Christian David person
also: Beau Georges, Beau Sarge, Beau Sergei, Carlos Eduardo Devereux Bagere, Christian David Conrad Bouchard, david, David, David Christian, Eduardo, Eduardo Davaru, Jean-Pierre, Serge, the new recruit, W.I. Rogue
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Claims (46)
Patrice Chéreau knew_about
Christian David book_quoted
“what they are preferably calling the right wing. So when you do that, you are automatically labeled left wing. Cherov told the author that he knew a great deal about Christian David. Cherov himself had been in Venezuela when Christian David…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 28:49
Sergio Flores accepted_bribes_from
Christian David book_quoted
“Paulo, Sergio Florey, along with several of his men and their colleagues in the narcotic squad, had accepted bribes to protect David's drug ring. Moreover, three of David's SAC brethren were closely connected to Furry. In other words, he wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 54:40
Christian David member_of
Operation Condor book_quoted
“in argentina the operation condor version of gladio he remained on good fitting footing with the brazilian death squad operation condor version of gladio at the same time sac agents from david's past lent their expertise to setting up tortu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 38:17
Christian David member_of
Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance book_quoted
“and two other guys. Life, though, was not all hard work for David and company. They also had a vibrant nightlife. They threw lavish parties. They mixed with film stars, singers, and international celebrities. And still there was time for po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 37:47
Christian David infiltrated
Tupamaros book_quoted
“That's the name of the resistance force in Uruguay. Through her, Christian David infiltrated Latin America's best organized resistance, the Tupamaros. Uruguay's president, Arrico, had already begun a determined struggle against the resistan…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 17:36
Christian David stole_from
Tupamaros book_quoted
“who became David's go-between for the Iroquois government. He fooled the legendary Tupomaro leader, Raul Sendik. After robbing a bank, the guerrillas handed Christian David $400,000 to buy weapons. He then flew off as if to complete the dea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 19:43
Christian David member_of
SDECE book_quoted
“But David had performed so impressively in Algeria that he was urged to become a full-time agent of the French CIA. He jumped at the chance and was given complete training at their official academy. Upon graduation, he went on a long series…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 33:26
Christian David worked_for
SDECE book_quoted
“to 20 years in prison for smuggling a half ton of heroin into the United States. During the trial, proof was obtained of David's activities on behalf of a very special branch of French intelligence known as Service Action Civic, SAC. His tr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 15:04
Christian David did_business_with
Francesca Canazzi book_quoted
“Sarté's Brazilian mistress. Christian David was by then an undisputed boss of the Brazilian connection. Its other leaders were Sarté, Mikel Nicolai, Francesca Canazzi, and a whole bunch of other French sounding names. But also it included O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 34:08
Christian David kidnapped
Waldemar Sanchez book_quoted
“They used Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs computer system from IBM to automate their kill list and share them with the other Condor countries where they could trace these dissidents and murder them cross-border. That all is going on, and Da…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 14:24
Christian David assassinated
Teresa book_quoted
“all over, working on his narcotics network. There's also somewhat unbelievable story about David's departure from Uruguay. In the transit hall of the Capitol's airport, a stewardess reportedly brought him a package, suspecting a bomb. He ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 21:52
Christian David infiltrated
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación book_quoted
“for several months. And murder was a task he was very efficient at. Upon returning to Latin America, he rejoined Record in Paraguay before ending up in Argentina. In late 67, David, using his alias, managed to infiltrate the FAL, one of the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 13:26
Christian David infiltrated
Douglas Bravo book_quoted
“David then went on secret missions for French intelligence out of South America. His first assignment was to infiltrate Douglas Bravo's Venezuelan urban revolutionaries. That led nowhere. In early 67, Bravo was expelled from the Venezuelan …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 12:21
Christian David operated_in
Algiers book_quoted
“for an Algerian rendezvous. They were sent to a camp. They were ran through a crash training course in weaponry sabotage in hand-to-hand combat. On December 1st, they landed in Algiers. Their headquarters was set up in one of the nearby dis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 25:41
Christian David confessed_to
Ben Barka kidnapping book_quoted
