The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7

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0:20 So, SR, I guess it's you and me today. Bridget is otherwise tied up. Well, we can't help that, Colonel. I know how that goes. Yeah. And I don't mean literally. Okay. So, we're going to get started. We're on Chapter 12, called The Liquidation. Still talking about Christian David. He's behind bars in Illinois.

0:53 Marion Prison. Only one important French narcotic ring remained active and that was run by the Francisi Venturi mob. Their network had consisted of the Marseille underworld like Paul Mondolini, Jean-Baptiste Crochet.

1:24 and Albert Bastoni. And until mid-1972, a guy that went by the name of Mosca, M-O-S-C-A. They were gangsters who left nothing to chance. They considered themselves untouchable. On 7 July 1972, Mosca was arrested in Lyons.

1:57 Stunning the entire French underworld. Were the untouchables really being hit? Lightning struck six months later on 19 January 73 when French narts shadowed Croce and Bastogne to their favorite Marseille harborside. Both were arrested on the way out of a bar.

2:28 Police having blocked the road. Disbelief was everywhere. And of course, their first question was, had Bastoni talked? Crochet's arrest proved to be a trigger for a desperate, ruthless gangland war. It measured up to some of the ones that we saw here in the mafia. In the first half of 73,

3:04 30 French mobsters were murdered between Paris, Marseille, and Lyon. On March 31st, Bastogne was at a restaurant with two of his strongmen. The door opened and in walked three men, pistols drawn. Seconds later, not only was Bastogne, but his thugs all dead. Among other sensational shootouts.

3:37 in 1973 were several people connected to christian david police fished at drifting trunks from the river inside one of their catches was a corpse with bullets in his heart and neck it was andre condamine

4:10 one of David's gang's ministers of transportation, and its only member that had avoided arrest thus far. Police investigations established that he had been dead since February. So, of course, this is like everybody pointing fingers at everybody else as they started rounding all of these people up.

4:41 It was no secret that Condamine had sought to reconstruct a Latin American narcotics network and had settled on Mexico. Among David's other friends who were knocked off in this hectic drug war, one of the first to go was a guy by the name of Roger Dorori, a former member of both Felix Leska's gang and an international weapons trafficking.

5:15 group that had been traveling back and forth between France and Latin America. Danone was shot in the Paris suburb on 13 March 1973. Danone's best friend and a close friend of Christian David was Louis Mesmans. He had sheltered several people that had been

5:46 involved in the ben barca affair he later helped the orsini brothers smuggle heroin via barcelona to david in brazil it's like they're taking down the entire corsican mafia cartel on may 19th uh nimones and two of his men were dining at a fancy restaurant in paris and two men entered

6:20 and shot the three of them. Yet another was killed on 15 June in 73, Jean Argue. He had been the Lyons area SAC chief and crime syndicate boss who had been in touch with Record in Paraguay. He was on good terms with David and many of his entourage. He was found after a slow, painful death.

6:54 of eight bullets in his stomach. While the gangsters were being destroyed, the police weren't exactly on vacation. They were arresting others. The gang war subsided by mid-1973, but went on sporadically for much longer. With heroin no longer a viable commodity, there were

7:24 other underworld operations to get involved in by 1975 the toll included a gangland boss by the name of william zamore who was given a royal burial several big names resorted to untraditional means of survival some of them moved to argentina one of them was a

7:55 imprisoned in 1972 just as the rest of the gang was being nabbed in Brazil. But Chiapi, one of the gang members, had excellent connections with the Peron government. A former OAS commander Delta member in Algeria, he had remained in touch with his OAS figures assembled in the Paladin group. That's Otto Skorzeny's group in Spain. It was among

8:29 that organization to which Peron's José López Rega aligned himself when he formed the AAA, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, meaning that's Gladio. When the Peron Hector Campora became president of Argentina in 73, Tiapi

8:58 was released and immediately recruited into the triple a when peron himself returned a month later from 18 years in exile in spain which is really coincidental an enormous crowd gathered at the airport to greet him among them was a large contingent of what we would call gladio officiatos the police and triple a terrorist led by colonel

9:29 Jose Osende attacked the demonstrations with machine guns and hand grenades. Some 100 were killed and 300 badly wounded. The AAA prisoners were dragged to the airport parking lot and tortured. Two of the more zealous hatchet men were Ziopi and former OAS Colonel Jean Gardez.

10:02 wife visited the Argentine prison commissioner on her husband's behalf to request that he be placed in protective confinement. Giapi had gotten the jitters after the discovery of his friend, Condamine, in the river in Paris. Besides, he was in constant danger of abduction by the Americans. He had an open extradition warrant for his arrest.

10:31 The prison commissioner contacted political authorities in Buenos Aires, and soon that helped. Giappi led the same charmed life in prison as Record in Paraguay and Legros in Brazil. His cell had elegant furniture, TV and radio, first-class food brought in from downtown. Naturally, he was paroled whenever

11:01 Lopez Rega or Mrs. Peron through a party, because what would a party be without Gladio people attending? So the threat of extradition ended with the new Argentine regime on orders from Peron. Instead of cooperating between two countries, there was a different arrangement.

11:34 In May of 1974, the U.S. ambassador to Buenos Aires, Robert Hill, and Lopez Rega, with whom he had worked closely for several years, publicly signed an agreement to wage common war against drug traffickers. At the ceremony, Lopez Rega declared that the drug war would automatically be an anti-guerrilla campaign, because we know that they love their anti-

12:05 guerrilla campaigns in Argentina. They used the rationale that the people in the country that were not enthralled with having a controlled government of terrorists were the actual guerrillas. All of them, any of the agitators, were going to be labeled a guerrilla or a narco-terrorist.

