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Mehdi Ben Barka person

also: Ben Berka, Ben Barka

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Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted
“in the quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon's declaration in June of 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to the creation of the Watergate White House plumbers with their Cuban exile members and even hit squads with the avowed purpose of tac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 10:19

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The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 24:10 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…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 24:40 to books published in England or France to learn that it was not de Gaulle who wanted Ben Berka killed, quite the contrary, but some other government or government's intelligence agencies. The leading suspect was the CIA. An Oxford historia…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 25:12 meaning Charles de Gaulle, government, not only had no interest in Ben Berka's death, but had every interest in his survival. Ben Berka was an anti-American third world nationalist leader with a lively admiration for General Charles de Gaul…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 26:14 Philip Williams, the Oxford historian, himself then suggests two possible hypotheses, which are both compatible with each other and close to what Kruger believes is true. One, much favored, especially among de Gaullist, was collaboration wi…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 26:46 which was being organized by Ben Berka. And I'll just stop right here because this is exactly what happened with Indonesian President Sukarno. When you organize international organizations that go against the imperialist aims of the Western…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 27:18 Another was the French intelligence were obliging either to Moroccan intelligence as such, or the Moroccan intelligence chief, whom Williams described elsewhere as too pro-American for the De Gaullist, in a personal vendetta against Ben Ber…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 28:17 he was a double agent for the CIA, unquote. In other words, the Oxford expert a decade ago had already explored Kruger's hypothesis that disloyal elements in the De Gaulle cabinet and intelligence agencies acting at the behest of the CIA ha…