The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11

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0:56 Good afternoon, Colonel. How are you? Good. Good afternoon. Y'all, please pray for those people in Appleton, Wisconsin. Holy crap, those pictures of the tornado that went through there looks horrific. So, okay. We've had an exciting day today. My grandson got his first haircut in my kitchen.

1:28 Just like the old days, my hairdresser came by and yeah, I'll have to send you some pictures. It's crazy. I'm not going to send you the video. We had some rough spots in between when he wasn't focusing on his sucker and he was focusing on the scissors going around his head. But overall, it was wonderful. And I.

1:56 I bought these really cute little picture frame things that has a little jar that hangs that you can put the curls in. He has like total curls around the back. Well, you had, they're no longer there. He has a little boy haircut as of today. And my older daughter who's out in Texas sent this horrified response. You cut his curls. I'm like, no, there's still some on the top. I just, he just has a little boy haircut now.

2:27 but he does look like a little boy as opposed to a baby now. He's so stinking cute. All right, enough of the fun stuff. Let's get into the nasty stuff. All right, we're on chapter 18 in our book, The Great Heroin Coup. This chapter starts in early 1973 with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare estimating the number of U.S. heroin

3:00 addicts at 600,000. 600,000. The end of that year, the Director of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Health Administration had placed the number at 300,000. And in June of 74, the DEA Chief of Operations, John Kruzak, testifying before Congress, had it down to 200,000.

3:31 This giant cover-up hid the fact that Nixon's heroin war was no more than window dressing. On 7 October 1974, six weeks after Nixon's resignation, the head of the White House Special Actions Office on Drug Abuse Prevention, Dr. Robert DuPont, was pressured to release a secret report that the number of addicts had in fact risen.

4:03 and now included middle class people in the suburbs. In April of 1976, President Gerald Ford said in a message to Congress by mid 1973, many of us were convinced that we had turned the corner on this drug problem. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. By 1975, it was clear that drug use was soaring.

4:35 He goes on to say that today drug abuse constitutes a clear and present danger. By February of 77, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control reported that the addict population totaled 800,000. Not the 600,000 when the war started. 800,000.

5:09 It didn't stop there. From 1975 until the end of 78, the DEA consistently maintained that between 80 and 90% of the heroin consumed in the U.S. was of Mexican origin. What the hell? Mexico? Are you kidding me? That's ridiculous. 80% of the world's heroin, exactly the figure exported from the

5:43 Marseille Mafia until 1972, was at least until late 76 produced from opium harvested in Southeast Asia, not Mexico. It was distributed through Bangkok, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The number of arrests of couriers en route from Southeast Asia had steadily increased. Reports from New York and other big cities testified to the arrival of large shipments.

6:16 not from Mexico, from Southeast Asia. The market supply of heroin didn't dwindle despite constant aerial destruction of the very small, comparatively, amount of poppy fields in Mexico. So what? The effective tidal wave of Golden Triangle

6:47 heroin began flowing into europe and the u.s and canada was just even the minor bus was exploding none of it from mexico that's how our government lies to us the dea was aware of santo trafficani's dealings in southeast asia

7:12 They were also aware of the mafia summit in Palermo, where large sums of money was set aside for investments in the Golden Triangle to increase their crop. Now that we have the Corsican mafia out of the way, it was easy to verify what actual narcotics was flowing in from Mexico, because by the 1970s, we have expert surveillance of all of it.

7:44 And still, for some reason, can't figure out how to control it. Even the DEA had to admit this was a very tenuous claim. On 24 February 1976, the DEA's John Kruzak admitted that his agency estimated that only 8%, not 8-0, 8 was coming from other locations to include Mexico.

8:16 but that the preponderance of it was coming from Southeast Asia. He also added this, quote, we are also concerned with our detection during 1975 of substantial quantities of white number four heroin moving directly from Bangkok to the United States. In December, for example, 46 kilos of heroin were seized in Bangkok, concealed in household effects shipments in U.S. servicemen household goods.

8:47 It wasn't theirs. It was just a vehicle they were using so they could mark the container U.S. military household goods. The follow-up investigation in the development of an extensive conspiracy prosecution has identified 12 additional shipments entering the U.S. in 1974. 12 such shipments brought in 552 kilos.

9:16 or more than the entire 470 kilos confiscated in the U.S. in 1975 and from only one smuggling network out of Southeast Asia. He went on to say it appears most certain the bulk of white heroin found during 1975 in the inner cities was from Bangkok.

9:43 Why then did the DEA continue to overstate Mexico's role and minimize that of Southeast Asia? Even after publication in 1972 of Alfred McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin, which I just showed on camera, perhaps to justify the great expenditures in support of military and police forces in Latin America.

10:15 Because as soon as they identify this problem, they have to pour billions of our dollars into fixing this problem that just escalates the same problem. Southeast Asia was downplayed not to jeopardize the relationship that they had with all of those countries. Although they were all corrupt. Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, all of them. So yeah, don't look over there.

10:50 That's our market. We want you to focus on Latin America so we can start spending a whole bunch of money there and cultivate the cocaine and take it over too so that we'll have both the heroin and the cocaine market. Follow along. One other reason mentioned is the DEA could not expose the Southeast Asia connection without exposing CIA's role in it. A secret 1977

11:19 House Government Operations Subcommittee report accused the CIA of helping the Asian opium ring smuggle drugs into the U.S. and lying to Congress about it. A Thai nationalist, National, was arrested in 1973 for smuggling 59 pounds of pure heroin into the United States at JFK Airport, citing national security interests.

11:49 the agency had the case squelched and he was deported not prosecuted deported however the health sub subcommittee eventually established that he was a cia operative in thailand on the cia's payroll and what payroll would that be oh a proprietary cia front

12:24 that happened to get all of its money from usaid it was posing as an entity to train thai policemen oh you mean like the office of public safety yes that exact office office of public safety being funded exclusively by usaid had a drug trafficker on their payroll

12:56 using a CIA proprietary who was trafficking drugs into the United States, was arrested in the United States, deported, and it was all covered up because the CIA told him to. Furthermore, this same man told a DEA investigator that he had been an officer in the KMT Chiang Kai-shek's army and had guarded.

