The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9

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0:17 here on rumble so we can get ready to rumble we're gonna finish the cubans of florida chapter um we just have a couple pages of it left and then we'll go to friends of richard nixon next that's the next chapter okay um so we just want to make mention of the part

0:52 that's remaining in this chapter, Cubans in Florida, that the Dominican Republic does not get talked about a lot. And it was a focal point of CIA activity for a very long time. As a matter of fact, a lot of the...

1:22 operations launched into Cuba, it served as a staging place for them. And for those of you who've been with us for a very long time, we established when we were looking, we did a big in-depth study on Haiti. And along the border, there were basically what would have been two terrorist training camps.

1:53 That was used as insurgents training from the Dominican Republic into Haiti on different operations. So the Dominican Republic has been a focal point. I see you. I see you. Thank you. So it's not a surprise for long-term listeners to find out that that is true at this point.

2:24 It also became a transit point for Traficani's narcotics traffic, meaning the Dominican Republic. The CIA, according to agents of the BNDD, which we've said repeatedly turns into the DEA, helped organize the drug routes by providing IDs and speedboats to former Batista officers that had fled.

2:54 the island of Cuba, to the Dominican Republic. They were put in charge of narcotic operations in the Dominican Republic for shipment to Florida. It's also important to note the CIA's close cooperation with Traficani's Cuban mafia, whose overriding source of income was narcotics.

3:23 One of Traficani's personal CIA contacts for the Bay of Pigs was Frank Fiorini, Castro's liquidator of mob casinos, who now preferred the name Frank Sturgis. Frank Sturgis' real name is Frank Fiorini. In late 1960, Sturgis ran the Miami-based

3:55 International Anti-Communist Brigade, IACB. It was financed through a combination of Traficani and CIA funds. According to Richard Whatley, a brigade member hired for the invasion, Traficani would order Sturgis to move his men and he'd do it. The ultimate conclusion was that Traficani was a major backer.

4:29 He was our money man. Another detail from Sturges' past is especially interesting in light of Frank Bender's alleged ties to the Galen organization, meaning Operation Gladio. For a period in the early 50s, Sturges was involved in espionage operations on behalf of the Galen organization, which means Operation Gladio, in Berlin.

5:00 He served as a courier between NATO nations intelligence agencies. This is the part that so many people have no understanding at all. You cannot separate these people. As we have stated repeatedly, the Cuban exile community was our Operation Gladio stay behind. The Bay of Pigs invasion, of course, we know was a fiasco.

5:36 Wills were turning on new assassination attempts almost immediately. CIA agent William Harvey, who again collaborated with this entire apparatus, both the mafia, CIA, all of this, narcotics. Within months, the Miami station JM Wave was in full swing. It sponsored a series of hit and run attacks on strategic Cuban targets that spanned three years.

6:05 and involved greater manpower than even the Bay of Pigs invasion. Now, it's interesting to note as well, where does William Harvey end up in 1963? In charge of the Rome Station. He made a trip in early November to Dallas, Texas from the Rome Embassy.

6:34 where he is the CIA station chief. And his deputy is on record saying that he made multiple trips to the island of Sardinia, which as we established a long time ago, was the terrorist training camp for Operation Gladio, NATO secret armies, under the leadership of Otto Skorzeny, who's hanging out in Madrid, Spain. None of that is a coincidence.

7:05 To head the JM wave station, the CIA chose Theodore Shackley. Where was he from? Berlin, working with the stay-behinds in NATO. His closest Cuban exile associate was Jaquen Sanchez and Rolando Martinez, who he himself was involved in the Watergate burglary.

7:37 Some 300 agents, and depending on whose number, as many as 6,000 Cuban exiles were part of JM Wave. That's a pretty big secret army. As was later revealed, one of its operations was closed down because one of its aircraft was caught smuggling drugs into the United States. Only one got caught that time. It was done a lot of times.

8:12 Shackley was another contender for the most intriguing CIA conspirator award. After years of collaboration with Traficani's organization, the Cuban Exiles, he and part of his Miami staff would then be transferred to Laos to run that secret mission involving narcotics. That's where he joined up with Lucy and Koenig. There they helped organize the CIA's mung.

8:45 and basically took control of the heroin traffic there. In the capital of Laos, where Shackley was the station chief, it became the new center of the heroin trade. Later, he ran the station in Saigon, where the traffic flowed under the profiteering administration of everyone in Saigon. When the agency prepared its coup,

9:15 against the Chilean president, Salvador Allende. Shackley was the chief of covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. When William Colby became the director of the CIA in 73, Shackley took over the job of chief of covert operations, focused on the Far East. Eventually, he was booted out of the agency as part of a shakeup under Jimmy Carter. In the JM wave period,

9:49 a great expansion in the china lobby trafficani cuban exile and cia connections occurred william polly my favorite forrest gump of operation gladio financed the mysterious summer 1963 boat raid against cuba using his own yacht which we talked about yesterday and not coincidentally since we know he was one of the major funders of

10:19 Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers in Southeast Asia to help out the drug trade there, he named his yacht Flying Tiger 2. They're not unrelated. The crew also included John Martino, a well-known mafia guy, who had operated the roulette wheels in one of Traficani's Havana casinos. CIA agents codenamed Rip,

10:54 Mike and Ken. Also involved was Rolando Martinez, again, and a dozen other Cuban exiles like Eddie Bayo, Eduardo Perez, many of whom eventually disappeared, like out of thin air. Lauren Hall, another former Traficani casino employee, claimed that both his boss and

11:27 Sam Giacana had helped plan that particular raid. Claire Booth Luce, a queenpin of the China lobby, testified during Senate hearings on the CIA that she had financed an exile gunboat raid on Cuba after JFK had ordered all such raids to stop. But the CIA kept doing them in direct violation of the edict.