“I saw to it Ben Barker's body disappeared. General Ock here paid me $15 million for the job. And I, together with a certain person, broke into the apartment minutes before Fagone committed suicide, in air quotes. The police didn't notice us…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 52:29
Christian David assassinated
Maurice Gallibert documented
“Christian David playing cards. When Galibert asked David to come downstairs or downtown, his partner protested. David flashed his SAC ID, but Galibert stood his ground. David shrugged his shoulders and fetched his coat from the cloakroom. S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 4 @ 1:09:19
Christian David attempted_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“In May or June of 1963, he had been offered a contract to kill Kennedy by the chief of the Marseille Mafia. He refused to participate because he felt that the contract would be too dangerous and probably fail. He did relate, however, that t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 7:49
Christian David member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“than christian david who we just spent a whole lot of time talking about he at one time was even a contract agent for the cia and he was he was also one of their narco traffickers but his affiliation with the corsican mafia meant he ended u…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Plot Part 5 @ 6:47
Ferdinand Legros did_business_with
Christian David host_asserted
“Legros also met frequently with Evelyn Hurst, the wife of an imprisoned bankroller, Andre Hurst, whose South American heroin contact was none other than Christian David. Just as the U.S. put the screws to the Paraguayan government for the e…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 59:10
SDECE member_of
Christian David book_quoted
“the narcotics trade, heroin specifically, from Marseille to Argentina, Paraguay, and into the United States. Record's organization welcomed him with open arms and soon moved him into the highest ranks. Also part of his reception committee w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 4:38
Christian David did_business_with
Joe Attila book_quoted
“That doesn't happen, does it? Between intelligence assignments, David minded not only his own affairs, but those of Joe Attica, who was officially in prison and in exile in Africa during different periods of this. David ran two of Attica's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 35:05
Christian David funded
RICORD book_quoted
“A lot of the criminals like hanging out in Latin America. A new career in the shadows awaited him. Christian David had with him from Marseille a letter of introduction to a former French mafia king and Gestapo collaborator, Auguste Record, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 4:07
Christian David did_business_with
Michel Nicolai book_quoted
“Sarté's Brazilian mistress. Christian David was by then an undisputed boss of the Brazilian connection. Its other leaders were Sarté, Mikel Nicolai, Francesca Canazzi, and a whole bunch of other French sounding names. But also it included O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 34:08
Christian David involved_in
Ben Barka Affair book_quoted
“He had also been involved in arms trading. He had served the service of as a spy. He also was a notorious narco trafficker. He was one of the only people alive that knew the truth about the Ben Barca affair that shook France in 1965. He kno…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 12:13
Christian David sentenced_by
Jacob Mishler book_quoted
“Following a hospital stay from having swallowed glass, he was hauled into a Brooklyn courthouse where the judge set the bail at $2.5 million. Fearing the amount was not beyond the means of David's connections, authorities rammed his case th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 14:31
Christian David imprisoned_in
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary book_quoted
“two by two meter cell. I never see the sunshine. I have no idea whether it's day or night. I hardly sleep anymore because of the evil atmosphere. I'm afraid to eat because they might poison me. I speak no English and the doctor knows no Fre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 19:19
Christian David did_business_with
Dominique Orsini book_quoted
“Sarté's Brazilian mistress. Christian David was by then an undisputed boss of the Brazilian connection. Its other leaders were Sarté, Mikel Nicolai, Francesca Canazzi, and a whole bunch of other French sounding names. But also it included O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 34:08
Christian David did_business_with
Lucien Sarte book_quoted
“the heroin trade exclusively, out with the Corsican Mafia. All right, chapter 11, the capture of Christian David in Brazil. Auguste Record, March 71, imprisonment in Paraguay, taught Christian David and Lucien Sarté that it was time to move…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 33:04
Christian David member_of
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“The prisoner who knows too much is Christian David. He was 50 years old, French, i.e. from the French Corsican Mafia, known among his friends as Les Beaux-Arts, and by many of his recent acquaintances in Latin America and the U.S. as Eduard…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 11:07
Christian David member_of
Corsican Mafia book_quoted
