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The Great Heroin Coup - Foreword and Chapter One Selected Excerpts from THE GREAT HEROIN COUP - DRUGS, INTELLIGENCE AND Blog Archive INTERNATIONAL FASCISM ► 2016 (7) ► 2015 (17) By Henrik Kruger; Jerry Meldon, Translator ► 2014 (19) ▼ 2013 (25) South End Press©1980: Box 68 Astor Station, Boston, MA 02123 ▼ December (9) ISBN 0-89608-0319-5 The Great Heroin Coup - Chapter 16 240pps - one edition - out-of-print; Orginally published in Danish Smukke Serge og Heroien; Bogan 1976 The Great Heroin Coup - Chapter 15 The Great Heroin Coup - Chapter 14 How Opium Merchants Used Bankers, and To heroin's victims in the United States and Europe, Vice Versa And to all veterans of the War in Vietnam, The Great Heroin Coup - Chapter 13 Especially those who returned strung out, The Great Heroin Coup - Chapters 9, 10, 11 And those who did not return at all... and 12 To victims of torture and repression in Latin America and elsewhere, The Great Heroin Coup - Chapters 6, 7 and And to those who owe the monkey on their back, 8 And the scars on mind and body The Great Heroin Coup - Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 To agents of the CIA and DEA. The Great Heroin Coup - Foreword and Chapter One FOREWORD ► November (1) ► October (5) The story of Christian David, an international narcotics trafficker used by the Intelligence ► September (3) services of at least three nations, is fascinating in itself. It is even more important for what it tells ► July (2) us of a larger, less documented history- the secret collaboration of government intelligence ► June (1) services and parallel police throughout the world, and their use of criminals, particularly from drug networks, for political counter-subversion. Above all it is an important book for Americans ► May (2) to read, since the shadow of the CIA can be seen behind Christian David's political intrigues in ► April (2) countries like France and Uruguay. America's role in Christian David's strange career has never ► 2012 (31) before, to my knowledge, been revealed in this country. And Henrik Kruger is able to expand the ► 2011 (69) story into larger perspectives on the CIA, Watergate, and current U.S. counterinsurgency tactics. The heavy censorship of David's story in the United States, or what may be called the media resistance to it, is perhaps the clearest symptom of America's involvement. For example, it was surely newsworthy that in June 1973 Le Monde, France's most respected newspaper, charged that the break up of the Ricord French drug network in Latin America (which had included David's arrest and extradition to the United States), was the result of a "close file:///C|/...ibrary/BOOKS/The%20Great%20Heroin%20Coup%20by%20Henrik%20Kruger/Quixotic%20Joust%20%20The%20Great%20Heroin%20Coup%20-%20Foreword%20and%20Chapter%20One.htm[12/1/2016 2:27:31 PM] Quixotic Joust: The Great Heroin Coup - Foreword and Chapter One Mafia police Narcotics Bureau collaboration" in the U.S. The result of this collaboration, according to Le Monde, was to shatter Corsican influence in the worldwide narcotics traffic, and 'Mr. Big' Extradited to U.S. in Sept. 1972 create a virtual monopoly for the U.S. Italian Mafia connection (whose key figures were Santo Trafficante in America and Luciano Liggio in Europe).[1] Le Monde's charges, many details of which have since been corroborated, were passed over in silence by the U.S. press. This studied disinterest in the politics of narcotics (other than the propaganda, including flagrant lies, from official press releases) is a recurring, predictable Like Don Quixote phenomenon of our press; and it has visibly had a deleterious impact on U.S. politics. If the Washington Post and the New York Times, then supposed exposers of Watergate, had picked up on stories like the one in Le Monde, then the history of Watergate might have been altered. For the history of Nixon's involvement in Watergate is intertwined with that of his personal involvement in drug enforcement. Nixon's public declaration in June 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to his assemblage of White House Plumbers, Cubans, and even "hit squads" with the avowed purpose of combatting the international narcotics traffic. (Among those with a White House narcotics mission, or cover, were Krogh, Liddy, Hunt, Caulfield, Sturgis, and Bernard Barker.)