Detachment 202 - During WWII, the US supported the chinese nationalist KMT through the OSS Chief in China, Colonel Paul Helliwell's Detachment 202, against Mao's communist party, using the opium trade to do so through the Green Gang which had funded KMT's leader, Chiang Kai-shek's rise to power.
The Green Gang was further supported by Western benefactors such as the Rockefellers, who established the China Medical Board in 1910, aiding them with legitimate shipments of opium to American heroin labs.
Eventually, this funding would come directly from German fortunes that had been secured and looted by Dulles (head of the OSS) and Wild Bill Donovan. (Assistant Attorney General) Helliwell's efforts culminated in the creation of the Flying Tigers, a private air force for Chiang Kai-shek, later becoming Civil Air Transport, used by the CIA to ship heroin across Southeast Asia.
It was covertly funded by Frank Wisner's OPC (subdivision of the CIA) and operated by Claire Chennault, a former US Army Air Force captain.
Operation X - Operation X was a plan deviced by Helliwell to allow American intelligence to persist without government funding by facilitating the global heroin trade through a network of organized crime elements and warlords to fund their illegal activities post-war, using the growing New York jazz scene as a testing ground. Frank Wisner, head of covert operations in the future CIA, and James Jesus Angleton, the of counterintelligence, developed a working relationship with Meyer Lansky, the mob's accountant, considered the real head of organized crime in America, as he died the richest criminal of his time. He would run all the financial aspects of the global network. Lansky's close associate, Lucky Luciano, was the head of the Commission, who had worked since the end of prohibition with Chinese warlords in Shanghai and Tianjin, importing heroin to the US.
In 1942, the SS Normandy, a French luxury cruise ship that had been converted into a troop transport during the war, was set ablaze by Luciano's cronies in the New York City harbor, and blamed on the Germans. To avoid such further incidents, the Office of Naval Intelligence was forced to guarantee the Luciano-Lansky controlled Dockworkers' Union, and by proxy it's control on the free flow of narcotics from European and Cuban heroin labs. This relationship was established under Operation Underworld, later used to gather intelligence through the mafia network for the invasion of Sicily in exchange for the ealy release of Lucky Luciano. Opium was grown in the plateaus of Indochina, controlled by the nationalist Chinese and Thai warlords that the OSS had helped establish. This opium was shipped by land across Central Asia through Afghanistan, then synthesized in Sicilian heroin labs run by Italian pharmaceutical company, Schipparelli. The pure heroin was shipped by the Sicilian mob in crates of fake wax oranges or sardine cans to the Cuban labs controlled by Santo Trafficante, where it was cut with sugar to increase profit margins. Finally, the cut heroin was shipped from Cuba to the Luciano-controlled docks in New York, where the drugs were sold to African-American jazz artists and patrons in Harlem. Later in this history, the heroin would be shipped across the United States in trucks controlled by mobster Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Union. The unaccountable drug money from the jazz clubs and the Harlem streets was then funneled into General Development Corporation coffers, a shell company created by Helliwell and Meyer Lansky in Miami. This unaccountable company cash was then diverted to the Sicilian mob, who would distribute the funds to underground Gladio operatives, under Operation Gladio, which consisted of former fascists, secret armies, and Vatican officials. (Operation Gladio - Paul williams)
Later in the 50s and '60s, the opium went from being synthesized in sicily to being synthesized in Marseille, controlled by the Corsican mob, instrumental in weakening the French Communist Party and taking control of the French Dockworkers' Union. This trade route between China, France, and the US would be nicknamed The French Connection.
The Golden Triangle - The Golden Triangle was an Opium network controlled by the US under Operation Paper while Paul Helliwell was chief of the Far East Division of the War Department's Strategic Service Unit.
Heroin moved from the KMT in Burma's Shan state, through Thailand under Plaek Phibunsongkhram, to refineries in Laos, practacly down the block from Ted Shackly's station, from where he supervised Operation Momentum, backing Vang Pao's poppy farming Hmong tribesmen (also a source of herion) against the Pathet Lao and Viet Cong, with the help of Air America, (formerly CAT) who sent them food and weapons. From Laos, the product ended up at troop export hubs in South Vietnam, if it hadnt already been moved directly from Laos by Air America.