12:46 The U.S. sent to Argentina a large number of narcotic agents trained at the special CIA school in Georgetown. One year later, a report of Argentina military intelligence revealed a giant narcotics network responsible for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. market. So what was the agreement, really, that was signed by the U.S. ambassador to fight narcotics?

13:15 as the narcotics network grew. Of course, it was soon discovered that this much larger narcotics network was led by none other than Lopez Rega, his son-in-law, Raul Lasteria, and several other members of the government, which included the managing editor of their biggest newspaper.

13:53 When a military coup disposed Isabel Perón, who had assumed the presidency on the death of her husband, power was seized by General Jorge Videla, who professed a strict, selective morality. He refused to harbor criminals like Tiape, in spite of many leftists he had disposed of.

14:25 In late April 1976, he extradited Chiapi to the United States to share the same fate of record David, Nikolai, and Pastu. Simultaneously with the 7273 attrition in the French underworld ranks, President Papadou took the opportunity to purge the SAC of what he labeled undesirables. No angel himself.

14:57 Papadu would call on the Corps at election time and whenever he saw fit. But Papadu did eliminate those elements that opposed him personally. So novel. Some 7,000 men were weeded out, many of them criminals that had enjoyed the protection of the SAC because they were part of that bigger network. Many booted from the SAC fled where?

15:30 Oh, to Spain. Yes, and they joined the Paladin group and were trained to be OAS terrorists. Isn't that nice? So what was seen as a purging in France was a collection in Spain. One of them, Charles LaCourse, a charter member of the SAC and its chief for the Southeastern France division.

16:13 was among many hunted down by police. He had headed a large smuggling and mob operation along with his colleague, Jean Agé, in Lyons. Police tracked him down to a Paris apartment in 72 and sent officers to fetch him. Just how he did it is unknown, but Las Cores managed to lure them into a cellar and lock.

16:46 them in. He then fled to Spain, taking his SAC archives with him, but Spanish police arrested him and put him in prison. They extradited him to France two months later, but not before the Spanish intelligence agency had photocopied everything he had. He was sentenced in France to three years in prison. He must not have been one of the in crowd. A secession of untouchables bit the dust.

17:18 Most prominently among them, people that we've talked about, Orsini, Cesari, Joe Attia, all of them. Between 40 and 50 gangsters perished in the French Heroin War. In addition, a horde of French heroin smugglers, the entire elite included, was put behind bars, like August.

17:46 Agostet, Record, Christian David, blah, blah, blah, all the names we've already talked about. A glance at French arrest figures reveals the magnitude of the slaughter of the French heroin mafia. 25 traffickers were arrested between 69 and 70. In 71, it was 26. It shot up in 72 to 108. And that's not...

18:13 counting. Those are the arrests. That's not counting all the dead bodies. So nearly all the French narcotic syndicate then in existence had been smashed beyond recognition. Those who tried to make a comeback didn't succeed very well. The good chemists, like the smugglers, were either killed or arrested. Equally disastrous

18:41 Turkey halted its illicit opium production by an agreement with the U.S., which ensured the Turks' compensation. We paid them to stop making opium, like we could have done in every other country, but we paid them to do it because we controlled that. In 1973, there were stocks of morphine base to be found in Turkey, Lebanon, and Marseille. But with all of the seizures that was going on,

19:13 quickly thinned out as well so it's quite possible to get rid of an entire network of heroin if you really put the effort into it as demonstrated by basically the destruction of the french corsican heroin operation so why wasn't that same thing done everywhere well we know why in 1970

19:46 Marseille supplied roughly 80% of the heroin on the U.S. market. 15% came from Mexico and another 5% from Southeast Asia. In 73, the French share had fallen. And these numbers are disputed, by the way. Just keep that in mind. This is the author's version of that. By 73, the French share had fallen to 50%. And by 75, it was down to 15%. From a law import.

20:17 standpoint, the French heroin mafia was crushed and the U.S. Narcotics Intelligence Agency, the DEA, considered moving its European headquarters from Paris to Amsterdam. The French underworld and its most respectable bankrollers were deprived of its annual income. The market for what they say was coming out of France at the time was about $20

20:49 billion dollars a year did it supply the heroin to the international markets really fall did the supply really fall or did it fall at all or by an equivalent amount of what should have been taken off the market no no that's not what happened but that's what your government told you specifically president nixon he took credit for having decimated

21:24 the French Corsican heroin. That doesn't mean that any less heroin made it into the United States. Those are not the same thing. Chapter 13, The Faithful Days. Richard Nixon proudly announced to America, we have turned the corner on the heroin epidemic. But shutting off the pipeline of heroin from Marseille

21:59 did not produce the shortage that he predicted. By 1975, the heroin glut far surpassed even anything that the Corsican mafia had produced at its heyday. According to a 1977 report in the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse, it doubled in four years. Doubled in four years.

22:36 According to one New York narcotics prosecutor, there is more dope on the street now than at any time in the early 70s. When we had the quote unquote epidemic, when the heroin flow from Marseille was shut off in 72, 73, two news sources immediately filled the vacuum. That would be Laos, Burma, Thailand. Suddenly.

23:09 was producing vast amounts of white number four heroin. The type only saw before from Marseille. The high quality heroin went primarily to 40% of all US heroin addicts who lived in New York. The other new source was Mexico, but it was less desirable because

23:40 It was referred to instead of as white sugar, it was not coincidentally, it was referred to as brown sugar. The remarkable switch from Turkey, Marseille, USA to Southeast Asia, Mexico, USA, shifted billions of dollars in the power. Now, what would be unique about Southeast Asia and Mexico? Oh, that's right. That's CIA stomping grounds.

