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==Career==
 
==Career==
 
[[Lawyer]]. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  
 
[[Lawyer]]. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  

Latest revision as of 12:54, 9 January 2023

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InterestsCIA/Drug trafficking
Chief investigator for the Kerry Subcommittee, testified before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about CIA Drug trafficking as part of Iran-contra that "We don't have to investigate. We already know." Also played a central role in the Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation and that of the BCCI.

Jack Blum is/was a lawyer who helped expose the US Deep state.[1]

Career

Lawyer. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Lockheed/Bribery scandals

Full article: Lockheed/Bribery scandals

Jack Blum played a central role in the Lockheed Aircraft bribery investigation of the 1970's and in the investigation of the BCCI.

CIA Drug Trafficking

Full article: Rated 4/5 CIA/Drug trafficking

As chief investigator for the Kerry Subcommittee on narcotics and "terrorism", Jack Blum testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about CIA/Drug trafficking as part of Iran-contra that "We don't have to investigate. We already know."[2][3] During that hearing (at 00:22:08) he also stresses that: "We knew about the connection between the West Coast cocaine trade and the Contras. It was an astonishing case, called the Frogman case. In that case, I believe it was in that case, the United States attorney for San Francisco, a man by the name of Russo Nello, return thirty five thousand dollars of cocaine proceeds - voluntarily - to the Contras. When it had been seized as a proceeds of drug trafficking. We found that absolutely astonishing, I know of no other situation where the Justice Department was so forthcoming in returning seized property."

Later activities

As of 2016, he was treasurer of the Center for International Policy.[4]

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