The Miami FBI Office

Some have said that the FBI Office in Miami works hand in glove with the Cuban American Right in Miami. When the Miami FBI office arrested Cuban-born INS agent Mariano Faget for espionage, the Cuban government accused the Miami FBI office of framing him.  In an article in Granma, Havana's daily newspaper, the Miami FBI was described as headed by the brother of an attorney who represented one of several Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) terrorists caught by the US in a small boat off Puerto Rico. They were on a mission to assassinate Fidel Castro...  The charges were dismissed after an all out effort by the right wing CANF to sway the jury. We might well ask, what is going on here?  If we go by published reports alone, there are a lot of interesting and disturbing materials, once you start putting it together.

Hector M. Pesquera has been Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Miami FBI office since February 1999 -- see AP article on Hector's nomination to SAC, "Special agent from Puerto Rico named FBI chief in Miami," (2/98).  The attorney who got a Cuban American National Foundation associate off from attempted assassination charges in Puerto Rico is Ricardo Pesquera -- see IPS article on a CANF plotter's lawyer, "POLITICS-US: Tug-of-War on Cuba Policy,"  (5/98).  Interestingly enough, Hector Pesquera became SAC in 2/98 when the CANF case was in full swing. And even more interesting, he was SAC in Puerto Rico while the case broke:

"You don't go out on a fishing expedition with .50 caliber weapons," said Hector M. Pesquera, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's office in San Juan. "It doesn't compute. We have got to pursue this. Most likely, additional defendants and counts will be added."

This is from the New York Times article, "Investigation Leads to Plot to Kill Castro by Powerful Cuban Lobby," 3/5/99.

Is Hector the brother of Ricardo?  Don't know yet, but there's more to come. A little noticed story that came in the wake of the arrest of the CANF hoods in the assassination attempt was "Castro death-plot defendant charged in drug case," in the Miami Herald January 25, 1999.  We are not talking small amounts:

"Juan Bautista Marquez ...was arrested again last week on a seven-count indictment accusing him of importing 365 kilos of cocaine, conspiracy to import up to 2,000 kilos and money laundering, said DEA spokeswoman Pam Brown."

This points to an oft recurring theme in the intelligence world: many terrorist activities and undeclared wars are financed through the drug trade.

Looking further, we find that the Canadian Mounties had a warrant out for Miami FBI agent Terry Nelson for felony drug conspiracy in 1998.  As the electronic measures defending the southern skies have been reinforced, drug cartels have increasingly turned to the northern US border as a softer target... Whatever happened to the Nelson case?   Is it a tip of the iceberg indication of the links between FBI and their supposed criminal targets, like the FBI - Bulger relationship in Boston? From a detailed article in 1998:

"The reported four-count sealed indictment in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan names FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson of the Miami FBI office, said to be the current head of FBI counter-intelligence in the Caribbean Basin." 

See "Miami Vice, Montana Blues" for the rest of this story.  Also take a look at "Murder and Drug Running in Montana,"   published in the Feb. 23, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly for more on the context of agent Nelson's activities in Montana.

Let us also recall the important role that Cuban Americans in Miami have traditionally played in drug trafficking, as discussed in "Felix Rodriguez: Coca Contra Airport Manager."  What could the relationship be between the Cuban American Right, which has long financed its terrorist operations through drug smuggling, and an FBI office that seems to be up to its neck in white powder? For an indication of just how cosy that relationship is and the context within which it operates, see "Anti-Castro plots seldom lead to jail in U.S.," published 7/23/98 in the Miami Herald.

And finally, as an example of the professionalism and rectitude of the Miami FBI office, we can point to a story that went national March 9, 2000, on ABC's 20/20: a Miami FBI agent killed two righteous young men of Jamaican descent and was protected by his fellow agents who shielded him from an investigation and tampered with the evidence.  See "Fatal Crash Raises Questions: Did Florida Investigators Try to Protect FBI Agent at Expense of Victims?"

This brings us back to our starting point of Miami FBI's arrest of INS officer Mariano Faget.  José G. Pérez has delivered several lucid analyses of the weaknesses in that case and how the FBI sting was really a hoax from the beginning, with ever increasing theatrics, such as the FBI request to have any Faget attorney obtain a security clearance, thereby giving them control over who that attorney is: COINTELPRO Rises Again (2/19/00), and The Faget case: an attack on Elian's repatriation and the rights of all Americans, (3/7/00).

Clearly more work can be done on this story.  But we have established that there is a basis for grave concern over the integrity and functional capacity of the Miami FBI office.  We are encountering this corruption at a time when many communities continue to be torn apart by drugs and high levels of incarceration, thanks in part to racially motivated crack cocaine sentencing disparities and other measures. The local crack dealer gets these drugs from somewhere, they are not the ones importing 2,000 kilos.  It is a matter of grave national interest for the United States that this FBI office be brought under control.