11:59 issued by JFK. Another confirmation that the CIA does not work for the U.S. executive branch. And don't forget, Claire Booth Luce was also the ambassador to Rome. Very small circle. So, it's worth repeating a few lines from the final report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

12:37 Quote, the committee's extensive investigation led to the conclusion the most likely family bosses of organized crime to have participated in such unilateral assassination plan were Carlos Marcello, the guy in New Orleans, and Santo Traficani, the guy hanging out in Tampa that was in charge of the Cuban exiles and Miami. Of the connections between Traficani and the Dallas

13:08 The most important was his association with Jack Ruby, who visited him in Havana prison in 1959. His statement to Cuban exile financier, Jose Allman, that Kennedy is going to be hit. That's a quote. And his close association with fellow mafia, Carlos Marcello, the Cuban exiles.

13:36 Narco-traffickers and the CIA had no shortage of anti-Kennedy motives. The anti-Cuba actions continued well into 1965, at which a time there was a three-year turnabout for the Lansky Syndicate. Its money had been invested in the unsuccessful attempts to take down Castro. In its new casino,

14:09 complex in Nassau, which was threatened by local anti-gaming forces. So in Southeast Asia began emerging as the new heroin epicenter, Lansky sent his financial expert, John Pullman, to check out the opportunities. Close on his hills was Frank Furschi, F-U-R-C-I, the son of one of Traficani's lieutenants.

14:41 From 1968 on, Traficante's Cubans were in effective control inside the United States of the heroin trafficking. Not unlike we did with cocaine after Samosa gets kicked out of Nicaragua, where we brought all of those people into the United States, and they set up the cocaine distribution networks in Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco that turned into the whole Contra fiasco.

15:09 We went through that extensively before. This is the same model. It just gets played over and over again. The Florida Traficani group also partnered with the Cotrani family in Montreal. Traficani carried out his business in a very cool, collected manner. He enjoyed anonymity for all intents and purposes.

15:49 His organization was so airtight that when our narcotics investigators finally realized what a big fish he was, they had to admit that he was untouchable. The BNDD slash DEA tried nabbing him in 1968 through 1970 under Operation Eagle, then the most extensive action ever directed to such a network.

16:19 The Bureau arrested over 120 traffickers, wholesalers, pushers. It wasn't even a dent in the organization. Within days, other Cuban exiles just filled in the ranks. To the drug enforcement people's surprise, a very large number of those arrested in Operation Eagle were CIA-trained Bay of Pigs in Operation 40.

16:54 Veterans. Among them were Juan Cesar Restoy, a former Cuban senator under Batista, Alan Eric Rudd Marrero, a pilot, and Mario Escandar. Their fates were most unusual. Escandar and Restoy, alleged leaders of the narcotic network, were arrested in June of 1970, but fled from Miami's jail.

17:24 Somehow, all of these jail escapes happens to these particular people. Eskandar turned himself in but was released soon afterwards when it was established that Attorney General John Mitchell had neglected to sign the authorization for a wiretap that incriminated him. Oh, darn the luck. He returned to narcotics and was arrested in 1978 for kidnapping a prime punishable by life.

17:58 Do you think he got life? Oh, hell no. He got six months. As the author was finishing up the book, the FBI was investigating Eskandar's relationship with the Dade County Police Force that were basically under the control of the CIA. Eskandar magically died in federal prison in 1986.

18:31 right before the Iran-Contra shit hit the fan, of an apparent heart attack in his cell. Darn the luck. Juan Rastoy, on the other hand, turned to blackmail. He threatened to expose a friend of President Nixon's as a narcotics trafficker if he was not given his freedom, and he demanded $350,000.

19:02 So what do you think happened to him? Oh, he got killed. In late 1970, in the wake of Operation Eagle, Bay of Pigs veteran Galmero Hernandez Cartea set up the infamous World Finance Corporation. That was later documented as a CIA front, by the way. It was a conduit for Traficani's investments and for the income.

19:36 for his narcotics activities, meaning it was a major narcotics money laundering operation. Duny Perez Alamo, a CIA-trained explosive expert involved in several of the Cuban exile terrorist plots, was a building manager for the World Finance Corporation, because of course he was. Oh my gosh. Juan

20:12 Romachek, a close Traficani associate, was their bank director. Sure he was. Eskandar, of course, a friend of Hernandez-Cartea, who was a friend of Dick Fincher, who was a friend of B.B. Roboso, who was a friend of Richard Nixon, who once had told John Dean he could get a million dollars in cash.

20:45 at the snap of a finger. In 1968, Traficani himself went on an extended business trip to the Far East. His first stop was Hong Kong, where he had located Frank Farsi, his agent. In 1965 through 1966, Farsi had made great headway in his network.

21:20 He owned Maradim Limited. He had cornered the market on Saigon's night spots for GIs, kind of like the story we read when we were doing Nugent Hand Bank, where they basically had set up that R&R location for the people out of Vietnam. They had the restaurant, the hotel, and one of the CIA guys posing as a lieutenant colonel in the army had set up the entire contract and they used it.

21:50 Oh, and by the way, they have a whorehouse right next door. And they had used it to get compromising information on all of the military people that were traveling on their R&R break to Australia. And later on used it as blackmail material for anybody that rose to any significant ranks at all. Like that. He even ran an officer and soldier mess hall.

22:24 He had set up a chain of heroin labs in Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, Traficani journeyed to Saigon, registering at the Continental Palace Hotel, owned by a fellow friend of his, the Corsican mafia family called Fraschini. His last stop was Singapore, where he contacted a branch of the Chinese mafia.

22:55 Several doors had been opened to gain access to the opium treasures. The first led to the CIA-controlled Taiwan regime, Chiang Kai-shek, the world's largest heroin network. The second was to the Golden Triangle's KMT army that was still operating in Burma and Laos.

