The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13

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0:00 Okay, ICSR 71 is here. Oh, and there's Bridget. Okay, so she had tornado warnings today. We weren't sure we were going to get her in today. So awesome. Since you guys are here, please repost the space. And we're going to go ahead and get started with our lesson today because it is Wednesday. So we will be finishing a little early today. And we are on part.

0:28 13 and chapter 11 in our book from Peter Dale Scott, Drug, Oil and War. So this one is about opium, the China lobby and the CIA. Obviously, these are things that we have talked about before. Again, he starts off with kind of the updated version and then we will go into his previously written information.

0:58 The author says that he does not believe that any book has so far advanced his revelations in 1970 about the involvement of Air America, previously called Civil Air Transport, and its personnel in the Asian drug traffic. The deep political element here is the presence of organized crime, both Asian and American, in the background at every stage of the story.

1:27 from the first post-war involvement in the U.S. with the infrastructure of the Asian drug traffic to the recycling of Asian funds into American political mainstream via the China lobby, and later the law form of Corcoran and Roe, which we've come across multiple times. And if you wouldn't mind, SR-71, look up Corcoran and Roe and make a...

1:55 post, even just the wiki post of that. But just so that you guys know, obviously, the book called The China Lobby is a great reference, as is the World Anti-Communist League, which is an older book, because both of them, in addition to Paul Williams' book, but it wasn't written until 2015, well after this guy.

2:23 All of that talks about this connection. Where else do you find all of these aspects viewed together? The new edition of Alfred McCoy's massive and invaluable study, The Politics of Heroin, which I also have, and we will definitely be doing that book, notes the importance of Paul Helliwell in arranging for the U.S. government to subsidize the civil air transport.

2:51 but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lansky's bank. Furthermore, while confirming the movement of opium in civil air transport planes, McCoy understates the structural role of civil air transport.

3:21 in building up the post-war opium and heroin traffic. His statement, and let me just also say, because we're going to go to Claire Chanel, as far as the Paul Helliwell, you guys probably already know because we've talked about this before, but I know we have new people all the time. Paul Helliwell is the guy responsible for helping Walt Disney buy up all the land in Orlando for Disney World using front companies.

3:49 Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold civil air transport to the CIA in August 1950, admits the relevant fact that the Chinese KMT interest eventually

4:20 retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has little or nothing to say about the links between the 1960s in Laos and the KMT on Taiwan. And again, one of the understatements here

4:49 is the fact that without going back in time and looking at who set up Chiang and the KMT, you miss the connections even to the CIA from that perspective, because he would have never been able to be settled on Taiwan and to, for two years prior to his movement there, have the entire island.

5:15 Tens of thousands of people exterminated who didn't want him coming. And then the tens of thousands that he murdered after he was installed there who didn't want him there. And the installation of the 40 years of hiding the fact that it was a dictatorship where MacArthur is coming and testifying in front of Congress saying, no, no, it's a democracy. They have elections. They have everything. They look just like the United States.

5:41 Knowing damn good and well people were being bayoneted in the streets because there is now declassified State Department cables from the ambassador to Taiwan in the first several years of its existence, having been created by the CIA, talking about people in front of the U.S. embassy being bayoneted in the streets. It was never a democracy.

6:06 Other statements scattered throughout McCoy's book sometimes suggest that the CIA and the Civil Air Transport Air America were only passively implicated with the drug traffickers or that involvement was at the agent level. The truth is that the massive post-war restructuring of the drug trade under the KMT auspices was one in which both

6:33 The CIA and civil air transport played a key organizing role. I also believe that to understand the full range of McCoy's subject, the politics of heroin, one has to look also at the role played by the drug finance China lobby in the United States. We still need a kind of in-depth study of opium in post-war Asia politics that has begun to emerge for the pre-war period.

7:02 Such a study might help us determine why the CIA has repeatedly allied itself with key drug trafficking elements in Europe, Afghanistan, East, Middle East, Latin America, and elsewhere, most recently in Kosovo, Colombia, and Afghanistan. This might contribute to a much-needed political response to the complaint a decade ago by a former DEA investigator that said,

7:30 In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigation almost inevitably turned out to be working for the CIA, unquote, which we've heard repeatedly. This phenomenon can only be understood by seeing how the interface of crime and policy serve both drug traffickers and high-level financial interest in the affected developments both in Asia and the United States.

7:59 This chapter tries to do that. And the reason why I want to do McCoy, obviously, it's not like an imperative to do it quickly or I would have already done that. It does illustrate how when you read some of these books that are, quote unquote, approved by the CIA, you can see some of the areas, as this guy accurately points out, that is significantly lacking.

8:29 and stuff we already know. But what's important about that is when you get on to other books and they're telling you a story where they're leaving big chunks that we already know out, you can evaluate the veracity of the author because you have a well-rounded amount of knowledge in the subject area already. And so if you are reading a book and you are learning things, which I did in this book,

8:58 that you've never seen before, it's going to be a good book. That doesn't mean he's going to include everything that you know, because they're not. But if not only do you learn nothing in the book that's new, they leave out big chunks of relevant information that you already know, you know to put that book in a different pile. That book got put in a different pile, which is why we haven't done it yet. But it does have an interesting style to it.

9:28 That I think is important. Even if we don't do the whole book, we should do an overview of it. All right. Then that was his updated version. And now we're going to get to the original text. Professor Samuel Elliott Morrison, M-O-R-I-S-O-N, has written how in 1903, Teddy Roosevelt, in the face of international law and morality, secretly ordered the U.S. Navy to support the revolution secession of Panama from Colombia.

9:58 The secession, which led swiftly to the Canal Zone Treaty, which really wasn't a treaty because Panama didn't sign it, is described by him as a plan by Panama businessmen, agents of the French company, which we've covered, that was going bankrupt, that did the first 40% of the canal, which stood to gain $40 million in compensation under the treaty and the United States Army officers.

10:26 He neglects to add that the agents of the French Panama Canal Company were the New York investment bankers of J&W Sigliman, S-E-L-I-G-M-A-N, and their Washington lobbyist, Bruno Varilla, and that's spelled B-U-N-A-U dash V-A-R-I-L-L-A, who organized and financed the quote-unquote revolution.

10:56 out of a suite in the Waldorf Historia. The intervention of the U.S. Navy was not Roosevelt's idea, but Bruno Varela's, who called on the president and spoke to him about American lives and interests. Even the flat, excuse me, of the new Panamanian Republic, for which later generations of more idealistic nationalists have demonstrated and died.

11:27 was designed and hand-stitched by Bruno Varilla out of Macy's silk at the summer house of James Sigleman in Westchester, New York. In some ways, the Panama exercise in big stick partition with its subsequent thorough but ineffective congressional exposure and its hidden

11:57 economic interest, including a quote-unquote French company financed through Wall Street, is instructive precedent for the post-war U.S. involvement in Indochina. Legally, however, the picture might appear to be different. For many of the Bruno Varela activity in preparing for the revolution and war would today be outlawed under a U.S. criminal code.

12:26 which, of course, is why they moved it all into the CIA. In theory, at least, responsibility for this kind of defense of American interest is now a monopoly of the CIA, even if the CIA continues to maintain close contact with J&W, Sigleman, and similar Wall Street institutions. And it's also interesting to note, of course, we know that

12:56 Alan Dulles in the Cromwell law firm was also tied up in this as representatives of that French company as well. These contacts were powerful. And in 1948, it was pressure from the Wall Street Club that seceded in pushing the infant CIA into its first covert operations. President Truman later declared his unhappiness with the CIA.

13:25 from that function. And then, of course, he says that he basically had no idea it was going to turn into that. But he's the one that signed 4512-2 for the very first time. He knew exactly what it was turning into because he turned it into it. Moving on, you have Alan Dulles, who was then a corporate lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell, also a member president of the CFR. The administration became concerned.

13:56 about the quote-unquote communists that were going to be interfering with the Italian election, which, as we all know, turned out not to be communists, but actual Gladio pretending to be communists that created this whole thing. Forrestal felt that secret counteraction was vital, but his initial assessment was that the Italian operation would have to be private, in other words, covert.

14:25 The wealthy industrialists in Milan were hesitant to provide the money fearing reprisals if the quote unquote communists won. They weren't communists. They were actual neutralists that didn't really want to be in NATO. And we couldn't let them win because then there would be a question of whether NATO would Italy would be in NATO. And they didn't want a question. OK. And so the hat got passed around a thing called the Brook.

14:59 Club, B-R-O-O-K, in New York. But Allen Dulles felt the problem could not be handled effectively in private hands. He urged strongly that the government establish a covert organization. Because of the desire to finance the organization with covert funds, the decision was made to create it under the National Security Council originally. This obviously provided no accountability

15:28 And the SECTA felt the operation should be private as well. But a private corporate lawyer determined it should be public. But this arrangement, presumably the men in the Brook Club even got their money back since the funds have been public. So in other words, they were going to basically and Rockefeller, as Paul Williams accurately.

15:54 pointed out, was one of the guys that's initially fronting money for Operation Gladio, and he gets paid back once they get their drug operation up and running. Let's see. The unaccountability is instructive. The defense secretary felt the operation should be private, but the private corporate lawyer determined it should be public, which is kind of the whole idea.

16:25 of taking all of what used to be private and make it public. But meaning in the State Department, the CIA, what used to have to be paid for privately by these companies that wanted concessions and stuff like that in these countries. By this arrangement, presumably, the men of the Brook Club even got their money back.

