CRACK THE CIA

Why are narcotics still widely available on our streets, despite billions
spent to combat them? Is it simply a matter of supply and demand, or is it a
matter of government corruption? What is the true nature of the "war on
drugs"?

This weekend, Eugene is the site of an unusual gathering of nationally known
experts on the role of the U.S. government in the drug trade. A regional
Drug Symposium runs from 8 am to 9:30 pm Saturday at Wheeler Pavilion at the
Lane County Fairgrounds. The event is free, but a suggested donation of $5
per session or $20 for the day is requested to help cover expenses.

Local organizer Kris Millegan says the symposium is a day of films, lectures
and panel discussions, and is intended to inform concerned parents,
political leaders, law enforcement personnel and the general public.
Millegan intends to repeat the program in Washington, D.C., later this year.

Millegan says the drug trade is "the biggest industry on this planet." He
also says "an unconstitutional prohibition keeps prices artificially high,
provides astronomical profits, overburdens our justice and penal
institutions, shreds constitutional civil rights and engenders a hypocrisy
that feeds alienation, cynicism and apathy - especially among our youth."

The keynote evening speaker is Peter Dale Scott of the University of
California at Berkeley, author of Cocaine Politics and co-author of The Iran
Contra Connection. He is joined by Michael Ruppert, former Los Angeles
police officer who uncovered CIA complicity in drug importing. Ruppert
publishes From the Wilderness magazine.

Speaker Celerino Castillo is a 12-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement
Administration who served in Central America from 1985 to 1990. He is author
of Powderburns, an expose of CIA and DEA collaboration with drug
traffickers.

Other speakers include Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary
for housing, Rodney Stich, author of Unfriendly Skies, Drugging America and
Defrauding America; Dedon Damathi, co-chair of the Crack the CIA Coalition;
and Daniel Hopsicker, author and filmmaker of In Search of American Drug
Lords.

A complete schedule and biographies of the speakers are available at
ctrl.org/ciadrugssymposium or e-mail Millegan at RoadsEnd@aol.com