The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B

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0:00 We started yesterday on the Florida section. It's a big one. So we're going to divide it up into yesterday and today's segments. And hopefully we can get through the Florida chapter today. Because again, it's like the biggest chapter in the whole book. Even though so much of it took place in Texas, Florida was a big player as well. Okay. So just as a reminder, we introduced...

0:30 uh beer brower yesterday he's the russian jewish guy who moved to colombia a long time ago and grew up there and then plays a big part in the savings and loan debacle in the 1980s in the united states so there's one more connection with

0:57 Fernando Beerbauer that we have to get to to get on with the Florida portion of the story. And that is his money laundering at Warner Great American Bank. Warner's as in the guy who owned it. In an affidavit that was dated May 15th, 1984, Beerbauer explained how he had gotten together

1:26 with a fellow Colombian named Manuel Garces. It's spelled G-A-R-C-E-S. And set up a company called International Finance Company, which Great American Bank erroneously contracted to Interfil. Interfil, and this is a quote, Interfil did no legitimate business.

1:56 It existed only as a Great American Bank account and was used only as a false front for Mr. Garcia's narcotics, both cocaine and marijuana, cells and narcotic money laundering service. That's the whole purpose. I personally sold narcotics to Mr. Gargas and received proceeds from his and other people's narcotic transactions in Miami on behalf.

2:26 of his organization. The cash proceeds were brought to us in boxes and suitcases and taken directly to Great American Bank by me, Mr. Gargis, or by my employee, David Goldberger, almost on a daily basis, unquote. One of the principal pilots for Berger and Garcis,

2:56 was jack devoe devoe is very important to the story because among other things he used to be um he used miami attorney lawrence freeman who we've talked about before to launder some of his drug money freeman the lawyer had cia operatives and mob figures as associates and was connected to a savings and loan land deal

3:25 involving Robert Corson. Freeman, the lawyer, laundered DeVoe's drug money through companies in the Isle of Jersey. These same companies received savings and loan money from Corson and his associates and were involved in transactions with John Dick, who we talked about yesterday. Back to Burr Barger and DeVoe.

3:57 In a report dated March 3rd, 1982, U.S. Customs Senior Special Agent Peter Bolinon stated, quote, twin engine aircraft, primarily Beach Baron and Navajo aircraft, were used to smuggle approximately 200 kilos of cocaine per month into the United States. Excuse me. The cocaine was primarily distributed through the contract.

4:27 contacts of manuel gargas known to me as willie and salvador these were just names they were called they may not even be the real names these are both young latin males between the ages of 25 and 30. the pilots of these aircraft included william sunback jack devoe and warren bollock

4:58 Quote, I've been told by numerous members of this group that Jack DeVoe was successful on more than a dozen trips during this period. To my knowledge, the cocaine was never stored at any of the offices at Latina Import Export, which was Burbauer's company, but rather at the home of individuals known to me as Willie. During November 1980, this group was so successful that Fernando Burbauer.

5:27 offered me 200 kilos of cocaine a month with free credit for 21 days. In other words, he would front the merchandise for 21 days. Fernando Burbauer told me on one occasion that Jack DeVoe had flown 13 successful cocaine flights between 150 and 200 kilos per trip, unquote.

5:53 The Willie that is discussed by Balanon is identified in Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports as Augusto Guillermo Willie Falcon, a Cuban cocaine smuggler and partner. And by Cuban, they mean an exile Cuban, like the kind that worked with the CIA. In addition to flying the cocaine from Colombia for Beerbauer,

6:23 DeVoe used his Interfil account at Great American Bank to wire $100,000 to an aircraft company in Spokane, Washington. DeVoe was investing in this company as a way to launder his part of the drug money. The money was wired in the name of Dr. Robert K. Oka. This is the first time the mysterious Dr. Oka, the man who never was, appears.

6:52 One of DeVoe's pilots, Profolo Professor Mondol, M-O-N-D-O-L, invented the name Dr. Oka, supposedly a rich physician from Bombay, India, to serve as a front for DeVoe. Oka was made to be from India because it was easy to get a death certificate from there.

7:18 In at least one of the Jersey Isle trusts set up by Lawrence Freeman for DeVoe's drug proceeds, Dr. Oka was a trustee with DeVoe the ultimate beneficiary. So if the trust ever needed to be abolished so that DeVoe could get his money, they would just kill off poor Dr. Oka and DeVoe could get his money with a fake death certificate. This was also one of the...

7:49 late spook Paul Helliwell's favorite tricks. In fact, Paul Helliwell used two imaginary Greeks to hold partnership in Castle Bank with him. Many years later, in a tax matter involving Burton Cantor and Castle Bank, Freeman swore that Helliwell had actually introduced him to these men. Castle Bank records show that Freeman

8:16 should know he took one of their places as an officer at Castle Bank. In the event that DeVoe ever had to actually produce Dr. Oka for a visual inspection, Professor Mondal would do the honors. Mondal, a native Indian, operated airlines in Afghanistan and Nepal before immigrating to the U.S. in 1967. He is the author of a book of fiction, Operation Tibet.

8:46 But one of his book's fictional pilots was Jim Serban, the name of a real pilot procured by Mondal for DeVos' smuggling operations. As the son of the first Methodist bishop of Indian descent, Professor Mondal, who died in March of 92, had grown up around British MI6 and USCIA personnel.

9:11 Which, of course, if you go back and look at where he operated in Afghanistan and Nepal, that will become very obvious to you that he's CIA because the CIA had a lot of operations in Nepal and Afghanistan over the years, even back that early, as we found out. His full name, Prafula Kumar, K-U-M-A-R, meant Prince of Sunshine.

9:43 And the closer Mondal could get to the sun, the happier he was. Mondal traveled a spook circuit. When DeVoe Airlines was formed, Mondal envisioned a commuter-type operation that fed off of a larger carrier. The commuter operation would be used to cover for work for the CIA. In order to set up the operation, Mondal had brought in a couple of his longtime associates, Jim Serbin,

10:13 and Robert, whose nickname was Denver Robert, Colquitt. Colquitt, whom Mondal had known since the early 70s, had a mutual friend with Mondal, Heinrich Harry Rupp, R-U-P-P. We've ran across him before, too. The earlier described CIA contract pilot who went to jail in a mob bank scam.

10:41 Harry, Bob and I tried to get a couple of deals going, he said. One involved transporting around 500 Ford Escort tractors to India for the Afghan rebel farming opium. It really involved obtaining certificates from three governments, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, because we had to fly through their airspace. I got the certificates. We were going to use.

11:11 Shahra Airlines. I got permission from the ruler of Shahra to form the airline, Mondal said. In the end, Pan Am, one of the favorite CIA contractors, ended up with the contract. In 1981, DeVoe invested in another company called Tiger Tops Mountain Travel International, a worldwide organization with parks located in India.

11:41 Parks. Where's Bridget? Where's Bridget when I need her? Worldwide parks in India, Nepal, NYSOR, Gilgit, Pakistan, and Wyoming. And why is that important? Because we found out when we were studying the World Wildlife Foundation that they love operating in remote parks.

12:06 because they can set up terrorist training camps they can store arms they can store drugs because they use remote areas in these large parks in order to do it so it fits right into the whole gladio operation that we've uncovered so surface um from nepal would help americans learn to climb mountains

12:39 I guess that's where they did their mountain training. Like in the Canary Islands, they used that for their water training that we've learned. Mondal, Colquist, and DeVoe and others trekked off to the Nepal resort in the early 1980s during a lull in their cocaine importing operations. I doubt that. They were probably just going on another mission over there.