23:27 He made sure he made connections with all the CIA buddies over there. He also was dealing with what's referred to as the Triads, which is the Chinese gangs. They're mafia. In Hong Kong, Traficani opened doors with Fershi's help, who gave him access to all of the markets over there.

23:57 There was no way around the nationalist Chinese, meaning Chiang Kai-shek, suppliers and middleman. That's really what he was going over there to do to see if he could like cut them out. And the CIA is like, yeah, no, that's not going to work. So what they did realize, though, is how much of the opium was being shipped from that same area into the Corsican network.

24:28 And his conclusion at the end of Traficani's tour was they needed to be eliminated. So Santo Traficani began his war against the Corsicans, which of course was helped by the Nixon administration and Pompidou and the CIA, because they were all going to benefit from it. Santo Traficani basically knew by this point that

25:02 Auguste Record, who's camped out in Paraguay and controlling Paraguay and Brazil, and the heroin trafficking via that location, which the Corsican Mafia liked, was an enemy to him and his global empire. Record had gotten a hold of his own Hong Kong connection.

25:33 He was referred to as Limpy Ho. Not kidding. He was also a member of Shane Kyshek's network. After Record's emissaries had traveled twice in 1970 to Japan, where they had met Mr. Ho, heroin shipments increased to Paraguay. They were using Chile as well. When in 1972, Record was extradited to the...

26:08 us limpy ho tried establishing his own smuggling networks into the us via vancouver but almost immediately like immediately his two agents were arrested because they were using the unapproved network see the dea the ci they can all find drugs

26:42 that they don't control. And they can make arrests and they can put you in jail for a very long time if you're doing it outside their controlled network. By early 1970s, Southeast Asian produced heroin was ready to be tested. And the first test subjects, of course, were going to be the military. Meyer Lansky, facing charges of business illegalities, turned over control of this operation to Traficani.

27:16 And then he made haste to Israel to avoid being held accountable. On July 4th, Lansky's Narcotics Associates reportedly made their investment plans for Southeast Asia at a 12-day meeting with representatives from the whole mafia network worldwide and none other than Palermo, Sicily.

27:48 That's where they're going to plant the flag to take over the Corsican Mafia's supply routes. So if the Corsican Mafia were to be neutralized, it had to be done totally and effectively. And of course, it was, as we've already discovered. All right. Chapter 16, Friends of Richard Nixon. Nixon's connection to the syndicate.

28:24 are a matter of record. The only question is, when did they begin? Some say it was as early as 1946 when Nixon ran for Congress in California and Murray Chotiner, a top syndicate defense attorney, ran his campaign with support from none other than mafia kingpin Mickey Cohen. Others place his underworld.

28:55 initiation as early as 1943, when he was working for the Office of Price Administration. That organization, and his job specifically, Nixon's, was controlling the market for rubber goods. There he had allegedly met George, the senator from Cuba, Smathers, and the Cuban-American, B.B. Roboso.

29:31 The two were then small-time smathers, a attorney for the mafia smuggling auto tires from Cuba. Roboso was the owner of gas stations that sold the stolen tires. It was a Florida clique. Nixon liked to take fishing trips with Roboso.

30:05 Meyer Lansky's associate, Tatum Chubby Walford. Now, if you're hanging out with people that have mafia names, do you think you're not going to know their mafia? And they all have mafia names. Also a member of this fishing entourage was Richard Danner. He would later manage the Sands Casino in Las Vegas for Howard Hughes.

30:37 Not a small fry. He also got to know people who had extensive interest in Cuba. In 1952, one short month after dictator Batista's reinstallation into Cuba as a military dictator. And let's do the math there. That's right around the time, 52.

31:10 that he would have been hooking up with Eisenhower to be the vice president from, what, 52 to 60, technically 53 to 61. Just giving you some reference here. He's about to make it big time. Nixon is, by the way. Nixon and Danner joined a bunch of tourists who was

31:42 that unloaded their savings at one of the syndicate's Cuban casinos. Nixon made frequent trips to mafia casinos in Cuba under Batista. He, Roboso, and Smathers invested in the island in the 1950s. And in 55, as vice president, Nixon would pin on an award.

32:14 to none other than Batista with a photograph of Nixon and Batista in the dictator's palace. Everybody knew that Batista was a military dictator. So obviously we don't have a problem with dictators. Nixon also helped plan the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1959. He was the chairman.

32:49 of the 5412 group that met as part of the National Security Council in charge of covert operations. He, of course, oversaw the Iranian coup working with the CIA. He oversaw the Guatemalan coup working with the CIA. The vice president pushed for the plan's approval while

33:24 he's running for president of the United States against JFK. According to Howard Hunt, Nixon was the invasion's secret action officer in the White House. And then, of course, that allowed Eisenhower to plead ignorance of the whole thing when he micromanaged all of it. Eisenhower loved covert operations. When JFK took over the Oval Office, he was presented

33:58 with a plan that even the military had said had less than 20% chance of success. Didn't matter. The author then notes if Eisenhower was really left out in the cold on the plan's magnitude, then William Polly must have been among Nixon's co-conspirators. As mentioned earlier, Polly talked to Eisenhower.

34:29 about arming the anti-communist Cubans. Polly was and would remain one of Nixon's most ardent supporters. So if Polly's having a conversation with Eisenhower about arming the people that are going to be involved in the Bay of Pigs, I'm not sure how you plead ignorance to that. But whatever. When the invasion proved a bust, as it was predicted by the military people involved,

34:59 Nixon's voice was among the loudest accusing JFK of undermining it by refusing reinforcements, which we've debunked a million times. That is not what happened. It's the story they go with. It's not what happened. Cubans for Nixon and Asians for Nixon's touted him as a man who would not forsake the cause of quote unquote anti-communism.

35:29 The Nixon of the anti-communist movement would win additional allies in the mafia because it's such a great cover. We're going to run the world's largest narcotics network under the guise of the World Anti-Communist League to cloak our nefarious operation in something that everybody can get behind because who wants communists running around? Brilliant.

