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"Whatever system we are living under, it is not a democracy, and we are not protected by the Rule of Law," said the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Housing & Urban Development.

The US Government has known about drug trafficking among its assets, protected those assets helpful to whichever cause the US Government was backing at the time, and will never legalize any of the currently illicit substances as there is too much money being made from the War Against Some Drugs.

These were the overall messages at the CIA-Drugs Symposium in Eugene Oregon (June 10th, 2000). "I'm just really tired of the situation we’ve got here, and I really don't want my children to have to deal with it," said organizer Kris Millegan in his opening remarks. With a showing of the film Secret Heartbeat Of America, by Daniel Hopsicker, detailing America’s secret history during the later half of the 20th Century setting the tone right away. This was not an event for those who didn’t want to know the truth, or who believe what they don’t know won’t hurt them!

Speakers included Millegan, Hopsicker, Mike Ruppert (former LAPD narc and publisher of the newsletter From The Wilderness), Dedon Kamathi (former Black Panther, and still-outspoken activist), Catherine Austin Fitts (former Assistant Secretary of State for Housing & Urban Development under President Bush from 1989 to 1990), Cele Castillo, 12 veteran of the DEA, Rodney Stich (author and former FAA flight accident investigator), and Peter Dale Scott (former Canadian diplomat, Professor at University of California, Berkeley, and prolific author).

"This report is full of lies, flat out lies, in terms of what they've already admitted," remarked Scott, about the report released by CIA-man Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL). The US Select Committee On Intelligence (May 11th, 2000) found "no evidence" of any involvement of any CIA employee or assets in the narcotics trade, at any time.

In a report completed the week before the symposium, Scott writes that the committee has for some time, instead of exerting some form of oversight of the Intelligence Community, "had been operated as a rubber stamp, deflecting public concern rather than representing it. It is however possible that never before has such a dishonest and deceptive document, on such an important subject, been approved without dissent by the full membership of the committee . . .The CIA practice of recruiting drug-financed armies is an ongoing matter."

Cele Castillo, who was the DEA's sole American field agent in Guatemala and El Salvador from 1985 to 1990, told the room about his misadventures trying to investigate the trafficking in and out of those Central American countries during Oliver North’s Contra supply operations. "I was there, I saw it. I kept journals. I took pictures of the good, the bad and the ugly," claimed Castillo.

"I met then Vice-President Bush at a party in the US Embassy in El Salvador once, and told him there was something funny about the Contras, after Bush asked me what I did. He just smiled and walked away."

Castillo says he saw Bush meet later that day with Ollie North and others in the same US Embassy building. "It is going to get worse before it gets better," revealed Castillo about prohibition and the false War Against Some Drugs, "but we know who did this to us."

As Kamathi, co-founder of Crack the CIA Coalition, and a record producer with Motown Records who focuses on Conscious Rap, as opposed to the Gangsterism-promoting Rap, said in his impassioned presentation, "When you think Crack, don’t think Black, think CIA!"