13:29 opium mule caravans most of his life his cia contact was the u.s consul in chiang mai thailand chiang mai you know where they set up the bcci branch to money launder that same chiang mai in its report the house committee stated quote

13:53 It was ironic that the CIA should be given the responsibility of narcotics intelligence, particularly since they are the prime movers. This is on file in the U.S. Congress. And the U.S. Congress continuously funded CIA to do this very thing, knowing they were doing it. And as early as 1970.

14:21 In March of 77, the DEA began to speak of major maneuvers in the international Asian narcotics market for a share of the U.S. drug scene. That's laughable since they owned the majority of the U.S. drug scene already, and everybody knows that. And it's on record as that being true. They also talked, the DEA, about a coalition between the U.S. mafia, the Corsicans, and...

14:56 The Chiang Kai-shek, KMT, the coalition, of course, they build that as Chinese, not Taiwanese and not Chiang Kai-shek. They loved using Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese descendancy heritage to blame China for shit Taiwan was doing. The coalition in reality existed at least since 1970. Yeah, that's a big understatement. It existed.

15:30 from the day the cia was created it also talks about trafficani's 1968 journey to the east and the shipping of large heroin shipments into the u.s the difference was the corsican arm of the coalition with their own umbrella organization had been smashed thanks to richard nixon's war on drugs who has controlled the golden triangle

16:07 opium and um heroin traffic production since the corsican mafia's demise oh that would be of course the kmt and again they mistakenly call it chinese the kmt is not chinese it is shanghai shek's now taiwanese infrastructure and then you lay in

16:40 Laos, Thailand, all of those other venues for growing opium. And yes, in Southern China, there were some that was still being snuck out, but Mao was continuously cracking down on the people in South China that was doing that. Basically executing anybody that he found still doing it.

17:14 In 1976-77 timeframe, a war was about to erupt over the control of the region's opium traffic and mobile refineries. That was between the KMT army that had still resided in Burma and the KMT people that were... So you had a lot of Burmese...

17:47 warlords that had kind of filled in as the KMT fled Burma. So you have some of them. You also have the KMT working with Laos and Thailand. The opposing leaders brought together by a senior Thai officer reached an agreement on how they could all work together and support the CIA and the narco trafficking.

18:20 The DEA's Golden Triangle Unit, which was acronym was SNO, made many whole and half-hearted attempts. But of course, they all failed. And we learned in that other book that I talk about often that talks about Syntac. They had an entire unit deployed over there in the early 1970s, late 1960s, early 1970s. That was very effective.

18:49 in that theater the one dea officer had his wife murdered because he wouldn't stop working on a case that basically was going to expose the cia's um complicity in all of this that was his warning shot um they kidnapped and assassinated his wife and that is what the dea people that syntax work with that was their constant feedback

19:19 It doesn't matter what we do. You can only go so far up a chain before you run into a CIA person and your entire investigation is shut down. One of the DEA agents came close to revealing some of this in a 1976 statement to Alfred McCoy, quote, if they were selling shares in Golden Triangle Heroin, Inc.

19:54 In five and 10 and 20 year bonds, I would put my money on the 20 year bonds. The only thing that would end the whole Golden Triangle business would be a communist takeover of Thailand. If that happened, I'd sell my stock. So in other words, as long as the U.S. was controlling Thailand, it was going to be a major opium market. And the only effective control, like Mao did in China, again, I'm not,

20:27 advocating for communism. That was the only effective control, was for a country to be taken over and people shot that were creating or cultivating opium. Southeast Asia was initially the sole supplier to a rapidly growing European market. Until 1972, the heroin abuse was essentially an American problem. But since the heroin shift from Marseille,

21:00 To the Southeast Asia CIA-ran network, the European habit has rapidly worsened. And this goes back to several books that I've read. Marseille basically was marketing it for export. They didn't. Some got into Europe, but very little of it. It was much more lucrative to their network to run their markets to the United States.

21:33 And by the way, a lot of the government officials in France looked the other way because of that. That's where you found a lot of corruption. In the summer of 77, the administration of Jimmy Carter rejected a proposal by a consortium of rebel army leaders in northern Burma that the U.S. spend $36 million over a six-year period of time to transition them from

22:06 farming opium to another sustainable crop. That was covered where Beau Gritz went over there and was talking to some of the Burmese opium. He brought that information back. Among the official explanations was the alleged policy of the United States to deal only with recognized local governments. The policy, which in its time had found a number of exceptions,

22:40 especially in narco areas. So we only use that as a prop when we need to, to do something we don't really want to do. Chapter 19, the Mexican connection. The exaggeration of Mexico's and the downplaying of Southeast Asia's role as suppliers of heroin to the U.S. doesn't mean that Mexico wasn't important.

23:09 But the DEA and the U.S. press compound the distortion by constantly asserting that the production and smuggling of heroin in Mexico is strictly a Mexican business, which it was not. Supposedly, they sold us the story that no U.S. mafia was involved, other than customers on the other side of the border, meaning our side.

23:42 prominent families at the time. The Herreras, the Macinas, the Romeros, the Fabalas, and Sicilia Falcon, the guy that we know, that we've talked about, who is a human exile CIA guy, the Valenzuelas, and the Avelas Quinteros. So,

24:17 The author takes a look at some of these people. Alberto Cecilia Falcon, the leader of the Sicilian Falcons, is not a Mexican at all. He was born in Cuba. His family left the island immediately after Castro's takeover, and they became Cuban exiles in Miami. After the Bay of Pig invasion, he was trained by the CIA at Fort Jackson.

24:47 as part of Operation 40. From there, his trail runs dry for a few years as he's off gallivanting around doing CIA missions. According to Mexican police, he was in Chile helping overthrow the government and murder Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile. In mid-1973, he turned up in Mexico.

25:23 Where in record time, just like overnight in a snap of the finger, he was able to set up an entire heroin and marijuana, primarily marijuana. He did do some heroin, according to Syntac. But yeah, and entrenched himself in Tijuana. According to DEA director Peter Benzinger, in 1975, the ring numbered.

