Joe Rogan Experience #2560 - David Grusch · Aired Sep 30, 2026
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Former LAPD narcotics officer Michael Ruppert went on C-SPAN and exposed a CIA-linked drug operation in South Central Los Angeles that he had run into while busting dealers, after being told to leave it alone because it was the CIA.
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Joe meant Ruppert ran into the drug activity while making arrests, not that he sold drugs. Ruppert, an LAPD narcotics officer in the 1970s, did confront CIA Director John Deutch on November 15, 1996, at a town hall at Locke High School that C-SPAN recorded, not a formal hearing. He said he had seen the CIA deal drugs, but these were his own claims, never proven, not a documented exposure of the whole network.
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Is it true that Former LAPD narcotics officer Michael Ruppert went on C-SPAN and exposed a CIA-linked drug operation in South Central Los Angeles that he had run into while busting dealers, after being told to leave it alone because it was the CIA?
It leaves out the other side. Joe meant Ruppert ran into the drug activity while making arrests, not that he sold drugs. Ruppert, an LAPD narcotics officer in the 1970s, did confront CIA Director John Deutch on November 15, 1996, at a town hall at Locke High School that C-SPAN recorded, not a formal hearing. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2560 - David Grusch, aired Sep 30, 2026, at 8:48. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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