16:49 Truman's lack of sympathy for the way the CIA had been diverted into covert operations did not result in any curb to the CIA by anyone involved. On the contrary, the CIA began to grow under Bedell Smith. All seven persons who are known to have served as deputy directors of the CIA under Smith and Truman came.

17:17 from New York's legal and financial circles. These men use their corporate experience and connections to set up dummy private organizations as proprietaries, wholly owned by the CIA, particularly for Far Eastern operations, on the model of William Polly's, weird how that name keeps coming up, Camco, C-A-M-C-O, company.

17:45 which had fronted for General Chennault's Flying Tigers in 1941. The capital came from government sources, but profits, if there were any, got to be kept. Thus, William Ray Peers, P-E-E-R-S, an OSS hand of the Burma China Group, was later the Army's Chief of Staff Special Assistant.

18:13 for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It served as a cover for launching the KMT commando raids from all of the different islands besides Taiwan.

18:44 that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was set up by the lawyer Paul Helliwell, which supplied arms and other supplies to the KMT troops in Burma.

19:14 They also later trained the Thai border police with the $35 million that the U.S. bribed the national police commander in Taiwan to open up all the airports and seaports. By far, the largest CIA proprietary in Asia was a Delaware-registered corporation called Civil Air Transport, Inc. It was chartered in 1950.

19:46 and known since March 31, 1959 as Air America. General Lansdell's memorandum in 1961 to Maxwell Taylor on unconventional warfare, published as part of the Pentagon Papers, confirmed this. This is an actual quote from those papers. Civil Air Transport, Chinese nationalist in parentheses, Civil Air Transport is a commercial airline engaged in

20:17 scheduling unscheduled air operations throughout the Far East, with headquarters and large maintenance facilities in Taiwan. Civil Air Transport, a CIA proprietary, provides air logistics support under commercial cover to most of the U.S. and government agencies' requirements. During the past 10 years, it has

20:42 more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the 1958 Indonesia operation, which was the first failed coup.

21:10 airlifts of refugees from North Vietnam, which means the one million people that were psychologically, operationally terrorized by the Catholic Church in order to get them, all Catholic, by the way, to get them on a ship and on airplanes to basically forcibly relocate over a million people of the North in Vietnam.

21:37 While Chiang Kai-shek is occupying them, by the way, because the CIA had every intention and they did to install a Catholic guy who left the country during the war and everybody hated. But they were going to pretend like he was president in order to try to capture the entire country and defeat Ho Chi Minh, who was brave enough to stay there and fight with the OSS against the Japanese. So they set a trap.

22:07 They forcibly relocated over a million people to the south to pretend like the Catholic people were something of a significant amount. It still only ended up being like less than 20 percent of the population down there. But it was enough to fake everybody else out internationally to say, oh, look at all these Catholic people. They elected a Catholic president, which they did not because they didn't actually have a real election. OK, back to the story.

22:40 They also flew over 200 flights into mainland China and Tibet, which was to do what? Oh, that's when they were taking the Tibetans and training them on how to be gladio terrorists so they could create stay behinds in the Tibetan area to attack China from the inside out. That included.

23:10 trips into the United States to train in Colorado in the mountains on how to be a terrorist. That's all Civil Air Patrol, or Civil Air Patrol, Civil Air Transport, and all documented. General Lansdell erred, however, in failing to distinguish between the Taiwan Commercial Airline CAT and the alias Civil Air Transport, and the American operating firm

23:40 Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil Air Transport was KMT, Chinese Nationalist, i.e. Shanghai Shek, drug money, represented by officers of the former

24:10 Ken Chen Bank in Shanghai, who allegedly fronted for TV Song, S-O-O-N-G, and his sister, who happened to be married to Chiang Kai-shek. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is what she was referred to as. So we're going to keep it all in the family. And it's one big drug family. They were the mafia. What you and I would call mafia.

24:41 So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U.N. to reverse itself and subsidize the creation of Chenault's airline.

25:06 Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the Flying Tigers as an officer of China Defense Supplies under T.B. Song. The civil air transport treasurer in the 40s was James J. Brennan.

25:35 B-R-E-N-N-A-N. He was a member of Chenault, Corcoran, Allsup's Washington Squadron, i.e. law firms that did all the lawfare that set all this up, who after the war served as TV Song's personal secretary in China. The lawyer for Civil Air Transport, as for the Flying Tigers, was Tommy Corcoran.

26:06 who after the war was rumored to have been handling TV songs, multi-million dollar investments inside the United States. In the late 19th, because they were money laundering their money from the drugs into the United States. In the late 1940s, Civil Air Transport flew military support missions for the KMT against mainland China.

26:32 While Chenault lobbied openly from a Washington office against a more cautious China policy that Truman and Atkinson State Department was trying to put in place. In November 1949, Chenault, after a similar visit by Chiang, flew to Korea and visited the CIA president there by the name of Sigmund Reed. Quote,

27:03 to give him a plan for the Korean military air force, unquote. Even though at the time it was still U.S. official policy to deny Ree planes and discourage him from doing anything in the northern area of the country, because it was still under contest after the war, and they didn't want to bother having what they promised the U.N. was a...

27:30 countrywide election, just like they did in Vietnam. But they were adamant that was never going to happen because they wanted them divided so they could control them. Let's see. In December 1949, Time magazine later claimed Dean Atkinson told one of his correspondents that, quote, what we must do now is shake loose from the Chinese nationalist, unquote.

28:05 While in January 1949, George Kennan predicted that, quote, by next year at this time, we would be able to recognize the Chinese communists, unquote. All such thoughts were frustrated by the sudden outbreak of war in Korea on June 25th, 1950, an event still imperfectly understood.

28:32 which may have been anticipated by certain KMT spectators, who, because of the war, cleared an estimated profit of $30 million in soybeans. Efforts at rapprochement with Peking were again frustrated by this crisis. Now, those of you who've been following me know that when we did our series, we did almost an entire week on Korea, the entire thing was in Operation Gladio. They actually planted stay-behinds just across.

29:02 what had been divided as the northern sector of Korea. Because, again, for the new people, when you conduct war, in the aftermath, like when we, after Desert Storm 1, when we were trying to resettle the Kurdish people who had fled into Turkey back into northern Iraq, the U.S. was given overall command of northern Iraq, which was part of the no-fly zone.

29:30 General Garner divided it up into five sectors, and each of the sectors was oversaw by a particular country, like the British, the French, the Italians, and eventually the Australians came in. I distinctly remember that because of their uniforms. That's a whole other story. But anyway, so that happened in both Vietnam and Korea. In Korea, the Soviet Union, who of course was our ally,

30:02 shortly before the end of the war, was given control over the northern part of Korea. And that's where Kim was, who, again, had his own OSS support and was part of the Allied forces in kicking the Japanese out of Korea because Korea had been a colony for 35 years prior to the beginning of World War II. So they were happy to see the Japanese.

30:25 And they were happy for the help of both the Soviet Union and the U.S. had control of the southern sector, whose only job, according to the treaty, was to get the Japanese out, host an election and get their ass out. That was the original charter of them being basically liaison overseers of the Korean Peninsula. What happened was the CIA.

30:55 And the U.S. had no intention of giving the peninsula back to the Korean people. None. From the very get-go, they had no intentions of doing that. So they began systematically eliminating all of the nationalists in the southern sector that they controlled. While they were doing that...

31:14 They found enough people to set up some stay-behind units, smuggled them into the northern sector just over the area that, and into the area that was being oversaw by the Soviet Union. Then they pretended like they were part of a Soviet Union-backed criminal, aggressive terrorist and attacked the South.

31:44 So it was the South attacking the South, pretending to be the North. And that was the entire impetus of the Korean War. It was all planned. MacArthur basically tells them that it is not enough to take out because it's actually their people that started it. So there isn't really anybody to take out. They just had the direction to go all the way to the northern border because the entire thing was fought.

32:13 basically, to take Chiang Kai-shek and insert him back into China. Well, in order to do that, you have to secure the northern area of Korea, let him camp out there, then we're going to basically have a covert war with China. And as we gained land, territory, then Chiang Kai-shek was going to reinsert himself back into mainland China. When that fell apart, and by the way,

32:41 Chiang Kai-shek temporarily had been assigned the northern sector of Vietnam because if you go back and you read the documents, Vietnam was separated the exact same way, only on paper it says China was given the northern sector and the Brits were given the southern sector of Vietnam. Well, they had already decided, just like in Korea, that the French were coming back in. They weren't going to get their freedom.

33:08 They were going to continue to be a French colony. And as a result of that, when they were referring to China for the longest time, and again, I did papers on this. I'm thinking in my head, it's China, China. It wasn't China, China. It was Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was inserted into Vietnam because they wanted to be on the border of China in order to get Chiang Kai-shek back into China.

33:36 And so my entire head was blown when I found out it wasn't mainland China. It was, quote unquote, nationalist China, which is Chiang Kai-shek, that had basically went head to head with Ho Chi Minh, who had just been our best friends and had his own OSS detachment. Which, by the way, I also found out that the OSS guys loved Ho Chi Minh. They went back for anniversaries decades after.

34:06 They decided that we were going to go to war with Vietnam. They loved Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh went to Paris with a constitution to set up a free country. But we were not going to allow that to happen. And we basically brought the French back in. And then you guys know the rest of the story. So this is critically important to understand all of that history in order to understand what we're talking about here.

34:33 When they talk about Chinese nationalists, they're actually talking about a drug lord, Chiang Kai-shek. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War on July 10th, 1950, Civil Air Transport, along with its holding company called Airedale Corporation, was chartered with OPC funds in Delaware. And OPC is the Office of Planning.