“In the evenings, he would often be seen at Attica's bar in the company of gangsters. In those years, Beau Sarge played strange games in the underworld, gaining a footing in the Guarini gang, the one that eventually gets eliminated. He event…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 35:37
Christian David member_of
Strategic Air Command book_quoted
“to put an end to the Algerian operations of the OAS, the Gladio people. Beau Sergei had already joined the SAC. Though admission normally required to sponsors, the rules were waived in this time of crisis. In the Charles de Gaulle era, an a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 24:27
Joe Attila recruited
Christian David host_asserted
“Though mentioned primarily because of his responsibility for Christian David's recruitment, basically as a hitman, he was also the first gangster to become an international espionage agent. And then he tells a little bit about his childhood…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 49:27
Joe Attila did_business_with
Christian David host_asserted
“as a convicted criminal who could be dispatched on high-risk missions. Although Attica may not be the exact same killer, he definitely fits that description. And a second potential assassin was referred to as W.I. Rogue. He fit the descript…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 1:00:39
Andre Condamine member_of
Christian David host_asserted
“one of David's gang's ministers of transportation, and its only member that had avoided arrest thus far. Police investigations established that he had been dead since February. So, of course, this is like everybody pointing fingers at every…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 4:10
Tommaso Braschetta did_business_with
Christian David book_quoted
“bruschetta decided the hour had arrived to move in on the narcotics business in southern south america he had not reckoned with christian david following an extended struggle that ended with david still on top bruschetta was forced to play …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 37:18
Louis Mesmans relationship_with
Christian David host_asserted
“group that had been traveling back and forth between France and Latin America. Danone was shot in the Paris suburb on 13 March 1973. Danone's best friend and a close friend of Christian David was Louis Mesmans. He had sheltered several peop…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 5:15
Christian David arrested_in
Brazil book_quoted
“narco smuggling ring, referred to as the Brazilian connection. International law actually gave extradition a priority to the French. He had already been sentenced to death in France for murdering a police officer. The Americans were not abo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 2 @ 13:20
Christian David member_of
Strategic Air Command book_quoted
“that other sources they had learned about had at least two members of the competing record network, Christian David and Mikel Nicolai, who were former members of the SAC in France, the parallel police who had been used to assassinate member…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 19:14
Christian David recruited
SDECE book_quoted
“effort, is what they're saying. The first serious study of Ben Berka's mystery to be published in America is this book. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that Kruger's book is also the first in America, to his knowledge, to explore further the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 28:48
Christian David assassinated
Tupamaros book_quoted
“for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to be assassinated for the CIA propped up …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 29:24
Christian David exposed
Ben Barka Affair documented
“Many were dumbfounded when Brazil extradited David to the U.S. without even notifying France. Before extradition to the U.S., however, he shocked the world by admitting his complicity in the Ben Berka affair. He also cut the artery in his w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 47:56
Christian David sought_to_infiltrate
Venezuela book_quoted
“what they are preferably calling the right wing. So when you do that, you are automatically labeled left wing. Cherov told the author that he knew a great deal about Christian David. Cherov himself had been in Venezuela when Christian David…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 28:49
Christian David carried_out_attack
Pierre Columbani book_quoted
“in Corsica a few months later. Several Guarini clan members suspected that David had done that. From 62 to 66, David could be found everywhere, along with Joe Attica's band of thugs doing political dirty work. But Attica's favorite place wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 3 @ 37:47
Christian David ordered_assassination_of
Claude Andre Pasto host_asserted
“Pasto claimed David had ordered him to New York at the beginning of 71. In April of 71, he was supposed to have met Deloitte at the hotel to discuss his delivery that he was arrested making. Pasto said he met Deloitte as planned and that th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5 @ 48:38
Christian David member_of
Italian Mafia host_asserted
“Today, I can't afford a lawyer. Whiny-ass crybaby story. David and Mikkel Nikolai, who, with Claude-Andre Pasto, had been extradited to the U.S. before David, each claimed they had been hung head down over a steam-puffing pipe as Brazilians…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 48:59