13:08 Colquitt not only appears in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports on DeVoe and Freeman, his name is mentioned in a statement submitted by the former president of Aurora Bank in Colorado. During his sentencing for bank fraud involving Rupp and several East Coast mobsters, the former president, William J. Vanden Einden,

13:35 said he was introduced to Rupp in 1976 by his fiancee, who it turns out is related to one of Aiden Khashoggi's employees. That's crazy. Vanden Aiden stated that in May 1981, he traveled to Las Vegas with Rupp and several other people, including Robert Colquitt and a partner of Rupp's. At Warner's Great American Bank, DeVoe also used Burbauer's

14:08 Interfil account to buy a condo in 1980 at the Ocean Reef Club at Key Largo in Florida. That's a very high-end area. DeVoe used the Ocean Reef landing strip to fly in much of his cocaine from Columbia. His other landing field was Opelika Airport in Miami, which was a favorite of the CIA's. They used Opelika as the training location.

14:38 when they did the guatemala coup in 1954. ocean reef club is owned by a cincinnati billionaire carl linder the secretive security obsessed semi-reclusive baptist corporate raider and major republican donor linder who had been michael milken's biggest client

15:05 Started out in the milk business and gradually expanded. His business empire included insurance, financial services, American Financial Corporation. He's the guy that was behind the rebranding of United Fruit into Chiquita Banana and Chiquita Brands. He also formed Penn. He was also part owner of Penn Central.

15:36 which bought Marathon Manufacturing from Walter Michener and Michener's close partner, Howard Terry, in 1979. So you can see this Linder guy's reclusive probably because he's part of this international syndicate. Okay, a spokesperson for Linder said that he knows Terry Howard, but not Walter Michener. He just buys stuff from him.

16:08 Linder also controls Hunter Savings and Loan in Ohio, who was a big buyer of Drexel Burnham junk bonds. It was Hunter who bought Marvin Warner's home state savings out of insolvency. And Linder had the distinction of being the biggest individual savings and loan connected contributor to congressional campaigns in the 1980s.

16:36 while they were money laundering all of their money around and trying to bribe Congress to fund the Contras. He donated almost a million dollars in different congressional campaigns. Perhaps Linder's biggest contribution to the savings and loan debacle was Charles Keating. During the 1960s, Keating and his Cincinnati law firm represented Linder in all of his different interests.

17:05 Apparently, the two were so taken with each other that in 1972, Keating quit his law firm and went to work for Linder directly as an executive vice president of American Financial. Four years later, in 76, Keating moved to Phoenix to take over Linder's home building company, American Continental Homes. Two years later, Linder sold the company to Keating, who changed its name to American Continental Corporation.

17:33 However, the next year in 1979, Linder, Keating, and an attorney were charged with SEC violations making improper loans to friends and associates from Linder's Provence Bank in Cincinnati. Linder and Keating signed a consent decree agreeing not to violate the law anymore. And Linder paid $1.4 million.

18:01 to his company, American Financial, to reimburse it for fraud. More than one observer has noted that the charges against the two were remarkably similar to the ones leveled against Keating in his operation of Lincoln Savings, which American Continental bought in 84 with $51 million from Drexel Burnham. There are other interconnections between Marvin, Warner, Linder, and Keating.

18:28 Warner's home state savings used Keating's law firm for legal work. Also, one of Warner's best and oldest friends and biggest partner, Hugh Culverhouse Sr., served for a time on the board of Linder Financial. Charles Keating, Linder's spokeswoman, said, Mr. Linder hasn't even seen him in 12 years. He hasn't had anything to do with them since then, which is what they all say. Allegations of CIA connections to Linder

18:59 were all around him, but nothing was ever proven. One interesting link was Linder's purchase of United Brands, which as I said, Chiquita, it's the former United Fruit. They worked hand in hand with the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954.

19:21 In 1984, Lenders American Financial Corp increased its ownership in United Brands to 45% from its previously held 30%. The very next month, there are two relevant notes in Oliver North's White House diary. The first, on March 10th, talks about a meeting at Ocean Reef Club among four U.S. Senators. This is amazing. Thomas Foley

19:51 Dante Fassel, Edward Bolin, and Jim Wright. Jim Wright was the Speaker of the House. Edward Bolin from Florida, or excuse me, from Massachusetts, is the guy that wrote the Bolin Amendment that prohibited the CIA from supporting the Contras. Three of these, Foley, Fassel, and Bolin, would later serve

20:24 on the House Select Committee to investigate covert arms transactions to Iran. Bolin was the chief sponsor of the Bolin amendments, which prohibited the CIA from funding the Contras. And Wright would later resign from Congress under a cloud of improprieties related to this savings and loan debacle. So isn't it weird that they all went to a meeting with Oliver North at

20:55 Linder's Place? A little more than coincidence. The entry in North's notebook just before the Ocean Reef Club entry says, Vice President Bush to talk to Bolin. In addition, the Ocean Reef entry begins with the initials H-A-K, then a dash, and then the names of the congressmen.

21:21 The only person listed in the index of the Iran-Contra chronology prepared by the National Security Archive who fits those initials is none other than Henry Kissinger. In July 1983, Ronald Reagan appointed Kissinger to head a bipartisan presidential commission on Central America. Reagan then said, we must not allow totalitarian communism to win by default. There wasn't any communism.

21:55 The second entry in North's notebook just one month after Linder increased his company ownership of United Brands by 55% was a telephone call from Andy Messing, M-E-S-S-I-N-G. Messing was a former Green Beret in Vietnam. He was head of National Defense Council and worked with North

22:22 and some congressmen to get U.S. military supplies to the Contras. Messing was a close friend of Major General John Senglib, who, of course, is intimately involved in the World Anti-Communist League, the Filipino terrorist setup in Vietnam. Senglib's name's over all of Operation Gladio.

22:54 John Siegel said of Messing, he serves as my advisor on all matters relating to Congress and general conservative community. Messing was an advocate of low intensity conflict in Central America and would show conservative congressmen around some of the battlefields in Central America. After Messing's name, North wrote in his notebook, quote, United Brands Grant.

23:22 to Messing for study of Mexican political center. So it is widely believed that this increase of money into Chiquita was actually a pass-through to the CIA. Linder does have a relationship with former CIA director George Bush. The corporate recluse is one of Bush's biggest campaign donors. Bush liked to go fishing at Ocean Reef.

23:56 and had held several important meetings there, including a 1990 summit with French President Mitterrand. During the summit, Bush held a press conference in the backyard of Linder's Ocean Reef House. In November 1985, Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators interviewed Jack DeVoe in federal prison in Memphis, Tennessee, regarding his cocaine smuggling into Ocean Reef.

24:26 DeVoe stated that the majority of the hangars at Ocean Reef were used for drug smuggling for many years by a lot of people and everybody that was down there knew it, which would include Bush and Linder. DeVoe also stated that Harper Sibley, the chairman of the board of Ocean Reef for Linder, quote, just seemed to tolerate anything that went on at Ocean Reef, legal or illegal, unquote.

24:57 In 1982, DeVoe was having income tax problems with the IRS. One of his attorneys told the Florida law enforcement investigators that Harper Sibley was concerned about the IRS investigation of DeVoe. Martin, who was a partner of DeVoe's attorney, talked to Sibley, who stated although he liked DeVoe personally, he could not afford to have his club dragged in with DeVoe.

25:26 and the IRS. Sibley was particularly concerned about Charles Linder's reaction to the charges against DeVoe. Linder's spokesperson said that Linder had never heard of Jack DeVoe. Okay. In the summer of 1988, the Ocean Reef Club agreed to transfer title of 31 acres of mangroves to the state. The friendly

25:56 takeover by the state of Florida was allegedly done in lieu of a formal RICO forfeiture complaint that could have been filed against Ocean Reef for allowing the ongoing criminal enterprise. Isn't that interesting? So just pay me under the table by donating the land and we'll take that and not press RICO charges.