In 1967 CIA agent Russell Bintliff told the Washington Star in 1976 that PepsiCo had set up a bottling plan in Loas in the early 60s that converted opium into heroin. (william manchester, death of a president, 2013)
Operation Eagle Claw (Iran-Contra) - Between 1979 and the early 90s the US backed rebels known as the Contras against the After the Communist Sandinistas took over Nicuragua, the US backed the rebel Contras to try and overthrow them, but after they got caught commiting torture, rape and attacking civilians, congress cut off their funding. To get around this, Raegan came up with two off the books solutions. One of them
was to fund the Contras with drug proceeds. Gary Webb, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News began to expose this before it was official. He uncovered overwhelming evidence that in the early 80s the main supplier of Freeway Ricky Ross's cocaine distribution network was buying cocaine from a the CIA backed Contras in Nicaragua, purchasing 10 to 15 kilos a week from them by 1983, and selling through the LA Bloods. Webb had his carear ruined by the media and following death in a motel room was ruled a suicide, although the corrinor and his family dissagreed. Later, in 1989 the US senate issued the Carry Report, which admitted that ''individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking.'' Drug trafficking pilot, Barry Seal, who was trained in the Civil Air Patrol by David Ferrie, (helped kill JFK) moved cocaine to Mina Municipal Airport in Arkansas. There's also evicence that two young boys riding their bikes in Arkansas were disposed of after witnessing one of these drug deals.
According to Journalist Bob Fitrakis, Epstein negotiated a bailout with with tax incentives in which Southern Air Transport planes (used in Iran-Contra) were relocated from Miami to Colombus Ohio to be used for a major cargo contract tied to Wexner's retail distribution network. After the relocation, the airline remained under figures drawn from its CIA era. Its owner was a former CIA attorney and its president, William Langton, had overseen arms flights to Israel during Iran-Contra. Basically, they went form moving guns and drugs to Lingerie for Victoria Secret.
Noriega - Manuel Noriega amassed a fortune trafficking drugs from Panama since the late 50s. He was also the CIA's most valued asset in latin america for decades as he not only provided intelligence, but facilitated the delivery of weapons, cash and equipment throughout the region. When the DEA tried to indict Noriega in 1971 the CIA blocked them.
Golden Crescent - Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan comprise what is referred to as the golden crescent, which surpassed the golden triangle in heroin production in 2002.
In Operation, Ajax In 1953, the CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Installing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. His secret police, the SAVAK were known for murdering and torturing people. The Shah's family personally owned vast poppy feilds.
In Operation Cyclone, led by Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, the golden crescent had been utilized for the Mudjahedin to fight the Soviets in Afhganistan, with the US helping transport the opium to refineries in Pakistan. It is estimated that the output made up one half of all heroin entering the US at that time, with US officials admitting in 93 that they had failed to take action because their allies relied on the proceeds. Then the taliban took over in 1996, banning opium productoin in 2000, resulting in a 94% decrease worldwide.
This lasted for about a year, before the American invasion toppled the taliban, restoring opium production, with the help of warlords and drug cartels, some of whome enjoy raping boys: "At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do
anything about it," the Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son
telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to
tell his superiors. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way
because it's their culture." After being told he would be sent home early, Greg Buckly was shot dead by an Afghan trainee who yelled ''I just did jihad'' afterwards. Another soldier, Green beret, Charles Martland, struck a US allied commander for kidnapping and raping a local boy and beating mother for seeking help from the Americans. Martland ended up being discharged, and permenantly removed from Afhganistan. The country was so dependent on opium that it was referred to as a narco state, producing more than 90% of the illicit heroin globally.
Roberto Calvi - Roberto Calvi, referred to as god's banker, is alleged to have been linked with Pablo Escobar. Calvi had close ties with the Vatican bank and was found hanged under the Blackfriars bridge in London after a scandal broke involving the P2 Masonic lodge and the Mafia.
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By: Doug Valentine, Alfred McCoy, Eyes Wide Open, Joshua Roberts, John Kiriakou, Ryan Dawson...
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