35:59 Fortunately for Nixon, forces behind the above lobbies were also influential in organizing labor, especially the Teamsters Union. But who needs those when you have the mafia? They're basically in charge of them. Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa became a pawn of Lansky's syndicate. There's some people that would argue that, but whatever. They borrowed millions from the union pension fund.

36:31 Attitude towards the mob was dampened by Attorney General Robert Kennedy's aggressive investigation of the Teamster Union. In 1967, prior to Nixon's decisive electoral campaign, Hoffa landed in jail with a 13-year sentence for misuse of the union funds.

37:02 Tony Pro Provenzenza, another mafia guy with a nickname. They were friends of Nixon and hands of the mafia. When Nixon pardoned Hoffa just prior to Christmas 1971, Hoffa had promised to stay out of organized labor. In the 60s, Nixon grew even closer to his friends in Miami, who by then had made millions in land speculation.

37:34 That's called money laundering, by the way. Dade County North of Miami became known as Lanskyville. They had a string of seemingly legitimate real estate firms handle all of the money laundering that they laundered through real estate. Among some of those companies, the Cape Florida Development Company ran by Donald Berg and Nixon's pal Roboso.

38:06 The two work closely with Al Polizzi, the former head of the Syndicate's Mayfield Road Gang from Cleveland, who were basically in charge of the Florida's contractors. An investigation into the placement of stolen securities at Roboso's bank was thwarted. No, no, you can't investigate that. We're using that for money laundering.

38:39 Number two, Mary Carter Paint, which eventually turns into Resort International in 1967, all mafia. It then went on to run the world's most profitable casino in Atlantic City. It was the brainchild of Meyer Lansky. Resort's Paradise Island Casino in the Bahamas was managed by Ed Salini, a...

39:13 Lansky Casino operator from way back. Number three, the General Development Corporation, ran by Wallace Groves and Lou Chesler. Its board of directors included Lansky's broker, Max Orovitz, and gangster trigger man, Mike Coppola. Groves brought up

39:43 bought up half of the Grand Bahama Island for the syndicate, and contracted with Nixon's law client, National Bulk Carriers, to construct the harbor. Number four, the major realty company whose controlling shareholders was Senator Smathers, the Cuban, former Cuban senator, and Lansky's men, Orovich and Ben Singelbaum.

40:16 Through his friends, Nixon acquired land on Key Bastain and Fishers Island off the coast of Florida. In return, he made himself available for personal appearances. When Mary Carter Payne in 1967 opened the Nassau Bay Club Casino in Grand Bahama Island, Nixon was a guest of honor. One year later, he was there when Resorts International opened its big casino on Paradise Island.

40:47 Nixon also expressed his friendship in other ways. Hoppe was not the only one who did not have to pay his full debt to society. Neither did Leonard Burstyn, Karl Coven, and Morris Schenker, all mafia associates, the last two solid Nixon campaign supporters. Robert Morgenthau, the federal attorney in the Southern District of New York,

41:15 became interested in some of Nixon's friends in 1968. He proved Max Orebitz guilty of willful violation of stock registration laws and was investigating syndicate monies transfers to Switzerland in money laundering. This threatened to lead to an indictment of Nixon's friend, John King, who had set up investors overseas service.

41:47 another CIA front, Morgenthau was then removed from office. Glancing at major contributors to Nixon's 68 and 72 campaign, one finds the names of Miami strawman Lou Chesler, Richard Pistel, Resorts President James Crosby, and John King, the Texas billionaire Howard Hughes.

42:18 master swindler Robert Vesco, and the California millionaire C. Arnholt Smith, a close associate of mafia kingpin John Alessio. He was later convicted of bank fraud. The list of Nixon's major personal and political supporters was Roboso, Smathers, Dewey, Hoppe, and Frank Fitzsimmons. All

42:50 had syndicate ties. And then, of course, there's William Polly. He gets special mention. And China lobbies Anna Chenault, Claire Chenault's wife. Nearly all of Nixon's major supporters in Florida were involved in one way or another with the Bay of Pigs operation. One cannot overlook Nixon's particular connection to IOS.

43:27 multi-millionaire Robert Vesco, who until recently was in exile in Costa Rica, where he allegedly financed the smuggling of narcotics. That's probably the least of the things that Robert Vesco did. Robert Vesco is the guy that was basically working with Mitch Warble III, trafficking arms.

43:56 was in a deal, and I found this out in my other book, Spooks. He was working a deal to build a weapons manufacturing plant in Costa Rica to mass produce these M10 and 11 pistol machine guns with silencers on them because there was too much risk in

44:27 manufacturing them in the United States, which is what was happening at the time, and getting good shipping approval out of the State Department. That was deemed too risky. They got turned down on one shipment and they decided, well, we probably ought to just start manufacturing these outside the country. That Robert Vesco. Vesco provided financial support.

44:58 to Nixon's reelection campaign and was a close associate. And I can't believe this is not more well-known. It's well-documented in the book Spooks. Nixon's brother, Edward, and his nephew, Donald Jr., they literally were like in bed with Robert Vesco.

45:30 traveled all over with them, went to meetings with them. It's crazy. And Robert Vesco is a very well-known, I mean, he lived for years with an open warrant for his arrest after an indictment in the United States. He was a fugitive while they were doing business with him. And it's one of those situations where, yes, he was indicted, but

46:00 They had plenty of opportunities to get him and never did. It's one of those situations. Nixon himself is alleged to have secretly met with Vesco in Salzburg, Austria. And that's actually verified in that other book, Stooges. This was during the time that he was a wanted fugitive from the United States. The White House came to Vesco's aid in a case brought against him by the SEC.

