Jack Blum
 Jack Blum    (lawyer) | |
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| Interests | CIA/Drug trafficking |
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Career
Lawyer. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Lockheed/Bribery scandals
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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
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CIA/Drug trafficking
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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."[1][2] 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.[3]
