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CIA trafficked
Harlem book_quoted
“one of their pharmaceutical companies. The product would be shipped by Sicilian mob in crates of oranges. And we know all about our oranges now. The drugs would then be shipped to New York for distribution in jazz clubs of New York and spec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 37:38
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says, hey, this is a great idea. How about if we do what Shane Kyshek does and we just sell heroin to pay for our black operations? We got black money, black operations. Nobody will ever be the wiser. And that worked out great for a time wh…
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Italian fruit that was shipped through Cuba and then into the harbor in New York for the New York mafia to sell on the streets of New York, primarily to Harlem, because they were trying to get all of the Black Americans hooked on cocaine ba…
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from the Corsican Mafia in France and the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. They staged, they used Cuba as both an arms trafficking location under the government of Batista, who we installed, and they were running drugs into Harlem.…
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So, Kruma was a man who, as a student in the United States during the Great Depression, had roamed around Harlem, slept in the subway, and lined up at Father Divine's soup kitchen. Later, he was hailed as Africa's brightest star, a leader i…
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that Nixon set up in the early 70s, late 60s, was not a war on drugs. It was a war on the Corsican mafia portion of the drug trade. And they wanted it all aligned because they owned the Sicilian mafia. And the Sicilian mafia and the New Yor…
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And they were going to use Castle Bank to launder the proceeds of selling opium and later on crack to the black community of Harlem. And they were going to specifically target the black community in Harlem. And there was CIA documents that …
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As he's basically folding the OSS and wanted to use what they refer to as ghetto gold, which basically was the heroin supplies and how basically to use the mafia to interject that into places like Harlem. And specifically, Paul Williams say…
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Paul Helliwell's plan required veto Genevieve's return to the United States for the creation of the system of heroin distribution to all of the nightclubs of Harlem. This posed a problem since Genevieve was a fugitive and wanted inside the …
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The setting up of they probably found him right about the time he was setting up that church, because he says that what Jim Jones did by targeting blacks was a good thing. You know, like he was trying to give them a home. I don't think that…
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I'm not down with the whole victimhood mentality, but I will tell you that there is a lot of validity to the black community being fucked over six waves from Sunday by elements of the government. And I'll just leave it at that. One hundred …
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The influx of opium back in the 40s and 50s that was targeted primarily at minority neighborhoods, like starting off in Harlem, came via CIA pipelines. And then you fast forward to the 1970s when Nixon declared his war on drugs. He wasn't d…
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When Fidel Castro came uptown to Harlem, the white terracotta facade of Hotel Teresa on 7th Avenue and West 125th Street, the Waldorf of Harlem, was brightly lit like a Hollywood movie premiere. Outside the hotel entrance, a boisterous crow…
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incapable of providing hospitality to world leaders, Castro fumed, perhaps the UN should be moved. But then Castro turned his humiliation into a propaganda triumph. And I'm sure this left all of them seething. As the Cuban delegation was pr…
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with the operators of the Hotel Teresa. The tallest building in Harlem, the 13-story hotel, was lofty but a little worn down. It was a landmark in the black community. In its heyday, it had accommodated a glittering array of African-America…
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In June of 1938, Joe Louis celebrated his heavyweight championship victory over Max Slimling, Nazi Germany's great white hope at the Teresa, as thousands of fans cheered on in the streets outside. When word spread that the Cuban delegation …
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as other New York hotel operators. Even Harlem's outspoken congressman, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., opposed Castro's relocation to Harlem. He called it a publicity stunt. And boy, was it. Quote, we Negro people have enough problems of our own …
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But Woods, an elderly man who had grown up in Jim Crow, South Carolina, knew what it was like to be denied a roof over your head. Woods stood his ground and opened the doors of Harlem's finest hotel to the Castro delegation. Quote, we don't…
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that he wanted to help, and he did. Young Harlem activists also rallied around Castro, like Preston Wilcox, who was among those cheering the Cuban leader outside the Teresa. Wilcox saw a spiritual connection between Fidel's decision to come…
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were pro-Castro, while those loudly denouncing him were lighter shaded. Whenever Juan Almeida, Castro's black military commander and a hero of the revolution, left the hotel during the delegation stay and went scrolling along the neighborho…
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To Harlem's oppressed ghetto dwellers, Castro was a bearded revolutionary who had told white America to go to hell, unquote. Harlem's show of hospitality for Castro turned out to be a public relations disaster for the Eisenhower administrat…
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tensions. Some of the city's finest hotels suddenly offered entire floors to the Cuban delegation, free of charge. But Castro refused to move. When world leaders like Khrushchev, Nasser, and Nehru began coming uptown to meet with Castro, wi…
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Fidel again parried the propaganda thrust, declaring in his speech at the UN, quote, they began spreading the news all over the world that the Cuban delegation had lodged in a brothel. But some, a humble hotel in Harlem, a hotel inhabited b…
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The propagandist insisted it was from the very beginning, amounting a victory of sorts for Washington hardliners. But there was also a glow around Castro as he and his entourage settled into the Hotel Teresa. It was the dawn of the 1960s. T…
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wearing a long black leather coat and tie, swept past the press pack in the hotel lobby and whisked to Fidel's suite on the ninth floor. Fidel invited Malcolm to sit next to him on the bed, the only comfortable oasis in the room. The revolu…
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But as Castro lunged ahead with his uncertain English, they slowly found common ground. Fidel told Malcolm that the Cubans appreciated the warm reception in Harlem. I think you will find the people in Harlem are not so addicted to the propa…
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The afternoon of October 12, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy brought his presidential campaign to Harlem, speaking to a large crowd from a platform erected in front of the hotel. Kennedy was well aware that Castro had just been there. JFK was…
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He went on to say, behind the fact of Castro's coming to this hotel, Khrushchev coming to Castro, there is another great traveler in the world, and that is the travel of world revolution, a world in turmoil. I am delighted to come to Harlem…
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rumble and spaces and anybody that's trying to dig out i sympathize with you because i'm doing it myself but that aside uh i was when we opened with castro and what he was doing in uh harlem as well as his un speech he declared himself to b…
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one of their pharmaceutical companies. The product would be shipped by Sicilian mob in crates of oranges. And we know all about our oranges now. The drugs would then be shipped to New York for distribution in jazz clubs of New York and spec…
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The number of recruits for the secret armies ranged from dozens in some nations to thousands in others. That's what drug sales in Harlem and other black communities by the CIA and the mob were purchasing in Western Europe and in the United …
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at Harlem and Black communities by the CIA and the mob, and that a day behind Secret Army was used in order to facilitate false flags and the coordination of these drug routes, which at the end of the drug routes is where, well, I can't eve…