24:12 Such a market revolution could not have happened without the decimation of the French Corsican Mafia, thanks to President Richard Nixon and George Papadopoulos. Good job. Good job. So that's crazy. Involved in one way or another in the planning, the execution or both was Richard Nixon and part of the White House staff.

24:51 Meyer Lansky's corporate gangster syndicate, in particular, its Cuban exile wing ran by Santo Traficani Jr., the Cuba-China lobby groups, the reactionary forces in Southeast Asia, thanks to the KMT in Taiwan, and the CIA and DEA. It's not a willful conspiracy, but...

25:27 We can assert with reasonable certainty that the CIA, Traficani, and other mafiosos, Southeast Asians, and some people in the White House had to have been in the know because they get briefed on this, right? We were in the middle of a war. They're on drugs. There's going to be statistics. There's going to be reports generated. How's the war going?

26:01 From the maneuvers that began in 1970, one could detect some interesting things, and the author outlined several. Henry Kissinger put pressure on Paraguay to extradite Auguste Record, the main Corsican supplier of narcotics to the U.S. market. Paraguay's president, Strassner, at first chose to ignore it.

26:32 What changed? In 68, the Mafia premier heroin importer, Santo Traficani Jr., traveled to Southeast Asia to check out the possibilities of upping their supply. When he made that trip, Corsican Mafia was supplying Traficani with number four heroin he could sell. Nixon and Pompidou met in January 1970 to restore close

27:03 Franco-American partnerships. It was a critical step in the destruction of the Corsican Mafia. Next, at the start of July 1970, the White House staffer, Eagle Crow, K-R-O-G-H, proposed Operation Heroin, a major action against narcotic smugglers. That was approved.

27:32 but they left out one word, French narcotics smugglers. The U.S. Mafia Capos held a summit in July at a Hotel Soleil in Palermo, Sicily. There they decided to pour money into Southeast Asia and Sicily to prepare for a new pipeline. July 1970,

28:06 Richard Nixon approved Houston plan to establish an espionage group that would supersede existing intelligence and enforcement agencies. This super group was to be ran out of the White House, thus giving the president effective control over the intelligence of foreign and domestic activities. The plan fell through mostly due to opposition from

28:36 J. Edgar Hoover, however, the White House continued to develop the plan under this media-hyped narcotics campaign. In August 1970, the Corsicans apparently informed of the outcome of the Palermo meeting weeks earlier, called their Southeast Asian connections to an emergency meeting in Saigon. Thereafter, two loads of morphine bays

29:05 would be sent to marseille each month however oddly enough that was sabotaged repeatedly and almost none ever arrived in france another major development in 70 was the implementation of nixon's vietnamization program which the controls in vietnam were returned to the cia the program

29:37 pumped a fortune into South Vietnam, much of it going into the pockets of administrators. Investigations of endemic corruptions led to several people in Hong Kong and mafia people that hung out in Vietnam and Hong Kong, representatives of Santo Traficani. Number four,

30:12 Heroin appeared in Saigon in 1970, creating an epidemic among the military. All previous available heroin had been in a very coarse form that was not appealing at all. There were other significant developments in the 70s. To end persistent rivalries among customs, the IRS and the precursor to the DEA,

30:42 Nixon named the DEA the sole U.S. representative on drug matters. The mafia dispatched the notorious Tommaso Bruschetta to Brazil to prepare a takeover of the narcotic struggling, smuggling, struggling, smuggling that record that Auguste record had been running.

31:08 after his extradition so you mean we just took over his network on february 26 1971 france and the us signed a definitive agreement to assault heroin you know because we're in a war within days record had been sentenced in abstincia on in april roger dalute was picked up in new york and the war

31:42 was officially began and the mass murder of Corsicans throughout France. On May 27th, 1971, Congressman Morgan Murphy and Robert Steele issued a report, The World Heroin Problem. Among their sensational findings was that 15% of the military in Vietnam were addicted to heroin. The causes were easy to identify.

32:11 Most obvious was the sudden appearance of enormous quantities of number four heroin. 14-year-old girls sold 90% of the heroin for peanuts. Pushers stuffed it into soldiers' pockets for free. Add to the crackdown, that effectively eliminated marijuana from the barracks. On the day of Murphy and Steele's report,

32:44 Nixon, John Ehrlichman, and Crowe agreed to secretly budget $100 million for covert DEA kidnapping and assassination programs. What? Before the White House had asked, and I'm saying DEA, it's actually BNDD at the time. Before the White House asked Director John Inglesol,

33:10 to draft a plan for clandestine law enforcement that would include assassinations of major traffickers. Days later, Nixon set up a special narcotics action and intelligence group in the White House. In the same period, the special investigation unit, the infamous plumbers, set up shop in room 16 of the executive office building. The two groups overlapped and several of their members were

33:39 associated tangentially to Traficani. On 17 June 1971, Nixon on television declared his infamous war on narcotics. Quote, if we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will destroy us. I am not prepared to accept this alternative. Unquote. On 30 June 71, the United States and Turkey signed an agreement that would halt all Turkish opium cultivation.

34:11 In return, we would pay the Turkish government $30 million. Now that's on top of basically buying their entire military and training all of their agents that were in their intelligence, all of that stuff. That's $30 million extra money.

34:38 On 1 July 71, Nixon advisor Charles Coulson recruited former CIA agent, former, air quotes, Howard Hunt, as a CIA consultant. Hunt and Gordon Liddy would work out of room 16 as part of this narcotics intelligence unit. On 25 July 1971,

35:06 the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, because you know they're going to be in there somewhere, and the World Anti-Communist League met in Manila. Isn't that the Philippines? The two international lobbies for the nationalist Chinese, meaning the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, prime bankrollers of the opium and heroin smuggling market,

35:37 attacked Nixon for his approaching trip to Peking. In August of 71, the BNDD announced the location in Southeast Asia of 29 drug refineries, 15 of them allegedly producing heroin. Among the largest was in Laos, which was camouflaged as a Pepsi-Cola plant, which we've...