[2] Forever Tilting at Windmills Many writers have since suggested that Nixon's war on heroin was part of his "grand design" to develop a new drug Popular Posts super-agency, under direct White House control, into "the From Candy Barr to Maureen strong investigative arm for domestic surveillance that Dean, and lots of gambling in President Nixon had long quested after."[3] Yet the between In a previous edition of this blog it establishment press failed to look critically at Nixon's war on was mentioned that Lyndon heroin. Instead it blandly reported Nixon's decision in June Johnson's longtime mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown had 1971 to provide $100 million in aid to end opium production in stated that a ... Turkey, a country which (according to CIA estimates) produced only 3 to 8 percent of the illicit opium available throughout the Hired Guns and Mercenaries We are told that the corporation once world.[4] known as Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services, and is now called ACADEMI, but we have no rea... At the time perhaps 80 percent of Part 8 of Land and Loot the world's illicit Tracing the Roots of General Homes in opium was grown, Houston Eden Corporation was one of the names under which General Homes much of it by Consolidated Compani... CIA supported tribesmen, in the The White Russian--A Powerful Cocktail "golden triangle" of This is only one part of the series. See other parts at www.Opednews.com . THE Laos, Burma, and JFK CASE: The Twelve Who Built The Thailand, while the Oswald Legend ... 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As the New Republic noted only one month later, Nixon's decision to shut down the supply of Turkish opium was "likely to do no more than drive the Followers industry further east."[5] Followers (16) Next Another, and even more cynical view of Nixon's action is to see it as a direct attack on the French Corsican networks which relied almost exclusively on Turkey as their source of supply, and which, according to Le Monde, were being deliberately forced out of the international drug trade as the result of a "close Mafia police Narcotics Bureau collaboration." Le Monde stated explicitly that it was the U.S. Sicilian Mafia which closed down the sluice gates of Turkish Follow opium production. Was Nixon personally playing a role, as Henrik Kruger suggests, in this seamy international drug war between rival networks? Such a possibility seems less remote when we recall the rivalry which had grown up in the 1960s between deGaulle's intelligence services and the CIA, and the respective reliance of these services upon the rival Corsican and U.S. Italian crime syndicates. Nixon announces "war on heroin" on June 17, 1971. Le Monde had no difficulty in spelling out the American side of the intelligence Mafia connection, even though the CIA activities of Santo Trafficante, the alleged heir to the Luciano network, were not known to it at the time: Instructed by his own experience of collaboration with the American intelligence services, Lucky Luciano used to recommend to his honorable file:///C|/...ibrary/BOOKS/The%20Great%20Heroin%20Coup%20by%20Henrik%20Kruger/Quixotic%20Joust%20%20The%20Great%20Heroin%20Coup%20-%20Foreword%20and%20Chapter%20One.htm[12/1/2016 2:27:31 PM] Quixotic Joust: The Great Heroin Coup - Foreword and Chapter One correspondents scattered from Beirut to Tangiers, via Ankara and Marseilles, to operate as he had done. It was in this way that drug dealers and couriers served as informants to [the British] MI5, to [the American] CIA, to [the French] SDECE, to the [West German] Gehlen organization, even to the Italian SIFFAR.[6] On the French side, LeMonde was predictably more reticent; but from other sources we learn that at least two members of the competing Ricord network, Christian David and Michel Nicoli, were former members of the Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC), the parallel Luciano police or barbouzes who had been used to assassinate members of the right wing Organisation de I'Armee Secrete (OAS), in revolt against de Gaulle's accommodation with Algeria. Through SAC, David and Nicoli had come into contact with SDECE operations as well.[7] One of the major theses of Henrik Kruger's fascinating book is that "the great heroin coup" the "remarkable shift" from Marseilles (Corsican) to Southeast Asian and Mexican (Mafia) heroin in the United States, was a deliberate move to reconstruct and redirect the heroin trade, rather than to eliminate it, and that Cuban exiles, Santo Trafficante, the CIA, and the Nixon White House were all involved: It was, needless to say, not a willful conspiracy of all the above.