46:35 just as the investigation into his narcotics activities was similarly choked off. Now, also, I'll say this, and we're going to cover a couple of chapters in that other book when we get done with this one. One of the most interesting parts of Vesco's whole story is this iOS. It was basically...

47:03 bcci before bcci that's what it was it was used for massive money laundering all over and a lot of people put money it's like a castle bank they put money on deposit in this ios and vesco basically stole a lot of money from ios hundreds

47:30 and hundreds of millions some people estimated it could have been as high as 2 billion but nobody knows for sure because it was in numbered bank accounts in this place so what was interesting about it and vesco's mindset was okay so i have this army of protection and if i steal a bunch of crooks money who are they gonna cry to they can't tell people that i stole their money

48:01 because they'd have to explain how it's their money and it was all illicit money and his idea was to and he traveled several places to do this and it's another theme that we've heard over and over again he wanted to set up an island as basically a fiefdom that he's in charge of

48:28 And he wanted to create basically a Western hemisphere Singapore where they don't actually do anything other than provide money like an Isle of Jersey. He just wanted to put it in the Caribbean so that you have this entire Shangri-La casinos, all of the vices, all of this other shit. And people, you know, come here from all over. It's a massive like.

48:55 Panama level money laundering place, but your money is safe here because I'm in charge of it. Now, I don't know about you, but if he's already on record of stealing their money, the last thing that you would want to do is launder your money with someone who absconds with money. That's just me. But anyway, all right.

49:26 The next chapter is a little long to start today. So we're going to start it tomorrow. Anybody got anything? Yes, Colonel. Okay. Thank you for everybody here on YouTube Rumble in Spaces. I'm sitting here thinking about this and what's going on. And we're talking about eliminating the Corsican mafia. And we're also talking about.

50:04 mafia headpins in the United States. Now, yeah, there were plenty of mafia headpins in the United States. The question is, why didn't we look to a certain mafia? Why did we pull Traficante and Giancano and the rest of those in to begin with? Why doesn't our CIA

50:40 Put everything in one basket. I guess is basically what I'm asking when we get to the drug trade. I don't understand your question. So anything the CIA does is plausible deniability. You're not going to have CIA agents out there with suitcases carrying money. You're not going to have CIA agents out there with suitcases carrying drugs. The mafia, because they come with their own hitmen.

51:12 And their own network is the perfect front for the CIA does all of the actual muscle work because they can classify everything as national security. So they make country to country arrangements. The mafia comes in as the front of it and they get their cut. The CIA gets their cut.

51:41 The distribution network gets their cut. And their goal, obviously, was worldwide control. And the mafia in the United States, primarily the Jewish and Italian mafia, had come together and created that joint working group. So they're working together. You can think of it as one hydra, if you will.

52:10 And they had an agreement on who was going to get what cut, what families were going to get what cut. It was all very organized, very businessman-like. And they're going to have to take the risk of getting caught. Well, then they hire another front for their operation, which is basically the Cuban exiles, to run all of that narcotics around the world.

52:38 That's why the CIA was so busy training them under the guise of, oh, my God, we got to go get Cuba. And so you have this entire deployable network that operates and you gain revenue from it. So if I need to go make a covert arms buy of Bulgarian weapons and I just go to one of these accounts in Castle Bank, which Paul Hellywell set up in the Bahamas or.

53:08 BCCI later on that had branches all over. You just go get your money and none of it's recorded. None of it's attributable to anybody because it's all covert based on narcotics trafficking and arms trafficking and all that other stuff. So you have to have that layer of plausible deniability and who better to do it than your mafia.

53:34 You don't want the Corsican mafia because they're under the control of France and their own networks. They're not your mafia. It's a competitor. And this is analogous to the entire cocaine industry. You had all of these different what they started labeling as cartels. They're just other mafia people. And you had the different families.

54:03 And some families got out of the deal. They didn't keep coloring within the lines like Pablo Escobar. You just knock them off. Does that make sense? Yes, it does. Okay. That makes much more sense. Yeah. As to why they're dealing with all of them versus one or two. Well, all of them, it's only one. Remember, they had the meeting.

54:36 And there is a committee meeting in New York. That's the one the CIA was dealing with. Now, do they have different people that do different things within that committee meeting of the mafia council? So they decided they're going to use this mafia council. That's the only one. And everybody that's going to be used and given a piece of the pie.

55:05 based on how that's set up, is inside of this network. And that network was both the Jewish mafia and the Italian mafia. And so that network is going to be used. The Corsican mafia was not at that council. They were not part of it. So whatever they had was outside the control of this network. So it was going to eventually have to go away.

55:33 But they had to figure out a whole bunch of stuff because they had been at it a lot longer. They had to figure out how to get the highest grade number four heroin figured out. They had to go into Vietnam and take over that entire Golden Triangle network. And that was very hard to do when France was still had Vietnam as a colony, which they needed as a launching point. And World War II changed all of that.

56:00 Because even though France tried to come back into Vietnam, it was rough going for them. So the whole idea was to get into Laos, get into Burma and take over the Golden Triangle. And Chiang Kai-shek was the kingpin to that because at the end of the day, most of these people were tribal originating from Chinese.

56:28 married into their families and everything. So them racking up Chiang Kai-shek allowed them to basically strong-arm themselves into that entire network over there. All along, go ahead. All right. Can you hear me okay? Yep. Okay. Yeah, just regarding your comment earlier regarding Donald Nixon and sort of all new to the kind of...

57:03 way that more people don't talk about him. And just a general observation, as like, I read a lot about this stuff, mostly like 20 years ago. It strikes me as kind of notable that he is a guy who you'll read about in this book, and then like, maybe 11 books later, you'll see him mentioned again.

57:30 But there's very, very little kind of like bringing the beats together here from one tech to another so that the general narrative of readers is not going to put two and two together. And my speculation is that that might be deliberate because, you know, there's a lot of kinds of deliberate in this game, as you know. But what I mean by that is he is he's like so close to the key Nixon mafia friends. Yeah.