36:03 found out that wasn't the only one there was actually quite a few pepsi cola plants that was actually manufacturing drugs nixon representing pepsi's interest in 1965 had promoted the construction of that very building huh oh and by the way it was it never produced any pepsi at all

36:38 But guess who funded it? None other than USAID. USAID was funding the construction of a heroin lab. In October 1971, top BNDD analyst John Warner told an interviewer that the continued flooding of U.S. heroin, despite the shutdown of the French supply routes, indicates

37:09 that more than the previous assumed 5% of U.S. heroin was originating out of Southeast Asia, which is what calls into question the numbers that we mentioned earlier. On 1 November 1971, BNDD agents arrested a diplomat attached to the Filipino embassy in Laos and a Chinese journalist from Thailand.

37:36 attempting to smuggle, and by Chinese, they don't actually mean China. They were attempting to smuggle 40 kilos of heroin into the United States. Diplomats? Drug trafficking? That same year, BNDD agents at JFK had arrested the son of Panama's ambassador to Taiwan with 50 kilos of heroin.

38:14 Parisian police nabbed a Laotian prince attempting to smuggle 60 kilos. The prince was head of the Laotian delegation to the Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League and was supposed to be coming to become the Laos emissary to Paris. That's crazy.

38:48 The focus nonetheless remained on the French narcotic traffickers. Nixon could also produce results in the newly arisen Southeast Asian danger zone, but those amounted to smashing. He stayed focused on smashing the Corsican and paid no attention to the booming Golden Triangle transfer of all of the operations that would then grow exponentially.

39:19 Through it all, the U.S. supported Marshall Nguyen Kai and other South Vietnamese politicians known to be making immense profits from heroin. When the U.S. reporters exposed Kai's narcotics airlift, the CIA station's involvement, and the U.S. embassy, they just denied it.

39:46 In late 71, BNDD Director Inglesold issued the following statement, quote, the CIA has for some time been this Bureau's strongest partner in identifying foreign sources and routes of illegal trade in narcotics. Liaisons between our two agencies is close and constant in matters of mutual interest. Those interests are not stopping drugs. He goes on.

40:16 Much of the progress we are now making in identifying overseas narcotics traffic can, in fact, be attributed to CIA cooperation, unquote. Yes, yes. So identifying the overseas traffickers can be easily done by the CIA because they're doing it. When you read these statements, knowing real history,

40:49 They're not lying. But in 1970, that statement would have read completely differently. The catch was that the BNDD's progress in CIA's cooperation only went as far as the French mafia. The agency hindered all BNDD agents in anything to do with smuggling and Air America.

41:28 A notable discrepancy arose in 72 between CIA and BNDD estimates on the heroin traffic. CIA reports that 25% of the heroin coming from Mexico, the rest was coming from Marseille. The BND had completely different statistics, identifying a massive supply from Southeast Asia that the CIA conveniently left out of all of it because that was theirs.

42:00 In January of 72, Nixon created again by decree the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, ODAL, O-D-A-L-E, to supposedly flush out pushers in 38 cities. Simultaneously, the New York Police Narcotic Squad was reorganized following revelations of corruption. The ODAL ceased to exist.

42:27 On 1 July 1973, when it, the BNDD, and the narcotics intelligence branches of the Justice Department and Customs Bureau was merged into one, the DEA. In July of 72, James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Rolando Martinez, and Viridio Gonzalez, led by Hunt and Liddy,

43:01 broke into the Democrat Watergate offices in Washington. Of these seven men, four were from Miami. Four were active or former agents of the CIA. Four had been involved in the Bay of Pigs. Three were linked to Cuban narcotics and mafia. The same day, Nixon telegrammed Pompidou his congratulations.

43:33 Two days earlier, France had closed out a series of raids against the Marseille heroin labs. The great heroin coup was well on its way to completion. On 9 August 1972, Nixon made William Sullivan, the director of the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence, which would coordinate domestic drug intelligence. Sullivan

44:02 had been the president's choice for the plan that had been shelved to create the super intelligence agency ran out of the white house so he got his bonus with angel crow's executive director of the cabinet committee on international narcotics control covering foreign narcotics intelligence complete control over the entire

44:32 Narcotics management was in the president's hands, not narcotics deletion, just its management. In August of 72, U.S. troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam. The country was turned over to the CIA and a narcotics trafficking South Vietnamese government. In late August, in the midst of Nixon's reelection campaign.

45:04 the BNDD announced the first noticeable heroin shortage on the streets of America. It was touted as Nixon's successful war on drugs. Soon, he would rid the United States entirely of that white death, he said. Someone had forgotten to mention that all of these GIs were coming back addicted to heroin. In reality,

45:35 The total heroin supply was appreciably greater while we were being lied to about the decrease. However, the propaganda campaign worked during the election and he was cited for having done a great job. On 12 August 1972, New York crime families decided at a Staten Island summit to resume drug traffic.

46:08 that they had supposedly abandoned, which they had never abandoned. Citing social responsibility, they supposedly had decried the Cuban and Black Mafia cell of heroin. They weren't decent people. But Traficani's Cuban organization

46:32 had become just too strong, so they had to get in on the business. Now, this is all lies because they had been in on this business for a very long time. There's already been people arrested delivering to the New York mafia heroin. The heroin coup of the French Corsicans was complete in 1973. The French were out, the new labs, routes, buyers networks had been put in place, and Southeast Asia,

47:06 was again the main supplier. That year, the U.S. heroin supply in 73 did fall during the transition. South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were slipping out of U.S. hands, forcing traffickers and bankrollers to regroup, doing all of it through Thailand. So we got to do some jiggling around.