35:04 And that is where Frank Wisner worked in the State Department originally. And then that entire office was moved over into the CIA and became in charge of clandestine covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio, out of the CIA. So Airedale was created by basically Frank Wisner in Delaware as a CIA front company.

35:33 The American company Civil Air Transport Inc. promptly supplied planes, pilots, and U.S. airlift contracts to the Chinese company version of the same company, Civil Air Transport, which in this period was supposedly the flag air carrier of Chiang Kai-shek. So again, they are pretending like the air

36:01 line for mainland Taiwan is a legitimate commercial airline when, in fact, it's a CIA front company flying drugs around and flying missions for the CIA. While Tommy Cochran continued to represent TV Song, Chenault, and the Civil Air Transport, the aviation law firm of Pogue and Neal, P-O-G-U-E and Neal,

36:32 N-E-A-L, handled the incorporation of Civil Air Transport, Inc., whose later counsel lawyer, Brackley Shaw, was a former Army intelligence officer and general counsel for the Air Force. During this period of formation, a vice president of the National City Bank of New York, Walter Reed Wolfe, was recruited.

37:03 Briefly, as the CIA deputy director from 51 to 53, which is during the course of the Korean War, soon afterwards, two of Wolf's fellow directors in the small Empire City Savings Bank, a Mr. Samuel Sloan Walker and author B. Richardson, were named to be board members for Civil Air Transport.

37:33 and the later follow-on Air America. At the same time, Desmond Fitzgerald, who is another name we come across almost in every story, entered the CIA from Citibank and a law firm of Samuel Sloan Dury, D-U-R-Y-E-E, Walker's cousin. Let's see. And a director. Okay, so.

38:06 Samuel Sloan Walker and Walker's cousin is Samuel Sloan Dury as a director with Wolf of Citibank's investment subsidiary, which was called Citibank Farmers Trust. Fitzgerald, a former liaison officer with the Chinese Sixth Army.

38:33 spent much of the next decade in Asia and had charge of the CIA Laos operatives in the field. That's where we first met him earlier in the story. When President Kennedy found Fitzgerald not to his liking because he didn't feel like he was following orders. When Hilsman calls the quote unquote problem of CIA,

39:04 arose not because of the remoteness of Fitzgerald in the civil air transport from the center of power, but because of their proximity to it. Fitzgerald was a member of the New York's Brooks Club, where all of this shit started, and perhaps one of the richest from the perspective of inherited wealth.

39:35 fits right into the international syndicate while also playing a role in Operation Gladio. Other Brook Club members included three directors of the Civil Air Transport, Inc., two directors of Pan Am, which we know did a lot of work with the CIA, and Chiang Kai-shek promoter Walter Robinson, who for six years was Eisenhower's assistant secretary of state.

40:06 For Far East Affairs, Joe Alsa. So, keeping it all in the family. In this pyramid, the CIA's official control over not just civil air transport of the CIA, but the civil air transport, which just weirdly has the same name for plausible deniability of the official airline of Taiwan, was remote and unreliable.

40:37 I disagree with that statement 100 percent because he is unaware of the total control of the CIA over this entire operation. Its proprietary Airedale Corporation in 1957, renamed to be Pacific Corporation, owned 100 percent of the civil air transport slash Air America, which hired all the pilots.

41:06 And they also owned a subsidiary called Asiatic Aeronautical Company, which later became AirAsia, which owned both aircraft and one of the largest aircraft maintenance and repair facilities in Taiwan. Both Airedale owned only, although Airedale

41:34 owned only 40% of the Taiwan version of civil air transport and thus could hardly be called to account when civil air patrol planes flew in support of operations conforming to Taiwan and KMT foreign policy were at odds with the official policy of the U.S. This is just an arrangement like so many else we've seen.

42:00 of plausible deniability. So they say, oh, because you own the majority of this company and that company is a subsidiary of this company. And then they register the airplanes and different ones to fly different missions. And then they all have plausible deniability when shit goes south because they just say, oh, that belonged to someone else. And by the way, that someone else is the exact same name. When the CIA's control over Airedale Pacific Corporation, which was said to

42:30 clear profits of as much as $10 million a year is open to question, it is possible that the proprietary relationship is as useful in supplying an official cover for the profits in order to be able to use them internal to the CIA for covert operations. Air America itself had a private stake in Southeast Asia's oil economy.

42:56 for it flew prospectors looking for copper and geologists searching for oil all over Indonesia and provided pilots for commercial airlines as varied as Air Vietnam and Thai Air, as well as the Taiwan New Airline. Much larger has been the economic stake of the financial interest represented on the boards of the Pacific Corporation and the Civil Air Transport, Inc.

43:27 Over the years, such as Dylan Reed, represented by William Reed, and the Rockefellers, represented by Lawrence Rockefeller's employee, Harper Woodward. Perhaps the most obvious stake has been that of Pan Am, on whose board sat Robert Lehman of Lehman Brothers and James Sterling Rockefeller of the National City Bank. Like the National City Bank itself, the larger Bank of America,

43:57 which in the early post-war period was still allied with it, so that Pan Am was particularly oriented towards the development of the Pacific Rim. It has also been shown that Pan Am's staggering profits in the 60s were built around its early monopoly of commercial air service between Thailand and Indochina. Pan Am's Indochina service was opened with the assistance of U.S. government.

44:28 in 1953, which would be at the end of the Korean War. 17 days after the civil air transport using planes and pilots loaned by the U.S. Air Force began its military airlift to Dien Bien Phu. So, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. The inauguration of civil air transport airlift into Laos in September of 1959

44:56 which continued with little interruption for over 10 years, was likewise a godsend for Pan Am and other big U.S. airlines at the time that had began to suffer financially. Laos generated a need for additional military air left, which after considerable lobbying and threats of quitting international service, was awarded the contract for commercial flights. Thanks to the Pacific operation, Pan Am saw its charter revenues

45:26 raise over 300 percent in four years. One can note that with some cynicism that at the heart of the so-called China lobby in Congress in the 1950s, Claire Booth Luce, very big player in Operation Gladio, Pat McCarran, M-C-C-A-R-R-A-N, and Owen Brewster.

45:56 was to be found at the heart of the Pan Am lobby as well. Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, who chaired the congressional inquiry into Owen Lattimore and the Institute of Pacific Relations, had first achieved fame as author of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act and later as an oil lobbyist. In his heyday as a China lobbyist, McCarran

46:25 had also been known as a gambling senator and is said to have sat court at the Riverside Hotel in Reno making deals for syndicate men with criminal records to obtain casino license to open casinos. Despite such dubious representatives, one cannot call lobbying a conspiracy.

46:49 any more than one can discern anything illegal in the fact that Air America's top operating personnel were also recruited from Pan Am. When, however, one looks beyond the Washington offices of Air America to the Asian field offices of the Civil Air Transport, with its 60% Chiang Kai-shek's control, the possibility of the KMT criminal connections are very obvious.

47:16 The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 1961. Lee Me is probably the most major opium dealer, and he basically worked for Chiang Kai-shek. The U.S.

47:45 gave him medals like a Legion of Merit and also a Medal of Freedom. Now, for those of us who's been in the military, you guys, this medal right here is on this top row right here. That's an LOM. That's a Legion of Merit. I got that on my retirement after 30 years. And these fuckers are giving it.

48:15 to a drug lord. It makes you want to spit. Nonetheless, the bulk of the troops refused to move and the civil air transport continued to supply them, possibly using some of the same planes chartered under the civil air, then Air America. And basically, that's the story that we told a long time ago about how, remember when they initially kicked Chiang Kai-shek out of

48:44 China, they had temporarily moved most of his forces to Burma, but then they were getting kicked out of Burma. And that's basically, you know, the setting up of Taiwan and all of that. But a lot of the drug people stayed in Burma and just basically fought off the Burmese government and for a little while was able to stay inside of Burma.

49:09 and run drugs in that area because they were inflicting so much damage onto the Burmese military. Eventually the Burmese military got them out of there, but that was a long process. Okay. And then of course it talks about the involvement of the Thai government. It says shortly thereafter prepared opium in the containers of

49:34 Thai government opium monopoly was seized in a raid in Boston in an event not noted in the U.S. press, but reported by the U.S. government to the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Throughout the 1950s, U.S. government representatives continued to notice quietly that Thailand was a source for the opium and heroin imported into the U.S., though this

50:02 Kandor, Kander, became less open in 1960s with the escalation of the Second Indochina War. They also reported the rapid increase in the amount of opium trading and growing in Thailand, where the KMT troops were established and noted that most of this opium was exported out of Thailand and into the United States.

50:32 What's important about that, again, is look at Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell opened a Thailand consult in Miami, and then he went back to Thailand and worked basically for the State Department there as well. So he is intricately part of the story from during World War II until well past.

51:01 all of this into the Vietnam. It is just a crazy story. Up until 1964, the U.S. also complained officially to the U.N. narcotics about these quote-unquote narcotics, while at the same time they are behind them. But every single report, according to the U.S. government, said

51:33 that all of this opium was coming out of communist China, not nationalist China on Taiwan. Repeatedly, newspaper article after newspaper article blamed communist China. Isn't that weird? That's very weird. So, the entire time the CIA has set up this elaborate opium network in the Golden Triangle,

52:04 They are pumping hundreds of tons of opium into Europe and the United States, all while blaming communist China for doing it. So it says, why did civil air transport planes continue until 1961 to support the suppliers of the heroin, which was flooding into the United States? One reason was indeed military.