26:24 Sounds almost like the sweetheart deal they got with Jeffrey Epstein. Ocean Reef also agreed to pay $150,000 towards the cost of the investigation. Just turn it off. Here, I'll pay for it. Linder did not respond through his spokeswoman for the land transfer and RICO investigation questions. A name?

26:53 Just as big as lenders and even more familiar appeared in one of DeVoe's statements to Florida investigators regarding smuggling at Ocean Reef. Quote, DeVoe indicated that the hangars at Ocean Reef Club were almost all utilized for smuggling purposes, unquote. Of the seven hangars DeVoe listed at Ocean Reef, he himself had used at least three of them. But the one next to his, hangar six,

27:22 was owned by Bebe Reboso, Richard Nixon's closest associate and Watergate figure. Reboso was also one of Paul Helliwell's best friends. When DeVoe needed two sponsors to join Ocean Reef Club, he and his associate, Happy Miles, used Bebe Reboso's name as the second sponsor.

27:52 Happy suggested that B.B. Roboso's name would work. DeVoe said he only knew of Roboso, knew of him, but had never met him. Carrier, an Ocean Reef club official, said, don't worry, no one will ever question it. Russell Post, another Ocean Reef official, was the first to question DeVoe's sponsor. A lady in membership told

28:22 DeVoe that post later retyped DeVoe's membership card in order to remove Roboso's name as the sponsor. And the Florida investigators verified that. So we don't want the mob guys to sponsor you in here because it might give someone some idea that the drug runner was associated with one of Nixon's buddies. That's crazy.

28:52 A close associate of DeVos, said Roboso, was in fact DeVos' sponsor. DeVos had trouble with the IRS long before he was caught smuggling drugs. It seems he neglected to file tax return for several years throughout the 1970s. Therefore, in March of 80, he went to see an attorney on the recommendation of Jack Brock, one of his drug smuggling partners. Brock steered DeVos

29:19 to Theodore Klein, a criminal defense attorney in Miami. Seven years later, during Iran-Contra, Klein would come to the nation's attention as the attorney for Ron Martin, the CIA-connected arms dealer who was supplying weapons to the Contras and owned a casino with Robert Corson. Very small group. DeVos swore in a deposition that he told Klein he was in the drug smuggling business.

29:49 Mr. Klein knew that's the business that I was in. Did you tell him that or did he just know? Asked the investigator. I asked him, we discussed it. I asked him, things are getting pretty heavy. Do you have any tips? He said, yes, always keep a third person to make it as far, make it three or more away from you when you're buying or selling or dealing. Don't.

30:17 I don't recall the exact conversation because I didn't take notes. So he's literally discussing this with the attorney that he's smuggling drugs and the attorney helps him anyway, because that's why he was recommended to use that attorney. The attorney was later questioned by the Florida investigators and Klein stated that he suspected DeVoe as a drug smuggler when he started representing him.

30:52 mainly because of his association with Jack Brock. Klein had represented Brock on drug-related charges as well. The Florida investigating report then goes on to state Klein did not realize DeVoe was not happy with his representation until DeVoe hired Harvey Siletz to assist with the case. Klein received a letter from DeVoe dated September 1981 that ended his representation.

31:24 Probably because DeVoe figured out that these mob CIA associated attorneys, they'll take a dive for you, just as we saw what they did with General Flynn, which is why they're recommended. If you get too hot for them, they use their selected attorneys to put you in jail. The federal investigating attorney asked DeVoe during a deposition after Ted Kline.

31:56 You hired Harvey Siletz to represent you on the tax problem, question mark. He said, yes. Then they asked, Mr. Siletz is a nationally recognized tax specialist, isn't he? DeVoe said, yes, he is. Siletz was from Chicago. He had represented Burton Cantor in his Castle Bank related indictments. So he didn't get very far from the CIA.

32:23 Solette told the federal investigator that he had been friends with Cantor for a long time and had represented him early in the 70s when Cantor was indicted on conspiracy charges. The Florida report did not indicate how and why DeVoe got Solette to represent him. They do show at least one meeting at which both Klein and Solette was present, although Klein didn't admit.

32:54 introducing DeVoe to Salet. Salet then sent DeVoe to Lawrence Freeman for helping setting up foreign bank accounts and companies. So they're actually helping him money launder. Freeman was hired to assist in laundering the smuggled proceeds, the Florida report stated. Lawrence Freeman was born in D.C. in 1939. He attended the University of Miami and got a law degree.

33:22 He joined the Air Force as a JAG officer, and he's teaching people how to smuggle money. He worked in the Air Force for approximately five years and then began to work with Paul Helliwell's law firm, Helliwell, Melrose, and DeWolf in Miami. In October 1988, Freeman was a witness in a federal court hearing in Denver.

33:52 In one of the longest running IRS cases in history, the fight was over $30 million in undeclared profits from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. No taxes were ever paid on the profits that were funneled through a maze of offshore trust accounts at Castle Bank. From Paul Helliwell. With the assistance of Burton Cantor and Paul Helliwell.

34:22 So one flew over the cuckoo's nest, movies, profits were money laundered through Castle Bank and Paul Helliwell, Mr. CIA himself. And for those of you who don't know, Paul Helliwell is the guy that secretly bought all of the land in Orlando for Walt Disney to build Disney World. Secretly, Paul Helliwell, the guy who sits up money laundering front banks for the CIA.

34:56 Freeman was called to testify about the existence of the two imaginary Greeks whom Helliwell had conjured up. During his sworn testimony, Freeman discussed some of his background. Freeman said he had met Helliwell when he traveled to the United States for a funeral in 1969. I advised my dad that I intended to separate from the service and continue to live in Europe, and my father being a consul for the country of El Salvador.

35:24 recommended that I speak to Paul Helliwell, who, by coincidence, my father knew because Paul Helliwell was the consul of Thailand. El Salvador, which we cooed and was using as a drug corridor, just happens to know Paul Helliwell from Thailand that we were smuggling all the heroin through to the United States. Just a coincidence.

35:54 I met with Mr. Helliwell, and Helliwell suggested that I contact his business associates in Zurich, who was Phil Berry. Berry worked with Paul Helliwell in the OSS during World War II. Later that year, Freeman was in Zurich to see Berry about arranging financing for an Arab airline in Egypt. Helliwell was also there. He stated,

36:27 He said, as well as a man named George Bibas, to whom Helliwell introduced him. Supposedly, Bibas was one of the imaginary Greeks. The only other thing that I can recall that happened that day is I had dinner that evening with Mr. Helliwell and future CIA director Bill Casey, who also served with Helliwell in the OSS.

36:58 The gentleman later became the head of the Security Exchange Commission and then the CIA. Freeman testified that he had joined Hellywell's law firm in January of 1970 and then six months later went to work as in-house counsel for Castle Bank. Who would send their son into this garbage? Apparently Freeman's dad, who was Needy Bennett himself.

37:28 Castle Bank records show that Freeman was listed as a vice president in September 1970 and as a vice president and secretary September of the following year. The previously listed secretary had been one of the other imaginary Greeks. Freeman said he returned to Halliwell's law firm in October or November of 71 and then left to form his own law firm in 72.

37:56 Freeman's testimony in this case was abruptly halted by the judge after the IRS attorney, Gene Cerani, asked Freeman about Jack DeVoe and Dr. Robert Oka. Freeman invoked attorney-client privilege and requested a private meeting with the judge, who afterwards would not allow Freeman to answer any further questions. Because, of course, that was going to tie them directly to the CIA and drugs.

38:25 In a brief telephone conversation that the author had with him in 1989, just after he had gotten out of jail and would not practice law and could not practice law, Freeman refused to answer any questions. Asked if he had ever worked for the CIA, he said, I don't know. Then he caught himself and said, no comment. Well, not directly. I just worked for Paul Helliwell, who worked for the CIA. When asked if he knew Burton Cantor, Freeman replied, I know a lot of people.