47:34 The final interest of 1973 was the appearance before a Senate committee of the international speculator and smuggler, Frank Peroff, P-E-R-O-F-F, who had served as an undercover agent for the DEA against the Catrani brothers in Montreal. He testified that the renegade international businessman, Robert Vesco,

48:03 A huge supporter of Richard Nixon and his associate, Norman LeBlanc, were the bankrollers of an international heroin trafficking ring. That's not a lie either. Robert Vesco was involved in so many things. And weirdly enough, the other book that I'm reading right now, there's an entire section on Robert Vesco that I mentioned yesterday.

48:35 His entire organization looks so similar to many of the others that we have researched to the point where it's hard to not say he was definitely in bed with the CIA because he wouldn't have existed a day doing what he was doing unless he was. It does appear like.

49:07 so many of the others, that he did do a few things that were not condoned by the international syndicate and periodically got himself in hot water. But again, he could not have lasted doing what he did as long as he did without top cover. So that's it for today. Well, it sort of makes you wonder, Colonel.

49:46 You sit here and think about what's going on, and O'Dell struck me, it struck me that what Nixon was trying to do, Nixon was trying to get rid of the connections we had here, yet he was doing nothing about the drug problem coming from the East, doing nothing.

50:18 So he was not trying to get rid of heroin. He was trying to get rid of the Corsican competition. And that's the enigma of Richard Nixon. He was doing exactly what the CIA wanted him to do. So why would you orchestrate a bungled break-in and get him out of office?

50:50 What was the trigger? Because he clearly, if you go back to him being the vice president during Eisenhower, he's in on it. He's one of them. He was sitting at the top of the NSC when we decided to overthrow all of those countries in the 1950s. He's in on it. He was in on the discussions to take down Sukarno and Arbenz and everybody.

51:21 He was intimately involved in some very nefarious things. If you look at how he even got in office originally running in Southern California, he had his benefactors. So, and he's clearly doing the bidding of the CIA as president in taking down the Corsican mafia to the benefit of the CIA so that they can run the entire heroin network.

51:50 out of Golden Crescent or Golden Triangle into the mafia predominant Sicily location and labs and then into the United States. The fact that they were able to take that entire network down, both in South America and Europe, to include Turkey, is evidence that if our country

52:19 until now because i firmly believe that is exactly if you if you look at what i other than the mass murder of the um mafioso in corsica it's exactly what's going on right now um taking down this entire drug um network you can do it nixon proved you could do it so why wouldn't you take the entire thing down because he wasn't allowed to because the president's

52:51 don't control the cia so he did their bidding then what happened all along go ahead yeah so william sullivan is kind of um you know a very interesting guy in terms of um this period in which we see so many betweennesses if you will in u.s policy whether it be between the shift from the gall to

53:24 whether it be between the shift from Portuguese to Sicilian heroin running with CIA, whether it be, you know, between Nixon and trying to, to some extent, gain some degree of independence from CIA and versus, you know, the time at which that was proven impossible, namely Watergate.

54:01 the final phases of watergate um and so you know william sullivan was notoriously the number three guy at fbi who was once very close to jagger who were in his number two right and then he um kind of falling out and so he's he seems to be you know one could understand how nixon would see him as a possible you know

54:31 kind of ally with henry kissinger in their attempt to gain independence from the cia um we know how that's going to go if you're working if your partner is henry kissinger did nelson rockefeller so um but you know what we hear what's so interesting for me about sullivan is how he is mediated especially in the fake left press because you always hear about him in terms of

55:00 you know the mlk suicide letter um and you know which was a letter sent to mlk literally suggesting that he did he kill himself because of the ties to his alleged ties to communists um etc etc and and yet these same publications omit all reference to the houston plan of 1970 and they above all omit that you know

55:30 incredible death of william sullivan in 1977 after he had been the sixth subpoenaed witness fbi witness that's the sixth subpoenaed fbi witness not total number of fbi witnesses not total number of dead jfk witnesses which 1977 was the highest point it was like the zenith of venus it goes off the chart because congress was investigating all right

56:00 So, you know, as you know, he was shot in Connecticut in 1977 post-subpoena after being mistaken for a deer by a deer hunter. And the so-called left media will never, ever, ever mention that in their narration of William Sullivan's life. They will segregate the MLK assassination letter.

56:30 just the way almost like it's jim crow right we can't put this mlk assassination in any way connected to say the jfk and rfk assassinations even though mlk was literally working with the 1968 rfk campaign i was working with jfk and uaw president walter reuther as well in the march out of washington so it's like the way that the cia's fake left aka what they literally called this

57:00 compatible left, they're replicating Jim Crow in history by only emphasizing the MLK aspect of William Sullivan and de-emphasizing the evidence that shows beyond any reasonable doubt anywhere that the CIA was going to get someone like Sullivan when he began to spill the most pertinent beans. So have you

57:32 ever looked into his background because when I was reading this book originally, I made a bunch of notes about his career. You know, it's very interesting and it's kind of telling again about all of the stuff that we research because he was in World War II and he graduates from Harvard University.

58:03 He went to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which is international relations, heavily recruited source of CIA people to begin with. He joins the Foreign Service, which again is closely related to the CIA. And he goes to almost immediately.

58:29 um to bangkok thailand when paul heliwell is there setting up this entire um drug thing then he goes on to india um tokyo oh and does a few stints in rome both at naples uh in italy both at naples and rome um and goes to the um netherlands and

58:55 He served as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Interestingly enough, and I didn't know this, I didn't have this in my notes. I was just looking at his wiki page. His nephew is named John Sullivan. And he became the U.S. ambassador to Russia, which I found very interesting.

