War on Drugs event
also: Nixon war on drugs, drug war
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Claims (3)
Richard Nixon initiated
War on Drugs guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 1:32:17
Richard Nixon funded
War on Drugs host_asserted
“war on eliminating the Corsican mafia and that Nixon and the French president had collaborated to kill over 350 Corsican mafia people within like an 18 month period of time, just like mass murder. Get rid of them all. They're just, it was l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 1:15:28
War on Drugs targeted
Mafia guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 1:32:17
Mentions (18)
▶ 1:31:52
This, what you described initially as the elimination of the competition. So again, when we talk about patterns, when you guys go and when we move over to Europe, we're going to cover this extensively. And you've heard me say it in other bo…
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Right. And isn't that kind of the whole thing about everything that we've been talking about? The the war on terror. Let's create the terrorist so that we let all the war on drugs. Let's create the drugs so that we can have. This is just em…
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Paul Helligwell. So even though they didn't reveal them, we've been able to discover them through our research. In the early 1970s, global drug trafficking originating from the Golden Triangle increased rapidly. President Nixon responded by…
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Nixon's war on drugs was not a war on actual drugs. It was a war on the French portion of the drug trafficking, i.e. the Corsican Mafia. And that that, quote unquote, war on drugs basically eliminated the Corsican Mafia for the most part by…
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which declared a war on drugs, but only Pablo Escobar's network. An Amnesty International report described Colombian state struggle for control of the cocaine cartel. This is an actual quote from the report. The prosecutor general's public …
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enabling the narco state. The CIA justifies this quote-unquote anti-drug effort, kind of like the anti-communist effort, by the way, through its operational guidance, which claims its interest in the drug trade is confined only to the effec…
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In the early 70s, there was political pressure from Nixon on the Southern Cone governments of Argentina, Paraguay, Paraguay, Chile, and Brazil to pass anti-drug legislation to counter the heroin threat. Nixon's administration was the first …
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and looking at latin america now that again i just have to say this and i'm sorry repeat myself for you guys it's been with me the whole time but we have new people every day nixon's war on drugs the net effect of it was not in any way redu…
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So no one in Washington, D.C. is interested in doing any of this. But to placate us, they name a drug czar. They have a war on drugs. They're just covering everything up. So Reagan dropped. Let's see. So a small bank in Panama was pressured…
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estimated that more than 90% of the chemicals used to produce cocaine came from the United States. In the nine months before the announcement of George H.W. Bush's drug war in 1989, Colombian police reportedly seized 1.5 million gallons of …
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When the United States attacked Afghanistan in October 2001, it would be proclaimed as another chapter in the U.S. war on drugs. Both bin Laden and the Taliban had been named abroad as financed from drug traffic. Well, that makes sense beca…
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The U.S. was not waging a war on drugs, in short, but a war helped buy drugs. It is true that the previous Northern Alliance had controlled less than 5% of the opium traffic compared to the Taliban's 80%, but even before the onset of the U.…
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or Laos in the 1960s. Our principal proxy in 2001 and 2002 during the Afghan war was a dominant element in regional drug traffic. In Colombia also, we were fighting a war supposedly on drugs, but in fact financed by drugs. There was a drug …
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In 2001, Colombian government sources estimated that 40% of Colombian cocaine exports were controlled by paramilitary warlords and their trafficking allies that had been set up by the CIA. Meanwhile, the amount controlled by the Revolutiona…
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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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He was the first major illicit LSD chemist who also helped design sound equipment for the Grateful Dead. Stanley got busted. The Brotherhood then hooked up with Hitchcock's chemist while massively expanding their market when the Brotherhood…
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Maybe they just were like, it's time to get that one out too, Nixon out, you know, because it's a possibility. I'm just saying it's something I think about now once after digging on the French side, which is really hidden. Just a thought. S…
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Escobar versus the Cuban exile fight for drug trafficking control in Miami. They had the exact same thing in the early 70s in the Marseille area where the Corsican mafia was. They were just dropping like flies. They were being assassinated.…