58:00 And he is also later used in, like, at least a piece in the RFK Assassination book, A Lie Too Big to Fail, the second edition of which has come out. And I can't recommend that book strongly enough. It's called A Lie Too Big to Fail, second edition. But she has him, you know, sort of all up in the maze. I hope I'm mispronouncing that word correctly.

58:25 uh of the rfk assassination with the whole sick crew of you know robert mayfield and you know uh my father names his name that pings me so in other words the short version i think uh donald nixon might be deliberately under mediated so that you know it's possible to put more two and two together than we actually have you know because it's just

58:55 There's too much overlap with key figures here. I don't disagree with you. And we definitely find that to be true in much of the research that we've done. Just like, and I'm not equivalating this, but like William Polly, you can't find, he's mentioned in almost every book, but there's not a composite of how

59:27 monumental this guy was to all of this and to American history internationally. He is like one of those monumental, pivotal figures. And until I started doing this, I'd never heard of the man. Yeah. And I believe 100% that's on purpose. Because once you start digging into who that guy is,

59:57 Like you have bombs going off like every couple of hours. Right. I think the word choice of composite is a key word. Because, you know, some topics will be composites and different sorts of feeding into each other. Others, almost the opposite. So avoiding a composite on the touchy figures is definitely part of the propaganda strategy. Yep.

1:00:26 Couldn't agree more. All right. That's all we got for today. If I'm able to, I'm going to go back and look at our movie night. And I will be doing our movie night either tonight or tomorrow night. Can't make a promise yet. But if I do it, it's going to be around 8 o'clock. So, Renee, go ahead.

1:00:58 hey good afternoon everyone speaking of propaganda um is it just me or does everyone else feel like we are currently at the intersection of propaganda place and psyop central it seems kind of on overload lately no um i i couldn't agree more um i i think i've made a few posts about that

1:01:24 Yeah, absolutely. It's boomerangs from all angles. And I'm just so grateful to being part of this group and this journey because we have such a different perspective on all this. So thank you. And yeah, it's wild. Even if you're off the platform X for a while and you come back, it's like a bombardment of what? Wait, where did that come? Oh, this guy? What?

1:01:52 It's so much. It's really a bombardment, I feel like, right now. They're doubling down on all the propaganda and psyops. It's like you can really see it now. I feel like I'm seeing the Matrix from the other side. You are. Yes, you left the Matrix. You put your Gladio glasses on and we can see it. We can see them lizard people. Exactly. We're like Neo in the Matrix.

1:02:22 We're dodging those psyop bullets and about to put our hand up and like the hell no hand of like, uh-uh, not taking it, not buying it. It's wild. It's really, really intense. Just wanted to share that. If you guys want to see how well our research has paid off, you are definitely going to want to watch. I think it's going to be sometime.

1:02:50 post about it whenever he gets back to me, the show that CanCon and I are going to do about the election fraud going on and the allegations of the interference in elections in Columbia. He did a short note on his daily show today with Ghost of Beast Patrick Henry, which I went back and I caught the last half of it. I went back and listened to the first half of it.

1:03:19 But if you guys want to see how everything that we have done for all of you that's been here this whole four year run overlays on what's going on today, that is going to be a show you don't want to miss. He's going to cover the election piece of it and I'm going to cover the CIA piece of it. And it's explosive.

1:03:49 And, of course, we have to do it on his show because it has a much bigger audience. And because of his stepping out in front of most of this nefarious and, you know, again, thanks to the show that we did together on that book.

1:04:09 which I got an update today. We're not even supposed to name the name of the book. The book that shall not be named, he referred to it as because it's a piece of shit. When we went through that, I put the same amount of analysis research that I do in most of my books. The problem and what made that book so painful is

1:04:37 Most of the books that I have, over 150 of them, and no, I'm not going to count them again, they're very well done. The footnotes are very well done. The information is easily...

1:04:54 verifiable. If they mentioned something that I haven't heard, I'll take, you know, 10, 15 minutes to kind of run some things down. So I get a better understanding of what they're, the point they're trying to make. So I can get through a book in a few, let's just say less than a week. I've done some books over a weekend because I can't put them down. But anyway, I always have my laptop open going through the book. That book.

1:05:23 took me at least some amount of time all seven days to get through a chapter because it was so well there's no footnotes there's absolutely no source documents at all and it was the most painful i i told king khan i'll never forgive him again if he ever does that to me again um but

1:05:49 literally hours and hours and hours of research. And what is very interesting about, and now because of all the stuff that's going on, it gave me a much broader base of information about just how

1:06:10 our elections because i'm listening to ash and king khan um about the whole election aspect of this so i learned a lot from them not from the book the book sucks um but the kind of takeaway for me is it gave me a very interesting perspective on how they do the psyops

1:06:37 That's about the only positive thing that I can get, how they do all of these misdirections. And it's all documented in the book. How they say this when they actually mean this and how they say three things thinking that you're going to be able to go, they can push you down a particular street by dropping three things, some of which are not even true.

1:07:03 Then they've got you in a place. Then they add another piece to it and another piece to it. But for us, I look up all three things. All three things are not true. So I'm not going down that road. And then it makes it even more obvious when they say the thing that they're trying to lead you down. Because there's like, if you're playing a video game, it's like this little gold coin at the end of the street. And you're supposed to get to the end of the street. That's where they're leading you.

1:07:32 I'm not going to get the gold coin because every single piece of the street they're leading us down is a lie. And that's the skill set that I think this whole exercise, this whole four year exercise has allowed us to do. No, I'm not going to believe something just because it's written in a very sucky book. And so anyway.

1:07:59 And the fact that we've done all of this research into how they reuse the same people over and over again. So and then when you look somebody up, you know exactly what to look up about them. All of those skills, which now most of us take for granted because we've been doing this now for years, comes into play and you can just go, boop, boop, boop. When CanCon started texting me this morning.