59:28 for the Biden administration. He was the ambassador to Laos in 64 when the CIA is basically running the narcotics program there. And it also has him involved with that Lima site 85 that was overran. And he also,

59:57 just so happens, I'm sure it's a coincidence, to be the ambassador to the Iran in the lead up to the quote unquote revolution there. Again, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. So he does seem to be in all of the right places at exactly the right time.

1:00:28 the iran face um he was killed in i believe it was november 1977 after he was subpoenaed by the house select committee on assassinations so um now i know that the cia was doing some preliminary you know sneakiness in iran well before 78 and 79 so are we sure this is the right william sullivan maybe um hold on let me find another one

1:00:57 I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just... No, I may be. Let me find another one. Because there's like four of them. And I may have had the wrong one. You might be right, though, because, you know, the CIA, you know, they were... No, no, no. They knew about the Shah's illness way as early as 75, but without telling Parliament. Yeah, no, that... Yeah, I agree with you completely. No, there is another William Sullivan.

1:01:32 Yes, this guy, this is the one you're talking about that was killed by a gunshot wound. I'm not sure which. I'll have to go back. I don't know which William Sullivan. Who knows there's like that many of them. Let's see which one they're talking about in here. Hold on just a second. I'm going to look it up real quick. William.

1:02:04 You're talking about William Cornelius Sullivan. The book is talking about the one I just overviewed, William Healy Sullivan. So those are two separate ones. William Healy Sullivan is the one who lines up as basically being a CIA guy. Does that help? Possibly.

1:02:42 Well, the one you're talking about is William Cornelius Sullivan. That is not the one we're talking about in the book. But yours is more interesting. It's more anti-generally the narrative that we're talking about. Because this guy was never an ambassador or anything else.

1:03:19 Yeah, this guy was in charge of the COINTELPRO investigation, the one you're talking about. Yeah. Okay. All right. If we don't have anything else, we're going to call it a day. And we will be back tomorrow at four. We're about halfway through the book. This book tends to go fairly quickly. But there's a few.

1:03:54 um interesting tidbits in the rest of the book we actually got through the coup part of it though and we're going to cover um the aftermath of that so all right you guys take care um and i'll see you tomorrow all right guys we're done with our um raids for today or this month so we don't do any more of those

1:04:24 And I've got a couple more hours of premium content. So I posted over on X. And I know not all of you in my Rumble channel are on X. So what I'm going to ask you to do, and I'll stay on here for a few minutes while we do it, is I ask on X for people to give me the name of a movie. You guys know I don't watch movies. But we're going to do...

1:04:53 a premium show of watching a movie if i can figure out how to do that and um i want a movie that you have watched that you think best represents operation gladio in the form of a movie you guys over the course of the last several years

1:05:18 always said, oh, did you see that movie? And of course, my answer is always no, because I don't watch movies. So I've had lots of you people DM me different movies over the course of this time that perfectly depicted some aspect of Gladio. And if you guys have any suggestions, I would like to hear what they are, because I'm going to pick one of them and watch it.

1:05:47 under the premium within the next few days and do, we can do the born identity. All right. I have not watched that movie. And then we will do the assessment of how closely they depict what we know to be true. So I'm going to write down born identity.

1:06:19 All right. And you guys let me know, for those of you who are on both platforms, go over and find my post and let me know. I have heard the born identity does do that. I'm not going to let my daughter pick because she'd pick the matrix. Argo. I've never even heard of that one.

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1:09:19 There's one all about oil. It's got Clooney as an actor and very, very close to Gladio in the Middle East. Okay. I'm sure AI can find that. Clooney, oil, Middle East. All right. Good book. Better than the movie. Okay. All right.

1:09:55 So that's what we got. Let's see. Telefan? Telephone? Telephone. All right. Let me write that one down. With Charles Bronson. I like Charles Bronson. 1977. All right. Enemy of the state. Dang, you guys got a lot of them. We may have to make this a regular feature. Enemy of the state.

1:10:33 Because it's the only way I will watch a movie. Watching it with all you guys would be fun. All right. Okay. Well, that's a few of them. I'll go back and check my tweet over on X and see what we got over there. And then I'll decide and I'll talk about it on X in a post to decide which one we want to do. Okay. Thank you, guys.

1:11:10 Take care. See you tomorrow.

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Paul Mondolini member_of Francisi Venturi mob host_asserted ▶ 0:53

“Marion Prison. Only one important French narcotic ring remained active and that was run by the Francisi Venturi mob. Their network had consisted of the Marseille underworld like Paul Mondolini, Jean-B…”

Jean-Baptiste Crochet member_of Francisi Venturi mob host_asserted ▶ 0:53

Francisi Venturi mob operated_in France host_asserted ▶ 0:53

Albert Bastoni member_of Francisi Venturi mob host_asserted ▶ 0:53

Mosca member_of Francisi Venturi mob host_asserted ▶ 1:24

“and Albert Bastoni. And until mid-1972, a guy that went by the name of Mosca, M-O-S-C-A. They were gangsters who left nothing to chance. They considered themselves untouchable. On 7 July 1972, Mosca w…”

Mosca arrested France host_asserted ▶ 1:24

Jean-Baptiste Crochet arrested France host_asserted ▶ 1:57

“Stunning the entire French underworld. Were the untouchables really being hit? Lightning struck six months later on 19 January 73 when French narts shadowed Croce and Bastogne to their favorite Marsei…”

Albert Bastoni arrested France host_asserted ▶ 1:57

Albert Bastoni assassinated France host_asserted ▶ 3:04

“30 French mobsters were murdered between Paris, Marseille, and Lyon. On March 31st, Bastogne was at a restaurant with two of his strongmen. The door opened and in walked three men, pistols drawn. Seco…”