52:31 to use the KMT troops and raids to be a thorn in attacking mainland China, which we did repeatedly, especially during the operations in Tibet, they had to have a reason to have those planes over there. One of the CIA agents involved in that was Tony Poe, P-O-E.

52:58 He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A second reason was political to maintain contact with the Chinese secret societies referred to as the triads throughout Southeast Asia. The profits in relationship.

53:27 of the opium trade would help establish this underworld connection of our underworld, the CIA and the mafia, and the underworld of China, i.e. the triads. This question of Chinese alliance with the triads was something that was discussed quite a bit. And it says there was also a tie in the 1950s to Malaya.

53:58 where the farming of opium franchise among the Chinese triads had been resorted to by the British authorities when Chiang Kai-shek basically became an exile of China. So if you go back, and we've talked about this repeatedly, if you go back and you look at Malaya and what the UK did there as far as...

54:28 Every single thing that was done in Vietnam to include the use of Agent Orange, the prisons, the concentration camps, the torture islands, every bit of the Phoenix program, every bit of it was initially before we ever set foot in Vietnam done in Malaya. And it was done in Malaya for control of opium by the Brits. Every single part. They used Agent Orange. They tortured.

54:58 They set up these what you and I would call FEMA camps. They burned entire villages down, relocated people so they could control them. They had a system to account for them. You weren't allowed to leave your village without checking in with the authorities. They assassinated, terrorized, tortured anybody that didn't go along with it. All of that was done in Malaya to control the population, to terrorize them so that they could use their ground.

55:28 for opium. So, although the British, by and large, resisted triad KMT offers to mobilize against the Chinese insurgency in Malaya, which really wasn't a Chinese insurgency, it was the indigenous people in Malaya fighting back, trying to get the Brits out. They also found it difficult to crack down on the opium and gambling activities of the triad people that was already there.

56:00 Meanwhile, wealthy Chinese owners of the mines in the more exposed countryside found it expedient to subsidize a private army with strong KMT backing as a mobile armed force against any indigenous people fighting back. Basically, they set up Gladio operations there.

56:26 In Thailand, also, the farming of the opium franchise was used by the government as a means of controlling local Chinese populations, and the enormous profits from the opium traffic were traditionally a source of corruption in the government. In the 1950s, the Thai Interior Minister, General Phow Sirion, after an initial phase of

56:55 Resistance showed every willingness to cooperate with the KMT Chinese in the campaigns against quote unquote communism, even though communism has nothing to do with this. At the same time, his police, which was funded completely by the United States to the tune of 35 million, collaborated with the KMT troops both in Taiwan and Burma.

57:23 It seems indisputable that some elements of the KMT used opium as a means to organize and finance their insurgents efforts into mainland China. It's not surprising the KMT had relied on the triads and gangs involved in the opium traffic. When Chiang Kai-shek, encouraged by foreign bankers, used the Green Gang,

57:52 To break the communist insurrection in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek is said by some authorities to have been part of this. And it really wasn't a communist effort. It was really the use of...

58:16 Shanghai is a very interesting story in and of itself. It was set up as an international city, and there was a lot of intrigue there. All of the different Western governments was part of this international city, and it's where many of the people, like the people that left Korea because they were cowards and didn't want to fight back against the Japanese, hung out there.

58:41 So there was a lot of intrigue around Shanghai and Shanghai basically had been roped off as an international city as part of one of the Boxer War Brits winning on flooding the mainland China with opium, as was Hong Kong. So lots of different intrigue there. So basically, for our purposes.

59:06 There's an entire underbelly there of the Green Gang, the triads and all of that that came into play with the opium market. Because any time you do covert operations, you're going to get the underbelly people to go along with it. Just like in the United States, the mafia was used as the middlemen in distribution of the cocaine into the United States to the street thugs of the big cities.

59:38 The worldwide network of Chinese secret societies in the opium traffic extended both before and after World War II to hip sings, one of the Chinese tongs in the U.S., and also to bin kong and other American tongs. If you guys don't know what a tong is, T-O-N-G, I did an entire sub stack on it. I wrote an article. Go to the Colonel's Corner on sub stack. It's a...

1:00:07 fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In the 1930s, the national president of the Hip Sings, Lee Ong Lee, was convicted for a mafia-linked narcotic operation involving his wife.

1:00:37 involving the wife of Lucky Luciano's partner, Thomas Penachio. Yee was also involved with hip-sing dope dealers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and other important cities. In January 1959, a new generation of hip-sing officials, including San Francisco President George Yee, Y-E-E, were again indicted for narcotic smuggling.

1:01:05 A U.S. government report on the indictments noted that the Tongs' activity possibly paralleled the operations of triad societies in Hong Kong. Like, exactly mirrored. It was also claimed that the profits from narcotic smuggling into the U.S. had been channeled into the China lobby, thus helping to keep open the opium supply lines from Laos and Thailand. Again.

1:01:34 This is all about the CIA's drug network. Professor Cohen, K-O-E-N, expressed the hope that his charges would lead to a fuller legal investigation. They led instead, after the denial of the narcotics commissioner, Anslinger, who was dirty, to his books being recalled by the publisher.

1:02:04 But Anslinger's denial recently published does not touch on Mr. Cohen's charge about the China lobby, which is this. Quote, I can give you an unqualified statement that this is manufactured out of the whole cloth, that this is, there's not one scintilla of evidence that any Chinese official have engaged.

1:02:31 in illegal smuggling of narcotics into the United States with the full knowledge and contrivance of the Chinese nationalist government, which is a qualifier. So it says that none of it, there's no evidence of it happened with the full knowledge and contrivance of Chiang Kai-shek's government.

1:02:59 So without that, Anslinger's refuting the charges would have been hard to believe. First, Chiang Kai-shek's consul general in San Francisco at the time was Hipsing. Of the Hipsing arrest was Hung Chau Chin himself, who narrowly escaped conviction on charges of smuggling narcotics into the United States.

1:03:26 So after 1952, Hung was a member of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's central committee. And in 1971, he was chairman of the Bank of Thailand. So you think he doesn't know all about the heroin trade into the United States? Every last bit of it. The KMT stake in the Civil Air Transport Airlift to its troops in the Triangle.

1:03:54 became obvious in 1961 when Feng Chi, C-H-I-H, a member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency, admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot down over Thailand by the Burmese Air Force.

1:04:19 The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League, which is the precursor to the World Anti-Communist League, of which the Free China Relief Agency at the same address was a member. So in other words, these are all CIA organizations, was itself an organization through which the KMT maintained covert right wing political and financial interest in Europe and America.

1:04:48 as well as overseas Chinese communities. The Asian People's Anti-Communist League enlarged after 1967 into the World Anti-Communist League, whose Latin America branch coordinated all of the drug trafficking throughout Bolivia to include the cocaine coup of 1980. It's all connected. The chairman of the Asian People Anti-Communist League secret liaison group in America,

1:05:17 In effect, the heart of the China lobby was, in 1959, Charles Edison, yet another member of the Brook Club. The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League also wrote of the collaboration with psychological warfare experts of the Defense Department and the John Birch Society. An unpublished visit to Laos of Feng Chin.

1:05:46 In the weeks immediately preceding the phony Laos invasion of 1959, which we spent an entire session on yesterday, that was used to start the war in Laos, happened right after this guy got there. And that's why I've said all along, you guys have heard me say this before, the World Anti-Communist League and its precursor, the Asian People's Anti-Communist League.

1:06:15 was one of the instigators. It was the Asian version of NATO. That's what it is. That's how you have to get it in your brain. They set up these organizations in order to facilitate the drug, the weapons trafficking, all of Operation Gladio, the training of terrorists, everything. These are the overarching groups. And again, one of the reasons I picked this book

1:06:44 is the introduction of this Brook Club. This book is the first mention in 87 books. I've never heard anybody cover the Brook Club. And it obviously is an intricate part of this entire network, as we've just discovered. It is too much to suggest that the civil air transport entry into Laos in 1959 had less to do with North Vietnam.

1:07:15 and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state of Burma called it an instant of rebellion precipitated by the opium traffic. The KMT-sponsored Shan Rebellion

1:07:44 followed a crackdown in the summer of 1959 by the Burmese government after Pei Sengen and some 2,000 KMT troops had been driven out of Burma. In March of 1959, according to Bernard Fall, some of the nationalists, meaning Chiang Kai-shek's guerrillas, operating in the Shan states of neighboring Burma.

1:08:10 had crossed into the Laotian territory and were being supplied by airlifts from C-I-A-C-A-T aircraft. Their old opium routes were being threatened in the South as well, and in July of 1959, the Thai government, in response to years of U.S. government pressure, ended its opium monopoly and announced that it would clamp down on the narcotics traffic.

1:08:37 Shortly after this prohibition of heroin in place of the bulkier opium, it came to be regarded as the major problem in Thailand. By September 1959, the Civil Air Transport had commenced charter airlift into Laos, paid for by us. Meanwhile, in May and June of 1959, Feng Chen of the Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League

1:09:06 visited KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's camps, in Laos, Burma, and Thailand, as he had done in 1960. In August 1959, five days before the arrival of two civil air transport planes into the Laos capital, and 12 days before the alleged quote-unquote fake invasion, Kei Ching Kang, who was president of

1:09:37 The Taiwan Asian People Anti-Communist League received in Taiwan the mysterious but influential Colonel Udon Sanakawi, a member of what was then the ruling Laotian family and nephew of the premier Sanakawi. In August 1959 in Washington, the father.