38:57 In his sworn statement in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest case, Freeman was asked about Cantor's relationship to Castle Bank. To the best of my recollection, Mr. Cantor was the U.S. tax counsel to the bank, he replied. Later, he stated that he first met Cantor in Miami in 1970 when he was still at Paul Helliwell's firm, who Paul Helliwell set up Castle Bank.

39:31 Castle Bank, Freeman testified at the IRS hearing, I probably consulted with Mr. Cantor with regard to various tax matters. I may have traded professional opinions with him. I may have consulted him with or why something was being done or not done. Even though Freeman left Castle Bank and then Paul Helliwell's firm, he kept in close contact with Cantor. They and their associates were involved in at least 21 companies incorporated in Florida.

40:01 Almost all of them were registered in the late 70s and early 80s, and some were still active. Cantor also had a large law office next door to Freeman's in Miami for about a year. When Florida State prosecutors and investigators raided Freeman's office in November of 85, they found Cantor's name on several documents. One was a disbursement of $27,000 to Cantor.

40:30 from a $50,000 receipt from the Bank of New England. Freeman got $10,000 of this, while his law firm received $6,000. In a letter to the Houston Post, Cantor said the $27,000 was a reportable fee and was in fact reported on his tax return. In his letter, Cantor also makes the unbelievable statement that Mr. Freeman

40:57 has acted as counsel both for me personally and various activities that I've been involved in, but neither of us have ever been associated in business, except their names on multiple businesses together. Cantor doesn't address the more than 20 companies in Florida that list Freeman as an officer or director, along with the names of women with the same Chicago street address and suite as Cantor's.

41:29 One of the attorneys in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest case made the statement that Cantor had introduced how Helliwell was introduced to Helliwell by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, the famous OSS director, who was Helliwell's boss during World War II while he worked at the OSS. So Cantor was introduced to Helliwell.

42:01 by Wild Bill Donovan. Maybe Wild Bill Donovan didn't actually get out of the intel business like a lot of people think he did. Cantor later denied that. In his 1991 book, Master of Paradise, Alan Brock states that Cantor had direct ties to organized crime as well, pointing to his connection with the La Costa Resort out in San Diego.

42:33 where they used teamster where the mafia used teamster union pension funds to alan dorfman as well as a chicago mobster morris kleinman who was probably one of the founding owners of castle bank maybe one of the original funders

42:55 Castle, or excuse me, Helliwell once reported, reportedly told a Castle Bank colleague that they had to transfer some of Kleinman's accounts from a sister Caribbean bank to Castle for protection. If you don't do it, Cantor will end up face down in a Chicago river, Helliwell said. Huh. Block's book.

43:19 comes down stronger on the side of mafia control and presence at castle bank than that of the cia but he does recognize groundbreaking stories in the wall street journal in april of 1980 which stated the cia was responsible for stopping a justice department investigation into castle bank the cia it seems was using the bank as covert funding and drug laundering

43:50 Castle, or excuse me, Helliwell, was identified by journalist Jim Drinkhall as being the reputed paymaster for the Bay of Pigs. Drinkhall also reported that Helliwell and the CIA used Castle Bank accounts to fund anti-Castro activities, which they did. According to author and journalist Jonathan Kitney,

44:15 Amidst all of the speculation that was swirling around CIA agents who were also involved in narcotic smuggling over the years, the one CIA career officer definitely known to have planned narcotic smuggling as an instrument of American policy was none other than Paul Helliwell. Helliwell established one of the CIA's first proprietary front companies called C Supply Corporation to funnel weapons to

44:44 the Chiang Kai-shek group in Thailand in the 1950s. The Chiang Kai-shek group manufactured heroin to help pay for military needs. And the heroin was transported out of the area of Burma initially and then into Laos by pack mules to Heliwell Sea Supply Corporation.

45:18 Later, Cantor and Helliwell and Walter Michener and Robert Corson, along with Lawrence Freeman, lived in a world where the distinction between CIA and organized crime was very blurred. Not only did Freeman have direct business associations with Cantor and Helliwell, he was also connected to Corson and organized crime figures. One Florida report.

45:45 contains an interview with Jack DeVoe's main partner, James Malone, a former newspaper and television reporter. Malone explained how Freeman would launder some of their drug money by turning the cash over to one of his other clients and then moving money from that client's offshore bank accounts to DeVoe's offshore bank accounts. Malone and DeVoe nicknamed this other client as Cobra. Based on numerous conversations with Freeman,

46:14 Malone got the impression that Cobra was a prominent organized crime figure from Tampa, which would be Trapacani. Another law enforcement report based on an interview with DeVoe states that Malone told DeVoe and Freeman at one that he, Freeman, handles Santo Trapacani's money. Such an association isn't far-fetched. Freeman's former boss, Paul Helliwell,

46:47 And Traficani both worked hard on the same thing, one of which was the overthrow of Fidel Castro. But also, Traficani made multiple trips to Thailand and Vietnam to work with Chiang Kai-shek's opium network. Traficani wanted his Havana hotels back and was one of the top two ranking mafia bosses who were in the CIA.

47:19 use in working to take out Castro. The other one was Sam Giacconi. However, Traficani's close associate, Carlos Marcelo, the guy that we covered extensively at the beginning of this book, the New Orleans mob boss, once told an FBI informant that he was in it too. An author, John Davis, also reported that Marcelo's close friend in Washington,

47:51 was a lobbyist, Irving Davidson, who was indicted with Marcello on the Brylab and then later acquitted, often functioned as an official lobbyist for the CIA on Capitol Hill. With a mere phone call, Davidson could put Carlos Marcello in touch with almost anyone in the CIA, including the director. When the Florida investigators subpoenaed the...

48:20 telephone company for names behind the telephone numbers called by Freeman, they found Louis Chesler. They apparently didn't know who the mobster was because there's no mention of him in the reports on Freeman, Chesler, Meyer Lansky's partner. Chesler was Meyer Lansky's partner and was also a casino partner with Wallace Groves, who headed a company called Intercontinental.

48:50 diversified corporation they laundered money for the cia through castle bank another top official at intercontinental diversified was mary jane melrose who also worked for paul hellywell's law firm it doesn't take too much putting two and two together to see why lawrence freeman might be calling louis chesler on the phone but um

49:18 would not have listed his name and phone number in any of the office records because they're all CIA. In 1982, DeVoe, on the recommendation of James Malone and Lawrence Freeman, hired Albert Krieger as his defense attorney. DeVoe paid Krieger about $140,000 before his trial. After DeVoe was finally arrested on drug charges in 83, he wanted to plea bargain with the government, but Krieger

49:48 would never consider a plea bargain, the Florida report. The report went on to describe a meeting Krieger had with DeVoe in the Miami Correctional Center. DeVoe mentioned plea bargaining again, but Krieger was not at all interested, especially since one of the individuals Jack would have informed on was Larry Freeman, and that was a friend of Krieger's. DeVoe eventually fired Krieger.

50:16 pleaded guilty, turned state's evidence against a number of drug smugglers, and received eight years. He is now out of jail and in the federal witness program. When Freeman was arrested in his office and his office was raided, the first person he telephoned was Krieger, his attorney. Freeman also told federal law enforcement, or excuse me, Florida law enforcement,

50:43 that several of his files, including some on Dr. Robert Koka, had never had been turned over to Krieger. One of the Florida investigator reports discussed a telephone conference in April of 1983 among Freeman Krieger, Harvey Silette, James Malone, and Dr. Oka, probably the Professor Mondelguy who pretended to be Oka.

