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| − | '''Celerino Castillo''' is a [[DEA]] employee who spoke up to defend the revelations of [[Gary Webb]].
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| − | ==Career==
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| − | In 1979, he joined the DEA as an enforcement agent fighting in the front-line trenches of America's so called "[[War on Drugs]]", and is best known for blowing the whistle on the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade (Spearheaded by Colonel Oliver North) that was used to prop up the 1980s Contra counter-insurgency in Nicaragua, and for the book that he published on that subject, entitled "'Powder Burns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War'"
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| − | ==Fast and Furious==
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| − | In 2008 (three years before [[Operation Fast and Furious]] came into the public light) Castillo made the revelation to [[reporter]] [[Bill Conroy]] that [[ATF]] agents were participating in the smuggling of high powered weapons into [[Mexico]]. According to Castillo the source of that information was a government informer who was later murdered.
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| − | ==Arrest==
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| − | In March 2008, Celerino Castillo was arrested for selling firearms without a permit (selling legally-purchased weapons without a firearms-dealer permit). He expressed his belief at that time that he was being targeted by the government in retaliation for his long-standing efforts to hold government agencies responsible for their felonious activities. He pled guilty on the advice of his attorney and was sentenced to 37 months in prison.
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