25:54 At least 1,600 people. He associated and provided narcotics for film stars and international businessmen. He resided in Tijuana primarily, but he did have a house in San Diego. Heroin was transported to San Diego from a warehouse near his Tijuana residence.

26:27 Marijuana from a processing plant in Mexicali was sent to a U.S. distribution center in Coronado Keys. In late 1973, one of Cecilia Falcon's truckers was stopped on his way back to Mexico. The truck was loaded with weapons destined to the Contras. Oh, I'm sorry. This is before the Contras.

26:58 It was destined to Nicaragua, Samosan government. According to a later report, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, one illegal weapons dealer in Brownsville, Texas alone supplied Falcon with 12 million rounds of ammunition in 1974 alone. The guns for drugs traffic proceeded unhindered.

27:28 until early 1975, when the government of the then President Echeverria discovered that Falcon's weapons shipments went to groups in Mexico as well. He said, external forces are attempting to destabilize our country in a public speech in 1975. When the Mexicans began an intense surveillance of Falcon,

27:59 who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed Mexican authorities that the man was Sam Diacone, the Chicago Mafia, Don, heroin trafficker, and CIA collaborator.

28:30 The Mexicans agreed to a French extradition request for Giacana, but when his Paris-bound plane stopped over in Houston, Giacana was whisked away by U.S. agents. Soon after, he was found murdered in Chicago. Mexican interior minister officials claimed that the CIA had done it so that they could pretend that

29:02 So that they could ensure that he wasn't going to because he was also under a request to give testimony in the upcoming Senate investigation into assassinations. So and by the way, it was not the DEA, the CIA, the CIA, the FBI or anybody else that.

29:30 did all of the investigative work and worked with the Mexican government that led to Falcon's being exposed and his eventual arrest. It was that small, tiny little unit called Syntac that did all of that. Falcon was allowed to operate in the open for years and years and years under the protection of the CIA.

30:00 in Mexico and San Diego. It was not until Syntac spent years gathering all of the evidence and provided it to the Mexican government that he was actually then investigated in Mexico. And the entire time he was operating with CIA cover, CIA training, and CIA money.

30:29 On the 2nd of July, 1975, Falcon was arrested. In the interrogation, he claimed that he was an agent of the CIA and that his drug ring had been set up on orders by the agency. Part of his profits would go towards the purchase of weapons and ammunition for the CIA to then send to Central America for Operation Condor.

30:59 and the destabilization of quote-unquote undesirable governments. If that's true, and it is true, by the way, that was all proven by Syntac, U.S. heroin addicts were footing the bill for clandestine paramilitary operations and terror campaigns throughout Latin America. And Falcon and his syndicate associates were not short of funds. In his possession, police found

31:30 two Swiss bank books that contained $260 million. The strange testimony of Falcon did not end with his confession. His family's heroin and arms shipments continued. And on April 1976, he and three of his lieutenants escaped from the prison. They had dug a hundred foot tunnel. This is all documented in that syntax book.

32:03 into the home of one of their accomplices. Unfortunately for them, they were recaptured a few days later. And Falcon, fearing for his life at the hands of the CIA, requested a transfer to another prison and additional security. The Mexican president and Falcon each were right about the destabilization program.

32:34 FBI documents released later disclosed that between 1970 and 76, the FBI served as a secret link between the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and the U.S. Border Patrol in California and Texas. In order to help destabilize the government of Mexico, J. Edgar Hoover had believed that Escobar had surrounded himself with, quote unquote, communist. A memo from Hoover.

33:04 to the U.S. legal attache praises the detonation of a strategic and effective bombing campaign in Mexico City. The wave of night machine gunnings was ongoing. How would Hoover know all about that? Besides Escobar's attitude, another reason for U.S. hostility towards his government was that the Mexican president had refused.

33:35 World Bank and IMF plans to exploit Mexico's oil reserves. All about the resources. The first order of business of his successor, Jose Lopez Portillo, in 1976 was approval of that entire plan. In a local newspaper, they wrote shortly after.

34:08 the inauguration of the new president, quote, the new government is not interested in publicity regarding the Falcon case. It will quietly extradite him to the U.S. as soon as the new extradition agreement between the two countries comes into effect, unquote. In the Falcon case, the DEA and CIA struggled bitterly against one another.

34:31 It was a split within the DEA's own ranks, a split rooted in the effective control of Narcotics Intelligence Division, which had been infiltrated by the CIA. Since the DEA's emergence, many of its agents have resigned in disgust over the CIA's control of the DEA. Longstanding conflicts between the CIA and the BNDD

35:02 its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1975 Narcotics Control Action Plan for Mexico, drafted by the DEA, CIA, and State Department, opened the way for new appropriations.

35:34 for fighting the mexico drug trafficking so again we're going to go right back to paying them to supply drugs 30 helicopters as well as other equipment computer terminals extensive training programs the notorious operation condor um like the note the um

36:03 Operation Condor that was ongoing in Latin America, with an army of DEA-trained Mexican narcotic agents and their U.S. supervisors mobilized to fight this quote-unquote drug trafficking, reports of the operation reveal that U.S. taxpayer dollars has in fact been used for political exterminations.

36:30 meaning assassinations, which is exactly what happens in all of these countries. The DEA helicopters are used by private landowners to attack peasants who don't want to farm narcotics and who has their land stolen. These peasants were attacked using the helicopters that the U.S. government provided to Mexico.

37:02 They were attacked with rockets, machine guns, and napalm. Large groups of farmers and independent farmers were murdered and tortured so that they could gain access to their land. House subcommittee investigators went to Mexico in 1975 to determine how organized internal corruption and payoff rings within the DEA had made possible the monopoly of

37:35 Mexican narcotics by a handful of families. According to Ron Rosenbaum, quote,

38:05 DEA supervisor killing and torture had not stopped as of 1978 when the Mexican Bar Association documented 18 forms of torture applied by Mexican narcotic agents. You know, the ones that were trained by USAID Office of Public Safety? Those guys. Prisoners and Mexican agents alike affirmed that DEA agents not only knew of the torture, but at times were present for it.

