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Alfred McCoy founded
The Politics of Heroin documented
“The two that has been sitting here the longest and they keep getting usurped, I'll just go ahead and tell you. There are two of my favorite books that I've ever read on this subject. And one of them is The Politics of Heroin by Alfred McCoy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 1:29:59
Alfred McCoy member_of
Operation Magic host_asserted
“Grombach bought this project, excuse me, began this project as a comprehensive record of reports eliminated by Alfred McCormick. And he was basically part of a thing called Operation Magic that gathered intercepts of encrypted information.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 16:19
Alfred McCoy exposed
Time-Life book_quoted
“that all along was talking about. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Just to Kevin Shipp's point as well as to Renee's, I was going through Alfred McCoy's book today, and I stumbled on him receiving all of these unpublished dispatches from Tim…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 1:27:59
Alfred McCoy exposed
CIA book_quoted
“that the failure to invade China in the fight against communism forced the CIA to move its covert drug operations westward. The CIA's new focus on the fight against the Vietnamese, meaning Ho Chi Minh, as opium production in Burma, Thailand…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 13:56
Alfred McCoy member_of
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“things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of the other ones, you hear Illini talk about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 1:12:18
Alfred McCoy exposed
Secret War in Laos book_quoted
“The entire thing is bullshit. It's been bullshit for decades. Illini, did you want to say something? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, interesting stuff. I was going back through Alfred McCoy's book, which does cover Vang Pao and the fact that the U.S. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (32) @ 1:04:13
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To kind of back you up a little bit, you know, I pin some things to the nest. There's a 1972 Senate hearing with Alfred McCoy that Seymour Hersh comes out and the CIA holds the publication of Alfred McCoy's book. And they say, you can't pub…
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But I read the Alfred McCoy book, too, and he kind of says that there's at least some indirect complicity, but it isn't necessarily that the CIA is directly using it to fund their operations. It's the Kuomintang and the Sicilian mob that wa…
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Grombach bought this project, excuse me, began this project as a comprehensive record of reports eliminated by Alfred McCormick. And he was basically part of a thing called Operation Magic that gathered intercepts of encrypted information.…
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for the U.S. military, and he later became, well, he started off as an attorney, as so many of them did. Okay, and so along with identifying two communists that worked with McCormick and several others, that's kind of what the organization …
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i.e. the beginning of their stay-behind units. As a CIA officer, Koenig in 1954 was assigned to Vietnam, and we already know all that. Historian Alfred McCoy has alleged that Koenig arranged a truce between the CIA and drug traffickers in S…
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The committee did not reveal the CIA's connection, however, publicly. They never do, and they never do anything about it. That's why all of these committee meetings, as far as I'm concerned, in both the Senate and the House, are a kabuki da…
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And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…
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And the reason for it is, I mean, the really sad truth of this book is Gary Webb is really standing on a very carefully and solidly constructed pyramid of prior reporting, going all the way back to, you know, the Kefauver Committee and, you…
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covertly using Chiang Kai-shek as the tip of the spear. Going on with the book, what I was still unaware of in 1970 was the extent to which principal players in these intrigues, including the airline itself, meaning the CIA Air America, wer…
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of August 1959, had not yet shown to Alfred McCoy the ledgers that he kept as manager of the Laotian Opium Monopoly, even after the monopoly was declared illegal in 1961. Nor had McCoy yet exposed the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant near the Meko…
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Way too many stories. And, as we also have said multiple times, PepsiCo had their entire freaking Navy to include submarines. Okay? Now you know how they were getting the chemicals and shit around? McCoy's study makes it clear that the prin…
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Thailand and his eventual rival and replacement, Rathikoni, were all involved in drug trade. McCoy even argues that a major cause, oh my God, what date? April 19th, 1964 coup discussed in this chapter, which ended the Laotian coalition gove…
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management of his opium monopolies, including the opium dens in the capital city. This produced serious tension in the right-wing camp. The chief CIA agent in that area, where Fumi's retreat in 1962 nearly wrecked the 1962 Geneva peace nego…
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All of that talks about this connection. Where else do you find all of these aspects viewed together? The new edition of Alfred McCoy's massive and invaluable study, The Politics of Heroin, which I also have, and we will definitely be doing…
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but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirmin…
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retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links bet…