1:08:27 Within 30 minutes, I'd blown his mind. And that's because of this skill set that we have created. And I know Renee has it because Renee, I'll say something, I'll make a post. And within like five minutes, she's got like three other pieces of it. And I don't think, I mean, we'll have this for the rest of our lives. I don't think.

1:08:57 We're going to have all of this information and it's just, it's, it's amazing. I love all of this, by the way. Go ahead, Renee. Thank you for the compliment. Yeah. I have to share something funny because sometimes when you do post or I see some posts immediately, I know what to do now and how to look and how to, what to look for. So my husband is

1:09:24 laughing at me every day because I'll immediately go to like rockopedia or start you know hashing it out with my grok and like oh yeah oh there it is oh look at that you know and he's like he hears me talking to myself because yes you can catch the signs the red flags so quick now

1:09:48 of their grooming, the school, their affiliations, the businesses they're involved in, all this stuff. And yeah, it just comes so fast now. It's an amazing gift you've given us. Thank you. You're welcome. These Gladio glasses are invaluable living through what we're living through right now. Okay.

1:10:12 Anyway, I'm going to jump off here, go grab something to eat. And if I can figure out this whole how we're going to do the movie thing, I got to get my daughter on the phone. We will do it tonight at eight o'clock. If not, we'll push it off to tomorrow night. All right, you guys take care and thanks for being here. Okay, see you guys later.

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Dominican Republic operated_in CIA host_asserted ▶ 0:52

“that's remaining in this chapter, Cubans in Florida, that the Dominican Republic does not get talked about a lot. And it was a focal point of CIA activity for a very long time. As a matter of fact, a …”

Dominican Republic operated_in CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:22

“operations launched into Cuba, it served as a staging place for them. And for those of you who've been with us for a very long time, we established when we were looking, we did a big in-depth study on…”

CIA funded Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 2:24

“It also became a transit point for Traficani's narcotics traffic, meaning the Dominican Republic. The CIA, according to agents of the BNDD, which we've said repeatedly turns into the DEA, helped organ…”

CIA did_business_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 2:54

“the island of Cuba, to the Dominican Republic. They were put in charge of narcotic operations in the Dominican Republic for shipment to Florida. It's also important to note the CIA's close cooperation…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. funded Communist International host_asserted ▶ 3:55

“International Anti-Communist Brigade, IACB. It was financed through a combination of Traficani and CIA funds. According to Richard Whatley, a brigade member hired for the invasion, Traficani would ord…”

Frank Sturgis member_of Communist International host_asserted ▶ 3:55

CIA funded Communist International host_asserted ▶ 3:55

Frank Sturgis operated_in West Berlin host_asserted ▶ 4:29

“He was our money man. Another detail from Sturges' past is especially interesting in light of Frank Bender's alleged ties to the Galen organization, meaning Operation Gladio. For a period in the early…”

Frank Sturgis member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 4:29

William Harvey member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 5:36

“Wills were turning on new assassination attempts almost immediately. CIA agent William Harvey, who again collaborated with this entire apparatus, both the mafia, CIA, all of this, narcotics. Within mo…”

CIA funded Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 5:36

William Harvey operated_in Rome host_asserted ▶ 6:05

“and involved greater manpower than even the Bay of Pigs invasion. Now, it's interesting to note as well, where does William Harvey end up in 1963? In charge of the Rome Station. He made a trip in earl…”

Otto Skorzeny member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 6:34

“where he is the CIA station chief. And his deputy is on record saying that he made multiple trips to the island of Sardinia, which as we established a long time ago, was the terrorist training camp fo…”

Otto Skorzeny operated_in Madrid host_asserted ▶ 6:34

Rolando Martinez member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 7:05

“To head the JM wave station, the CIA chose Theodore Shackley. Where was he from? Berlin, working with the stay-behinds in NATO. His closest Cuban exile associate was Jaquen Sanchez and Rolando Martine…”

Ted Shackley operated_in West Berlin host_asserted ▶ 7:05

Ted Shackley member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 7:05

Ted Shackley operated_in Laos host_asserted ▶ 8:12

“Shackley was another contender for the most intriguing CIA conspirator award. After years of collaboration with Traficani's organization, the Cuban Exiles, he and part of his Miami staff would then be…”

Ted Shackley did_business_with Lucien Conein host_asserted ▶ 8:12

Ted Shackley did_business_with Lucy Mercer host_asserted ▶ 8:12

Ted Shackley operated_in South Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 8:45

“and basically took control of the heroin traffic there. In the capital of Laos, where Shackley was the station chief, it became the new center of the heroin trade. Later, he ran the station in Saigon,…”

Ted Shackley removed_from_power CIA host_asserted ▶ 9:15

“against the Chilean president, Salvador Allende. Shackley was the chief of covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. When William Colby became the director of the CIA in 73, Shackley took over the …”

William Colby member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 9:15

Ted Shackley member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 9:15

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Salvador Allende host_asserted ▶ 9:15

William Poage funded Claire Chennault host_asserted ▶ 9:49

“a great expansion in the china lobby trafficani cuban exile and cia connections occurred william polly my favorite forrest gump of operation gladio financed the mysterious summer 1963 boat raid agains…”

John Martino did_business_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 10:19

“Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers in Southeast Asia to help out the drug trade there, he named his yacht Flying Tiger 2. They're not unrelated. The crew also included John Martino, a well-known mafia g…”

Lauren Hall did_business_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 10:54

“Mike and Ken. Also involved was Rolando Martinez, again, and a dozen other Cuban exiles like Eddie Bayo, Eduardo Perez, many of whom eventually disappeared, like out of thin air. Lauren Hall, another …”

