Celerino Castillo III

Celerino Castillo (born 1949) is a former agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. His father was a decorated veteran of World War II, who had been shot six times by the Japanese. In 1970, Castillo was told by his father that he was expected to fight in the Vietnam War, even though as an only son, he was not required to. As a loyal and dutiful son, Castillo followed the orders of his father and distinguished himself in the jungles of Vietnam. While in Vietnam, Castillo witnessed firsthand the effects of drug abuse on his soldiers. He vowed to return to U.S. so that he could fight against drugs.

In March 2008, Celerino Castillo was arrested for numerous federal firearms violations. On his website, Castillo admits to committing these violations.

Contents 1 Military career 2 Education 3 Law Enforcement Career 4 Bibliography 5 See also 6 External links

Military career

Military 1970-1972 Served 6 year in Active, Reserves, and National Guard US Army Sgt. - NCO School - Vietnam Veteran - (Bronze Star)

Education

Graduated 1976 University of Texas–Pan American - BS in Criminal Justice.

Law Enforcement Career

1997–Present Federal courts have accepted Mr. Castillo as an Expert-Witness on Outrageous Government Conduct, Informants, and Racial Profiling. (CONSULTANT)

1994–present Author: "POWDERBURNS" * Cocaine, Contras and The Drug War * Television exclusives on ABC"s Primetime Live, Dateline NBC, and The Discovery Channel. Mr. Castillo has lectured at different universities on the drug war and Latin America Foreign Policy.

1992-1997 Private Investigator

1979-1992 Department of Justice, twelve years with The Drug Enforcement Administration (Special Agent) Specialized in undercover investigation. Was a foreign diplomat for six years in South & Central-America.

1974-1979 Detective Sgt. with a Texas Police Department

Bibliography

• Celerino III Castillo & Dave Harmon (1994). Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War. Sundial. ISBN 0-88962-578-6 (paperback) ISBN 0-8095-4855-0 (hardcover; Borgo Pr; 3rd ed.; 1995). 
• Frederick P. Hitz; Inaba, DS; Sheppard, CW; Newmeyer, JA (1999). "Obscuring Propriety: The CIA and Drugs". International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 12 (4): 448–462. doi:10.1080/088506099304990. PMID 1097168.  Note: Hitz, then CIA Inspector General, was the person who first mentioned the secret agreement between CIA and the Department of Justice, in March 1988, when testifying before the House Intelligence Committee.
• Robert Parry (1999). Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth". Media Consortium. ISBN 1-893517-00-4. 
• Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall (1991). Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21449-8 (paperback, 1998 reprint), ISBN 0-520-07312-6 (hardcover, 1991), ISBN 0-520-07781-4 (paperback, 1992 reprint). 
• Webb, Gary (1998). Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-888363-68-1 (hardcover, 1998), ISBN 1-888363-93-2 (paperback, 1999). 

See also

• Iran-Contra Affair
• Gary Webb
• Powderburns
• Ricky Ross (drug trafficker)
• American Drug War: The Last White Hope
• CIA and Contra's cocaine trafficking in the US
• CIA drug trafficking

External links

• "Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy" a/k/a the Kerry Report Transcripts
• Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States, Volume I: The California Story, CIA
• Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States, Volume II: The Contra Story, CIA
• The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations: Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras, A collection of declassified documents at the National Security Archive
• Oliver North declassified documents at the National Security Archive.
• Snow Job: The Establishment's Papers Do Damage Control for the CIA, By Norman Solomon, in Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's magazine
• Department of Justice: The CIA-Contra-Crack cocaine controversy: A review of the Justice Department's investigations and prosecutions (December, 1997)

• Epilogue (July, 1998)
• Executive Summary
• Table of contents

• Department of Justice: How corrupt have we become? (July, 2009)

• Castillo ordered to report to federal prison

Persondata
Name	Castillo III, Celerino
Alternative names
Short description	Retired Federal Agent
Date of birth	, 1949
Place of birth	Texas, United States
Date of death
Place of death