Update: I view with great suspicion the new information that Hector Pesquera, the FBI SAC (Special Agent in Charge) in Miami, was the one who personally entrapped Faget:

"The FBI set up a sting  operation to test whether Faget could keep a secret.   

Hector Pesquera, special agent in charge of the Miami FBI  office, visited Faget in his office and told him that Molina was  secretly planning to defect. He told Faget not to disclose the  information because it was classified. 

Twelve minutes later, Faget phoned childhood friend and  business associate Pedro Font in New York, and told him about  the supposed "defection," court documents said. " -- ABC News, 3/24 http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/reuters20000324_3169.html

So the Cuban diplomat Imperatori was expelled on Hector's whim. And no news media appear to be making the connections.  How curious!

And finally, as a bonus, the agent now quoted as spokesman for the Miami FBI office is none other that our friend Terry Nelson, freshly back from the wilds of Montana and the travails of large scale cocaine trafficking!!!!!!!!

Update 10/03:

Interview with Chip Tatum, Regarding Terry Nelson & Montana Drugs, Chuck Hayes, etc., 3/4/98  www.aci.net/kalliste/tatumint.htm

TATUM: Not at all. That house I met Terry Nelson at in southeast Florida was Bush's mother's house.

QUESTION: Is that right?

TATUM: Yes. Nelson sits right on top. He carries the badge of any agency he wants. He'll never come down over this.

QUESTION: He will never come down?

TATUM: Never.

A longer version appears on
www.stewwebb.com/I-CIA%20Gene%20Chip%20Tatum%20FBI%20
Terry%20Nelson%20&%20Montana%20Drugs%20032797.html

Entry in NamaBase:
www.namebase.org/xnau/Terry-_28fbi_29-Nelson.html

Skolnick's Report, 3/18/01- www.skolnicksreport.com/pgate.html

"An aircraft departs Colombia, flies to the Bahamas to rest and refuel, and then, when a weather window opens, continues the flight to Nova Scotia or Quebec. Again, rest and refuel. Then continue to a US-Canadian border landing strip." The former operative goes on to detail the acts and doings of FBI Senior Agent Terry Nelson, of southern Florida FBI office, who has business and relatives near the U.S., Montana-Canada border "Nelson not only recruits the law enforcement officials and politicians he needs, he can also supply data from the law enforcement arena such as the DEA NADDIS computer, Customs TECS II, EPIC, FBI, and others involved in ongoing investigations. Nelson then provides this intelligence to his drug contacts. This helps obstruct any investigation and diffuse potential problems. Terry Nelson, a senior agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, continues to provide his valuable services to drug cartels and others who will pay his fee, out of his FBI office in southern Florida." Excerpts from "DRUGGING AMERICA" by Rodney Stich, page 297, and page 294 as to Barry Seal, chapter on "Montana Drug Gateway". 1999, Diabolo Western Press, P.O. Box 5, Alamo, California 94507.

We are please to see our story cited on NativeWeb, under the Leonard Peltier directory:
ishgooda.nativeweb.org/peltier/cointelpro/miamifbi.htm
"You can shackle the man, but not the spirit."

Well, lots of crazy people claim lots of things don't they ?? So Paul Richardson (tel:605-341-0011) thought he'd prove these uppity indiginous people wrong. FBI involved in drug dealing !!! "You must be joking," Paul thought as he dialed the phone to contact sources at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) offices in Regina, Saskatchewan. Soon Paul Richardson was stunned.

I imagine the conversation went something like this : "Yes, inded Mr Richardon we do have a felony drug conspiracy warrant against Miami FBI agent Terry Nelson, and as you well know Sir, we always get our man..eh." Probably the line was delivered by a square jawed, flat brimmed hat adorned, red coated Mountie with typically serene politeness. Well, maybe not.

But the RCMP did advise journalist Richardon there were felony warrants outstanding for the intrepid FBI agent Terry Nelson. A warrant also exists for Mr Nelson's failure to appear in court. Other information begins to turn up as well. Terry Nelson owns a lot of houses all over everywhere. He's got a beautiful place in Montreal.Got a nice place mear Miami, too. He's even got a place in Kentucky some say. Mr Nelson has done very well for himself.

So, how does one go about contacting the RCMP in Regina? Well. It helps to be a journalist, lawyer, or a law enforcement officer, but the matter is public record. Here are a few starter phone numbers for you news hungry newshounds.

RCMP- Saskatchewan Provinvial Offices

• (306) 842-4651
• (306) 927-2455
• (306) 780-5560

Information concerning RCMP Justice Inquiry

• (306)787-8971

With a little chutzpah a person can even find out who the investigators were. And, if you're starting from scratch you can even figure out how to get some of the flight plans. Be sure to ask about the airstrips around Weyburn.

