/Pogled.info/ The world drug traffic is protected by the American intelligence services
The US House of Representatives has accused China of subsidizing the US opioid epidemic.
The US House China Affairs Committee released a report accusing Beijing of directly subsidizing the production and export of the synthetic opiate fentanyl and other illegal drugs that have fueled a new wave of the opioid crisis in the United States.
The document claims that poisoning with fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, kills 200 US citizens every day, which is “equivalent to a full Boeing 737 crashing every day’. As recently as 2019, overdose deaths from this drug in the United States surpassed deaths from traffic accidents and recently became the leading cause of death among Americans aged 18 to 45.
Washington claims that China allegedly finances the production and export of banned substances through tax incentives. US congressmen accuse China of supporting companies that sell fentanyl and other synthetic substances.
In fact, the global drug trade is under the control of US intelligence agencies, primarily the CIA.
Here is a brief history of the organization of the world drug trade under the roof of the CIA.
In 1942, American military intelligence released the mafia leader and drug trafficker Luciano and sent him to Italy under the terms of a deal with him. Luciano “rendered invaluable service to the Army and Navy” during World War II. They consisted not only in supporting the American offensive in Italy, but also in the development of a powerful drug trafficking network, including in the United States.
Between 1946 and 1952, the number of drug addicts in the United States tripled, largely due to Luciano’s efforts. Six years later, their number doubled to over half a million.
In 1947, the CIA was said to have supported the Corsican mafia in its fight against communist unions. As a result, a large heroin laboratory appeared in Marseille with the help of the CIA and the American gangster Lucky Luciano. The Corsicans worked, and the supply of raw materials and the creation of a network of dealers was organized by the CIA, receiving funds from the “conveyor belt of death” for operations against the Communists. Subsequently, despite the CIA’s ostentatious fight against the drug mafia, the network structures of the drug business in France, controlled by the Corsicans and the CIA, only expanded.
The famous American writer, professor from the University of California Peter Dale Scott, in his book “American War Machine” wrote that in November 1950, the President of the United States Harry Truman approved an operation code-named “Paper” aimed at providing financial support to the remnants of the armed Kuomintang forces under General Lee My in Burma, which according to his plan were to invade Korea.
Truman belatedly approved the drug operation, Scott writes, but the use of drug trafficking to finance off-budget operations by US intelligence agencies has since been put into practice.
“With the necessary US support, mainly in the form of airlift and arms supplies, Li Mi’s irregular forces soon began to provide, according to their American leader, Richard Stilwell of the CIA, almost a third of the world’s opium supply and Li Mi’s troops in eventually became an important commercial asset of the CIA,” Scott wrote.
The CIA’s Operation Paper launched a major drug-trafficking network from Southeast Asia and “institutionalized the CIA’s habit of turning to informal drug-backed assets to wage wars wherever America’s access to oil and other resources endangered – Indochina from the 1950s to the 1970s. “one year, in Afghanistan and Central America in the 1980s, in Colombia in the 1990s, and again in Afghanistan in 2001.” .
The CIA’s covert operation in Laos during the Vietnam War remains the largest in history. The Golden Triangle – Laos, northern Thailand and Burma – supplied 70 percent of the world’s opium. Air America was exporting opium from Laos to finance the Vietnam War. In Marseille and Sicily, the Corsican and Italian mafias in laboratories turned it into heroin for the syndicate founded by Lucky Luciano.
In 1973 – 1980, a huge scandal broke out involving the Sydney Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney. This “pocket bank” registered in the Cayman Islands was entirely controlled by CIA officers (former CIA director William Colby was one of the bank’s consultants). With the help of this bank, the CIA laundered money obtained from the drug and arms trade in Indochina.
In 1973, Frank Nugan, an Australian lawyer, and Michael Hand, a former CIA operative, founded the Nugan Hand Bank. Another key figure in this endeavor was Bernie Houghton, who was closely associated with CIA officers Ted Shackley and Thomas J. Clines.