1:10:05 signed the U.S.-Laos Emergency Aid Agreement that would pay to charter the civil air transport planes three days after their arrival. This was only a few hours after Eisenhower had left for Europe on the same day, not having had the time to study the aid request. So, basically, we're paying for the shit. Seneconi headed the Laotian paramilitary airline.

1:10:34 which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the Laotian plot of General Rathacone, who flew with Joe Alsop to...

1:11:04 several locations and showed him the staged evidence of the 1959 fake invasion. The general is said to have admitted in a 1970 interview that it was fake and he was the real boss in charge of all the opium in Laos. All right, so we're a little over. We're almost done with this chapter. I'm just going to kind of trudge on here.

1:11:35 What was extraordinary and quite possibly criminal under U.S. law is the involvement in narcotics of all of these airlines with all of these fake ownerships. And I mean, obviously, all of this stuff should be illegal.

1:11:58 In 1971, Air America planes were reported to have taken part in the growing U.S. crackdown on the narcotic traffic, while a former CIA congressman, Robert Steele of Connecticut, produced a useful report, The World Heroin Problem, after a worldwide tour of the company of a former CIA Saigon station chief.

1:12:28 quote-unquote, cracking down, which he was not. In Vietnam, he was getting kicked out of Vietnam. He was getting his butt kicked in Vietnam. William Byrd, the Civil Air Transport representative in Bangkok, was said to have coordinated Civil Air Transport airdrops of troops into the opium field. In 1960, after Civil Air Patrol began flying in Laos,

1:12:55 His private engineering firm, Bird and Son, began the construction of the airstrips throughout the Hmong area. Because you remember, instead of doing big operations, they had smaller airstrips all over the area in Laos where they were going to run all of these drug operations. And Bird and Son is the brown and root of the day.

1:13:24 That got the contract to build all of this stuff. William Byrd's alleged brother or cousin in Bangkok, China's OSS veteran, Willis Byrd, headed the Bangkok office of a quote unquote trading company called Sea Supply, which is the one Heliwell set up. So again, this is all about the opium trade. Like William, Willis Byrd.

1:13:52 also branched into construction area on his own. And in 1959, the vice president of the Universal Construction Company, that was Byrd, he was said by a congressional committee investigating corruption in Laos to have bribed the

1:14:12 International Cooperation Administration aid official in the Laos capital. In 1962, when President Kennedy was struggling to bring the CIA hawks in Thailand under control, his brother, the Attorney General, belatedly returned an indictment against Willis Byrd, who never returned to the country to stand trial. In particular, the concerns was the personal

1:14:40 of the U.S. construction official and the pilots dabbling in all of this opium trade. They weren't dabbling. They were in charge of it. They sustained support by the proprietaries of the CIA. There was a couple other things I wanted to say. By all accounts, the Kennedy administration was exerting inordinate pressure to remove the 4,000 Chinese

1:15:10 Chiang Kai-shek KMT troops who were reportedly operating in Laos in 1961, having been flown from Thailand into the bases in northern Thailand and then into Laos by Air America and Civil Air Transport assets. This announcement came to nothing after the organizer of the Civil Air Transport American replacement

1:15:39 a company called Seaboard World Services, was accidentally, quote unquote, accidentally killed in a dubious controversial explosion of an airplane. That's crazy. That's like what happened to the guy in Italy. How could the objectives of the U.S. presidents be at odds with those of the CIA?

1:16:06 Well, we know that answer because the CIA does not work for the US government. It goes on to say that there is, let's see, American interests were not in play, but interest of law firms like Tony Cochran in Washington and TV Song had its own links into the China lobby.

1:16:36 which was represented by U.S. corporations and that of organized crime. It said Cochran's partner, W.S. Youngman, joined the board of U.S. Life, which is an insurance company, controlled by C.V. Starr. And we remember C.V. Starr because he's AIG, and we've talked about him a lot.

1:17:01 who also, C.B. Starr, was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, and had the help of the Philippines and other Asian capitals. Youngman's fellow directors of Starr's company have included John Woodbridge of Pan Am, Francis Randolph of J&W Siglidman, and we started off the story today with that,

1:17:35 Palmer Dixon of Loeb Roads, Charles Edmond, Edison, sorry, of the post-war China lobby, and Alfred Jones of the KMT government registered agency called Universal Trading Corporation. The McClellan Committee heard that in 1950, U.S. Life, with Edison as a director,

1:18:03 and a much smaller company, Union Casualty of New York, were allotted a major Teamsters insurance contract after a low bid from a larger and safer company had been rejected. Hoppe was accused by a fellow trustee testifying under oath before another committee of intervening on behalf of U.S. Life and Union Casualty, whose agents were Hoppe's close business association.

1:18:32 of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casino, which they leased to Meyer Lansky of the organized crime syndicate.

1:19:00 In 1950, Citibank's largest shareholder, Trans American Corporation, was represented by James Cavallaro, C-A-V-A-G-N-A-R-O, in the shadowy World Commerce Corporation, which was created by OSS.

1:19:25 During World War II and in 1950, the World Commerce Corporation was involved in dubious soybean operations while its subsidiary, Commerce International China, meaning Chiang Kai-shek, sponsored the unauthorized William Pauly and Cook military assistance mission to Taiwan and the illegal smuggling of aircraft.

1:19:53 California to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Sonny Fasolas, accused of passing bribes to the vice president of Commerce International, was another indictment 10 years later when he surfaced as part of a syndicate that was involved in several scandals. A director of Air America through the years had been Robert Goulet, G-O-E-L-E-T, of Citi Investing Corporation.

1:20:25 where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the Pacific Arena, who was also involved in the casino in Cuba.

1:20:53 with Meyer Lansky. Nothing to see here, folks. So you find all of these players that are intimately involved in all of this throughout so many of these Gladio stories. So let me just finish with this. We did find some network linking CIA proprietary war lobbies and organized crime when we turn our attention to the civil air transport to

1:21:21 other opium-related activities like Sea Supply. Sea Supply was organized in Miami, Florida by none other than Paul Helliwell, who also doubled in 1951 as the counselor for CV Star's insurance interest because he was the Thai consul in Miami. It would be hard to say whether Helliwell, as a former OSS,

1:21:47 Intel officer in China was more active in representing the U.S. or the Thai government because he basically sold out both of them to the CIA corporate interest. Also, Heliwell was present in the American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, which passed $30,000 to

1:22:19 foreign lobbyist in Washington. Tommy Cochran's law partner, James Rowe, was involved in that transaction. Cochran and Rowe were two of the closest personal advisors to LBJ. Then, the rapidly rising Senate Majority Leader, Helly Wells' lobbying activities for the opium government was intimately involved.

1:22:49 behind the scenes with Paul Helliwell and LBJ. Miami, of course, was frequently identified as a port of entry for not just the United States, but also Canada and even French narcotics into the United States. American Bankers Insurance, the company from whose office Paul Helliwell doubled as Thai Consul General and Counsel for Sea Supply.

1:23:19 appears to have maintained its own marginal links with the institutions servicing the world's organized crime and narcotics network. The most striking interlock is that of the director, let's see, J. King, who in 1954 was also the director of the Miami National Bank.

1:23:50 The Miami National Bank was identified in 1960 as having served between, let's see, 1963 and 67 as a conduit which hot syndicate money, meaning money to be laundered, by Meyer Lansky and his couriers was laundered through the interlocking exchange and investment bank in Geneva. Lou Holler, P-O-L-L-E-R.

1:24:20 King's fellow director of the Miami National Bank and a director also of the Swiss Exchange and Investment Bank was investigated by the McClellan Committee about his use of Teamster Capital to acquire Miami National Bank and subsequently was indicted for perjury. It is said that Tai and other Asian capitalists

1:24:49 had a wealthy syndicate league that a guy by the name of Mike Coppola was investing in Florida real estate for the syndicate. He said that he had a company called General Development Corporation that Meyer Lansky's business associates blew.

1:25:16 Chesler was also involved in because most of these you guys are going to find had to do the money laundering favorite place was in real estate. And a lot of that real estate was in Florida. All right. One last point. One of the princes of Thailand, who obviously would have had to have been bought off for all this to happen, became the only royal representative in the 1966 opening of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

1:25:47 a hotel casino that everybody believed at the time was controlled by Jimmy Hoffa. The same associations, if they were exposed, might cast a light on unexplained 1968 business trip to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia of Santo Trafficani, who was the mob boss in Tampa. And then he was also a Lansky associate.

1:26:16 that was intimately involved in the drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. Trapacani had been preceded in 1965 by John Pullman, Meyer Lansky's courier to the Miami National Bank. And in April 1965, Pullman visited a hotel in Hong Kong where the syndicate owned the casino that ran all of the narcotics out of there.

1:26:45 That's basically it. That's a lot of shit. That's a lot of names. That's a lot of that's a lot of new information in that chapter. So I wanted to get through that whole thing. Thanks for bearing with us. We will have just a few minutes for conversation so we can go ahead and open the mics. Where did SR 71 go? Did he drop out? I guess so.

1:27:16 Bridget, are you still? Oh, there he is. Okay. Anybody have anything? We're going to kind of go quickly around the horn. Anybody that wants to come up, please request a mic because we only have, you know, about 15 minutes because I have dinner tonight. Go ahead, SR71. Thank you, Carl. What I want people to understand, and thank you for all for coming and sharing with us, is we're talking strictly opium here, folks. That's it. Opium.