As far as I know there's never been a case where a US FBI agent has been indicted for conspiracy to deliver and/or distribute drugs in any other country. You are surely aware there's been suspicions, such as the investigation of the FBI agent in Bogota, Columbia who is suspected of selling the entire DEA database to the Cali-Medellin cartel. That's just a blip on the screne when you realize agent Terry Nelson's operation involves billions of dollars in heroin and cocaine. Where Oh Where could somebody spend that kind of money ???? Oh boy.

...But hey it ain't over yet. There's still some other details to pick up on. Things like the financial transactions involving billions of dollars of heroin and cocaine money. Can it be traced ?? Sure. As soon as permission is given I'll even start providing you with the names of pilots and Canadian undercover drug informants. They'll be able to help with the details, and we'll gladly refute the Main Justice story that FBI agent was "working undercover" and that "it was all just a mistake".Maybe somebody at Main Justice in Washington D.C. can explain why four law enforcemnt officers lost their jobs in Chinook when they began to track drug flights.Or why City councilman Hobbs' investigation was spiked in Sidney. Or why a few witnesses ended up dead on the Fort Peck reservation.

Oh yea...(to quote Detective Colombo) did you know that FBI agent Terry Nelson is involved with one of the top secret Operational Subgroups (OSG)? Stay tuned.

See http://www.copi.com/articles/Montana/980120YS.html for the rest of the article

FBI Agent Implicated in Montana 'Big Sky Cartel'
by Documentary Filmmaker Daniel Hopsicker
© MadCow Productions, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

In a stunning reminder that the last major scandal which engulfed America was successfully covered up, a former Iran/Contra operative stationed in Miami has reportedly been indicted as the ringleader of a massive drug smuggling operation that could reveal that Oliver North's infamous Enterprise is still operational. The reported four-count sealed indictment in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan names FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson of the Miami FBI office, said to be the current head of FBI counter-intelligence in the Caribbean Basin.

In a related development, court documents recently unearthed also implicate Special Agent Nelson as taking part in a government ring providing protection for the so-called Dixie Mafia drug running organization. Including previously-sealed court transcripts concerning some of the biggest drug trials of the 80's, (like that of General Manuel Noriega) the newly-uncovered files contain damaging information about Federal Judges, U.S. Attorneys, DEA, Customs, and Coast Guard officials, and at least one U.S. Senator, all acting in concert to protect from discovery and prosecution an operation importing tons of cocaine and other illegal drugs, often under the cloak of federally-sanctioned law enforcement 'sting' operations.

...And according to court documents in our possession, investigators discovered that during the height of the drug trafficking through John Hull's ranch in Central America, FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson of the Miami office owned the ranch next door...

... in October of 1988 FBI Agent Nelson was informed about one such massive operation, involving approximately ten flights of cocaine weighing 8-10 tons EACH, scheduled for importation into the United States.

This information came to light over a year later when a commercial warehouse in Selma California was discovered to contain 20 tons of cocaine, that had arrived as part of this so-called Operation Trampoline. At the subsequent trial, Mr. Nelson's prior knowledge of these flights was established, but somehow not found interesting enough to warrant further investigation.

Thus Nelson is suspected--by more than a few knowledgeable observers of the passing Miami parade-to have been involved with a cabal of corrupt government officials that includes federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, DEA agents, Customs and Coast Guard officers, local sheriffs and state law enforcement.

Some of these government officials, named as Nelson associates in court proceedings, have already been convicted of drug trafficking felonies. Others are suspected of using their positions of trust --government law enforcement positions and judicial and prosecutorial appointments in America's so-called 'War on Drugs'-- to directly aid and abet a drug trafficking network estimated to have imported into the United States billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other narcotics from Central and South America.

Nelson is a figure of enough prominence within this community to have been labeled by one wag as "the Bureau's Liaison Officer with the Dark Side."

For the full article, see: http://www.copi.com/articles/Montana/MiamiVice/

See also the Deep Times site, http://www.copi.com, and their page on Montana, which covers the Miami FBI story and its ramifications deep into the heartland: http://www.copi.com/articles/Montana/

By ALFONSO CHARDY, GERARDO REYES and FABIOLA SANTIAGO
Herald Staff Writers

Two top officials of the influential Cuban American National Foundation [CANF] are expected to be indicted next week by a U.S. grand jury in Puerto Rico in a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a trip to Venezuela's Margarita Island, their
attorneys said Thursday.

The indictment against foundation president Francisco ``Pepe'' Hernandez and director Jose Antonio ``Toñin'' Llama is expected to be issued Tuesday. It caps a vigorous investigation that began 10 months ago when the U.S. Coast Guard
stopped a boat carrying weapons, ammunition and military supplies off Puerto Rico.

See the rest at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/cuba/indictment.htm