Opium Wars - In the 1800s, the British fought two successful wars with China to maintain the export and sale of opium, (mainly by the (((Sassoon))) family) following attempts by the Emperor to ban the highly addictive substance in China. By 1900, China's population of 300 million people was made up of 13.5 million opium addicts who consumed some 38,000 tons of opium yearly. Yanks also got in on it. American families gained their fortunes in Shanghai and Hong Kong, shipping large amounts of the narcotic to the United States. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, established their family's fortunes by shipping heroin to the United States.
TACA - Just four years after the formation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, one of its agents, Maurice Halbrant, would stumble across a major operation out of Louisiana. TACA was a cargo airliner. owned by Lowell Yerex from New Zealand and managed by Raymond J. Kenner. They used a furniture company in Louisiana as a front, Star Furniture, run by Isidore Slobroski, himself involved in narcotics trade in Europe. They were getting drugs from Honduras and selling them to the New Orleans Mob Syndicate, whose boss was Sam Corolla, predecessor of Carlos Mochelo. The Carola Syndicate sold the drugs to supply arms to Jose Marina Julian Vales to support a rebellion in Honduras. However, President Tibrosino Carias Andino, who Julian opposed, also turned to selling drugs and also was using the TACA for transport. Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent Maurice Helbrandt was an American who had served as a spy for the British in Palestine during World War I. He was from New York, so he returned to Brooklyn after the war. He got a job working under Henry Anslinger at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Halbrant stumbled over this international arms for drugs ordeal between Julian and the Louisiana mob and the TACA serendipitously, only to discover that they had US government protection. Using an informant, Halbrant caught a middleman, Goindad Aguilera, selling heroin. Upon searching his house, he uncovered $100,000 worth of heroin and a list of guns to buy with the money. The trial led to the TACA manager Ray J. Kennett, who had also been arrested selling heroin in the past. However, Kennett got a reduced sentence, and then the New Orleans Chief of Police, Guy Maloney, coincidentally took a job offer in Honduras as their arsenal inspector. It was a payoff. The State Department ordered that all surveillance of TACA curtailed, and in 1936, Correas won the election and continued smuggling drugs with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics intentionally looking the other way. The TACA then opened cargo services in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The drug operation was left alone as the US government and its corporate backers preferred the political policies of Correos and Honduras. Honduras would later serve as the US launching pad into Central America. Sam Corolla was convicted of murder after he killed a Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent, Cecil Moore, but after two years served, Carolla got a pardon from the Louisiana governor, O.K. Allen, whom he had bribed with the heroin money, which was protected. His heroin racket was protected since his supplier was the TACA, who was in league with the US corporately backed president of Honduras. As a consequence, the New Orleans mob was able to funnel its drug money profits into more legit and illegit businesses, including casinos in the US and Cuba, shared with the New York mafia. (Costello, Lansky, Luciano, and Louis "Lepke" Pickelter of murder inc)
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 the Green Gang 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 during the war culminated in the creation of the Civil Air Transport, a local commercial airline run by the nationalist Chinese government and later the CIA, used to ship heroin across Southeast Asia. It was funder by Frank Wisner's OPC (subdivision of the CIA) and operated by Claire Chennault, a former US Army Air Force captain who had formed a private mercenary air force for Chiang Kai-shek using covert American war funds.
Chennault had lobbied FDR to provide funds to create a private air force for the Generalissimo, known as the Flying Tigers, which later became the Civil Air Transport, to smuggle heroin exchanged for weapons.
Paul Williams in his book, Operation Gladio, claim that the CIA acted as a middleman, directly funneling drug funds to secret bank accounts and shell companies owned by the mafia, the Vatican, and themselves to facilitate Gladio (right wing anti communsit torror) operations in Europe.
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, otherwise known as the mob's accountant and cheif financial advisor for the Commission, also 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.
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) which 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.
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.
(Iran had their own conflict going on while under a weapons embargo, so the reagan administration between 1981 and 1986 sold arms to iran under the notion that it was doing so to free American hostages that in Lebanon, even though at the time of the first sale the hostages hadn't even been taken yet. It turns out that the proceeds of the trade were secretly diverted to the Contras by Lt. Col. Oliver North. This was exposed when the Sandinistas shot down a US cargo plane carrying weapons for the Contras, and the sole survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, who was captured, admitted at press conferences that the flights were directly supervised by the CIA. Documents in the wreckage exposed everything else.)
The second solution Raegan came up with 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.
Noriega - Panama is where a large scale drug dealer by the name of manuel noriega had been trafficking drugs since the late 50s and he amassed a fortune he was also the cia's most valued asset in latin america for decades as he not only provided intelligence but he also facilitated the delivery of weapons and cash and equipment all throughout the region. When the dea tried to indict noriega in 1971 the cia said uh-uh no way you're not doing it he's too valuable then noriega went on to become the de facto ruler of panama in 1983 and he had been giving military assistance to contra groups in nicaragua at the request of the united states who in exchange allowed him to continue his drug trafficking activities, until october 5th of 1986 when cia pilot eugene haasenfuss was shot down over nicaragua by the sandinistas and documents aboard the plane revealed many of the cia's activities in latin america and its connections with noriega. This of course became a public relations nightmare for the government who finally allowed the dea to indict him for drug trafficking after decades of allowing his drug operations to proceed unchecked It took three years but in 89 the united states invaded panama as part of operation just cause they cornered the former panamanian leader and he surrendered to US authorities his trial took place in miami where he was sentenced to 45 years he was ultimately extradited back to panama to face charges there when he died in 2017.
Venezuela - A US government official said in 1990 that the anti-drug unit of the cia accidentally shipped a ton of cocaine into the united states from venezuela as part of an effort to track it and to gather evidence on drug kings the problem was they lost track of it and the cocaine was sold untracked on the streets of the united states. The incident was first made public in 1993 and was part of a plan to assist an undercover agent to gain the confidence of a colombian drug cartel The shipments took place despite objections of the DEA. When the failed plan came to light the cia officer in charge of the operation resigned and the cia issued a statement saying that there was poor judgment and management on the part of several cia officers
Golden crescent - Afghanistan and Pakistan comprise what is referred to as the golden crescent, which surpassed the golden triangle in heroin production in 2002. This had been utilized by the Mudjahedin to fight the Soviets, 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...
Raped by: Otto Heckel
