High Level Member of Sinaloa Cartel Claims Multi-Ton Cocaine Trafficking Activities Were Sanctioned by DOJ, DEA and DHS/ICE

April 26th, 2011

Via: Narco Sphere:

A high-level player with one of the most notorious narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the Sinaloa “cartel,” claims that he has been working with the U.S. government for years, according to pleadings filed recently in federal court in Chicago.

That player, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, is the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia — one of the purported top leaders of the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization. Zambada Niebla was arrested in Mexico in March 2009 and last February extradited to the United States to stand trial on narco-trafficking-related charges.

The indictment pending against Zambada Niebla claims he served as the “logistical coordinator” for the “cartel,” helping to oversee an operation that imported into the U.S. “multi-ton quantities of cocaine … using various means, including but not limited to, Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, private aircraft … buses, rail cars, tractor trailers, and automobiles.”

The revelation that Zambada Niebla claims to have been a U.S. government asset, working with its sanction, is a shocking development in the so-called drug war and has gone largely un-reported by the U.S. media. The claim, if true, adds credence to theories long in play that the Mexican and U.S. governments are essentially showing favor toward the Sinaloa drug organization and its leadership, including El Mayo and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Lorea, as part of a broader strategy to weaken and ultimately eliminate rival narco organizations. U.S. and Mexican government officials, of course, have consistently denied that any such arrangement is in place.

Zambada Niebla’s allegation of U.S. government complicity in his narco-trafficking activities is laid out in a two-page court pleading filed in late March with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The pleading asserts that Zambada Niebla was working with “public authority” “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”).

“Public authority for the defendant’s [Zambada Niebla’s] acts began from at least on or about January 1, 2004 and continued to and included on or about March 19, 2009,” the court pleading alleges.

Remember: Barry Seal

4 Responses to “High Level Member of Sinaloa Cartel Claims Multi-Ton Cocaine Trafficking Activities Were Sanctioned by DOJ, DEA and DHS/ICE”

  1. anothernut says:

    Hmmm, better put this guy on “suicide” watch.

  2. steve holmes says:

    I once received numerous e-mails from an arrogant jackass who was a retired US military pilot who bragged on and on about how he used to fly various types of dope on different routes out of central America with the blessing of virtually every government agency in existence. He said they were told they were flying “training flights” to see if they could get loads of dope into Florida. No rules- they could try anything they wanted to. So they flew military jets 5 feet apart, 15 feet off the water, landed at remote strips, etc, where the black suburbans and MIB were waiting to “secure” the cargo. Then I explained to him the decades long history of that bullshit and told him he was he was nothing but an ignorant dupe and a dope runner for the cia. That pissed him off and he quit talking to me. Good. I made my point.

    Anyone who wants SERIOUS, well documented history on this subject needs to read VAST number of articles that Dennis Hopsicker has written on the subject at Mad Cow Morning News. BTW, Mohamed Atta fits into the picture. http://www.madcowprod.com/

  3. quintanus says:

    Insane, Steve. – this might be a naive or introductory question, but why does the CIA need that much additional money, off the records. The official black budget for the CIA is enormous. Is this mainly conducted by ‘rogue’ teams who want to fund a project for personal motivations? While most people know army staff, few know members of the CIA & other federal police agencies, so the money can’t be going to pad their salaries, and has to be going to payments for other people.

  4. steve holmes says:

    LONG story dating back decades. Operations to overthrow entire countries are expensive. Such actions are generally not the sort of thing congress approves of, so they have to come up with money off the books. Ollie North, Poppy Bush, and a host of others did the entire iran-contra drugs/money/assassinations, etc off the books and that cost how much? It’s known fact that there were shipping containers full of Federal Reserve Notes shipped to Iraq for payoffs. Not likely on the books. Overthrowing the USSR took a LOT of money that wasn’t on the books but in the process enabled the theft of all of their central bank’s gold through the 100 phony banks that were set up that suddenly disappeared once the USSR collapsed. William Casey said, concerning CIA drug running, words to the effect of ‘it’s how we get our commercial, off the shelf black-bag money that doesn’t have to be approved by congress.’
    Seriously, Hopsicker is an EXCELLENT source of info and the other link above, “Barry Seal” is to an excellent article. If you read that article carefully, you will discern that the Bush family has basically controlled the presidency (including the Clintons) since before Kennedy was shot (read whatreallyhappend.com’s archives). Consider the bay of pigs fiasco that was set up by a rouge group inside the CIA. Kennedy didn’t approve the action and congress certainly never approved the budget. Those kind of actions cost a HUGE amount of money that congress would NEVER approve, no matter how corrupt they are because it would mean prison for them if they got caught. So drug running within the government is a known thing that is simply ignored.

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