Charles Saragusa person
also: Agent Charlie Saragusa, Saragusa, Charles Sarah Gussa
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“The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the experiments were being conducted. The relati…”
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The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the experiments were being conducted. The relati…
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A handful of FBN agents were actually recruited into the CIA while maintaining their FBN credentials. Kind of that merging of the two because CIA embeds themselves in FBN and FBN embeds themselves in the CIA. Officially, FBN agents set limi…
▶ 9:17
into the United States as a way, what the CIA told him he was going to be doing, is we're going to traffic drugs into the U.S., but under the guise of finding their networks, which isn't what they were doing at all. Saragusa also said the F…
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If in the long run, it would seize a bigger haul. A couple of the books that talk about this is called The Strength of the Wolf, The Secret History of America's War on Drugs. And another one is called The Strength of the Pack, The Personali…
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Such a letter would have put Dulles' own Operation Sunrise deal in a much better light. If Hitler and Stalin really did want to discuss their own pack, it made Dulles look brilliant as a chess player. Dulles' friends at Life magazine let it…
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Sarah Gussa, a federal narcotics agent at the U.S. Embassy in Rome who had close ties to the CIA. Now, again, if you know anything about Operation Gladio, this makes perfect sense. Sarah Gussa had proved very useful to Angleton over the yea…
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He basically had served as a bag man for political payoffs and as a link to the criminal underworld the agency worked with in the mafia because of drugs. And this guy is working for the U.S. Federal Drug Enforcement Agency at the time. Dolm…