51:13 about the tax and criminal matters. After Freeman was arrested, Krieger described Freeman to reporters as a taxation specialist of international repute. This is the same Albert Krieger who was a registered agent and secretary of a company called CIC Enterprises, whose president was Clamard Joseph Charles, the CIA man in Haiti and money launderer.

51:43 for Mario Renda. So the attorney is the registered agent for CIC Enterprises for Mr. Charles. And Mr. Charles was the CIA man in Haiti and chief money launderer for Mario Renda, the mobster. In 1982, when John, the dapper Don Gotti, John Gotti,

52:16 head of the Gambino mafia family, was being tried for murder of the former Gambino boss, Paul Castellano, guess who was brought in from Miami as his defense attorney? Albert Cryer. Freeman ended up pleading guilty in February of 89 to two counts of racketeering and money laundering for DeVoe. He forfeited his law license for a limited time and was sentenced to three years in jail.

52:46 but was already back out within a few months. So literally nothing happened to him. Professor Mondal, the late Indian and one of DeVos' main pilots, asserted that half of the runs involving DeVos' organization were guns down and drugs up. Mondal said that drug running profits

53:14 were to be used to get DeVos' aviation commuter operations up and running. DeVos' favorite transshipment and stopping point between Colombia and the United States was, anybody want to guess? Belize! Yes, Belize! At least two Belize residents were indicted with DeVos in Florida. But since the United States has no extradition treaty with Belize, they have escaped U.S. justice.

53:44 Several of DeVos' pilots testified that they received assistance from Jules Weatherbourne, who runs the airport in Belize City, and from a Ruby Flowers, who provided them gas. Both Weatherbourne and Flowers were indicted in Florida. One pilot, Andrew James, testified that a Valen Gallet, the head of the narcotics police in Belize, was on their payroll.

54:13 Another pilot, Allman Lawrence Hall, testified that one time he and Andy James crashed after taking off from a landing strip in central Belize near the Guatemalan and Mexican border, which of course would be exactly where Walter Michener and Coca-Cola had their 700,000 acre terrorist training camp.

54:42 and drug running operations. Okay, one final connection with Fernando Beerbauer. At the same time that Beerbauer and DeVoe were smuggling narcotics and laundering drug money with Manuel Gargis and Willie Falcon at Marvin Warner's Great American Bank, DeVoe's criminal defense attorney on taxes was Ted Kline.

55:15 who later gained fame as the lawyer for CIA and Contra gun runner, Ron Martin. Also around the time, Ron Martin's weapons firm, RM Equipment, lent $72,000 to Miguel Acosta. Five years later, Acosta showed up in Beerbauer's, as Beerbauer's right-hand man and fellow officer and director of the company we talked about yesterday, Quiet Nacelle.

55:44 that was doing the noise dampening systems on DC-8s. The loan from RM Equipment to Acosta was a one-year loan secured by a Miami house that Acosta's company, MCA Leasing, had just deeded over to Acosta and his wife. Acosta didn't pay off the note when it came due, and RM Equipment filed a lawsuit against him. The matter was settled for some unknown amount in 1981.

56:14 Acosta's attorney then was Harry Bender, who became Quiet Nacelle's attorney after it started doing business. It was Bender who represented Baerbauer, Acosta, and Quiet Nacelle in their legal fight against Azima over the two DC-8s located in Spain. There were intimidations during that time.

56:42 Martin's weapons deal with the Contras were also mixed up with narcotics. Martin and his partner, James McCoy, the former defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua during Somoza, had set up a so-called supermarket for arms in a warehouse in Honduras. So you see how corrupt Somoza's government was, but we're all taught to hate the Sandinistas. They're literally...

57:12 dealing arms in the U.S. embassy in Nicaragua under Somoza. But make sure you hate the Sandinistas. Let's see. In Oliver Knorr's White House notebook, there is an entry dated July 12th, 1985, regarding a phone book, a phone call from Richard Secord, which states, quote, discussion RE supermarket.

57:43 Honduras Army plans to seize all is, and then there's something illegible, when supermarket comes to bad end, finance comes from drugs. Then there's a redacted part by the CIA, expects Honduras armed forces to seize the supermarket assets when the supermarket folds, meaning the weapons warehouse.

58:18 A 1989 report by the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations found that a company called Hondu Carib was shipping some of Martin's weapons to the Contras. Hondu Carib was formed by a pilot called Frank Moss, who had come under investigation for narcotics trafficking. Moss was also a pilot for Stetco.

58:43 a Honduran company selected by the State Department to supply humanitarian reliefs, and that should be in air quotes, to the Contras. Stetco was established by a Honduran cocaine smuggler to ferry supplies to the Contras from Honduras. Stetco is also the company in Gary Webb's book that came up, and it's come up in several other.

59:13 It's basically a front company that Robert Owens, Oliver Norris' right-hand man, was using out of the State Department to do all of the weapons and drugs under quote-unquote humanitarian. That's why I laugh every time somebody thinks that USAID had anything to do with aid. U.S. Customs Service had been following a DC-4 aircraft used by Moss to carry equipment to the Contras.

59:44 In May of 1983, Customs report regarding the DC-4 and one of its pilots, Guy Owen, stated that the arrangements had been made to airdrop large quantities of marijuana and cocaine on a farm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The farm address belonged to Barry Seal and Wendell Seal, both allegedly narcotic smugglers and distributors.

1:00:13 for the southeast the investigating officer was able to obtain copies of guy pendleton owen telephone tolls for the year of 1981 through the mississippi bureau of narcotics agent the tolls were submitted through a telephone analysis and revealed that guy owens had called this particular number which is listed to bill walker and associates in

1:00:42 St. Simons, Georgia. That's an island off the coast of Georgia. William Walker is a documented narcotic smuggler and it was at his office where these phone calls were being made. Bill Walker showed up in Houston in the summer of 87 to buy a twin engine Cessna.

1:01:07 out of repossession by NBC Bank Houston. The previous owner of the company was owned by Robert Corson's associate, Mike Atkinson, for whom Lawrence Freeman was fronting in the deal that we're going to talk about, that DuPont deal in the Florida Pay and Handle. So there you have it.

1:01:36 We talked about the mafia, the CIA, Paul Helliwell, Bibi Reboso, the Contras, drugs, CIA, George Bush, all of them. And that's crazy. And that's the stuff that was happening in South Florida and a little bit in Tampa. We're going to talk about what happened in the panhandle of Florida in an upcoming chapter. So that's it for today.

1:02:12 Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. I'm enamored here with this dude, Jack DeVoe. Sitting here thinking about what's going on. He's got more money than he can shake his stick at. They take him to a lawyer. He's having this conversation with the lawyer. Oh, yeah, I'm a drug dealer and I got tax issues. And I can hear the lawyer on the other side.

1:02:44 Well, Jack, you should have come to me earlier. I'm going to tell you how to do this. Yeah, you need to do more money laundering outside of the United States. Let me help you set them up. Let me help you. It's like, oh, geez. Yeah, and then he goes from that lawyer to a mob lawyer in Chicago. Right. Jack was a very, very good boy to these people.

1:03:16 And he ended up in jail for it. Yes, that's the ironic part. He did end up in jail for it. And Paul Henrywell as well, when you take a look at him, he pretty much gets away scot-free with everything. Everything, because the CIA protected him his whole entire life. And even though they go to jail, Jack DeVoe had millions of dollars in private bank accounts.

1:03:47 So they are willing to trade their freedom for the future life of living in the lap of luxury while flooding the United States with narcotics. And that needs to be understood by everyone.

1:04:02 You never feel sorry for these guys because they're the ones that get thrown in the meat grinder for the higher ups because they've already set up their offshore accounts. They've already protected themselves and their family for the rest of their lives. And if they have to spend a few years in jail as a result of that, they're fine with that because they have money stashed everywhere. Stellar, go ahead. My head is just spinning right now.

