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Peter Benzinger person

also: Bensinger, Peter Benzinger, Benzinger

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The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 13:28 Rarely does it become a problem. Lee Dogeloff, the White House drug expert, concurred. It is our assumption, he said, that the current relatively low level of health problems associated with cocaine's use reflects a relatively high price an…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 13:56 He had brought $800,000 worth of cocaine to show them. He pulled out a little bag and dangled it to his audience. This is simulated, I trust, the congressman said. He goes, no, no, it's actually cocoa. They had seized it as contraband. The …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 14:28 We have some special agents in the room, I assure you, Benzinger said. The experts were careful to note that if cocaine became cheaper, it would be more widely available and might pose a bigger problem than anyone realized. But no one seeme…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 41:34 on April 27th, 1972. After being located there by U.S. agents, the New Sicilia Network, according to the DEA chief, Peter Benzinger, was operating by May of 1972 and had revenues reliably established in the hundreds of millions of dollars u…
The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1
▶ 44:57 And you've never heard of him unless you've watched our show. The DEA Chief Bensinger was quite circumspect in his testimony about Falcon, merely calling him, wait for it, a Cuban national. What the hell? No, no, he was not a Cuban national…