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The topical search consists of the conduct of a remote viewing
session directed against targets whose outcome
is
in future time.
It
is
predictive
in
nature
and
normally
addresses
targets
of
distinctive high interest and public notoriety.
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accidents,
catastrophes,
significant
political/military
events,
significant
human
accomplishments
or
any
other
type
information
that would likely be on front page news.
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This project will be initiated Thursday,
20 Feb 92,
and will
be performed on a regular basis every Thursday for the next month.
This project could be extended.
All inputs are due COB,
each Thursday.
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1 to
6 days
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TASKING SHEET
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DATE
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SEP
SUSPENSE
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SEP
17.00 HRS
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92-104-T
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METHOD / TECHNIQUE :
Method of choice.
3.
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See attached comments—regarding the conduct of
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a
topical
search.
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
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Conduct a topical search for period ending
Sep
9 2
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Approved For Release 2001/03/07
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TOPICAL SEARCH - COMMENTS :
-
The topical search consists of the conduct of a remote viewing
session directed against targets whose outcome is in future time.
It
is
predictive
in
nature
and
normally
addresses
targets
of
distinctive high interest and public notoriety.
-
Targets may include but are not limited to significant events,
accidents,
catastrophes,
significant
political/military
events,
significant
human
accomplishments
or
any
other
type
information
that would likely be on front page news.
-
This project will be initiated Thursday,
20 Feb 92,
and will
be performed on a regular basis every Thursday for the next month.
This project could be extended.
All inputs are due COB,
each Thursday.
-
The "future time window" may be any time between
1 to
6 days
following the Thursday session.
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In 6-Nation
t
Drug Sting
looney Laundering
* [fysrupted, DEA Says
—*—
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|
By Sharon LaFraniere
l
Washington Post Staff Writer
federal drug enforcement
offi-
ces said yesterday they have dis-
rupted the money laundering wing
oflthe
leading Colombian
cocaine
cartel by arresting more than 150
people in six countries and seizing
nearly $42
million
in
illegal drug
profits.
Drug
Enforcement
Administra-
tion
officials
said
the
three-year
undercover effort was the
first
in-
stance of international cooperation
onj a
drug-money-laundering
case
and the first time authorities uncov-
ered enough eyidence
to
link the
Colombian Cali drug cartel to the
Sicilian Mafia.
Among those charged were sev-
J
top money managers for the Cali
I list
ul
cocaine-trafficking
organiza-
„«n,
according to the DEA. Tom
Cl fford, a DEA supervisor
in San
Disgo who coordinated the
inves-
tigation, estimated
that the cartel
stul employs dozens
of other
top
mlney
managers.
But
a
DEA
spokesman said, “we have taken a
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outlawing
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j ilar laws.
Drug Enforcement Administration chief Robert C. Bonner, left, traces money laundering routes used by the Cali cartel.
real bite out of their hide with these
seven guys.”
In
Rome,
a
top-ranking
Italian
police official said the arrests would
damage
the
alliance between
the
Colombian
cartel and
the
Sicilian
Mafia. “We have carried out many
operations with the Americans but
this is the biggest and most signif-
icant,”
said
police
official
Achille
Serra.
After Attorney General William
P. Barr authorized the investigation
in September
1989,
Clifford
said,
DEA
agents
established
a
phony
investment
consulting firm named
Trans Americas Ventures
Associ-
ates. Undercover agents relied on
informants to introduce the “firm”
to the Cali cartel as an efficient col-
lector of drug promts.
“Our whole purpose was to
ar-
range
the
collection
of
funds,"
said
Clifford. “We
.told them we
had. the
capability
to
collect
any-
,,
where
in the world. We
told them
we
had
representatives
jn- other
>
At the suggestion of cartel oper-
atives, he
said, undercover agents
set
up
fake
leather
goods
busi-
nesses,
leasing
warehouses
in
Houston! Fort Lauderdale, Miami,
Chicago and New York. The cartel
members shipped a token amount of
merchandise but pretended to ex-
port much more. That generated
false paperwork they could then use
to justify their Colombian bank de-
posits of illegal drug profits, Clifford
said.
Clifford said
it took a year to es-
tablish the phony corporation, an-
other year to win the trust of the
cartel and a third to actually run the
operation. ^Very slowly, they came
to trust us,H he said.
Just
before
the
arrests,
under-
cover agents arranged
to receive
cocaine shipments that were then
. seized. Three hundred kilos of co-
caine is still “on its way on a boat,”
he said.
Undercover agents were able to
-convince the seven alleged money
brokers to leave Colombia for meet-
ings and parties in San Diego, Costa
Rica and Italy. DEA Administrator
Robert C. Bonner said
that while
some were arrested abroad, he ex-
pects
all seven to be
tried
in the
United States.
^
Bonner
said
112
arrests
took
place
in the United States, 29
in
Italy and the rest
in Canada, Eng-
land, Spain and Costa Rica. Italian
police officials said one defendant,
who had 12 different identities, de-
vised some of the cartel's more in-
genious
methods
of
smuggling
drugs
into Europe.
Italians
identi-
fied
five bogus organizations
that
helped
the
cartel
launder money,
including one posing as an animal
rights group, police said.
About 70 of those arrested in the
United States were “cell heads and
cell members”—worker bees in the
cartel, according
to
Clifford. The
rest were more significant players,
he said.
Special correspondent Clare Pedrick
contributed to this report from Italy
.
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