1:27:51 There has got to be one heck of a case for opium across this globe. Don't ask me why, but it's there. Yeah, I mean, it's incredible. I mean, obviously, we went from opium to heroin to cocaine. But there's always going to be, and then, of course, fentanyl now.

1:28:17 All of this. And that's why I think the background of this is so interesting, because it shows the migration around the world, not just of the drugs, the wars to protect the drugs. They go hand in hand. Ron, go ahead. I went to look for that article. You talked about the tongs. And I went to your sub stack. Unless I'm in the wrong sub stack, like the most recent articles from like.

1:28:48 Last October. All right. Hold on. Let me find it. I may have done a thread on it. Hold on a second. I'll find it. Just put that in the purple pill. I'll let somebody else talk. That was my quick question. Okay. Bridget, go ahead while I'm looking. And if anybody else has something. You know, if it wasn't so evil, it would be impressive how they set up these systems.

1:29:28 And interlaced and interwoven them over the years. It's very impressive. I mean, it's actually brilliant in a very evil way, but brilliant nonetheless. All right. I just posted it. It was a thread. I don't know if there's more than one thread, but I did the thread. If it has more, if it's prior to Bridget telling me I had to only put 30, it may be a long one.

1:29:59 I'll find it. I appreciate that. You said Substack, so I went to your Substack and I'm like. I thought I had translated that into a Substack article as well, and I knew that would have been easier to find. I guess I didn't. I meant to. I'm just glad I'm not crazy. Yeah, I put it in the purple pill. So that is the first installment of it. But again, it may be a very long one because at some point Bridget told me I couldn't do them more than 30 at a time and I had to break them up into parts.

1:30:30 Well, thank you anyway. Sure. All along. Oh, dang it. His mic's not working again. What the heck? I don't know if he got a new phone or what is going on. Yeah. All along, I'm going to have to drop you down or do whatever you had to do last time because we can't hear a word you're saying. Let me try and drop you down. Okay. So, again, our bottom line in all of this is.

1:31:08 There's a direct tie of the CIA controlling the drug networks around the world. There is a direct tie to the money laundering. There's a direct tie to the weapons trafficking. And as we stated as part of this whole thing, all of this also involves human trafficking because

1:31:33 just as we talked about in the one window here of the psychological operation that was conducted in order to force over a million Vietnamese to move to the South, and then many of them end up getting killed, that's a form of human trafficking. And then, of course, we had all of the baby lifts out of Vietnam, and then we took in all of the Hmong. And in the relocation of these people,

1:32:02 into the United States, people go missing. There's people's families that go missing. And so it's the perfect opportunity, these destabilization operations, to generate humans to traffic. Lord Interweb, what you got? We can't hear you either. I don't know if they're messing with our microphones. No, no, he just disappeared. Yeah.

1:32:41 Maybe he's just going to restart his. Yep. Here he is again. Hang on. Can you hear me now, Lord Internet? Yeah. My phone's screwing up. Okay. It's Miles. Oh. Miles. I recognize that voice. Go ahead. Yeah. Hi, guys. Look, I'm just excited on Liberation Day that we're going to actually take this money.

1:33:11 apparatus away from the dark side and the deep state. And we're going to make America wealthy again, not these people that we've been dealing with. I'm just really excited today. Thanks. Yeah, sure. I am too. I've been excited ever since they announced they were taking out USAID. Every day is a good day as far as I'm concerned. The whole

1:33:39 Institute of Peace. We're going to do a segment on that tonight on the Alpha Warrior Show. I did a partial part of that out as a thread today. It is an incredible organization that does obviously the exact opposite of what its title is, like all of the rest of these things. So all along, go ahead. Still nothing. All right.

1:34:12 So I am if he if all along, if you want to like log out of the app and come back into it and try one more time and then I'm going to have to run. I don't want to cut him out because I know I triggered him when I talked about LBJ in 1968 and I knew he would have something to add to the conversation as a result of that.

1:34:40 Because that's his area of expertise, that particular, which you guys can tell because he always adds things from that time frame. And as a history teacher, he always has some interesting little tidbits to add in there. So you want to try it again all along? Let me bring him up one more time. Tonight you have Elfa, correct? I do. I will be on show at 930.

1:35:18 And we were going to talk about the Institute of Peace. Go ahead. I'll along try to speak. I don't see his little speaker icon, which means it's not going to work. All right. Well, we're going to go ahead and sign off. Thank everybody for being here. I really, really appreciate it. Oh, and my son-in-law, who is the father of my grandbaby, I showed him the coin.

1:35:51 And when he he took one and was showing the people at a he works at a very exclusive golf course around here that people fly in from all over the world to golf at. And he said, do you know what? Somebody asked me why a whatever you call the there's a name for it, the spot.

1:36:19 that you use for your golf ball on the course. I forget what the name of that thing is. But anyway, he's like, one of the guys at work asked him, what's Operation Gladio? And why is that on whatever the thing is called, the golf ball spotter, like when you're on the green? And my son-in-law laughed and he goes, well.

1:36:42 It's not actually that. It's called a challenge coin. That's a thing that's in the military. And it's from my mother-in-law. She talks about Operation Gladio on podcasts. And he goes, oh. And he pulled one out of his pocket that he had gotten from, I don't know, Augusta or wherever. A very expensive one that's like $100 that has on the back of it an embedded separated one. So it has the...

1:37:11 the the golf ball designator is about the same size as our challenge coin but on the back side of it when you turn it over there's like an inserted one that comes out that you can use closer to the pin when your ball may be in um the way of someone else's and um i'm like really so i looked at my daughter and i'm like put that on the internet i want that called a challenge coin and a ball spotter um so anyway i thought i would share that with you

1:37:40 My son-in-law was so funny. He's like, yeah, I was showing everybody at work your coin. They all think it's really, really cool. And I said, good, they can get on the Internet and order it. So anyway, we've actually sold quite a few of them. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of people that like them. And I get comments because there's an email my daughter set up and they email her once they get them. And like SR71 said.

1:38:09 It's a really cool coin. And my favorite of all of the stuff that we've got. I mean, obviously, I love the T-shirt that has the Trump glasses on the back of it. But I really like the coffee cup. The crispness of the decal that is on that coffee cup is very striking. So I'm very happy with the company other than them screwing up. They reversed the original short shirt orders. Originally, they gave us.

1:38:38 the Gladio glasses shirt numbers in the Trump shirt and then vice versa. So it screwed up all of our initial orders because we didn't have enough of each one of them, but they quickly made them right. And I think we got all of that straightened out. But other than that, the quality of their work has been very, very good. So I'm very impressed with them and the fact that they're a veteran owned company and we are helping them.

1:39:06 with their business makes me feel even better. So, because some of us honor our fellow veterans and prefer to do business with them, unlike some assholes on X. So anyway, having said that, I am going to go have dinner with my family. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And yes, I love that coin. And for anybody that wants to get one, I'll tell you, it comes in this nice,

1:39:37 plastic pouch so you don't have to mix it with the coins in your pocket it will be pristine the minute you pull it out that is true yeah well and i made sure that we asked for that i know a lot of them you can either buy them with that or without them but if you don't have that your coin does get scratched up and um because you're going to either put it in your pocketbook or your pocket

1:40:04 And it does help preserve the actual coolness of the coin. So thank you for mentioning that SR-71. I'm really a shitty marketer. SR-71 definitely is that side of the business. Bridget does the whole IT thing. And I'm just the loud mouth with all of the books. So anyway, thank you all for being here. You're the brain. You're the brain. I'm just the big mouth.

1:40:31 Thank you, guys. These guys who write these books have the big brains. I have obviously learned a lot from them. And I can't say enough about all of these people that have put so much research into this. I feel privileged to be able to be the one that kind of bridges all of their works and bring them to you because so many people have done so much work. And because they did. And that's the whole thing about informational warfare.

1:41:00 Because these people did not use common terms, it is very difficult to look at these books, especially from the cover and sometimes even from the narratives that are written about them, to realize that they're all talking about the same things until you get in the inside of them. And I don't have this other book that I'm trying to go through and kind of just audit quickly. But if you looked at the outside of the book.

1:41:29 you would not know that the word Gladio appears anywhere in it. And as you guys know, some of these books, it doesn't appear anywhere in it. They will maybe say, stay behind. This book that I bought under the assumption based on the general description of what it was covering, it had to have Gladio talked about in it, even if they didn't use the term. Well, shit, there's an entire section called Operation Gladio when I got the book.

1:41:59 I was like blown away by the fact that not only is the book primarily about Operation Gladio, it has activities. It has an actual chapter about Operation Gladio in it. I don't see a lot of new material, but I do want to kind of, again, do a summary of it at the end of this, just because the author was smart enough to connect.

1:42:26 all of the material that he had and included a chapter on Operation Gladio and how it all fits together. So again, I just get super excited when other people have done this as far as putting all of these pieces together from other authors. So anyway, that's exciting for me. Okay, guys, I will see you tomorrow and tonight if you guys tune in at 9.30.

1:42:56 Thanks for being here. Oh, no, that's not true. Hold on just one second. Damn it. I'm lying. OK, tomorrow I am going to be on a friend's program. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of beer, beer in the parade. Scott Zimmerman, he has a new show. He has a handle on X called.

1:43:23 a MAGA scene, like magazine only as M-A-G-A scene. While I'm at dinner, I will make a post about his site where he advertises the shows and stuff like that. It's at five o'clock tomorrow. So we are not gonna have a 4 p.m. show tomorrow. I will be on his five o'clock show. It's a one hour show. And at...