38:37 In August of 1976, this is chapter 20, sorry. In August of 76, sorry, Lucian Koenig and his chum, Mitch Warbell III, the guy that works at B.R. Fox, that is co-located with the DEA Dirty Dozen from the CIA in the same building, that group, special ops group.

39:07 was brought before a Miami federal court on charges of conspiracy to smuggle 50,000 pounds of marijuana a month from Colombia to the United States. He and several co-conspirators had allegedly hatched the plot in the summer of 1975, just when our buddy Falcon was arrested in Mexico. Multi-ton marijuana hauls

39:36 were to have been flown from Columbia to an isolated ranch in the Florida Everglades next to Okeechobee. And again, just to go back to my Syntac book, that was another product of Syntac, not these guys. Syntac is the one that ran the entire marijuana East Coast operation to ground. They tracked everybody. There's like...

40:04 probably 300 pages worth of material, the names of the officers that helped them with that, the problems that they had dealing with the DEA inside of the United States, them sabotaging Miami courts. They blackmailed one of the prosecutors that was prosecuting the Syntac-identified marijuana traffickers. It's a thousand-page book packed.

40:34 I read it in like a week because I couldn't put it down. It's crazy. Okay. The star prosecution witness was one of Warbell's close associates and convicted cocaine and marijuana smuggler Kenneth Gordon Bernstein. Weeks before his scheduled court appearance, he died in a really weird...

41:07 airplane crash of his P-51 Mustang at an air show. Most of the vital tape recordings and filming of the meetings between Bernstein, Warbell, and other defendants could no longer be produced in court. How convenient. Those dang airplanes. Warbell's defense was that his role in the plot had been as an undercover agent for Koenig, who was working for the CIA.

41:39 Both Koenig and Eagle Crow were to have been witnesses on his behalf. But Crow testified that he didn't know Warbell had worked for the DEA Special Operations Branch, which is the dirty dozen CIA people under the special ops group of the DEA. They're actually all CIA. And Koenig wasn't called at all.

42:09 Another defense witness was the soldier of fortune, Jerry Hemings, whose private army of Cuban exiles and Americans at International Penetration Force, that's the name of his company, appears from Hemings' description of its missions to have played an active role in Operation 40, which ends CIA Cuban exiles. During the trial, Hemings would stay late into the night in War Bulls.

42:42 hotel room. Warbell was found innocent and released, just like the Thai opium smuggler CIA agent in New York City. He went home to Georgia to pursue his weapons business and law enforcement training camp. I would refer to that as a terrorist training camp. According to writer Hank Mezek in 1978, he was involved in politics with the likes of Major General John Singlip.

43:15 Singlib, the world anti-communist league guy and infamous for Korea, where he was fired by Jimmy Carter for bad-mouthing Jimmy Carter. He also, Singlib, was a member of the American Security Council, which was another entity that basically served as a CIA front. And as reported,

43:47 In the New York Times, the beneficiaries of his anti-terrorist training have included members of the U.S. Labor Party, which is another organization that encompasses this whole terror network inside the United States. Warbell owns eight companies, most of them dealing with firearms used by law enforcement and intelligence units. One of the firms studies in operational

44:17 Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion. It goes by the acronym SIONICS, S-I-O-N-I-C-S. It specialized in the production of his M-10 and M-11 firearms, which were silenced machine gun style pistols. The two weapons were designed by Gordon Ingram and Warbell.

44:50 weapons for terror and assassinations. Their sales agent was Warbill's Military Armament Corporation. This one, it goes by the acronym MAC, and it was ran for a long time by his son. Together with the anti-Castro Cuban exiles arm dealer Anselmo Allegro and the mercenary Jerry Hemings.

45:21 Warbell founded the Parabellum Corporation in 1971 in Miami. Parabellum was licensed to sell arms to Latin America. It was also the firm from which Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis planned to obtain weapons for Cuban exiles who were going to disrupt the 1972 Miami Conventions. In 1974, Warbell, according to a motion filed by his lawyer, when

45:51 Warbell, his son, and his company, Defense Services Inc., another one, were charged with illicit weapon sales, was involved in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and the various corporations to finance clandestine guerrilla activities in Latin America on behalf of the CIA. Vesco wanted to purchase Warbell's stock of

46:19 2,000 silenced M10 machine gun pistols. When Warbel failed to secure the proper export license, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco. The two later negotiated the construction of a factory in Costa Rica to build them so they don't need any export license at all. During that same period, someone was negotiating with the U.S. firm for rights to fabricate in Mexico,

46:50 fully automatic weapons for clandestine guerrilla actions in Latin America. That someone just so happened to be Falcon, the CIA guy, narco trafficker. Among the weapons he was inspecting was the M9 and the 9mm Parabellum. Although the M10 and 11 could be acquired legally only with special permission of U.S. officials,

47:23 large numbers of silenced M-10s turned up in the hands of terrorists associated with Operation Gladio in Europe in 1976 and 77. And the only way that happened was the CIA. When Perlugi Contutelli, the leader of the Italian Operation Gladio, Nordin Nuovo,

47:56 new order, was arrested in Rome in February of 77, police found in his apartment a silenced M10, which he had used to murder a judge in Rome. The judge had been shot down in the streets in July of 1976 after announcing that he would expose Operation Gladio, basically. 1976. But it doesn't get exposed until 1990.

48:33 because they murdered anybody that was going to expose it. It was among Spanish terrorists in particular that Warbell's machine gun pistols appeared in quantity. Oh, Spanish, like where Otto Skorzeny is with Paladin and training all of the Gladio operators. Yes, that seems Spain. Most notably, a sizable...

49:05 consignment of M-10s sent to Spain under license from U.S. authorities had been purchased by the Spanish CIA, which is called DGS. And yes, they were in bed with Otto Skorzeny and Operation Gladio. The fugitive billionaire Robert Vesco employed a large contingent of Cuban exiles on his ranch in Costa Rica.