1:04:31 So much of this stuff has been going on in front of our freaking noses and had no clue. I mean, holy cow. This is like, oh. But I do like that DeVoe guy. He does seem to have some sort of sense of humor. Oh, my gosh. And the attorney sitting on the other side. I'm sorry, being in Vegas, knowing what Oscar Goodman was, I could just imagine him sitting because he used to protect the mob, too. And he became our mayor.

1:05:03 Yeah. And what's really interesting to me is how, especially within the media in the 80s, because I missed all of this, obviously. I mean, I graduated in 79. So all of this stuff is going on just as I went off to the Air Force and was mired into, you know, getting my degree and all of that other stuff. So not reading the news. How well known at the time?

1:05:31 both in the state of Florida, which is where I'm from, but in Texas and in Washington, D.C., how much was actually in print about Castle Bank? Because I stumbled across it three years ago when we were discovering Operation Gladio in Paul Williams' book. And there was quite a bit.

1:05:54 That was very well known about it. The officers that were part of it and anybody that was involved in Castle Bank that would immediately, if any mention of it in a trial occurred, it was cut off. So you were not allowed to talk about that. And for some reason.

1:06:18 It never in the people that are in those venues as reporters or whatever. It never seems to have dawned on very many of them just how complicit Castle Bank, Paul Halliwell and all of those people were in this much bigger operation. Because, of course, what we know to be a fact is that money.

1:06:47 that off of the drug sales that were being deposited in these banks was being laundered to buy weapons to kill people. And they were using these banks to generate even more money to the point of failure of hundreds of them to buy weapons to kill people. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel.

1:07:18 I did post an article from the New York Times in the pill that was written back in 1984. And the headline reads, drug smugglers say the hard part is what to do with the money. So that gives you an idea of what's going on. They all knew. And they knew. It's not the hard part. They knew exactly what they were doing with the money.

1:07:45 that they were laundering it through these banks. And I just want you guys to get the true irony of this. During that whole time, you know, you have an entire cache of people that are behind trying to grab guns in the United States. Oh, you can't have this gun. Oh, you have to register your gun. When literally hundreds of thousands of guns are flying out of the United States.

1:08:15 To kill people overseas, they just don't want you to have a gun. That to me is one of the most mind-blowing. There's millions of guns all over the world, thanks to the CIA and covert operations, that you have no clue where they're at. None. And these guns that show up in these crimes inside the United States, since we know, I mean, obviously that's what Fast and Furious was all about.

1:08:45 They were actually shipping guns and got caught. So they make up this bullshit story. But that's what they do. They send all of these guns to terrorists that they are training and to put in stay behind caches for use for later operations. And but you have to register yours. That's the part that just blows my mind. Well.

1:09:16 That's one of the parts. This entire fucking thing blows my mind. None of mine are registered, Colonel. They haven't been for many, many, many, many years. Well, I mean, obviously, if you pass them down through your family and stuff like that, they're not. But if you go buy one, they are. And that's the crazy thing. That you know that the people that sneak across the border that have been trained.

1:09:46 And one of these terrorist training camps could be bringing any number of weapons into the United States. And none of them are registered. But yours needs to be if you go to a store and buy it. I just I I can't get over that.

1:10:06 And think about the people that live in these other countries, especially the countries like Honduras, where the CIA operated and launched multiple operations into not just Sandinista, but into Costa Rica, El Salvador, and all of the surrounding countries down there. They did a lot of operations out of Honduras. And the amount of weapons.

1:10:35 In addition to Galil, the Israeli gun manufacturer that opened a company in Colombia to manufacture them there, they're just flooded with weapons. Everybody has a weapon that should never have a weapon. And our government, using our taxpayers' money, has been shipping that in addition to the illicit funding covertly.

1:11:01 and flooding these countries and then they scratch their head in the newspaper when they're interviewed going i have no idea how it's so violent there well you've been sending millions of weapons down there what else would you expect so anyway mind-boggling totally mind-boggling

1:11:28 And, you know, like when you overthrew the government of Brazil or Chile or whatever, you have to have a way of arming the defense, the national police that you create, the National Guard that they create in the military with weaponry. And not all of it is funded through overt funding.

1:11:58 Americans, if you told America that you're buying, you know, two million guns to flood a military dictatorship in Chile or the military dictatorship in Brazil in the early 1960s, we're going to support that military dictatorship and we're going to send them a couple million guns so he can kill his people.

1:12:26 they would never go for it. And so they just do it covertly. Alicia, go ahead. Hey, something kind of came to my mind. I'm curious if y'all have run across something along these lines or if it fits in with your other readings. You know, I've heard stories of people, you know, older my age, you know, who've

1:12:48 talked about how easy it used to be to go across the border between Texas and Mexico and how it feels relatively is for if you're, you know, Texan and how a lot, and there's always been stories around, you know, how they've used Texans as, you know, mules for both, you know, gun laundering and, and some of the, the drug stuff. And I,

1:13:14 I'm curious if you think that plays a role in some of this, you know, in the fact that, like, you know, a lot of verbiage was always, well, yeah, but the guys are coming from Texas, so if only y'all would just stop bringing them down here. And I used to think it was maybe just your average, you know, moron getting, you know, sucked up into it. But now I'm wondering if there was something, you know, more.

1:13:37 Connected, I guess, into all the smuggling that you've been addressing today. So just keep in mind, you have both. You have, you know, these one off instances, just regular crime. But these operations leave nothing to chance. The actual organized.

1:14:06 weapons leaving the United States in bulk is done very professionally. They don't get runners necessarily just to run small quantities across the border. There's a much bigger operation that we're talking about.

1:14:31 where you have front companies and these front companies have airplanes and they have these isolated airstrips and they're flying in a much larger quantity. So obviously you're going to have, and I'll tell you just as a story of the isolated incidences.

1:14:57 When I was stationed at Los Angeles Air Force Base in the 1980s, I was a semi-professional power lifter. I went to a lot of competitions in the Los Angeles area and all of the military competitions that they had at all the various military bases. In the power lifting community, a lot of people did steroids. In the military back then, steroids were not part of the urinalysis test. They were not.

1:15:26 quote unquote, illegal. You couldn't buy them in the United States, but they were not in the military, something that they checked for you using. So a lot of the military bodybuilders at the different military installations around there would take to Tijuana and buy injectable steroids down there.

1:15:54 I had a friend who was asked to bring a weapon down in exchange for the steroids. Now, that's a little too far for somebody. They might want to sneak in a few vials of anabolic steroids, but they weren't going to take a weapon. And then they got too scared to go back because they were afraid the person who had asked them to do it, and they would never go back.

1:16:22 So you have those things that happen. And I guess if you've got some stupid person, nobody that I know of in the military would have ever done that. But shortly after, I think it was by the late 80s, like 89, 90, they actually added steroids to the urinalysis testing and everything changed at that point because no one was.

1:16:49 you know, at least no one I know was going to get caught using them now. And I don't know if you guys, I saw personally in the female bodybuilding arena, what taking steroids do to women and in the gold's gym, which I was a member of out there.

1:17:11 um because all of the celebrities i lived in redondo beach and all of the celebrities um would come to because it was right on the ocean um our um club when they were going to compete in the local area um just because it was like one of the nicest gold's gym i've ever been in this woman came in and i called her amazon i don't i didn't know what else to call her i wasn't going to talk to her she scared the hell out of me

1:17:37 She was one of the biggest women I've ever seen in my entire life. Blonde hair. Her whole, her voice had changed. Her whole body looked like a guy. The jawline of her. And I'm like, holy shit. It just literally scared the crap out of me. I don't know why anybody would do that to their body. There's no trophy ever.