1:43:52 Eight o'clock, I am going to be on a new show I've never been on called News Treason. And that show is going to have Warhamster and I on it. So that will be a do not miss show. Plus we have Warhamster's, I don't know. I don't have it on at noon. Maybe Warhamster, did we?

1:44:17 Okay, we postponed Warhamster and I's show that we normally have tomorrow at noon to Friday at noon. He had a scheduling conflict. So let's go over that again. Tonight, 9.30, Alpha Warrior Show. Tomorrow, 5 p.m. on, let's see, my screen just went crazy. 5 p.m. on Scott Zimmerman's show, which I will send you guys a link to his ex.

1:44:49 And on that X account, he will post when the show is and I will get it to all of you guys. And news treason at eight o'clock tomorrow night. Then on Friday at noon, we will have the War Hamster and I's Secret Society show. And I'll be back at four o'clock Friday afternoon for a normal show. OK.

1:45:12 And just so that you know, I am going to be on a new show on Saturday at 8 o'clock with Anna. And she has publicized that. I reposted it. It will be a space. I'd love it if all of you guys come at 8 p.m. on Saturday evening. So, and we are hosting a Badlands meetup.

1:45:39 here in Lakeland on Saturday from two to four o'clock for anybody that lives in Central Florida. If you do, DM me and I'll get you the information for that. Okay, that's it. So I get to go enjoy my sisters and Brian and Duane Cates for dinner and then I'll be back at 9.30. You guys take care.

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Air America41 China30 United States28 Kuomintang25 Chiang Kai-shek25 Thailand23 Laos20 Korea12 Vietnam11 Burma10 World Anti-Communist League10 Paul Helliwell10 Operation Gladio9 Korean War8 Miami8 Brook Club8 Triads8 Meyer Lansky7 Claire Chennault7 Malaysia6 Alfred McCoy6 Pan American World Airways6 France6 Airedale Corporation5 Sea Supply Corporation5 Eastern Soviet Union4 Bangkok4 U.S. Life4 Florida4 United Kingdom4 Hip Sing Tong4 Shanghai4 Bunau-Varilla4 T. V. Soong4 Hong Kong4 Allen Dulles4 New Panama Canal Company4 Desmond Fitzgerald4 Laos Invasion of 19594 Miami National Bank4

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Peter Del Scott authored Drugs, Oil and War documented ▶ 0:28

“13 and chapter 11 in our book from Peter Dale Scott, Drug, Oil and War. So this one is about opium, the China lobby and the CIA. Obviously, these are things that we have talked about before. Again, he…”

Paul Helliwell associated_with Meyer Lansky host_asserted ▶ 2:51

“but describes him only as a lawyer. Imagine talking about Paul Hellywell and only listing him as a lawyer. Ignoring this significant relationship he developed with organized crime, including Meyer Lan…”

Paul Helliwell helped Walt Disney host_asserted ▶ 3:21

“in building up the post-war opium and heroin traffic. His statement, and let me just also say, because we're going to go to Claire Chanel, as far as the Paul Helliwell, you guys probably already know …”

Paul Helliwell created Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 3:49

“Because he was an expert at using front companies to include creating front banks, like Castle Bank, to money launder. To label him just a lawyer is hilarious. Okay. General Claire Chenault, who sold …”

Claire Chennault sold Air America book_quoted ▶ 3:49

Kuomintang owned Air America book_quoted ▶ 4:20

“retained 60% ownership of the company owning Civil Air Transport Plant, which could then be used on drug missions. His subject being broadly defined by the interviews he conducted in 1971, he has litt…”

Chiang Kai-shek installed_in China host_asserted ▶ 4:49

“is the fact that without going back in time and looking at who set up Chiang and the KMT, you miss the connections even to the CIA from that perspective, because he would have never been able to be se…”

Theodore Roosevelt ordered U.S. Navy book_quoted ▶ 9:28

“That I think is important. Even if we don't do the whole book, we should do an overview of it. All right. Then that was his updated version. And now we're going to get to the original text. Professor …”

J. & W. Seligman & Co. financed Panamanian Revolution of 1903 book_quoted ▶ 10:26

“He neglects to add that the agents of the French Panama Canal Company were the New York investment bankers of J&W Sigliman, S-E-L-I-G-M-A-N, and their Washington lobbyist, Bruno Varilla, and that's sp…”

Bunau-Varilla organized Panamanian Revolution of 1903 book_quoted ▶ 10:26

Allen Dulles member_of Sullivan & Cromwell book_quoted ▶ 12:56

“Alan Dulles in the Cromwell law firm was also tied up in this as representatives of that French company as well. These contacts were powerful. And in 1948, it was pressure from the Wall Street Club th…”

Western Enterprises Inc. located_in China book_quoted ▶ 18:13

“for Special Warfare Activities, meaning covert operations, headed up a company called Western Enterprises, which just weirdly enough ended up in Taiwan, where all the drugs are, in Chiang Kai-shek. It…”

William Perry headed Western Enterprises Inc. book_quoted ▶ 18:13

Willis Bird headed Sea Supply Corporation book_quoted ▶ 18:44

“that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading com…”

Paul Helliwell set_up Sea Supply Corporation book_quoted ▶ 18:44

Sea Supply Corporation supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 18:44

Air America supported Kuomintang documented ▶ 20:42

“more notable achievements, including support of the Chinese nationalists, i.e. Chiang Kai-shek, withdrawal from mainland China, airdrop support into the French area, mainly Dien Bien Phu, complete log…”

Air America supported 1958 Indonesian coup attempt documented ▶ 20:42

Kuomintang controlled Air America book_quoted ▶ 23:40

“Civil Air Transport, Inc., the CIA proprietary, that supplied them with, all of the airlines actually, with pilots and other personnel like ground support, 60% of the capital and control of the Civil …”

T. V. Soong fronted_for Air America book_quoted ▶ 24:10

“Ken Chen Bank in Shanghai, who allegedly fronted for TV Song, S-O-O-N-G, and his sister, who happened to be married to Chiang Kai-shek. Madame Chiang Kai-shek is what she was referred to as. So we're …”

Claire Chennault set_up Air America book_quoted ▶ 24:41

“So that company, the Civil Air Transport Company, had been set up by General Chenault in 1946 after the U.S. State Department cited pressure from T.B. Song and Madam Shang as grounds for forcing the U…”

James J. Brennan treasurer_of Air America book_quoted ▶ 25:06

“Chenault's partner in civil air transport was Whiting Willauer, which we talked about a couple of days ago, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, a U.S. economic intelligence officer who, during World War II, supplied the…”

Whiting Willauer partner_of Claire Chennault book_quoted ▶ 25:06

Thomas Corcoran lawyer_for Air America book_quoted ▶ 25:35

“B-R-E-N-N-A-N. He was a member of Chenault, Corcoran, Allsup's Washington Squadron, i.e. law firms that did all the lawfare that set all this up, who after the war served as TV Song's personal secreta…”

Chiang Kai-shek targeted_for_regime_change China host_asserted ▶ 33:08

“They were going to continue to be a French colony. And as a result of that, when they were referring to China for the longest time, and again, I did papers on this. I'm thinking in my head, it's China…”

Frank Wisner founded Airedale Corporation host_asserted ▶ 35:04

“And that is where Frank Wisner worked in the State Department originally. And then that entire office was moved over into the CIA and became in charge of clandestine covert operations, i.e. Operation …”

Thomas Corcoran member_of Air America host_asserted ▶ 36:01

“line for mainland Taiwan is a legitimate commercial airline when, in fact, it's a CIA front company flying drugs around and flying missions for the CIA. While Tommy Cochran continued to represent TV S…”

Samuel Sloan Walker member_of Air America host_asserted ▶ 37:03

“Briefly, as the CIA deputy director from 51 to 53, which is during the course of the Korean War, soon afterwards, two of Wolf's fellow directors in the small Empire City Savings Bank, a Mr. Samuel Slo…”

Desmond Fitzgerald member_of Brook Club host_asserted ▶ 39:04

“arose not because of the remoteness of Fitzgerald in the civil air transport from the center of power, but because of their proximity to it. Fitzgerald was a member of the New York's Brooks Club, wher…”

Walter Robinson member_of Brook Club host_asserted ▶ 39:35

“fits right into the international syndicate while also playing a role in Operation Gladio. Other Brook Club members included three directors of the Civil Air Transport, Inc., two directors of Pan Am, …”

Walter Robinson appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 39:35

Airedale Corporation secretly_owned Air America host_asserted ▶ 40:37

“I disagree with that statement 100 percent because he is unaware of the total control of the CIA over this entire operation. Its proprietary Airedale Corporation in 1957, renamed to be Pacific Corpora…”

Airedale Corporation secretly_owned Asiatic Aeronautical Company host_asserted ▶ 41:06

“And they also owned a subsidiary called Asiatic Aeronautical Company, which later became AirAsia, which owned both aircraft and one of the largest aircraft maintenance and repair facilities in Taiwan.…”

Pan American World Airways financed_via United States host_asserted ▶ 43:57

“which in the early post-war period was still allied with it, so that Pan Am was particularly oriented towards the development of the Pacific Rim. It has also been shown that Pan Am's staggering profit…”

Air America supplied_arms_to Li Mi host_asserted ▶ 47:16

“The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 19…”

Anthony Poshepny recruited Tibet host_asserted ▶ 52:58

“He also was intimately involved in the Laotian opium set up. And they also, he was the guy that was the liaison for bringing all the Tibetans into Colorado as well. Definitely should look him up. A se…”

