The Secret Heartbeat of America - The CIA And Drugs (1997)(DVD ISO 2004)

The Secret Heartbeat of America - The CIA And Drugs (1997)(DVD ISO 2004)

I have a 5 Disk set and this is one of them that was copied from a friends set. I'll share them one at a time.

On a sultry night in 1987, two high schoolers were mysteriously murdered, their bodies strewn across train tracks to be dismembered by a speeding locomotive. This installment of the "Conspiracy" series explores the killings -- later known as "the train deaths" -- which led to an exposé of a massive CIA smuggling operation and raised questions about the U.S. government's involvement in drug and weapons trafficking worldwide.

Covering the 80's cocaine culture in America. Documents the top players and smugglers of the drug trade. How Cocaine is sold to Americans and how the big money made in the drug business in America. How the CIA expanded its monopoly on drug transport during the drug war. CIA (Cocaine Import Agency)

Wow, this is an amazing documentary about the railroad deaths of two boys which leads a crusading mother to discover the largest cocaine drug ring in American history. And guess what? The ring is owned and maintained by the CIA! WHOA!

Editorial Reviews

Daniel Hopsicker is one of those reporters of the good old kind that John Pilger -- one of the best-regarded journalists in the world -- says he is missing more and more: 'Their journalistic experience has taught them to take their time and listen to people; they willingly accept danger and inconvenience to follow leads and collect facts. They look skeptically at the powerful. They are what all reporters really should be, namely real investigative journalists. --www.madcowprod.com

The Shadow Government with the hidden agendas. In August of 1987 in Arkansas, two teenagers were murdered and their bodies were placed across a set of train tracks so their bodies could be dismembered. The reason they were killed was because they saw a drug drop from an aircraft in their vicinity and they couldn't be left alive to report what they saw. These deaths themselves are mired in controversy as explained in this program but they opened up the doorway that sheds light on a massive drug smuggling operation that happened right here in America. The prime location for most of this illegal activity is a place called Mena, Arkansas and the small but extraordinarily busy airport that services this town. This was a base of operations of sorts for aircraft making drug runs to and from South America and ferrying massive amounts of drugs into the United States. Mena has been called the home of Contra gun running, drug smuggling, and covert black operations. It appears that the lucrative nature of this narcotics business is a popular and simple way to fund covert missions when needed (the Iran-Contra scandal is a good example). It was supposed to be mired in secrecy but the government has shown time and again that they are terrible at keeping things quiet but they're experts in damage control, manipulation, lying, and deception. A key player in this story is the C.I.A. and America's chief drug smuggler Barry Seal who ran his own huge smuggling operation during this time. Questions abound regarding Seal as a CIA agent, how much the American government knew and how complicit they were in all of this, and many other things. Thanks to a large assortment of evidence, eyewitness testimony, video footage, and interviews with key players in this documentary, some of it very solid and some of it circumstantial, it shows very disturbing and shocking events that involve many big names high in the government. It also points out agencies that you ordinarily might not expect to be involved in these types of illicit activities. I found this documentary to be quite interesting for the most part and the information contained within is highly controversial and thought provoking to say the least. If even half or most of what is presented here is true, it is a scary look at a dark and menacing side of the American government that isn't held accountable for its actions and it poses a real threat to a healthy democracy. --Kyle Tolle

About the Director
Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist and documentary film producer, as well as the author of "Barry & The Boys: The CIA, The Mob and America s Secret History" and "Welcome to Terrorland - Mohamed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida". His recent documentaries include 'Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus' about the perpetrators of one of history's greatest crimes and the people who helped them including those in the United States, 'In Search of the American Drug Lords' about the Mena, Arkansas Contra/Cocaine scandal and Masters of the Universe' about the Federal Reserve. He is a former business journalist and producer. Secret Heartbeat of America: The CIA and Drugs 110 mins.

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