1st True Cocaine Submarine: (these Dudes are seriously dedicated to winning the War on Drugs)

A recently discovered drug-smuggling submarine lies half submerged, deep in a mangrove swamp in Colombia. The diesel vehicle is the first fully submersible drug sub ever to be captured by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the South American country.

Swamp Thing
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The hundred-foot-long (30-meter-long) fiberglass sub can carry a crew of six underwater for more than a week, dive some 30 feet (9 meters) below the surface, and ferry about eight tons of drugs worth an estimated quarter of a billion U.S. dollars. "That's a far greater payload than a speedboat can transport and certainly more than a human drug mule can carry in their stomach,"

Sophisticated Sub
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Until recently, the technology for coc aine-smuggling subs has been crude—the vehicles were cramped and could only partially submerge, for instance. But the recently captured fully submersible drug sub (pictured) displayed a level of sophistication that impressed even the DEA agents. The vehicle, for example, includes a GPS-tracking satellite dish for navigation, advanced plumbing and electricity, air conditioning, bunks, a periscope with remote cameras, and even a proper toilet.

Cocaine Sub Test Run
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Standing aboard a previously seized semisubmersible coc aine sub, a member of the Colombian Coast Guard helps test the vehicle's seagoing capabilities. The DEA is uncertain how many fully submersible drug subs—like the one recently found in a Colombian mangrove swamp—are currently in operation. What's more, the agency sees an even greater threat looming on the horizon: remote control coc aine subs.

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The following pic/info is from a National Geograpic "sister story":

Cocaine Submarine Pictures: New Seizure Shows Advances
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Ecuadorian police pose atop what U.S. officials called a "game changing"submarine built by drug smugglers on July 2 near the town of San Lorenzo, just south of the Colombian border. Unlike previous known "coc aine subs," which could dip only just below the surface, the illegal craft appears capable of diving as deep as 65 feet (20 meters).

Seized before its maiden voyage, the 98-foot-long (30-meter-long) fiberglass sub was big enough to hold six to ten tons of coc aine and six crew members. With a ballast system never before seen in a coc aine sub, the handmade sub suggests smugglers are rapidly improving on the more common, semisubmersible designs, which are already difficult to detect.

Cocaine-Sub Stash
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Six tons of coc aine—from a 32-foot-long (10-meter-long) coc aine submarine seized off Mexico's Pacific coast—sit on a Salina Cruz (map) dock in 2008. A typical coc aine sub—most of which are never discovered—can carry four to ten tons of the drug.

Russian Drug Sub?
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Pictured in the Bogotá, Colombia, warehouse where it was confiscated in 2000, this hundred-foot (30-meter) narco-sub was found surrounded with Russian-language design documents. It could have carried at least 150 tons of coc aine or heroin, according to Colombian national police.

Source: news.nationalgeographic.com... aine-submarines-subs-smuggling-drugs-world-crime-pictures/#/coc ai ne-sub-seized-fiberglass-swamp_23284_600x450.jpg

Wow, pretty amazing stuff and an amazing display of courage on the drug sailors part. You wouldn't catch my butt in one of those, especially ladened with tons of drugs. Honest to Pete.

I believe the term many use now-a-days to describe the whole War on Drugs.... The Forgotten War on Drugs.
I sure hope we/the USA is just being hush hush about what they are doing to combat this problem. Because if they aren't doing anything or much of anything, we are doomed from this angle now.

With all the things eroding the USA foundation away, it is just a matter of time before it collapes. The Time is Now to start to take America Back and make it the way we want it. IMO.

I would love to know more about this Russina sub one. I hope the US Navy and/or Coast Guard blows these suckers right out of the water when discovered. Seriously.

We are at war with the Drug Smugglers.... Will or Are they MORE determined than us to win it?

We are at war with the Drug Smugglers.... Will or Are they MORE determined than us to win it?

I don't think the war is meant to be won. Controlled is more likely.

Just think about how we destroyed the Colombian Cartels (Pablo Escobar) and Colombia still plays a major role in the business.And let's not forget our own government's history of smuggling.

they should use these subs to go AFTER the OTHER drug subs

Locally about every 2 weeks they make a major bust on the highway between Chicago and Detroit. They say it's luck but most realize they let them capture some cash and drugs to keep the cops happy and the little guys nervous. They probably get the local cops 100k$ a month around here and it's always the same SUPER cop that gets the bust. Everybody wonders how much he lets go

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Dude, that got me laughing a lot this morning.

Looking at your mini-pic avatar and reading that... gut buster.

Star... for a good idea.

Pack it full of SEAL TEAM 6ers... send it into the enemy production camp.... Beep Beep..."We're here...."

Old news, old pictures.

It does show an impresive amount of dedication on the part of the drug smugglers though.

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Some older pics but the origianl story-a REAL SUB, that was recent (April I believe). Takes sometime to get the info out as I am sure the Drug Cops analized it well.

I found this cute video. You are right, they have been doing things for a while.

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I heard about this quite some time ago.

No clue why no one thought of it sooner though.

Surplus military hardware is easy enough to come by especially if you have access to cash.

Then again I've never supported the War on Drugs because it is not truly a war.

Even though I am fully anti-drugs because it is illegal.

A real war has a plan to eventually end after winning it.

If the Drug Enforcement Administration were serious they would push to go to the source.

Speaking of course of the source of the drugs like the Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent.

And of course there is Columbia.

The problem lies in that the D.E.A. only has a national Law Enforcement charter.