United Kingdom funded Triads host_asserted ▶ 53:58

“where the farming of opium franchise among the Chinese triads had been resorted to by the British authorities when Chiang Kai-shek basically became an exile of China. So if you go back, and we've talk…”

United Kingdom carried_out_attack Malaysia host_asserted ▶ 54:28

“Every single thing that was done in Vietnam to include the use of Agent Orange, the prisons, the concentration camps, the torture islands, every bit of the Phoenix program, every bit of it was initial…”

Phow Sirion member_of Thailand host_asserted ▶ 56:26

“In Thailand, also, the farming of the opium franchise was used by the government as a means of controlling local Chinese populations, and the enormous profits from the opium traffic were traditionally…”

United States funded Phow Sirion host_asserted ▶ 56:55

“Resistance showed every willingness to cooperate with the KMT Chinese in the campaigns against quote unquote communism, even though communism has nothing to do with this. At the same time, his police,…”

Chiang Kai-shek recruited Green Gang host_asserted ▶ 57:23

“It seems indisputable that some elements of the KMT used opium as a means to organize and finance their insurgents efforts into mainland China. It's not surprising the KMT had relied on the triads and…”

Lee Ong Lee member_of Hip Sing Tong host_asserted ▶ 1:00:07

“fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In th…”

George Yee member_of Hip Sing Tong host_asserted ▶ 1:00:37

“involving the wife of Lucky Luciano's partner, Thomas Penachio. Yee was also involved with hip-sing dope dealers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Dallas, and other important…”

Hung Chau Chin member_of Hip Sing Tong host_asserted ▶ 1:02:59

“So without that, Anslinger's refuting the charges would have been hard to believe. First, Chiang Kai-shek's consul general in San Francisco at the time was Hipsing. Of the Hipsing arrest was Hung Chau…”

Hung Chau Chin member_of Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 1:03:26

“So after 1952, Hung was a member of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's central committee. And in 1971, he was chairman of the Bank of Thailand. So you think he doesn't know all about the heroin trade into the…”

Feng Chi member_of Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 1:03:54

“became obvious in 1961 when Feng Chi, C-H-I-H, a member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency, admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air t…”

Feng Chi member_of Free China Relief Agency host_asserted ▶ 1:03:54

World Anti-Communist League front_for Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 1:04:19

“The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League, which is the precursor to the World Anti-Communist League, of which the Free China Relief Agency at the same address was a member. So in other words, these are…”

Charles Edison member_of World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 1:04:48

“as well as overseas Chinese communities. The Asian People's Anti-Communist League enlarged after 1967 into the World Anti-Communist League, whose Latin America branch coordinated all of the drug traff…”

Charles Edison member_of Brook Club host_asserted ▶ 1:05:17

“In effect, the heart of the China lobby was, in 1959, Charles Edison, yet another member of the Brook Club. The Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League also wrote of the collaboration with psychological w…”

World Anti-Communist League recruited John Birch Society host_asserted ▶ 1:05:17

Joe Alsop member_of Brook Club host_asserted ▶ 1:07:15

“and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby r…”

Kuomintang funded Shan Rebellion host_asserted ▶ 1:07:15

Air America supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 1:08:10

“had crossed into the Laotian territory and were being supplied by airlifts from C-I-A-C-A-T aircraft. Their old opium routes were being threatened in the South as well, and in July of 1959, the Thai g…”

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:08:37

“Shortly after this prohibition of heroin in place of the bulkier opium, it came to be regarded as the major problem in Thailand. By September 1959, the Civil Air Transport had commenced charter airlif…”

Feng Chi member_of World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 1:08:37

Feng Chi visited Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 1:09:06

“visited KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's camps, in Laos, Burma, and Thailand, as he had done in 1960. In August 1959, five days before the arrival of two civil air transport planes into the Laos capital, and 12…”

Udon Sanakawi signed U.S.-Laos Emergency Aid Agreement host_asserted ▶ 1:09:37

“The Taiwan Asian People Anti-Communist League received in Taiwan the mysterious but influential Colonel Udon Sanakawi, a member of what was then the ruling Laotian family and nephew of the premier San…”

Kei Ching Kang headed World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 1:09:37

Udon Sanakawi headed Laos host_asserted ▶ 1:09:37

Udon Sanakawi member_of Sanakawi family host_asserted ▶ 1:09:37

United States financed_via Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:10:05

“signed the U.S.-Laos Emergency Aid Agreement that would pay to charter the civil air transport planes three days after their arrival. This was only a few hours after Eisenhower had left for Europe on …”

Seneconi headed Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:10:34

“which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Anothe…”

Spartaco Lavagnini covered_up Laos Invasion of 1959 host_asserted ▶ 1:11:04

“several locations and showed him the staged evidence of the 1959 fake invasion. The general is said to have admitted in a 1970 interview that it was fake and he was the real boss in charge of all the …”

William Byrd member_of Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:12:28

“quote-unquote, cracking down, which he was not. In Vietnam, he was getting kicked out of Vietnam. He was getting his butt kicked in Vietnam. William Byrd, the Civil Air Transport representative in Ban…”

William Byrd coordinated Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:12:28

Bird and Son founded William Byrd host_asserted ▶ 1:12:55

“His private engineering firm, Bird and Son, began the construction of the airstrips throughout the Hmong area. Because you remember, instead of doing big operations, they had smaller airstrips all ove…”

Willis Bird member_of Sea Supply Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:13:24

“That got the contract to build all of this stuff. William Byrd's alleged brother or cousin in Bangkok, China's OSS veteran, Willis Byrd, headed the Bangkok office of a quote unquote trading company ca…”

Paul Helliwell founded Sea Supply Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:13:24

Willis Bird member_of Universal Construction Company host_asserted ▶ 1:13:52

“also branched into construction area on his own. And in 1959, the vice president of the Universal Construction Company, that was Byrd, he was said by a congressional committee investigating corruption…”

Willis Bird paid USAID host_asserted ▶ 1:13:52

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Willis Bird host_asserted ▶ 1:14:12

“International Cooperation Administration aid official in the Laos capital. In 1962, when President Kennedy was struggling to bring the CIA hawks in Thailand under control, his brother, the Attorney Ge…”

Seaboard World Services succeeded Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:15:10

“Chiang Kai-shek KMT troops who were reportedly operating in Laos in 1961, having been flown from Thailand into the bases in northern Thailand and then into Laos by Air America and Civil Air Transport …”

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 1:15:10

W.S. Youngman member_of U.S. Life host_asserted ▶ 1:16:36

“which was represented by U.S. corporations and that of organized crime. It said Cochran's partner, W.S. Youngman, joined the board of U.S. Life, which is an insurance company, controlled by C.V. Starr…”

Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr secretly_owned U.S. Life host_asserted ▶ 1:16:36

Francis Randolph member_of J&W Siglidman host_asserted ▶ 1:17:01

“who also, C.B. Starr, was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, and had the help of the Philippines and other Asian capitals. Youngman's fellow directors of Starr's company have included John Woodb…”

Alfred Jones member_of Universal Trading Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:17:35

“Palmer Dixon of Loeb Roads, Charles Edmond, Edison, sorry, of the post-war China lobby, and Alfred Jones of the KMT government registered agency called Universal Trading Corporation. The McClellan Com…”

Palmer Dixon member_of Loeb Roads host_asserted ▶ 1:17:35

U.S. Life financed_via International Brotherhood of Teamsters host_asserted ▶ 1:18:03

“and a much smaller company, Union Casualty of New York, were allotted a major Teamsters insurance contract after a low bid from a larger and safer company had been rejected. Hoppe was accused by a fel…”

Union Casualty of New York financed_via International Brotherhood of Teamsters host_asserted ▶ 1:18:03

Bank of New York leased Hotel Nacional host_asserted ▶ 1:18:32

“of Paul Dorfman and Alan Dorfman. The National City Bank itself had once leased its racetrack in Havana, which they lost to Castro, and also through a subsidiary, the Hotel Nacional in Cuba, the casin…”

Bank of New York leased Meyer Lansky host_asserted ▶ 1:18:32

James Cavallaro member_of World Commerce Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:19:00

“In 1950, Citibank's largest shareholder, Trans American Corporation, was represented by James Cavallaro, C-A-V-A-G-N-A-R-O, in the shadowy World Commerce Corporation, which was created by OSS.…”

James Cavallaro member_of American Investigation Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:19:00

Sonny Fasolas paid Bank of International Commerce host_asserted ▶ 1:19:53

“California to the government of Chiang Kai-shek. Sonny Fasolas, accused of passing bribes to the vice president of Commerce International, was another indictment 10 years later when he surfaced as par…”

Robert Goulet member_of Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:19:53

Robert Goulet member_of Citi Investing Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:19:53

Joseph Benz member_of U.S. Life host_asserted ▶ 1:20:25

“where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John H…”

Joseph Benz laundered_money_for Lou Chesler host_asserted ▶ 1:20:25

John Hauser laundered_money_for Meyer Lansky host_asserted ▶ 1:20:25

Paul Helliwell founded Sea Supply Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:21:21

“other opium-related activities like Sea Supply. Sea Supply was organized in Miami, Florida by none other than Paul Helliwell, who also doubled in 1951 as the counselor for CV Star's insurance interest…”

Paul Helliwell member_of Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr host_asserted ▶ 1:21:21

Paul Helliwell member_of American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida host_asserted ▶ 1:21:47

“Intel officer in China was more active in representing the U.S. or the Thai government because he basically sold out both of them to the CIA corporate interest. Also, Heliwell was present in the Ameri…”