Christian David spied_on
Fernand Legros host_asserted
“David's gang. Besides entertaining the police with stories of the gang's escapades, she also claimed they met frequently with the French millionaire playboy, Legros, except he's CIA. Whether because of corruption of the Brazilian police ran…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 43:35
Mentions (39)
▶ 6:15
According to Steve Ravalli, a Los Angeles reporter and writer, the Corsican Brotherhood provided the out-of-country hit team for the American mafia. That's not how it worked at all. Those hit teams were under the control at the time of Otto…
▶ 6:47
than christian david who we just spent a whole lot of time talking about he at one time was even a contract agent for the cia and he was he was also one of their narco traffickers but his affiliation with the corsican mafia meant he ended u…
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It was reported that his codename at the time was W.I. Rogue. He is also believed to have worked with the OAS, which of course we know to be Gladio. During the course of Rivalli's investigation, David was interviewed in prison where he was …
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In May or June of 1963, he had been offered a contract to kill Kennedy by the chief of the Marseille Mafia. He refused to participate because he felt that the contract would be too dangerous and probably fail. He did relate, however, that t…
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Sartre, according to David, would wear a uniform. He would not elaborate on what kind of uniform, but said that they were always in disguise. If there was a military base nearby, they would dress up as soldiers. Otherwise, they would have i…
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starts as the president was rushed to the hospital. The assassins were busy breaking contact. The French Corsican assassins, each taking advantage of the confusion, made their separate ways out of the area. According to Christian David, the…
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would meet in Buenos Aires, where they were paid in heroin, according to Christian David, who, by the way, was there. Just throwing that out there. They then sold the heroin and used the Corsican mafia contacts in Brazil, of which Christian…
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And another that was named by Christian David was Michelle Nicole. Nicole, Nicole, it's spelled Nicole. There were Christian David said that the cocaine was provided by the CIA. So according to other sources, Sarté and Bocanini stayed in So…
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trade. But Peronti returned to France. Sartre was killed during a drug deal in Mexico City in 1975. And again, the timing is important because this is when, in the other books that we've read, this is part of the elimination. And this is ar…
▶ 5:21
And verify timelines. According to Nicole Nicolay, Sartre always used an explosive or fragile bullet. Now, again, this is somebody that is very close to Sartre. This is not speculation. He stated that it explodes on contact. It makes a larg…
▶ 5:52
and it is hard to trace because of the fragmentation. It self-destructs, doesn't leave like a lead bullet. David said that Sartre was the only one he knew that used this type of bullet on jobs. This is exactly the description of the fatal b…
▶ 5:58
version of it, which included Peter Del Scott's foreword. So he starts off with the story of Christian David. And if you guys never looked into his story, it's fascinating. He was an international narcotics trafficker used by the CIA, among…
▶ 6:33
Peter Del Scott describes his story as fascinating. He says that it tells us the larger, less documented version of history, which is what our whole show is about. He characterizes it as the secret collaboration of government intelligence s…
▶ 7:04
particularly narco-traffickers, for political counter-subversion. He goes on to say that this book is critical to understanding how the CIA operates, and it can be seen through Christian David's political intrigues in countries like France …
▶ 8:44
charged that the breakup of the RICORD, R-I-C-O-R-D, French Drug Network in Latin America, which had included David's arrest and extradition to the U.S., was the result of a close mafia police narcotics bureau collaboration in the U.S. The …
▶ 15:28
as their supply hub. Because, of course, the French Corsican mafia had basically been dethroned out of the Golden Triangle and had looked for alternative sources. Although there were still some being funneled through them because they had, …
▶ 19:14
that other sources they had learned about had at least two members of the competing record network, Christian David and Mikel Nicolai, who were former members of the SAC in France, the parallel police who had been used to assassinate member…
▶ 23:05
the French intelligence agency, or that he had confessed to involvement in the 1965 assassination of Moroccan Mehdi Ben Barka. And we'll go into him during this book. The Barka murder was one of the major unsolved French intelligence assass…
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Even in The Heroin Trail, which deserved a Pulitzer Prize, it states only that David's confession to participating in a plot to murder Ben Berka, a Moroccan lured to France under false pretenses by the French Italian, excuse me, French inte…