49:37 thanks to the CIA. He also had his weapons negotiations that coincided with the efforts of anti-Castro Cuban exile leader Orlando Bosch to assemble a Cuban exile group into an army of terror called CURU, C-O-R-U, that would later carry out assassinations and dirty work

50:08 for all of the CIA-installed regimes in Latin America. During Bosch's 1974-75 timeframe, a wave of murders struck Miami's Cuban exile community. Many victims had been opposed to Bosch. With the obstacles to his plan removed, Coru was established in June of 1976. You have opposition to it? Ah, we'll just shoot you.

50:39 While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places to go as well. Traficani Jr. was reportedly there between January of 74 and the summer of 75. Journalist Jim Hoogan speculates in his book Spooks, which is the other book.

51:16 that i'm reading that the three might have joined forces with the cia and their terror campaign in latin america i'd say that's very well documented actually in 1973 some of the details began to surface in a series of scandals linked to these individuals dea undercover agent frank pieroff

51:46 Charged Vesco with financing extensive heroin smuggling. For his initiative, Perov was fired. And somebody tried to assassinate him. What? The DEA guy doing his job that's outing an actual drug trafficker was fired? And they tried to kill him? Yeah. Yeah. Before the Senate investigating...

52:21 uh investigation subcommittee could probe deeply deeply into the case it was squelched through the intervention of the white house in 1973 no kidding that seems very very odd in the middle of a war on drugs what okay enough for my sarcasm the oval office had already helped vesco a friend of the nixon family

52:51 and very generous donator to Nixon. So Robert Vesco had a run in with the SEC. His company where he was, it's basically another CIA front that he's running and had taken hundreds of millions of dollars out of the company and screwed a whole bunch of people. The SEC was looking into that scandal. So that was squashed too.

53:27 Midway through the subcommittee's investigation of the heroin charges, the DEA announced the disappearance of their Vesco file. What? It just magically disappeared. Gone. Now we can't do anything to them because we lost all of our paperwork. One year later, as the subcommittee investigated Warbill's weapons deal with Vesco, it learned that Vesco had once employed government narcotic agents.

53:59 In 1972, two bugging specialists from the BNDD, the precursor to the DEA, flew from Los Angeles to New Jersey to sweep Vesco's home, an office of surveillance devices. According to the subcommittee, the sweeping tour had been arranged by a friend of Vesco's who was also involved in supplying the fugitive with 2,000 machine guns and helping him establish a factory in...

54:29 Costa Rica. Well, that would be Warbell, right? Yeah. Oh, oh, and that's right. Warbell and the Dirty Dozen are all in the house of the same location as B.R. Fox. And what was B.R. Fox again? Oh, surveillance. So the U.S. government goes and actually sweeps a Target house to make sure no one in the U.S. government.

54:59 Izzy's rapping on him. What the fuck? That was not the last of Robert Vesco in connection with drugs. In the late summer of 1977, police uncovered a smuggling of large quantities of heroin and cocaine to Rhode Island. In one that involved ships, they discovered a ledger. And in the ledger, it said, quote, to Vesco, six million. He picked up with shrimper.

55:36 Lansky, courier beat up, unquote. Several things point to Vesco's involvement in a longstanding partnership with the CIA, Lansky, Traficani, Cuban exiles, Warbell, DEA, the whole nine yards, in a drugs for guns terror deal to step up armed suppression of

56:10 antagonist against CIA-installed dictatorships throughout Latin America. Back to Hogan's book, he says the ventures that the conspirators might have used, such as go-betweens and couriers like Patricia Richardson Martinson. According to her ex-husband, the former Army intelligence agent, William Spector,

56:39 Ms. Martinson had very close relations with almost everyone of importance in the drug business, including Yousef Baidus, the Lebanese founder and managing director of Intra Bank, known as one of the major finance years of the heroin traffic for money laundering. Paul Louis Whaler, a French financier, allegedly

57:08 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 Vesco heroin allegations.

57:39 and Marcel Buchan, the skipper of a ship which was seized in 1972 with 425 kilos of pure cocaine. That's quite a crowd. Good on her. She gets around. Yet another likely intermediary among the apparent conspirators is a CIA contract agent dealer, Ferdinand Legros.

58:12 In 1971, the CIA helped get Vesco released from a prison in Geneva where he had been arrested with Bernard Kornfeld, a fellow co-conspirator at the Investors Overseas Service, IOS. That was the CIA front that Vesco was running. Legros was in the same prison and spoke with Vesco. In January of 73, they were...

58:41 got back together in Nassau. Legros was seen in the company of Betas in Geneva in Rio de Janeiro. His closest friend was a convicted heroin trafficker, Andre Labey, a close associate of Haiti's Duvalet dynasty, which of course was used for drug smuggling as well. In Geneva,

59:10 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 extradition of Auguste Record, Legros was in Paraguay to close out a weapons deal with the president.

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 an epidemic of sudden deaths. In the CIA DEA Vesco syndicate scheme alone.

1:00:09 You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John Nardi, was shot and killed in Cleveland. And Vesco's security chief, Bobby Hall, was shot to death in LA, in his home.

1:00:38 That would also happen to Warbill eventually. After the Senate Investigation Subcommittee attempted probe into the Vesco heroin case was sabotaged, committee chairman Henry Jackson asked, quote, did the U.S. government wish to keep Vesco out of this country for some reason? Did he have some special information which he could supply to explain, in part, the national nightmare that we are living through? Unquote.

1:01:08 One Senate investigator offered an answer. Quote, more than any single person, Vesco has information which, if he talked, would make Watergate look like a picnic. Unquote. And that is true. That is absolutely true. So that's it for today. That's crazy. Everywhere you look, if you're talking about narcotics.

1:01:44 you are two inches away from the CIA. It doesn't matter if you're looking in the Golden Crescent, if you're looking in the Golden Triangle, if you're looking at the Crystal Triangle, you are two inches away from the CIA and likely life and death. So, crazy. More nefarious shit, I'm just telling you. Yeah, over on Rumble, a Dutch rumbler.

1:02:20 says, imagine all of those good-hearted veterans risking their lives for these stupid wars. I'd be pissed. Yes, Dutch Rumbler, we are pissed. Because while you're on active duty, you don't know any of this stuff even exists. It is not until you have a few minutes to start doing research. That's probably not true as much now since we have the internet, we have these videos. But I can certainly tell you, I spent...