1:18:05 That would convince me that that was a good idea because it's just a trophy and you're destroying your entire body for it. So it was a crazy time. But I remember it. And I know that they all went down to Tijuana to to get it. So, I mean, that's a drug and they were bringing it across the border. A lot of it. But.

1:18:31 That kind of behavior has always been normalized, at least in Texas culture. I know of a story from a grandmother, not my grandmother, but another grandmother, who was a strict Nazarene, good church woman, who went down there to get her.

1:18:49 i don't like her energy pills i think is what she called them and she didn't realize it was like cocaine or something in it and she got stopped at the border because they're like you can't can't bring this in ma'am she's like what do you mean so it's like it's been so normalized i could see how easy yeah it would be to trap someone into something like that yes and and then on top of that another thing that i'm curious about is

1:19:13 You know, a lot of these players, I think, send their kids to the same schools, right? Yes. And I've heard stories from people who went to some of these uppity schools about just how they really weren't that good a place and how they met people who got them into that kind of world. Even as far as like, hypothetically, I know someone who may have actually driven a plane.

1:19:42 for one of these people thinking he was being, you know, funny. Oh, this kid's a kid of a cartel person. But at the time, he thought it was just being a humble brag. You know, not humble, but just a brag. It was like, look how badass I am. I'm like, you actually probably were a part of something that you didn't realize you were a part of. It's just... It can happen. Yeah. It can happen. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. Getting back to the arms trafficking and what's going on with that.

1:20:17 If you really paid attention to what was going on with Fast and Furious, you understand what we were doing. But the other thing that gets me is when we run into these deals where, okay, he's got a weapon, it's not registered, or if it is registered, they'll tell you if it was registered and who bought it.

1:20:41 But very rare will they tell you anything about the serial number on that weapon. Where it came from, where it was initially sold to, what distributor. They won't tell you any of that information, but they do have it. Correct. They can get it. Correct. They know there's no reason on earth you should have to register a weapon. Yes.

1:21:11 That's true. Except for the ones that they file off the serial numbers and stuff like that on. And then, you know, it's definitely black market stuff. But you're right about that. All of the legal firearms are all traceable. So they're just doing it so that they can eventually come for our weapons. I'm convinced of it. But anyway. All right.

1:21:40 That's it for now. We're on chapter 20. And let me just look real quick. So we've got a few more days. There's 23 chapters. So the rest of the chapters aren't as big as that one. I'm not sure.

1:22:01 Most it'll take is four days. So by the end of next weekend, and if I have to do a couple of shows on the weekend, I will just because we're going to miss probably Thursday. We'll be done with this book and we're going to go into the devil's chess board, which is about all. I mean, obviously it's the same stuff, but it primarily focuses at the beginning of Operation Gladio with Alan Dulles and how.

1:22:28 Operation Sunrise and stuff like that. So it's a little bit of going back to the roots of this whole thing, which is very fascinating to me. But I do have a couple of other books on the list. We're going to get to John Prado's book called Safe for Democracy, The Secret Wars of the CIA. And we're also going to do Dope Inc., which is a fascinating book.

1:22:57 because it's the one that Henry Kissinger tried everything he could to get it not to be printed. So those are kind of the lineup of what we're going to do over the next few books. I am going to be appearing on CanCon's book show next Tuesday.

1:23:26 where are we at i gotta get to today um the 30th at um 6 p.m so eastern time just so you guys can mark that on your calendar if you want to but other than that i will see you um tomorrow at four o'clock so you guys have a nice rest of your sunday um go cook out some good steaks and have fun

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Entities here

Claims made here

Fernando Burbauer founded International Nickel Company documented ▶ 1:26

“with a fellow Colombian named Manuel Garces. It's spelled G-A-R-C-E-S. And set up a company called International Finance Company, which Great American Bank erroneously contracted to Interfil. Interfil…”

Fernando Burbauer laundered_money_for Manuel Garces documented ▶ 1:56

“It existed only as a Great American Bank account and was used only as a false front for Mr. Garcia's narcotics, both cocaine and marijuana, cells and narcotic money laundering service. That's the whol…”

Jack DeVoe did_business_with Robert Corson documented ▶ 3:25

“involving Robert Corson. Freeman, the lawyer, laundered DeVoe's drug money through companies in the Isle of Jersey. These same companies received savings and loan money from Corson and his associates …”

Lawrence Freeman laundered_money_for Jack DeVoe documented ▶ 3:25

Jack DeVoe carried_out_attack United States documented ▶ 3:57

“In a report dated March 3rd, 1982, U.S. Customs Senior Special Agent Peter Bolinon stated, quote, twin engine aircraft, primarily Beach Baron and Navajo aircraft, were used to smuggle approximately 20…”

Jack DeVoe did_business_with Augusto Guillermo Falcon documented ▶ 3:57

Prafula Kumar Mondal front_for Jack DeVoe documented ▶ 6:52

“One of DeVoe's pilots, Profolo Professor Mondol, M-O-N-D-O-L, invented the name Dr. Oka, supposedly a rich physician from Bombay, India, to serve as a front for DeVoe. Oka was made to be from India be…”

Prafula Kumar Mondal did_business_with Robert Colquitt documented ▶ 9:43

“And the closer Mondal could get to the sun, the happier he was. Mondal traveled a spook circuit. When DeVoe Airlines was formed, Mondal envisioned a commuter-type operation that fed off of a larger ca…”

Prafula Kumar Mondal member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 9:43

Prafula Kumar Mondal did_business_with Heinrich Rupp documented ▶ 10:13

“and Robert, whose nickname was Denver Robert, Colquitt. Colquitt, whom Mondal had known since the early 70s, had a mutual friend with Mondal, Heinrich Harry Rupp, R-U-P-P. We've ran across him before,…”

Pan American World Airways acquired Shahra Airlines documented ▶ 11:11

“Shahra Airlines. I got permission from the ruler of Shahra to form the airline, Mondal said. In the end, Pan Am, one of the favorite CIA contractors, ended up with the contract. In 1981, DeVoe investe…”

Jack DeVoe invested_in Tiger Tops Mountain Travel International documented ▶ 11:11

William J. Vanden Einden did_business_with Heinrich Rupp documented ▶ 13:35

“said he was introduced to Rupp in 1976 by his fiancee, who it turns out is related to one of Aiden Khashoggi's employees. That's crazy. Vanden Aiden stated that in May 1981, he traveled to Las Vegas w…”

CIA operated_in Opelika Airport host_asserted ▶ 14:08

“Interfil account to buy a condo in 1980 at the Ocean Reef Club at Key Largo in Florida. That's a very high-end area. DeVoe used the Ocean Reef landing strip to fly in much of his cocaine from Columbia…”

Carl Lindner founded Good Financial Corporation documented ▶ 15:05

“Started out in the milk business and gradually expanded. His business empire included insurance, financial services, American Financial Corporation. He's the guy that was behind the rebranding of Unit…”

Carl Lindner acquired United Brands documented ▶ 18:59

“were all around him, but nothing was ever proven. One interesting link was Linder's purchase of United Brands, which as I said, Chiquita, it's the former United Fruit. They worked hand in hand with th…”

United Brands did_business_with CIA documented ▶ 18:59

Good Financial Corporation invested_in United Brands documented ▶ 19:21

“In 1984, Lenders American Financial Corp increased its ownership in United Brands to 45% from its previously held 30%. The very next month, there are two relevant notes in Oliver North's White House d…”

Oliver North did_business_with Thomas Foley documented ▶ 19:21

Lawrence Freeman met Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 34:56

“Freeman was called to testify about the existence of the two imaginary Greeks whom Helliwell had conjured up. During his sworn testimony, Freeman discussed some of his background. Freeman said he had …”

Paul Helliwell worked_with Phil Berry documented ▶ 35:54

“I met with Mr. Helliwell, and Helliwell suggested that I contact his business associates in Zurich, who was Phil Berry. Berry worked with Paul Helliwell in the OSS during World War II. Later that year…”