Andre Condamine assassinated France host_asserted ▶ 3:37

“in 1973 were several people connected to christian david police fished at drifting trunks from the river inside one of their catches was a corpse with bullets in his heart and neck it was andre condam…”

Andre Condamine member_of Christian David host_asserted ▶ 4:10

“one of David's gang's ministers of transportation, and its only member that had avoided arrest thus far. Police investigations established that he had been dead since February. So, of course, this is …”

Roger Dorori assassinated France host_asserted ▶ 5:15

“group that had been traveling back and forth between France and Latin America. Danone was shot in the Paris suburb on 13 March 1973. Danone's best friend and a close friend of Christian David was Loui…”

Louis Mesmans relationship_with Christian David host_asserted ▶ 5:15

Louis Mesmans assassinated France host_asserted ▶ 5:46

“involved in the ben barca affair he later helped the orsini brothers smuggle heroin via barcelona to david in brazil it's like they're taking down the entire corsican mafia cartel on may 19th uh nimon…”

Jean Argue relationship_with Auguste Ricord host_asserted ▶ 6:20

“and shot the three of them. Yet another was killed on 15 June in 73, Jean Argue. He had been the Lyons area SAC chief and crime syndicate boss who had been in touch with Record in Paraguay. He was on …”

Jean Argue assassinated France host_asserted ▶ 6:20

Giappi member_of Paladin Group host_asserted ▶ 7:55

“imprisoned in 1972 just as the rest of the gang was being nabbed in Brazil. But Chiapi, one of the gang members, had excellent connections with the Peron government. A former OAS commander Delta membe…”

Paladin Group headed Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 7:55

José López Rega founded Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance host_asserted ▶ 8:29

“that organization to which Peron's José López Rega aligned himself when he formed the AAA, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, meaning that's Gladio. When the Peron Hector Campora became president …”

Giappi recruited Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance host_asserted ▶ 8:58

“was released and immediately recruited into the triple a when peron himself returned a month later from 18 years in exile in spain which is really coincidental an enormous crowd gathered at the airpor…”

Jose Osende headed Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance host_asserted ▶ 9:29

“Jose Osende attacked the demonstrations with machine guns and hand grenades. Some 100 were killed and 300 badly wounded. The AAA prisoners were dragged to the airport parking lot and tortured. Two of …”

Robert Hall did_business_with José López Rega host_asserted ▶ 11:34

“In May of 1974, the U.S. ambassador to Buenos Aires, Robert Hill, and Lopez Rega, with whom he had worked closely for several years, publicly signed an agreement to wage common war against drug traffi…”

Raul Lasteria relationship_with José López Rega host_asserted ▶ 13:15

“as the narcotics network grew. Of course, it was soon discovered that this much larger narcotics network was led by none other than Lopez Rega, his son-in-law, Raul Lasteria, and several other members…”

Jorge Videla overthrew Isabel Perón host_asserted ▶ 13:53

“When a military coup disposed Isabel Perón, who had assumed the presidency on the death of her husband, power was seized by General Jorge Videla, who professed a strict, selective morality. He refused…”

Jorge Videla extradited Giappi host_asserted ▶ 14:25

“In late April 1976, he extradited Chiapi to the United States to share the same fate of record David, Nikolai, and Pastu. Simultaneously with the 7273 attrition in the French underworld ranks, Preside…”

Charles LaCourse did_business_with Jean Argue host_asserted ▶ 16:13

“was among many hunted down by police. He had headed a large smuggling and mob operation along with his colleague, Jean Agé, in Lyons. Police tracked him down to a Paris apartment in 72 and sent office…”

Charles LaCourse extradited France host_asserted ▶ 16:46

“them in. He then fled to Spain, taking his SAC archives with him, but Spanish police arrested him and put him in prison. They extradited him to France two months later, but not before the Spanish inte…”

Charles LaCourse fled_to Spain host_asserted ▶ 16:46

Charles LaCourse arrested Spain host_asserted ▶ 16:46

Auguste Ricord extradited United States host_asserted ▶ 26:01

“From the maneuvers that began in 1970, one could detect some interesting things, and the author outlined several. Henry Kissinger put pressure on Paraguay to extradite Auguste Record, the main Corsica…”

Henry Kissinger pressured Paraguay host_asserted ▶ 26:01

Richard Nixon met_with Georges Pompidou host_asserted ▶ 26:32

“What changed? In 68, the Mafia premier heroin importer, Santo Traficani Jr., traveled to Southeast Asia to check out the possibilities of upping their supply. When he made that trip, Corsican Mafia wa…”

Richard Nixon approved Operation Heroin host_asserted ▶ 27:03

“Franco-American partnerships. It was a critical step in the destruction of the Corsican Mafia. Next, at the start of July 1970, the White House staffer, Eagle Crow, K-R-O-G-H, proposed Operation Heroi…”

Eagle Crow proposed Operation Heroin host_asserted ▶ 27:03

Richard Nixon approved Houston plan host_asserted ▶ 28:06

“Richard Nixon approved Houston plan to establish an espionage group that would supersede existing intelligence and enforcement agencies. This super group was to be ran out of the White House, thus giv…”

J. Edgar Hoover opposed Houston plan host_asserted ▶ 28:06

Richard Nixon implemented Vietnamization host_asserted ▶ 29:05

“would be sent to marseille each month however oddly enough that was sabotaged repeatedly and almost none ever arrived in france another major development in 70 was the implementation of nixon's vietna…”

France signed_agreement_with United States host_asserted ▶ 31:08

“after his extradition so you mean we just took over his network on february 26 1971 france and the us signed a definitive agreement to assault heroin you know because we're in a war within days record…”

