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}}'''Jack Blum''' is/was a lawyer who helped [[US/Deep state/Exposure|expose]] the [[US Deep state]].<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-return-of-jack-blum</ref>
 
==Career==
 
==Career==
[[Lawyer]]. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  He played a central role in the [[Lockheed Aircraft bribery]] investigation of the 1970's and in the investigation of the [[BCCI]].
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[[Lawyer]]. He spent fourteen years as a staff attorney with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  
  
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."<ref>[[Mike Ruppert]], http://www.fromthewilderness.com/ssci.shtml</ref>
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===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]].
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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."<ref>[[Mike Ruppert]], [http://web.archive.org/web/20120205052552/http://www.fromthewilderness.com/ssci.shtml Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] saved at [http://archive.is/TXrN9 Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?76157-1/cia-alleged-cocaine-sales</ref> 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==
 
==Later activities==

Latest revision as of 12:54, 9 January 2023

Person.png Jack Blum C-SPANRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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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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