1:02:46 30 years inside that beast and never once did i ever imagine my government was behind all of the nefarious um all along go ahead yeah colonel so so many points of linkage that i forgot all but um just one of them i think um it's important we remember like during this period we're talking the early some early 70s going into mid and late 70s you know

1:03:16 This is simultaneous in the Middle East to the, quote, OPEC oil thingamajigies. I say that sort of stupidly because, you know, there's debate about what that really was because a lot of people, including myself at this point, see it as more not really a maneuver among the Arab people. Obviously, it wasn't because they're all ruled by oligarchs imposed by the British and the CIA.

1:03:45 So, in fact, they're doing mostly at the expense of the Arab people, which is why they had to get rid of Nasser because he was calling that out. Correct. So once they get rid of Nasser, it's a whole new game. Correct. As far as now, I mean, they did feel some tension between the Israeli and the Arab versus Arabists in the State Department. But that's, you know, it was already solved pretty early on. But with U.S. strategic interests as mine also. And so.

1:04:15 By the 70s, with the oil prices rigged by the oil companies and the Arab monarchies, the play kind of was by the late 70s and early 80s was to funnel that oil profits through New York banks down to South America, right? That's what the early 80s was all about. And also late 70s. So it's interesting to understand that geopolitically, what's going on there at the same time. And of course, Chase Bank was...

1:04:44 Saudi Aramco Bank. I mean, there was more than one. That was a significant old bank there, Rockyfellers. Yep. Pardon me to get uncouth there for a second, Colonel. I know, first time for everything. But, yeah, I had so many others. I'll come back later. Yeah, so to your point, obviously,

1:05:08 And we've talked about this. It's really important when you're looking at these time frames to look at the global picture because it's always much bigger than any one area. Because keep in mind, in the 70s, I think it was 72, when they set up a BCI.

1:05:34 They set up Nugent Hand Bank in Australia around that same time frame. And so those banks were set up to be the money laundering vehicles primarily. The first phase, I should say, to clarify, the first phase of the money laundering, because eventually the whole system is set up to get this money back into.

1:06:00 the West, primarily the United States, via their banking into real estate and other places to park it for a little bit. And you have the whole precursor to all along's point. If you go back now with all of this information and look at the whole oil fiasco,

1:06:26 in the 1970s during Jimmy Carter's administration that just coincidentally happens right after he fires over 800 covert operators in the CIA and is trying to dismantle at least some part of everything that we just talked about. You can imagine that went over like a lead balloon. And so what is the first thing that they do? We've watched this or we've read about this happening all over the world.

1:06:55 The first thing that they do is attack a country that they want to destabilize and get rid of the current head of state economically. What's the best way to hurt America? Economic warfare using oil. And that's exactly what you see unleashed on the Jimmy Carter administration. And again, not a big fan of Jimmy Carter. I want to make that clear. But you have to give the devil his due.

1:07:22 Was he right in getting rid of all of those covert operators based on everything that I just told you they've been doing over the last 30 years at that point since 1947? Yes, he was absolutely right and warranted in doing that. But they are not going to take that sitting down. Everything that was done during his administration, economically destabilization inside the United States was done.

1:07:51 to ruin his presidency. So you have to keep that in mind. It also, all of this education, now that you have these gladioglasses on and you see how these operations go down, it is worthwhile going back and looking at some of the narratives that we grew up with because it's much easier to see them.

1:08:18 not only in hindsight, but in context of this bigger picture of what was going on during that time. Go ahead, all along. Yeah, also, Colonel, in terms of the narrative you gave about, just something you said, the Southeast Asian Thailand key basis of the shift from the French connection to that as an alternative hub.

1:08:48 It's really worth noting, I think, what are called the Hirsch, the other Hirsch, the non-lying Hirsch, called the Old Boys Network, a.k.a. the Burma Boys in World War II, where you have a core William Casey, the guy who was Reagan's attorney general in California, which is named.

1:09:20 y'all eval younger who's doing california gladio you know all three uh the um rfk hit the charlie um charlie whatchamacallit operation and the patty hirsch case which by the way i would have to say there's a new um podcast on the patty hirsch case because it's very it's pearl if you wanted to do a pinprick case point study of operation gladio it's arguable

1:09:49 That the payers case is the best you're going to get. So I would really urge you to listen to that as possible. I have a new book that is on my short list to read about that with my Gladio glasses on. That is one thing that I have not done. And so I do anticipate going through that on here for that exact reason. Just a little bit of digging that I've done. No, no, don't apologize. I'm glad you mentioned it.

1:10:17 The little bit of digging that I did prior to selecting the book that I did verifies exactly what you said. I suspect exactly the same thing, but I want to go through the book first, and then I'll listen to the podcast, and then we will bring it to everyone else. Oh, this is almost like a logo for the whole Gladio worldwide. Yeah, yeah. But just, I'm rambling on here for a second, but just to finish this.

1:10:47 The other critical part, of course, of that Southeast Asian network from Burma in World War II was Richard Helms. They said, if you fire Helms, Richard Nixon, every tree in the forest will fall. And where did he go? He went to Iran. Israel is not the only WeWork office of the CIA.

1:11:10 Although, you know, at this point, they're, in my opinion, a strictly evil one that is playing a cat's paw role for the entire psychotic system. But, and then meanwhile, you know, you get Richard Holmes' friend is Ben Bradley. Yep. His childhood friend is Ben Bradley of the Washington Post. Right. So this is a Burma voice, you know, do tricky dick with trickier dick.

1:11:37 and friends literally inside the washington post right quite literally um at a time when you also have this shift in the international drug trade and the intermediary nature seemingly of the vesco apparatus you know is getting disappeared right it's like something yeah this is really excellent show because i'm it's really helping me see these events simultaneously and it's really fascinating

1:12:07 And of course, I think lastly, you mentioned that right before the DAA replaces, you know, the BNDD. It's interesting. You mentioned a raid there in 73. If I'm not mistaken, that's the year that the DAA formally replaced the BNDD. So it's very interesting that this would basically be the last day of the BNDD's existence. Surprise, surprise. Right. And it was at that same point they deactivated.