Roger Dalute arrested United States host_asserted ▶ 31:08

Auguste Ricord sentenced France host_asserted ▶ 31:08

Morgan Murphy issued_report The World Heroin Problem host_asserted ▶ 31:42

“was officially began and the mass murder of Corsicans throughout France. On May 27th, 1971, Congressman Morgan Murphy and Robert Steele issued a report, The World Heroin Problem. Among their sensation…”

Robert Steele issued_report The World Heroin Problem host_asserted ▶ 31:42

White House Plumbers located_in Room 16 host_asserted ▶ 33:10

“to draft a plan for clandestine law enforcement that would include assassinations of major traffickers. Days later, Nixon set up a special narcotics action and intelligence group in the White House. I…”

Richard Nixon declared War on Drugs host_asserted ▶ 33:39

“associated tangentially to Traficani. On 17 June 1971, Nixon on television declared his infamous war on narcotics. Quote, if we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will destroy us. I am…”

United States signed_agreement_with Turkey host_asserted ▶ 33:39

United States paid Turkey host_asserted ▶ 34:11

“In return, we would pay the Turkish government $30 million. Now that's on top of basically buying their entire military and training all of their agents that were in their intelligence, all of that st…”

G. Gordon Liddy worked_in Room 16 host_asserted ▶ 34:38

“On 1 July 71, Nixon advisor Charles Coulson recruited former CIA agent, former, air quotes, Howard Hunt, as a CIA consultant. Hunt and Gordon Liddy would work out of room 16 as part of this narcotics …”

Charles Cole recruited E. Howard Hunt host_asserted ▶ 34:38

E. Howard Hunt worked_in Room 16 host_asserted ▶ 34:38

Asian People's Anti-Communist League met_with World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 35:06

“the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, because you know they're going to be in there somewhere, and the World Anti-Communist League met in Manila. Isn't that the Philippines? The two international …”

USAID funded PepsiCo host_asserted ▶ 36:38

“But guess who funded it? None other than USAID. USAID was funding the construction of a heroin lab. In October 1971, top BNDD analyst John Warner told an interviewer that the continued flooding of U.S…”

Virgilio Gonzalez carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

“On 1 July 1973, when it, the BNDD, and the narcotics intelligence branches of the Justice Department and Customs Bureau was merged into one, the DEA. In July of 72, James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernar…”

Bernard Baruch carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

E. Howard Hunt headed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

James McCord carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

G. Gordon Liddy headed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

Frank Sturgis carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

Eugenio Martínez carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 42:27

Richard Nixon appointed William Sullivan documented ▶ 43:33

“Two days earlier, France had closed out a series of raids against the Marseille heroin labs. The great heroin coup was well on its way to completion. On 9 August 1972, Nixon made William Sullivan, the…”

William Sullivan headed Office of the Director of National Intelligence documented ▶ 43:33

United States operated_in Vietnam documented ▶ 44:32

“Narcotics management was in the president's hands, not narcotics deletion, just its management. In August of 72, U.S. troops were withdrawn from South Vietnam. The country was turned over to the CIA a…”

New York Mafia did_business_with Cuban Mafia host_asserted ▶ 46:08

“that they had supposedly abandoned, which they had never abandoned. Citing social responsibility, they supposedly had decried the Cuban and Black Mafia cell of heroin. They weren't decent people. But …”

Frank Peroff spied_on Robert Vesco documented ▶ 48:03

“A huge supporter of Richard Nixon and his associate, Norman LeBlanc, were the bankrollers of an international heroin trafficking ring. That's not a lie either. Robert Vesco was involved in so many thi…”

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Jacobo Árbenz host_asserted ▶ 50:50

“What was the trigger? Because he clearly, if you go back to him being the vice president during Eisenhower, he's in on it. He's one of them. He was sitting at the top of the NSC when we decided to ove…”

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Sukarno host_asserted ▶ 50:50

William Sullivan studied_at Harvard University documented ▶ 57:32

“ever looked into his background because when I was reading this book originally, I made a bunch of notes about his career. You know, it's very interesting and it's kind of telling again about all of t…”

William Sullivan member_of United States Secret Service documented ▶ 58:03

“He went to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which is international relations, heavily recruited source of CIA people to begin with. He joins the Foreign Service, which again is closely relate…”

William Sullivan studied_at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy documented ▶ 58:03

William Sullivan operated_in Rome documented ▶ 58:29

“um to bangkok thailand when paul heliwell is there setting up this entire um drug thing then he goes on to india um tokyo oh and does a few stints in rome both at naples uh in italy both at naples and…”

William Sullivan operated_in Naples documented ▶ 58:29

William Sullivan operated_in India documented ▶ 58:29

William Sullivan operated_in Netherlands documented ▶ 58:29

William Sullivan operated_in Tokyo documented ▶ 58:29

William Sullivan operated_in Bangkok documented ▶ 58:29

Jake Sullivan relationship_with William Sullivan documented ▶ 58:55

“He served as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Interestingly enough, and I didn't know this, I didn't have this in my notes. I was just looking at his wiki page. His nephew is…”

William Sullivan operated_in South Vietnam documented ▶ 58:55

Jake Sullivan appointed Russia documented ▶ 58:55

William Sullivan operated_in Laos documented ▶ 59:28

“for the Biden administration. He was the ambassador to Laos in 64 when the CIA is basically running the narcotics program there. And it also has him involved with that Lima site 85 that was overran. A…”

William Sullivan operated_in Iran documented ▶ 59:57

“just so happens, I'm sure it's a coincidence, to be the ambassador to the Iran in the lead up to the quote unquote revolution there. Again, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. So he does seem to be in…”