By Wayne Madsen/Rock Creek Free Press

A top US intelligence source told WMR (Wayne Madsen Reports) that the CIA’s involvement in procuring children in Thailand for the purpose of engaging in sexual trysts with visiting VIPs from the United States, including members of Congress and high administration officials, began in earnest in 1978.

In fact, WMR has been told, the operations at one point in time were run out of the CIA station in Bangkok and were directed by the deputy chief of station. The CIA station cooperated with American “procurers” who were working in Thailand to arrange for the encounters between children and the VIPs. The CIA’s motivation was simple: the VIPs were later subject to blackmail if they failed to support the incumbent administration’s policies.

WMR reported in February 2008, on US diplomats and intelligence agents in Southeast Asia who have participated, aided, and abetted in the sexual abuse and trafficking of children. Since that time, the only bright spot was the December 2007 early retirement and departure of US ambassador to Thailand Ralph Boyce, who was repeatedly accused over the years of failing to take action against US diplomats and their local interlocutors in countries where he was assigned as ambassador, including Thailand and Indonesia.

WMR has also learned that the CIA is pressuring local media outlets that report on the widespread abuse of children involving Americans in general and diplomats and American VIPs in particular. Some of the money used to silence the local media is being laundered by the agency through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

This editor has personally requested assistance from Congress to investigate and curtail the sexual abuse of children by US diplomats and intelligence agents. However, given the fact that the abuse also involves members of Congress and their staff, the requests have been met with stony silence.

One major problem for the activists is that many ‘established’ and ‘recognized’ non-government organizations (NGOs) dedicated to the anti-pedophile cause are ciphers for larger organizations that want to divert attention and obfuscate about the actual perpetrators of pedophile activities. These include local NGOs supported by the Roman Catholic Church and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID has long been a financial pass-through for the CIA.”

On July 16, 2007, WMR reported that the US Embassy in Bangkok’s Homeland Security office and CIA station assisted in exfiltrating John Mark Karr, arrested by Thai police on sex charges but later accused of murdering Jon Benet Ramsey. All criminal charges against Karr were later dropped.

“Karr had been charged with previous child pornography crimes in the United States. After he jumped bail in the United States before his California trial on child pornography charges, Karr surfaced in various countries known as havens for pedophiles — Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Honduras, South Korea, and finally, Thailand. In Thailand, Karr ended up teaching affluent Thai and foreign children at three elite international schools in Bangkok.

Karr, it will be remembered, publicly claimed after his arrest in Thailand in 2007, to have been present at the murder of 6-year old Jon Benet Ramsey in 1996 in Boulder, Colorado.

After Karr was arrested by Thai police on what was reported to be “unspecified sex charges” the US embassy, the CIA station in Bangkok, and the Department of Homeland Security, arranged for Karr’s hasty departure from Thailand to face charges in the Ramsey murder case. Karr was flown, un-handcuffed and sipping champagne, in business class from Bangkok to Los Angeles on Thai International Airways, courtesy of the American taxpayer. Why?

For a California schoolteacher, arrested in April 2001 for possession of child pornography, losing his teaching license, and vanishing into thin air after serving six months in a California jail, Karr led a charmed life in an upscale neighborhood of Bangkok. After Boulder, Colorado authorities determined that Karr lied about killing Ramsey, Sonoma County, California prosecutors discovered that the computer containing the child pornography images for which Karr was originally arrested in April 2001 was missing. As a result, all criminal charges from that case were dropped against Karr.

End of story?

Not quite. Karr is a public face for the tip of a huge pedophile iceberg operating within the bowels of America’s diplomatic and foreign business communities in Asia.

Former Jakarta Post editor Finnegan believes that John Mark Karr was a typical intelligence ‘cut out’ for the embassy in Bangkok, one whose major job for the embassy was to procure underage children for sex with visiting VIPs and senior diplomats. In fact, Bangkok is a major stopping point for US members of Congress on “junkets.” This editor has identified a number of House members who have visited Bangkok on numerous occasions. All of them are Republicans.

Because Karr was smart enough to spread out incriminating evidence he possessed of embassy involvement, they had no other choice but to extricate him from Thailand when he ran afoul of the local authorities. It was under the protection of the US embassy that Karr was spirited out of Thailand. It is clear that the Ramsey story was a ruse cooked up by the US embassy to create such a firestorm of media attention that the Thai authorities, who had come under the rule of a military junta in a coup a few weeks earlier, had no other choice but to release Karr to the Americans.

One American anti-pedophile activist named Sean Parlaman investigated the smuggling of children from the Thai-Burmese border into Thailand and beyond for purposes of prostitution. In 1997, Parlaman wrote, “At an age when we would regard them as still being children, over a thousand young girls from northern Thailand are being lured every year into prostitution. Girls, as young as 10, are being sold to the brothels of Bangkok, other Thai cities and overseas.” The young girls would be spirited out of Thailand to places like Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Marianas, where they would be used as child laborers and prostitutes. Joining the children from the Thai-Burmese border were young underage Vietnamese girls spirited from Vietnam through Cambodia for further transport to Saipan.

The child sex slave and slave labor status quo in Saipan was pushed by such Republicans as Tom DeLay, Ralph Hall, then-Representative Bob Riley of Alabama, and James Doolittle. The reason for Saipan becoming the ‘Guantanamo Bay of child slavery and prostitution’ was simple — the island’s sweat shops and corrupt government had a powerful GOP lobbyist working for them, Jack Abramoff.

Parlaman’s crusade against pedophiles and their enablers eventually landed him in hot water with his enemies. –On September 30, 2002, Parlaman was accused by Thai police of sexually molesting a 12-year old boy who was staying at one of the dodgy street kids’ organizations that Parlaman felt were part of the problem, not the solution. No reputable person familiar with Parlaman’s work and dedication believed the story about his being a molester, including the reporters and editors of the Pattaya Mail newspaper.

When police arrived at Parlaman’s Star Beach Condominium on November 23, 2002, to take him to the police station for further questioning, Parlaman, meeting them in the lobby, told the police he had to go upstairs to give his car and condo keys to a friend for safekeeping. Police later claimed that Parlaman jumped from his 15th floor condo unit to his death.

Police quickly ceased their investigation of Parlaman for the alleged child abuse. Parlaman’s body was transported to the police forensics institute in Bangkok where it was autopsied and then cremated. The US embassy never intervened in the highly improper procedure for a US citizen who died from suspicious causes.

The confirmation about the CIA’s use of children for prostitution in Thailand is the first by any top US intelligence source and constitutes a major break in the story.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He is a frequent political and national security commentator on Television News and is a regular contributor to Russia Today. Madsen is the author of Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates and Overthrow a Fascist Regime on $15 a Day.

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