1:12:35 Because it was so effective in what they were doing on a shoestring budget, they were having to actually arrest people they didn't want arrested because of the work Syntac was doing. And they said, we have to get rid of this Syntac thing because it was forcing them to.

1:12:58 actually start to dismantle this and that's the last thing they wanted to do so instead of actually waging an effective war on drugs they just get rid of the effective piece of it not the drugs the people who are actually trying to um take the networks down um it's just crazy and

1:13:17 Again, all of these books kind of converge when we pick one to do. And you have to have all of that situational awareness to make sense and add that extra flavor to these books, because obviously it would be a 10,000 page book if you ever tried to put all of them together. So anyway, let me go back over here.

1:13:45 S.D. Gardiner said, Colonel, great show on Tommy's podcast today. How well do people in the military react now that information about the use of the military by the CIA? That's an interesting question. It depends. There are people who prefer the ostrich treatment, just stick their head in the sand. They don't want to hear it. They don't want their service.

1:14:14 tainted by knowledge. I've came across several of those. And then there are others that are very, very open and receptive to the information. And General Holt's a great example of that because I think he was in Kazakhstan. He actually lived through an Operation Gladio USAID event. And it was not until he started listening to

1:14:42 my information about Operation Gladio, the use of the CIA and all that other stuff. He's there trying to make sure it doesn't happen and getting logistical support to people that need it. While at the same time, he's being thwarted at every effort by USAID and he didn't understand what was going on. He's lucky because he found out some information while he was over there watching it on the ground.

1:15:07 That he made it out alive, actually. And I've told him that. He was finding out just how these operations work in real time. And military people that find this out in real time have unfortunate accidents. And that's exactly what I told him. He's very lucky that his assignment there was drawing to a close. So it depends. It's really hot or cold.

1:15:36 There's not very many people in the middle. But I have had conversations with military retirees and veterans that simply put their hands over their ears. They don't want to hear anything. And honestly, I can understand that. That certainly wasn't my reaction, obviously. But there's a lot of people that make a lot of sacrifices.

1:16:03 They don't want to go to their grave thinking those sacrifices was some nefarious international syndicate. And God bless them. Everybody has to make their own choice when it comes to that. So, all right, that's it for today. We will be back tomorrow, four o'clock. I look forward to seeing you guys all there. I do have a little bit of time.

1:16:32 um that i still need to do on the premier side of things and i found an article that um it's actually a report it's an official report that was done by the legislature in florida investigating and it also um uh was a project that was done at the university of florida

1:17:01 The name of it is Racial and Civil Disorder in St. Augustine. And this was back in 1965. It is amazing when you read through this, which we won't read the whole thing because it's very long. But I'll give you the preliminary part of it so that you can see the extensive research that went into the project. And then I'll give you the summary.

1:17:31 about 30 minutes into it. So it basically brings up all of the same organizations that we're dealing with today and all of their nefarious roles and what they did to instigate racial division in 1960. The report is written in 1965. I think you'll find it very interesting. I certainly did.

1:17:59 So anyway, I will do that maybe tonight. I'll put out a notice before we go live over on Rumble, but it will be on the premium side just so that we can finish up that requirement for the month. So that's it. I will see you guys tomorrow at four o'clock. Thanks for being here. See you guys later.

Entities here

Mexico City27 CIA25 Drug Enforcement Administration22 Robert Vesco20 Frank Warbell17 Alberto Sicilia Falcon16 Asia11 Operation Gladio8 Syntac7 Thailand7 Golden Triangle6 Kuomintang5 Jimmy Carter5 Ferdinand Legros5 Richard Nixon5 USAID4 Santo Trafficante Jr.4 South America4 U.S. Congress4 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs4 China4 Europe3 Taiwan3 Orlando Bosch3 Mafia3 Chiang Kai-shek3 Frank Pierotti3 Marseille Mafia3 Bangkok3 Burma3 Miami3 Christian David3 Operation Condor2 Otto Skorzeny2 San Diego2 Sam Giancana2 J. Edgar Hoover2 Operation 402 Laos2 Tijuana2

Claims made here

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare funded Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Health Administration book_quoted ▶ 2:27

“but he does look like a little boy as opposed to a baby now. He's so stinking cute. All right, enough of the fun stuff. Let's get into the nasty stuff. All right, we're on chapter 18 in our book, The …”

John Kruzak member_of Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted ▶ 3:00

“addicts at 600,000. 600,000. The end of that year, the Director of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Health Administration had placed the number at 300,000. And in June of 74, the DEA Chief of Operations, John…”

Robert DuPont headed White House Special Actions Office on Drug Abuse Prevention book_quoted ▶ 3:31

“This giant cover-up hid the fact that Nixon's heroin war was no more than window dressing. On 7 October 1974, six weeks after Nixon's resignation, the head of the White House Special Actions Office on…”

Alberto Sicilia Falcon member_of Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 24:17

“The author takes a look at some of these people. Alberto Cecilia Falcon, the leader of the Sicilian Falcons, is not a Mexican at all. He was born in Cuba. His family left the island immediately after …”

Alberto Sicilia Falcon trained CIA book_quoted ▶ 24:17

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 24:47

“as part of Operation 40. From there, his trail runs dry for a few years as he's off gallivanting around doing CIA missions. According to Mexican police, he was in Chile helping overthrow the governmen…”

Alberto Sicilia Falcon operated_in Tijuana book_quoted ▶ 25:23

“Where in record time, just like overnight in a snap of the finger, he was able to set up an entire heroin and marijuana, primarily marijuana. He did do some heroin, according to Syntac. But yeah, and …”

Alberto Sicilia Falcon did_business_with Sam Giancana book_quoted ▶ 27:59

“who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed …”

CIA covered_up Sam Giancana book_quoted ▶ 28:30

“The Mexicans agreed to a French extradition request for Giacana, but when his Paris-bound plane stopped over in Houston, Giacana was whisked away by U.S. agents. Soon after, he was found murdered in C…”

Alberto Sicilia Falcon funded Operation Condor book_quoted ▶ 30:29

“On the 2nd of July, 1975, Falcon was arrested. In the interrogation, he claimed that he was an agent of the CIA and that his drug ring had been set up on orders by the agency. Part of his profits woul…”