Paul Helliwell served_with William Casey documented ▶ 36:27

“He said, as well as a man named George Bibas, to whom Helliwell introduced him. Supposedly, Bibas was one of the imaginary Greeks. The only other thing that I can recall that happened that day is I ha…”

Lawrence Freeman joined Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 36:58

“The gentleman later became the head of the Security Exchange Commission and then the CIA. Freeman testified that he had joined Hellywell's law firm in January of 1970 and then six months later went to…”

Lawrence Freeman worked_for Castle Bank & Trust documented ▶ 36:58

Lawrence Freeman listed_as Castle Bank & Trust documented ▶ 37:28

“Castle Bank records show that Freeman was listed as a vice president in September 1970 and as a vice president and secretary September of the following year. The previously listed secretary had been o…”

Lawrence Freeman returned_to Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 37:28

Lawrence Freeman invoked_privilege_regarding Jack DeVoe documented ▶ 37:56

“Freeman's testimony in this case was abruptly halted by the judge after the IRS attorney, Gene Cerani, asked Freeman about Jack DeVoe and Dr. Robert Oka. Freeman invoked attorney-client privilege and …”

Lawrence Freeman worked_for Paul Helliwell host_asserted ▶ 38:25

“In a brief telephone conversation that the author had with him in 1989, just after he had gotten out of jail and would not practice law and could not practice law, Freeman refused to answer any questi…”

Lawrence Freeman met Burton Cantor documented ▶ 38:57

“In his sworn statement in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest case, Freeman was asked about Cantor's relationship to Castle Bank. To the best of my recollection, Mr. Cantor was the U.S. tax counsel to…”

Paul Helliwell set_up Castle Bank & Trust documented ▶ 38:57

Burton Cantor tax_counsel_for Castle Bank & Trust documented ▶ 38:57

Lawrence Freeman consulted_with Burton Cantor documented ▶ 39:31

“Castle Bank, Freeman testified at the IRS hearing, I probably consulted with Mr. Cantor with regard to various tax matters. I may have traded professional opinions with him. I may have consulted him w…”

Lawrence Freeman involved_in_companies_with Burton Cantor documented ▶ 39:31

Burton Cantor had_office_near Lawrence Freeman documented ▶ 40:01

“Almost all of them were registered in the late 70s and early 80s, and some were still active. Cantor also had a large law office next door to Freeman's in Miami for about a year. When Florida State pr…”

Burton Cantor denied_business_association_with Lawrence Freeman documented ▶ 40:57

“has acted as counsel both for me personally and various activities that I've been involved in, but neither of us have ever been associated in business, except their names on multiple businesses togeth…”

William J. Donovan boss_of Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 41:29

“One of the attorneys in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest case made the statement that Cantor had introduced how Helliwell was introduced to Helliwell by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, the famou…”

William J. Donovan introduced Burton Cantor host_asserted ▶ 41:29

Alan Block stated_in_book Burton Cantor book_quoted ▶ 42:01

“by Wild Bill Donovan. Maybe Wild Bill Donovan didn't actually get out of the intel business like a lot of people think he did. Cantor later denied that. In his 1991 book, Master of Paradise, Alan Broc…”

Morris Kleinman founding_owner_of Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 42:33

“where they used teamster where the mafia used teamster union pension funds to alan dorfman as well as a chicago mobster morris kleinman who was probably one of the founding owners of castle bank maybe…”

Paul Helliwell reported_saying Morris Kleinman host_asserted ▶ 42:55

“Castle, or excuse me, Helliwell once reported, reportedly told a Castle Bank colleague that they had to transfer some of Kleinman's accounts from a sister Caribbean bank to Castle for protection. If y…”

Paul Helliwell identified_as_paymaster_for Bay of Pigs Invasion book_quoted ▶ 43:50

“Castle, or excuse me, Helliwell, was identified by journalist Jim Drinkhall as being the reputed paymaster for the Bay of Pigs. Drinkhall also reported that Helliwell and the CIA used Castle Bank acco…”

Paul Helliwell used_accounts_of Castle Bank & Trust book_quoted ▶ 43:50

Paul Helliwell established Sea Supply Corporation book_quoted ▶ 44:15

“Amidst all of the speculation that was swirling around CIA agents who were also involved in narcotic smuggling over the years, the one CIA career officer definitely known to have planned narcotic smug…”

Sea Supply Corporation funneled_weapons_to Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted ▶ 44:44

“the Chiang Kai-shek group in Thailand in the 1950s. The Chiang Kai-shek group manufactured heroin to help pay for military needs. And the heroin was transported out of the area of Burma initially and …”

Lawrence Freeman laundered_money_for Jack DeVoe documented ▶ 45:45

“contains an interview with Jack DeVoe's main partner, James Malone, a former newspaper and television reporter. Malone explained how Freeman would launder some of their drug money by turning the cash …”

Lawrence Freeman handled_money_for Santo Trafficante Jr. documented ▶ 46:14

“Malone got the impression that Cobra was a prominent organized crime figure from Tampa, which would be Trapacani. Another law enforcement report based on an interview with DeVoe states that Malone tol…”

Paul Helliwell worked_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 46:47

“And Traficani both worked hard on the same thing, one of which was the overthrow of Fidel Castro. But also, Traficani made multiple trips to Thailand and Vietnam to work with Chiang Kai-shek's opium n…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. involved_in_overthrow_of Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 46:47

Santo Trafficante Jr. worked_with Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 46:47

Carlos Marcello involved_in_overthrow_of Fidel Castro documented ▶ 47:19

“use in working to take out Castro. The other one was Sam Giacconi. However, Traficani's close associate, Carlos Marcelo, the guy that we covered extensively at the beginning of this book, the New Orle…”

Irving Davidson connected_to Carlos Marcello book_quoted ▶ 47:19

Wallace Groves headed International Diversified Corporation documented ▶ 48:20

“telephone company for names behind the telephone numbers called by Freeman, they found Louis Chesler. They apparently didn't know who the mobster was because there's no mention of him in the reports o…”

Lou Chesler partner_of Meyer Lansky documented ▶ 48:20

Lou Chesler casino_partner_with Wallace Groves documented ▶ 48:20

Mary Jane Melrose worked_for Paul Helliwell documented ▶ 48:50

“diversified corporation they laundered money for the cia through castle bank another top official at intercontinental diversified was mary jane melrose who also worked for paul hellywell's law firm it…”

Galil located_in Colombia host_asserted ▶ 1:10:35

“In addition to Galil, the Israeli gun manufacturer that opened a company in Colombia to manufacture them there, they're just flooded with weapons. Everybody has a weapon that should never have a weapo…”

United States financed_via Brazil host_asserted ▶ 1:11:28

“And, you know, like when you overthrew the government of Brazil or Chile or whatever, you have to have a way of arming the defense, the national police that you create, the National Guard that they cr…”

United States financed_via Chile host_asserted ▶ 1:11:28

United States supplied_arms_to Brazil host_asserted ▶ 1:11:58

“Americans, if you told America that you're buying, you know, two million guns to flood a military dictatorship in Chile or the military dictatorship in Brazil in the early 1960s, we're going to suppor…”

United States supplied_arms_to Chile host_asserted ▶ 1:11:58

Allen Dulles member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:22:01

“Most it'll take is four days. So by the end of next weekend, and if I have to do a couple of shows on the weekend, I will just because we're going to miss probably Thursday. We'll be done with this bo…”

Henry Kissinger covered_up Dope Inc. host_asserted ▶ 1:22:57

“because it's the one that Henry Kissinger tried everything he could to get it not to be printed. So those are kind of the lineup of what we're going to do over the next few books. I am going to be app…”