Lauren Hall did_business_with Sam Giancana host_asserted ▶ 10:54

John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 11:27

“Sam Giacana had helped plan that particular raid. Claire Booth Luce, a queenpin of the China lobby, testified during Senate hearings on the CIA that she had financed an exile gunboat raid on Cuba afte…”

Clare Boothe Luce funded CIA host_asserted ▶ 11:27

Carlos Marcello member_of CIA documented ▶ 12:37

“Quote, the committee's extensive investigation led to the conclusion the most likely family bosses of organized crime to have participated in such unilateral assassination plan were Carlos Marcello, t…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of CIA documented ▶ 12:37

Jack Ruby did_business_with Carlos Marcello host_asserted ▶ 13:08

“The most important was his association with Jack Ruby, who visited him in Havana prison in 1959. His statement to Cuban exile financier, Jose Allman, that Kennedy is going to be hit. That's a quote. A…”

Jack Ruby did_business_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 13:08

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Frank Furschi host_asserted ▶ 20:45

“at the snap of a finger. In 1968, Traficani himself went on an extended business trip to the Far East. His first stop was Hong Kong, where he had located Frank Farsi, his agent. In 1965 through 1966, …”

Frank Furschi secretly_owned Maradim Limited host_asserted ▶ 21:20

“He owned Maradim Limited. He had cornered the market on Saigon's night spots for GIs, kind of like the story we read when we were doing Nugent Hand Bank, where they basically had set up that R&R locat…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Fraschini family host_asserted ▶ 22:24

“He had set up a chain of heroin labs in Hong Kong. From Hong Kong, Traficani journeyed to Saigon, registering at the Continental Palace Hotel, owned by a fellow friend of his, the Corsican mafia famil…”

CIA did_business_with Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 22:55

“Several doors had been opened to gain access to the opium treasures. The first led to the CIA-controlled Taiwan regime, Chiang Kai-shek, the world's largest heroin network. The second was to the Golde…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 22:55

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Triads host_asserted ▶ 23:27

“He made sure he made connections with all the CIA buddies over there. He also was dealing with what's referred to as the Triads, which is the Chinese gangs. They're mafia. In Hong Kong, Traficani open…”

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with Corsican Mafia host_asserted ▶ 24:28

“And his conclusion at the end of Traficani's tour was they needed to be eliminated. So Santo Traficani began his war against the Corsicans, which of course was helped by the Nixon administration and P…”

Auguste Ricord did_business_with Limpy Ho host_asserted ▶ 25:02

“Auguste Record, who's camped out in Paraguay and controlling Paraguay and Brazil, and the heroin trafficking via that location, which the Corsican Mafia liked, was an enemy to him and his global empir…”

Auguste Ricord operated_in Paraguay host_asserted ▶ 25:02

Meyer Lansky did_business_with Santo Trafficante Jr. host_asserted ▶ 26:42

“that they don't control. And they can make arrests and they can put you in jail for a very long time if you're doing it outside their controlled network. By early 1970s, Southeast Asian produced heroi…”

Meyer Lansky moved_to Israel host_asserted ▶ 27:16

“And then he made haste to Israel to avoid being held accountable. On July 4th, Lansky's Narcotics Associates reportedly made their investment plans for Southeast Asia at a 12-day meeting with represen…”

James Crosby funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

“another CIA front, Morgenthau was then removed from office. Glancing at major contributors to Nixon's 68 and 72 campaign, one finds the names of Miami strawman Lou Chesler, Richard Pistel, Resorts Pre…”

C. Arnholt Smith funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

Howard Hughes funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

Richard Pistel funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

Lou Chesler funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

John Kinser funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 41:47

C. Arnholt Smith relationship_with John Alessio host_asserted ▶ 42:18

“master swindler Robert Vesco, and the California millionaire C. Arnholt Smith, a close associate of mafia kingpin John Alessio. He was later convicted of bank fraud. The list of Nixon's major personal…”

Anne Chenault relationship_with Claire Chennault host_asserted ▶ 42:50

“had syndicate ties. And then, of course, there's William Polly. He gets special mention. And China lobbies Anna Chenault, Claire Chenault's wife. Nearly all of Nixon's major supporters in Florida were…”

Robert Vesco operated_in Costa Rica host_asserted ▶ 43:27

“multi-millionaire Robert Vesco, who until recently was in exile in Costa Rica, where he allegedly financed the smuggling of narcotics. That's probably the least of the things that Robert Vesco did. Ro…”

Robert Vesco relationship_with Mitch Werbell book_quoted ▶ 43:27

Edward Nixon relationship_with Robert Vesco book_quoted ▶ 44:58

“to Nixon's reelection campaign and was a close associate. And I can't believe this is not more well-known. It's well-documented in the book Spooks. Nixon's brother, Edward, and his nephew, Donald Jr.,…”

Robert Vesco funded Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 44:58

Donald Nixon relationship_with Robert Vesco book_quoted ▶ 44:58

Richard Nixon relationship_with Robert Vesco book_quoted ▶ 46:00

“They had plenty of opportunities to get him and never did. It's one of those situations. Nixon himself is alleged to have secretly met with Vesco in Salzburg, Austria. And that's actually verified in …”

Paul Hellyer founded Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 52:38

“That's why the CIA was so busy training them under the guise of, oh, my God, we got to go get Cuba. And so you have this entire deployable network that operates and you gain revenue from it. So if I n…”

Castle Bank & Trust located_in Bahamas host_asserted ▶ 52:38

France operated_in Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 55:33

“But they had to figure out a whole bunch of stuff because they had been at it a lot longer. They had to figure out how to get the highest grade number four heroin figured out. They had to go into Viet…”

Chiang Kai-shek headed Golden Triangle host_asserted ▶ 56:00

“Because even though France tried to come back into Vietnam, it was rough going for them. So the whole idea was to get into Laos, get into Burma and take over the Golden Triangle. And Chiang Kai-shek w…”