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News (Media Awareness Project) - US: Index for Frontline's Drug Wars interview transcripts
Title:US: Index for Frontline's Drug Wars interview transcripts
Published On:2000-10-15
Source:Frontline
Fetched On:2008-09-03 05:32:24
Drug Traffickers - Fernando Arenas
For many years, he was a personal pilot for Carlos Lehder, a kingpin in
Colombia's Medellin drug cartel.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1528/a06.html

Drug Traffickers - George Jung
He started out as a youthful marijuana smuggler but got active in
trafficking cocaine into the U.S. during the mid-1970s, working with Carlos
Lehder and his Colombia Medellin cartel.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1529/a01.html

Drug Traffickers - 'David'
He is a black peso broker, buying and selling currency between Colombia and
Florida.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1529/a02.html

Drug Traffickers - Juan David Ochoa
Along with his brothers, he ran the most powerful Medellin drug trafficking
organization.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1530/a01.html

Drug Traffickers - Jorge Ochoa
He and his brothers surrendered voluntarily to the Colombian government in
1990-1991 and served short prison sentences.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1531/a01.html

Drug Traffickers - 'Paul'
He dealt drugs at the local level in New York City, buying large quantities
of cocaine, cooking it into crack and selling it on the streets.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1531/a02.html

Drug Traffickers - 'Steve'
He grew up in the San Diego /Tijuana border area and in the 1990s got into
money laundering and drug trafficking working for a while with Tijuana's
notorious Arellano Felix Organization.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1532/a01.html

Drug Traffickers - Carlos Toro
He became involved in the Medellin cartel in the early 1980s when Carlos
Lehder invited him into the business as the cartel's public relations
representative, managing political pay-offs, bribes and money laundering.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1532/a02.html

Drug Warriors - Bill Alden
He is a retired DEA special agent.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1537/a05.html

Drug Warriors - Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni
He was a commander in the Mexican Federal Police and the top narcotics
officer during the Carlos Salinas administration.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1538/a01.html

Drug Warriors - Andrew Chambers
He was a star undercover informant for the DEA netting 445 dealer arrests
and seizing 1.5 tons of cocaine and $6 million in assets.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1538/a02.html

Drug Warriors - Dick Gregorie
He is Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1539/a01.html

Drug Warriors - Edward Heath
For over ten years he was DEA's agent in charge in Mexico. His primary
target was Felix Gallardo, a Mexican trafficker known as Numero Uno.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1539/a02.html

Drug Warriors - John E. Hensley
A retired U.S. Customs Service special agent, he worked the U.S.-Mexican
border on and off for 30 years.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1539/a03.html

Drug Warriors - Chuck LaBella
He is former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1541/a05.html

Drug Warriors - Heidi Landgraff and Vince de la Montaigne
Landgraff is a group supervisor at the DEA in San Diego and is
investigating the Arellano Felix cartel. De La Montaigne, a retired FBI
special agent, supervised the Arellano Felix Cartel Task Force.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1541/a08.html

Drug Warriors - Bobby Nieves
He was a Special Agent with the DEA,1973- 1995 and served as head of
international operations.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1541/a09.html

Drug Warriors - Greg Passic
He is former DEA chief of financial investigations specializing in money
laundering crimes.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1542/a01.html

Drug Warriors - Robert Stutman
A retired special agent for the DEA, he was Special Agent in Charge for the
New York City office.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1542/a02.html

Drug Warriors - Mike Wald
He is a former FBI agent and a commander at IMPACT, a South Florida police
agency which tracks black peso and other money laundering crimes.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1543/a01.html

Drug Warriors - Myles Ambrose
Appointed by President Nixon in 1972 to coordinate federal/ local forces to
fight drugs and crime on the streets. Ambrose came up with the idea of a
new superagency--the Drug Enforcement Administration which was created in 1973.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1543/a02.html

Drug Warriors - Peter Bourne
He was President Jimmy Carter's controversial drug czar, 1976-1978. Like
many others in U.S. government during the 1970s, he believed cocaine was a
relatively harmless drug.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1543/a03.html

Drug Warriors - Mathea Falco
She was Assistant Secretary of State for Int't Narcotics Matters during the
Carter Administration.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1544/a06.html

Drug Warriors - Michael S. Gelacek
He served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1990-1998 when it
recommended that penalties for crack and powder cocaine be equalized
because of the unfair disparity.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1544/a07.html

Drug Warriors - Egil 'Bud' Krogh, Jr.
While White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs for Richard Nixon, he was
given the task of lowering crime rates in Washington, D.C. This led him to
support a program which treated heroin addicts with methadone.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1544/a08.html

Drug Warriors - Jack Lawn
He was administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration from 1985 to 1989.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1545/a02.html

Drug Warriors - General Barry McCaffrey
He is the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, also
known as the Drug Czar.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1545/a03.html

Drug Warriors - Jonathan Winer
He was U.S. Deputy Ass't Sec'y of State for International Narcotics Matters
1994-1999. He worked on the CIA Inspector-General report which investigated
the Contras and cocaine trafficking.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1546/a01.html

Treatment Experts - Dr. Robert DuPont
He worked with heroin addicts in methadone treatment and continued this
work as head of the Nixon Administration's Narcotics Treatment
Administration, 1970-73.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1546/a04.html

Treatment Experts - Dr. Jerome Jaffee
He is a psychiatrist who became head of President Nixon's drug programs and
set up a network of methadone treatment centers for heroin addicts.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1547/a08.html

Treatment Experts - Dr. Herbert Kleber
He has been a pioneer in the research and treatment of narcotic and cocaine
abuse for over 30 years.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1548/a03.html

Treatment Experts - Dr. Alan I. Leshner
He is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1548/a05.html

Others - Carlos Hank Rohn
He is a Mexican billionaire businessman who owns majority shares in the
Laredo National Bank in Laredo, Texas.The Hank family was publicly linked
to drug trafficking after a U.S. government raw intelligence report about
the family was leaked to the press.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1549/a01.html

Others - Oliver North
While a senior member of the National Security Council under President
Ronald Reagan, he supervised the covert U.S. program to help fund the
Contras in Nicaragua.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1549/a02.html

Others - Gary Jacobs
He is the CEO and President of Laredo National Bank in Laredo, Texas. He
has been the point man in the counterattack launched by Laredo National
Bank, its lawyers and principal shareholder Carlos Hank Rhon after a
blizzard of stories linking them to drug trafficking.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1549/a03.html

Web: Feedback - Eric Sterling, Doug McVay, Jerry Epstein, Larry Stevens
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1549/a04.html
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