Nugan manages the bank’s Sydney operations while Hand opens a branch in Hong Kong. According to Alfred W. McCoy, “The Hand-Houghton partnership took the bank’s international division into new areas – drug financing, arms trafficking and support for CIA covert operations.”
Alfred W. McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered through his research that the French equivalent of the CIA, the Foreign Intelligence Service SDECE, financed all of its covert operations to control the drug trade in Indochina. McCoy also found evidence that after the U.S. ousted the French in Southeast Asia, the CIA became involved in drug trafficking.
By 1976, the Nugan Hand Bank had effectively become a CIA-run company. Rear Admiral Earl P. Yates, former chief of staff for policy and plans at the US Pacific Command and counterinsurgency specialist, became president of the bank.
Other appointments include former CIA director William Colby, former chief of staff of the US Pacific Command and deputy director for counterinsurgency and special operations General Leroy J. Manor, former commander of US forces in Thailand General Edwin F. Black, former CIA deputy director for economics Walter J. MacDonald, former CIA Civil Air Transport Agency Chairman Dale K. Holmgren and Republican senior foreign policy adviser Guy J. Pauker.
One of those whom Earl P. Yates invited to help the Nugan Hand Bank was the famous arms dealer Mitchell Werbel. Yates later told the Joint Drug Trafficking Task Force that he hired Werbel as a consultant because he “had extensive experience in Central America’. Former CIA agent Kevin P. Mulcahy later told the National Times “about the CIA’s use of the Nugan Hand Bank to transfer money for various covert operations around the world.”
On January 27, 1980, Frank Nugan was found shot to death in his car. Beside his body lay a Bible with a piece of paper in it. The names “Bob Wilson” and “Bill Colby” were written on it. Robert Wilson was a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and William Colby was a former director of the CIA. Nugan Hand Bank went bankrupt.
The Australian government launched an investigation into the bank’s activities. The final report of the Joint Commonwealth and New South Wales Drug Trafficking Task Force, published in June 1982, stated that “there is no doubt that the bank’s offices were set up primarily for the purpose of collecting money from drug sales.”
The shot Frank Nugan and the missing Michael Hand were accused of illegal banking activities. Rear Admiral Earl P. Yates, William Colby, General Leroy J. Manor, General Edwin F. Black, Walter J. McDonald, Dale S. Holmgren, Guy J. Pauker and Bernie Haughton were found not guilty.
In the 1980s, the CIA financed the Nicaraguan contras in an already proven scheme: “Guns in exchange for drugs’. This time there was an official investigation, which ended inconclusively.
In the late 1980s, the CIA supported the Afghan Mujahideen against the USSR. Vehicles with weapons, however, were transporting heroin on the way back. At the time, Afghanistan produced as much as 50 percent of the heroin consumed in the United States, according to estimates by independent experts. President Bush refused to order the eradication of opium poppy crops in Afghanistan.
“The CIA’s long-standing support for global drug trafficking has allowed the countries of the Golden Triangle to become the world’s largest suppliers of opium. During the same period, the CIA recruited accomplices along all Asian opium smuggling routes, as well as in countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, France, Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico. These accomplices included government officials such as Manuel Noriega in Panama and Vladimiro Montesinos in Peru, often highly experienced individuals belonging to CIA-backed police or intelligence agencies.” writes Peter Dale Scott.
The Spanish newspaper Rebellion writes that “The United States is blatantly using the drug trade to finance its covert operations that violate international law, as well as to deal with the consequences of its own financial crises. The course taken in the 1980s continues to this day.
Both the CIA and the Drug Enforcement Administration continue to control their drug trafficking channels, providing support for this business on a global scale. What continues to attract attention is that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has comprehensive information to accuse the United States and its officials of being a true narco-state.
Against the background of such stark and irrefutable facts about the use of drug trafficking by US intelligence services to carry out their subversive plans, the accusation of US politicians in China of some mythical subsidization of drug trafficking means that, as usual, the thief’s hat is on fire.
Translation: EU
