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LAROUCHEPAC'S INVESTIGATION OF THE BACKGROUND OF
CIA NOMINEE PORTER GOSS

Sept. 15—LAROUCHEPAC'S INVESTIGATION OF THE BACKGROUND OF CIA NOMINEE PORTER GOSS is continuing to yield important leads for the Senate to pursue, in order to prevent his confirmation.For example, we have uncovered an article in the Fort Myers News-Press of February 9, 1996, with the headline, "Top Lee Deputy to Retire" — which includes the following passages:"David Wilson, 53, the top Lee County Sheriff's deputy who has been both a suspect in an international drug smuggling ring and a respected leader in the Lee County Sheriff's Office, has announced his retirement.... [Wilson was] the chief deputy [from 1973 until 1996] .... During the mid-1980s, Wilson came under fire after a fellow deputy claimed he saw Wilson on the airstrip during a drug run gone bad. Federal officials not only discovered that Wilson had sold an airplane to a major drug dealer but also nearly indicted him on drug running charges. Wilson adamantly denies involvement."The investigation of Wilson was the one squelched due to "pressure from higher-ups," which some sources believe to be linked to, or include, Porter Goss.Since the LaRouchePAC memo on this matter was issued to Senate and House personnel on Sept. 13, other leads have been supplied.Honest law enforcement officials, from various agencies, have expressed continuing outrage at the blocking of this investigation and prosecution during the 1980s. Officials who later inherited the investigative files in the relevant agencies asked, with anger, "why is that man still not in prison?" — referring to a powerful Lee County official.Professional staffers for Senator Kerry's Commission noted in the 1980s, that Federal investigators were hot on the trail of other drug flights into the Lee County-Charlotte County area, flights associated with the "Iran-Contra" criminal apparatus. Sen. Kerry himself remarked that "our system of justice had been perverted; that [our covert agencies] had converted themselves into channels for the flow of drugs into the United States."

It is known in law enforcement circles that Congressman Porter Goss is acquainted with circumstances surrounding the Lee County dope saga. The Senate should expect some answers.