Meaning arrest and various other capabilities within the United States.

Going outside the U.S. they only have an intelligence gathering mandate.

Not to mention the Central Intelligence Agency is putting a majority of these people into power.

A good source to read more in depth information about the corruption :

F.A.S. : A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking

June 1975 is a particularly interesting one considering an entire book was written on it.

The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace

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Quote from : The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace : Excerpt

[Page 3:] The inhabitants of the earth spend more money on illegal drugs than they spend on food. More than they spend on housing, clothes, education, medical care, or any other product or service. The international narcotics industry is the largest growth industry in the world. Its annual revenues exceed half a trillion dollars -- three times the value of all United States currency in circulation, more than the gross national products of all but a half dozen of the major industrialized nations.

To imagine the immensity of such wealth consider this: A million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a large man. A half-trillion dollars would weigh more than the entire population of Washington, D.C. Narcotics industry profits, secretly stockpiled in countries competing for the business, draw interest exceeding $3 million per hour. To what use will this money eventually be put? What will be its ultimate effect? Though everyone knows narcotics is big business, its truly staggering dimensions have never been fully publicized.

The statistics on which the above statements are based appear in classified documents prepared with the participation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. These studies are circulated in numbered copies with warnings of "criminal sanctions" for unauthorized disclosure. Why is this information withheld from public view?

The international narcotics industry is, in fact, not an industry at all, but an empire. Sovereign, proud, expansionist, this Underground Empire, though frequently torn by internal struggle, never fails to present a solid front to the world at large. It has become today as ruthlessly acquisitive and exploitative as any nineteenth-century imperial kingdom, as far-reaching as the British Empire, as determinedly cohesive as the states of the American republic.

Aggressive and violent by nature, the Underground Empire maintains its own armies, diplomats, intelligence services, banks, merchant fleets, and air lines. It seeks to extend its dominance by any means, from clandestine subversion to open warfare. Legitimate nations combat its agents within their own borders, but effectively ignore its power internationally.

The United States government, while launching cosmetic "wars" on drugs and crime, has rarely attacked the Empire abroad, has never substantially diminished its international power, and does not today seriously challenge its growing threat to world stability. Why is this so? Do the world's governments not want to eliminate this expanding source of criminal wealth and power?

Has there in fact never been an attempt to mount a truly effective global assault against it? Has there never existed -- does there not exist today -- some hidden, unpublicized, international force struggling against the Underground Empire?

The book is about an organization once called Centac.

Short for Central Tactical Unit when it existed.

It was actually shutting down entire drug empires one by one.

Until the C.I.A., D.E.A., and F.B.I. hamstrung and killed it due to territorial infighting.

All of this of course was due to the nonsense in Washington where funding is everything.

Where going to war against other Law Enforcement agencies is a common thing.

A decent book on some actual headway and major screw ups :

Inside the D.E.A.

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Amazon Review :

A crime novel of intrigue, deceit and treachery. This true story follows the twenty five year career of a Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent from rookie on the streets of New York City to senior manager of DEA's money laundering undercover operations on three continents. His story parallels his professional life with the growth of coc aine use in the United States and the proliferation of its trade into a multi-billion international industry.

Whether it be the Mafia, La Costra Nostra, the Colombian Cartels, Mexican Syndicates or the Russian Mob, Tom Clifford's undercover shell corporations and financial storefront businesses penetrated into the inner financial world of the Drug Kingpins.

By establishing undercover store fronts in different cities in the United States, Canada and Europe, the undercover operations were the largest enterprises established by the United States government to counteract the money laundering activities of organized crime. Clifford proves that the globalization of crime is here and the cooperation between different national crime organizations forebodes a dark vision for our social, economic and political systems.

The book contains lessons and strategies from the failed War on Drugs that need to be modernized for our present War on Terror.

Too bad that the War on Drugs was never begun to actually win.

It was created as an Ouroborus a self-eating snake to waste money.

And make the appearance of actually committing to a cause while screwing America in the process

Originally posted by anon72

We are at war with the Drug Smugglers.... Will or Are they MORE determined than us to win it?

You are a Prohibitionist? Not I. I cannot in good conscience back any kind of tyrannical policies. The forces that wish to control substances, inflate their prices with an illicit market, and use drug-control policies in order to invade previously held privacies have declared "war." In so doing they are responsible for the ill consequences wrought.

Freedom lovers will have to continue the struggle to wrest their rights from those who wish to deprive them of those. In so doing they will have had to make unholy alliances with a new force of criminal soldiers that those policies have given birth to and empowered. When the first tier of tyrants have fallen, and they will as they always have, then the freedom fighters will likely be forced to battle those with whom they've had to ally.

Living free takes determination but it is among the most compelling forces that drives the human spirit. Man has engaged in this struggle throughout his existence and will continue to do so. It seems neverending but always determined.

To think they could have avoided this by giving to the people's will in the 60's or 70's. Instead they have chosen to profiteer by creating an illicit market and perpetuating human misery in the pursuit of economic gain. They must have known they would bring other eager palyers to the table

Yes, I believe there is determination to fight that disease of tyranny and corruption called prohibition.

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Call me what you want but regardless, I DON'T want massive amounts of Coke coming into America.

Call me Crazy but really, not much good will come from it. Trust me...... (although I think you already know that).

Coke isn't Weed. None of the hard stuff can even be classified in the same group as Weed. That argument doesn't cut it with me.