J. Edgar Hoover funded Alberto Sicilia Falcon book_quoted ▶ 33:04

“to the U.S. legal attache praises the detonation of a strategic and effective bombing campaign in Mexico City. The wave of night machine gunnings was ongoing. How would Hoover know all about that? Bes…”

CIA infiltrated Narcotics Intelligence Division book_quoted ▶ 34:31

“It was a split within the DEA's own ranks, a split rooted in the effective control of Narcotics Intelligence Division, which had been infiltrated by the CIA. Since the DEA's emergence, many of its age…”

Drug Enforcement Administration funded Operation Condor book_quoted ▶ 35:02

“its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has any…”

Drug Enforcement Administration merged_with United States Customs book_quoted ▶ 35:02

Drug Enforcement Administration merged_with Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 35:02

Lucien Conein did_business_with Mitch Werbell book_quoted ▶ 38:37

“In August of 1976, this is chapter 20, sorry. In August of 76, sorry, Lucian Koenig and his chum, Mitch Warbell III, the guy that works at B.R. Fox, that is co-located with the DEA Dirty Dozen from th…”

Mitch Werbell member_of BR Fox Company book_quoted ▶ 38:37

International Penetration Force carried_out_attack Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 42:09

“Another defense witness was the soldier of fortune, Jerry Hemings, whose private army of Cuban exiles and Americans at International Penetration Force, that's the name of his company, appears from Hem…”

Jerry Hemings member_of International Penetration Force host_asserted ▶ 42:09

John Singlaub member_of American Security Council host_asserted ▶ 43:15

“Singlib, the world anti-communist league guy and infamous for Korea, where he was fired by Jimmy Carter for bad-mouthing Jimmy Carter. He also, Singlib, was a member of the American Security Council, …”

Gordon Ingram designed SIONICS host_asserted ▶ 44:17

“Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion. It goes by the acronym SIONICS, S-I-O-N-I-C-S. It specialized in the production of his M-10 and M-11 firearms, which were silenced machine gun style pist…”

SIONICS founded Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 44:17

Military Armaments Corporation headed Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 44:50

“weapons for terror and assassinations. Their sales agent was Warbill's Military Armament Corporation. This one, it goes by the acronym MAC, and it was ran for a long time by his son. Together with the…”

Frank Warbell founded Parabellum Corporation host_asserted ▶ 45:21

“Warbell founded the Parabellum Corporation in 1971 in Miami. Parabellum was licensed to sell arms to Latin America. It was also the firm from which Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis planned to obtain we…”

Frank Sturgis did_business_with Parabellum Corporation host_asserted ▶ 45:21

Robert Vesco did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 45:51

“Warbell, his son, and his company, Defense Services Inc., another one, were charged with illicit weapon sales, was involved in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and the various corporations to…”

Frank Warbell conspired_with Robert Vesco host_asserted ▶ 45:51

Willie Falcon did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 46:50

“fully automatic weapons for clandestine guerrilla actions in Latin America. That someone just so happened to be Falcon, the CIA guy, narco trafficker. Among the weapons he was inspecting was the M9 an…”

Perlugi Contutelli headed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 47:23

“large numbers of silenced M-10s turned up in the hands of terrorists associated with Operation Gladio in Europe in 1976 and 77. And the only way that happened was the CIA. When Perlugi Contutelli, the…”

Otto Skorzeny trained Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 48:33

“because they murdered anybody that was going to expose it. It was among Spanish terrorists in particular that Warbell's machine gun pistols appeared in quantity. Oh, Spanish, like where Otto Skorzeny …”

Robert Vesco employed Orlando Bosch host_asserted ▶ 49:05

“consignment of M-10s sent to Spain under license from U.S. authorities had been purchased by the Spanish CIA, which is called DGS. And yes, they were in bed with Otto Skorzeny and Operation Gladio. Th…”

Dirección General de Seguridad did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 49:05

Dirección General de Seguridad did_business_with Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 49:05

Orlando Bosch founded CURU host_asserted ▶ 49:37

“thanks to the CIA. He also had his weapons negotiations that coincided with the efforts of anti-Castro Cuban exile leader Orlando Bosch to assemble a Cuban exile group into an army of terror called CU…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Robert Vesco book_quoted ▶ 50:39

“While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places t…”

Frank Pierotti exposed Robert Vesco host_asserted ▶ 51:46

“Charged Vesco with financing extensive heroin smuggling. For his initiative, Perov was fired. And somebody tried to assassinate him. What? The DEA guy doing his job that's outing an actual drug traffi…”

Robert Vesco did_business_with Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 52:21

“uh investigation subcommittee could probe deeply deeply into the case it was squelched through the intervention of the white house in 1973 no kidding that seems very very odd in the middle of a war on…”

Robert Vesco did_business_with Bernard Kornfeld host_asserted ▶ 58:12

“In 1971, the CIA helped get Vesco released from a prison in Geneva where he had been arrested with Bernard Kornfeld, a fellow co-conspirator at the Investors Overseas Service, IOS. That was the CIA fr…”

Ferdinand Legros did_business_with Robert Vesco host_asserted ▶ 58:12

Andre Labey relationship_with Duvalier Dynasty host_asserted ▶ 58:41

“got back together in Nassau. Legros was seen in the company of Betas in Geneva in Rio de Janeiro. His closest friend was a convicted heroin trafficker, Andre Labey, a close associate of Haiti's Duvale…”

Ferdinand Legros did_business_with Auguste Ricord host_asserted ▶ 59:10

“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 screw…”

Ferdinand Legros did_business_with Christian David host_asserted ▶ 59:10

John Nardi did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

“You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John N…”

Robert Banyard did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

Kenny Bernstein did_business_with Frank Warbell host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

Bobby Hall did_business_with Robert Vesco host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

Richard Helms relationship_with Ben Bradlee host_asserted ▶ 1:11:10

“Although, you know, at this point, they're, in my opinion, a strictly evil one that is playing a cat's paw role for the entire psychotic system. But, and then meanwhile, you know, you get Richard Holm…”