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Other statements scattered throughout McCoy's book sometimes suggest that the CIA and the Civil Air Transport Air America were only passively implicated with the drug traffickers or that involvement was at the agent level. The truth is that…
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The CIA and civil air transport played a key organizing role. I also believe that to understand the full range of McCoy's subject, the politics of heroin, one has to look also at the role played by the drug finance China lobby in the United…
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This chapter tries to do that. And the reason why I want to do McCoy, obviously, it's not like an imperative to do it quickly or I would have already done that. It does illustrate how when you read some of these books that are, quote unquot…
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What is particularly eye-catching is that in 1979, just as in 2001, the war helped avert what would otherwise have been an acute drop in world opium production. So they basically were conducting war to maintain opium. In a book called The P…
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turned up in the Pacific Coast cities of the United States as well as in Vietnam. Alfred McCoy reveals that the CIA leaked the story after the first bulk shipments of Laotian heroin were intercepted in Europe and the United States in April …
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And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the d…
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along with other people who were involved in the drug trade in Southeast Asia. And I started reading works by people like Alfred McCloy, who was really, I mean, his work was monumental. I mean, really, anybody should look him up because he'…
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despite the fact that we had given all of Eastern Europe to the Congress. Okay, so let's go back to the Marshall Plan. I mean, McCloy wrote about that extensively. But that wasn't enough. And let's face it, the Marshall Plan was only for a …
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Well, you go get the Alfred McCoy book and you find out that he gave a 1972 Senate hearing on this that nobody reported on. And Seymour Hersh ran articles in The New York Times where he basically ran.…
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The entire thing is bullshit. It's been bullshit for decades. Illini, did you want to say something? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, interesting stuff. I was going back through Alfred McCoy's book, which does cover Vang Pao and the fact that the U.S. A…
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That, you know, it was that Vang Pao was almost certainly going to use, you know, that airport that they were funding for drug trafficking. Yeah. But the CIA pushed it through anyways. It's interesting what like Alfred McCoy was not trying …
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That was given to him by the Corsican Mafia as a token of their friendship. That basically is something that's only given to high-ranking Corsican Mafia leaders. Right. And he gets out this gold coin and dangles it right in front of Alfred …
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I think there's a way to get into the details of it and expose it from, draw people in from what they know as normies into the other facts that kind of run the ground, including Dulles' own statements. And then you bring in the Kefauver Com…
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things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of the other ones, you hear Illini talk about…
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I just looked that up. It's 2005 or 2006. Okay. I mean, I think the first – okay, you had Alfred McCoy's book in 72 detailing the relationship with Lucky Luciano. And then you had Chris Simpson go into more detail on the 48 Italian election…
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And then I bought the book and I read the citations and I got, you know, Alfred McCoy's book and I ran it all the way to the ground. I realized he's a 1972 Senate hearing. So this was relatively.…
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Number one, yes, the CIA was created in 1947. We now know that it was basically about the 1948 Italian elections, trying to keep them in NATO. There was a partnership with the mafia that was involved in that whole process, which was documen…
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With the House Select Committee on assassinations, if he was doing that in the 50s, or if there were other operations with the mafia, that's material. It goes a lot further than, you know, Alfred McCoy's, you know, claims about Lucian Conin…
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Read like two thirds of it and never finished it. Alfred McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin. It's an excellent book. It's a big book. But it is one that Illini references all the time because of how much information that's in it. It's cri…
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of Laos, where it was cooked into heroin by a Chinese chemist operating under protection of the CIA's Major General Radicone, the commander of the Royal Laotian Army. The Laotian Opium War was widely reported. In 1972, Al McCoy outlined the…
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The two that has been sitting here the longest and they keep getting usurped, I'll just go ahead and tell you. There are two of my favorite books that I've ever read on this subject. And one of them is The Politics of Heroin by Alfred McCoy…
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You can basically say, hey, wait a second. This has all happened before. Here's some examples in the past. The media doesn't like to cover it. But we've got Seymour Hersh. We've got, you know, Alfred McCoy. We've got Carl Oglesby. We've got…
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that all along was talking about. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Just to Kevin Shipp's point as well as to Renee's, I was going through Alfred McCoy's book today, and I stumbled on him receiving all of these unpublished dispatches from Tim…