintons & Carters who can't wait to get back in the White House to p-a-r-t-y! I love to hear Willie Nelson talk about having sex & smoking dope outside on top of the White House when Jimmy Carter was president. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how bored the celebrities & press are with the Bush administraion...I know! I know! Bush "was" a party boy too. I'm not judging anyone.

But when I read this article I knew Willie (who I adore) is somewhere laughing!

is anyone surprised? really? drugs will never go away, rather than deny the use of cocaine and marijuana, legalize and then educate people about the dangers, then you find and stomp out all crystal meth.....you take junkies out of jail and into rehab and you take away all the profits of our enemies, legitimize and tax sales of products that are going to sell and get into our country and other countries forever, regardless of penalties, dangers and government programs calling for their destruction. people will always want to feed their head, ease their pain, distract their stress......why not?

All the facts in this article are true. But what is not mention, is, that the Cuban involvement was
not about the money; at that time they had the backing of the Russians. Anything that could help
to demoralize or corrup the fiber of the American people had the blessing of the Castro brothers.
That was the reason why they help to get the drugs to our shores.
These two guys hate America!

This crap piece of journalism says nothing about why Clinton killed the investigation and the readers jump on it anyway with all kinds of unsubstantiated Clinton accusations. This really shows the low level of ABC journalism and critical thinking of its readers. Apparently the public school system has had problems for much longer than Clinton was around.

Like,...Duhhh...as if we didn't know the clinton administration was not supporting drug smuggling through cuban waters. What about Iran/Contra plane crash in Nicaruagua when Reagan was in? There has always been a drug problem in this country, crack pipes sold in smoke shops, ah, duh, Revenue, Revenue...get it?
Case in point, money is power, cocaine provides a good time with office interns and money is power, gee I guess that makes me a genius, come on read through the lines, this government thinks we are stupid. WE ARE NOT STUPID

venezuela ; cuba with oil

why cant we use the 'monroe doctrine' to do the 'right thing'

whats next

Hey Bob, ABC is so much of a lap dog they hired Clinton's senior political adviser as a journalist, so just drop the BS about how lousy ABC's reporting is. If they could have made it look like any of the Bush's fault, they would have done a Dan Rather document-deal to achieve it. But then, there are people out there now watching the propagandist just like yourself!

Call me cynical, but it sounds like the Bush administration are trying to discredit and sow seeds of doubt over the potential sucessor of Cuba.

They should not try to undermine the Cuban government as democracy in cuba will be like at the end of the soviet union with people trying to get their hands in the tills as soon as possible

Hey Genius...Read "through" the lines or between the lines?

In 1989 you could buy the best and cheapest cocaine available outside Colombia in Havana.

Raul Castro staged the Ochoa trial (1989) to get rid of those who knew too much about his dealings.

In 2006 you can still buy the best and cheapest cocaine available outside Colombia in Havana.

Wow. What a shock. The Clinton DOJ refuses to pursue someone. Wouldn't want to hurt their feelings or upset someone now, would we?

Add it to the list.

Raul Castro and many military men are known to have smuggle millions of pounds of drugs from Colombia.

That is not a State Secret?

Is it really news? Clinton did not want to have to make any major decisions during his administration, he was busy buying books and cigars for Monica. He did not take Bin Landen when he was offered to him on a silver platter; he did not want to face the Islamic Terrorists and instead pulled out when the "Blackhawk Down" episode took place; He bombed an aspirin Factory and then an embassy by mistake; he shot missles into an empty terror camp to divert attention from his sexual exploits. He did allow Janet Reno to make tough decisions, however, and she was involved in the killing innocent children in Waco and not mention Ruby Ridge; Anyone see the pattern here? Why would it be any different when Clinton ignored indisputable evidence of drug smuggling by Castro? He simply ran away from the evidence so that he would not have to make the tough decision. Perhaps he consulted with the French and decided to ignore the evidence. One thing is crystal clear, Democrats will run and hide when confronted with tough decisions, and the same thing will happen if another Democrat is put in charge today. God help us all if it happens during this terror war that we find ourselves in.

If ignorance is bliss, then you Clinton-loving morons are in Heaven!

How in the hell did this turn into a Clinton problem? You people crack me up. Everything ill in the US had something to do with Bill Clinton? Well, I hate to inform you but your buddy George W Bush has just as many bad issues and alot more oil rich friends than Bill ever will.

