http://www.journeyforjustice.org/j4jUpdate.html Pubdate: 10 Oct 2000 Source: Frontline Copyright: 2000 WGBH Educational Foundation Forum: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/talk/ Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/ Also: see http://npr.org/news/specials/drugwars/ Note: Below is the index with links to each of the interviews provided by this Frontline/PBS series. Archiving these interviews allows research using the MAP power search at http://www.mapinc.org/find 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 - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake