Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, Vol. One (Book # 2 of 30 in Defrauding America series.)

by Rodney Stich

Army Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, who had been ordered by the CIA to supervise Operation Watchtower, grew increasingly concerned about its flagrant illegality, and conducted an investigation in an attempt to bring it to a halt. Fearing he might be killed because of his investigation, he prepared a fifteen-page single-spaced affidavit dated March 11, 1980, describing the CIA drug trafficking and other activities. Cutolo gave copies of it to several trusted friends[304] with instructions to release the affidavit to government officials and the media if he was killed or died. He was prophetic. Cutolo was killed, as were several other people working with him to expose the drug trafficking operations. Their deaths, as with dozens of others, protected high U.S. officials and the sordid operations they inflicted upon the United States.