Hmmm. Sounds like a previous exercise in regime change. Has anyone heard from former president Manuel Noreaga of Panama lately

Some comments seem to come from those on drugs.

GHW Bush was not at the CIA when Clinton was Gov. Bush was at CIA 30 Jan. 1976-20 Jan. 1977. Clinton (worst Prez in U.S history) was elected Gov 1979.

War is war, we embargo them, they allow poison to be sent here. Why shouldnt they?

Theory: The Clintons and Sr Bush are lifetime CIA. Fact: The founder of Skull & Bones (William Russell) switched to opium importation after slave importation was outlawed in the US. The Clintons have Yale connections. Drug smuggling and Mena Arkansas were central in Iran-Contra.

Do you think the CIA HQ was named after Bush Sr because he was Gerald Ford's CIA Director? CIA leadership is overwhelmingly Yale connected.

You are bandwagoneers...Clinton covered the secret issues....so why blame him....GW is in charge...is he guiltless?

George Bush Jr and Daddy, Cocaine sales to finance black ops? Columbian
drug Lords backed by CIA ops OK'd by both bush administrations? Hmmmmmm,
Guess no one wants to discuss such things.

What a carl rove moment.

WHEN IN THE HELL IS SOMEONE GOING TO PUT THE CLINTON'S IN JAIL?

interesting

I am skeptical of such claims about Castro. It sounds like more anti-Castro propaganda. However, it is well known that the fiercest Cuban critics of Castro trafficked in cocaine and narcotics in a very big way. Cuba was a major narcotics trafficking hub until Castro overthrew the Batista regime and kicked the American and Sicilian mafia families out. The mafia and their covert, black bag CIA partners have been desperately trying to get back their money laundering playground ever since.

ABC News has an anti-Castro article, in a slight deviation from the fawning twit-talk the MSM customarily lavishes on the Cuban mass-murderer:
Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department officials tell ABC News.

The officials say Castro, as Cuban Defense Minister, permitted Colombian drug lords to pay for the use of Cuban waters and airstrips as staging grounds for smuggling runs into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.

"It was a major investigation involving numerous witnesses that was killed at the highest levels in Washington," said a former Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the case.

"There were numerous national security and intelligence issues that would have made the case difficult," said Tom Cash, the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Miami.
Let's see. Putting on our twin-bill Sherlock Holmes' cap and taking a little of Sherlock's favorite stimulus up our nose [oops, that's what this story is all about], we can guess "highest levels" in DC means Janet Reno and Bill Clinton.

The happy ending to this entire tawdry crime-loving Clinton administration came in the year 2000 when Cuban-American Floridians, who voted 35% for Clinton in 1996, voted 20% for Al Gore in 2000, and we all know how close that key state's election was!

Okay, so word did not get out in 1993 to indicate how tight Clinton was with the Cuban criminal-in-chief and his bro, but after Elian Gonzalez, every Cuban-American in Florida knew that the Democrats were the friends of crime and the enemies of Cubans living in the USA.

Ha, Ha, Ha. The Republicans have the last laugh!

The War On Drugs will never be won. Washington has no motivation. I employs thousands and attracts tens of millions of tax revenue.

Besides, if it were successful, the law of supply and demand would drive the price up while prison penalties stay the same. Drug dealing becomes more attractive.

The only way to attack it and win, and this was advocated by Michael Levine, DEA, in his book "Deep Cover", tried arresting buyers in Philly then had them testify against the dealers. The dealers were then coerced (through lenient sentences or dropped charges) to testify against their suppliers. He met with great success, working his way up the ladder. His work was quashed by the DEA.

I'm sure that, if we believed everything to come out of Miami, we could place Castro in the garden of Eden handing Eve an apple...

Seriously, how can you post this incredible garbage? You're a tool of the CANF/Florida Republican terrorists. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Has anyone noticed the "war on drugs" is lost? It's time for a new strategy.

Cocaine was here before Clinton, during Clinton, and alot has come in the country after Clinton. Dont blame only Clinton, blame Reagan and the Bush family for continuingly let it come in to this country. Consider this...if we are at such a high level of security since 9/11, why are drugs so prevelent in our streets? So dont blame Bill only!!

Survival of the fittest...