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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 71
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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FROM THE DESK OF J. ORLIN GRABBE -- AUGUST 3, 1996
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The Governor of Kentucky to be
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Indicted Soon?
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by J. Orlin Grabbe
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Operation BOPTROT lives. Federal authorities are
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looking closely into the campaign finances of Governor Paul
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Patton (D) of Kentucky. According to Charles "the Angel of
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Death" Hayes, Jones will soon be indicted and there will be a
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top-to-bottom shake-up of the Kentucky State Police.
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Operation BOPTROT was supposed to have
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concluded. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader,
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detailing the big stories of 1995:
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"All good things must come to an
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end, including federal investigations.
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The feds closed the most successful
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investigation of public corruption in
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Kentucky history--Operation
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BOPTROT.
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"Nabbed: 20 people, including 15
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current and former lawmakers, a top
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governor's aide and a former state
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auditor . . ." [December 30, 1995].
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But Hayes says the BOPTROT investigations are
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continuing.
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Corruption in Kentucky has been around for some
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time. Sally Denton's *The Bluegrass Conspiracy* (a book,
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not the band), published in 1990, tells about gun and drug
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smuggling in Kentucky, and the connections between the Las
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Vegas Mafia and the highest levels of state government.
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Some find the real origins of Operation BOPTROT
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in drug smuggling into and out of the Mena, Arkansas, airport.
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Mena represented the brainchild of the CIA's Bill Casey,
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who wanted to do to Russian soldiers in Afghanistan what had
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been done to U.S. soldiers in Korea and Vietnam: namely,
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turn them into drug addicts.
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The idea was to take cocaine confiscated in U.S. drug
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raids and to collect it in places like Mena. Then it would be
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flown to Miami and then on to Turkey, and finally carried
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overland into Afghanistan to be sold cheaply to Russian
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soldiers. When the operation began in 1983, there was only
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modest skimming by the drug couriers: 3 or 4 kilos per
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hundred. But since few records were kept comparing the
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amount arrived to the amount shipped, the skimming
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percentages quickly increased. Sometimes 30 to 40 percent,
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or even an entire shipment, would disappear. The skimmers
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were making lots of money selling the confiscated cocaine
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back into the U.S. market. Whatever the individual roles and
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motivations, the system acted in such a way that the U.S.
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government stole cocaine from the Medellin cartel and sold it
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themselves on the U.S. market.
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This is not to say that the effects in Afghanistan were
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not a success also. The demand for coke by Russian soldiers
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increased not only because of the growing personal use by
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them, but also because the soldiers would buy supplies to take
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home when on leave. But by 1985 the demand for cocaine,
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both for sale in the U.S. and for distribution in Afghanistan,
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exceeded the supply obtained by confiscation. So elements of
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the U.S. government made a deal with the Medellin cartel for
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increased supplies.
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When people complained to Casey about the
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diversion of his original plan, Casey would point to the high-
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level U.S. government officials involved--ones he indicated he
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was afraid to cross.
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Some of the pilots carrying cocaine between Mena
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and Miami would air-drop quantities at designated locations
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in Kentucky. Officials were bribed to look the other way, or
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were consulted to help manage the operation. This may have
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been the real beginnings of the corruption that lead to
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Operation BOPTROT.
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What, specifically, the more-recently elected
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Governor Paul Patton was involved in remains to be seen.
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But the AOD says his days are numbered.
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August 3, 1996
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