The Drugging of America
Since 1978, Freedom has also published an ongoing series of articles entitled “The Drugging of America” which has exposed reports of drug smuggling, money laundering and related illegal activities involving government figures.
With the help of local, state and federal law enforcement officials, as well as members of the news media, Freedom presented accounts of how, in the 1970s and 1980s, an international, multibillion-dollar cocaine transport operation established itself on American soil and operated with the knowledge or even cooperation of certain government officials.
As described in the series, corrupt officials allegedly helped to cover up illegalities that included unique aircraft modifications so literally tons of drugs could be flown into the United States and weapons transported out.
As part of one clandestine operation, known as Operation Watchtower, 106 aircraft flights, allegedly bearing cocaine, were made between Colombia and Panama, with the help of U.S. Special Forces personnel. The ultimate destination for much of the cocaine: the United States.
The author of the articles on Operation Watchtower, the late Colonel William Wilson, had worked with the Army’s Office of the Inspector General and was the officer primarily responsible for documenting the March 16, 1968 slaying of 347 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by American troops at My Lai.
Wilson turned to Freedom to publish results of his research into government involvement in drug trafficking. As he put it, he felt he had nowhere else to go with a story that was so haunted by terror and unexplained death that it eclipsed anything he had encountered during his investigation into the My Lai tragedy.
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