▶ 28:48
effort, is what they're saying. The first serious study of Ben Berka's mystery to be published in America is this book. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that Kruger's book is also the first in America, to his knowledge, to explore further the…
▶ 29:24
for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to be assassinated for the CIA propped up …
▶ 29:56
Uruguayan secret service in penetrating and turning over two pomoros for which he was equipped with a diplomatic passport, a diplomatic passport to insert a trained assassin into Uruguay, which we've covered before. But interesting diplomat…
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Kruger supplies the details of the arms transactions by which David was able to penetrate to the very heart of the Tupomaro organization. And once again, Kruger, who points out that David's service against the Tupomaros were part of an effo…
▶ 31:31
in Iroquois. He goes on to say it's the same meter on that New York Times reporter A.J. Languth arranged for the Iroquoian police to obtain superior electric torture needles through U.S. diplomatic pouches. So for those of you who are new, …
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to the criminal smuggler that David was able to persuade the Argentine and Uruguayan rebellion, I call them freedom fighters, leadership that he would procure arms for them. That was his in. He had an arms network that he could help them wi…
▶ 36:08
offer up a low-level dealer, the pre-trial arrangement is set so that you are not allowed to use the term CIA in any capacity during the trial. And the judge will agree to that under the stamp of national security. So he goes on to say that…
▶ 36:39
decided to eliminate the record network of which David formed a part of, they were unwilling to destroy the international drug connections which allowed its agents to gather intelligence about insurgency movements through the tactics of sel…
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Behind the narcotics trade, Eduardo Barodi, a big time heroin and gun smuggler suspected of having arranged Vitus' mystery death in Switzerland. Christian David Conrad Bouchard, a top heroin trafficker heavily involved in Frank Paranoff's V…
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Legros also met frequently with Evelyn Hurst, the wife of an imprisoned bankroller, Andre Hurst, whose South American heroin contact was none other than Christian David. Just as the U.S. put the screws to the Paraguayan government for the e…
▶ 59:39
Later, when Legros was placed in protective confinement in Brazil, newspapers speculated that he had involvement in Christian David's narcotic trafficking. Recent years investigation into the CIA organized crime connections has resulted in …
▶ 17:24
routinely. Hunt and Koenig were the vital forces behind the White House Great Heroin Coup, secured the Cuban exiles their necessary footing, and got his friend Bernard Barker and Manuel Artime to set up hit teams to kidnap and murder anybod…
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Operation Gladio. The Miami Conspiracy, Chapter 22. In the spring of 76, the author traveled to France to see what he could find out about Christian David, the Ben Barca affair, and the heroin coup. Once he had all of this figured out, he w…
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what they are preferably calling the right wing. So when you do that, you are automatically labeled left wing. Cherov told the author that he knew a great deal about Christian David. Cherov himself had been in Venezuela when Christian David…
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of david's latin american operations in drug trafficking which of course we know because the national guard cartel de los soles was controlled by the cia paid for by the cia and jeff bush was money laundering for this entire operation in hi…
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with the ben barca affair christian david had retained the murder weapon a 32 caliber ruby automatic which was found in his arsenal when he was arrested in brazil it was now in the custody of americans he said david is a psychopath a born k…
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Claude's description of Christian David clashed with Cheroff's. Quote, that he murdered 54 people in Algeria is an exaggeration. David was neither better nor worse than any of his compatriots. He could appear to be no more dangerous than a …
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But he is also a gangster and people revere him, unquote. Claude knew more about Christian David than he was willing to let on, as we discovered after a few more drinks. He then told us that he would soon be off on a mission that had a lot …
▶ 37:58
the author's investigation. So he's talking to the author and then immediately runs to the local DEA guy in the U.S. embassy to rat on him. Guerin also said that his friend had told him not to believe the garbage about Christian David havin…
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So on the afternoon of a day in April in 1976, the author was in the DEA. Excuse me. Let me back up. Cheroff, in April of 76, was in the DEA Paris office discussing the author's interest in Christian David.…