Brief Thread compiling disparate links I have come across regarding recent examples of Special Forces, US intelligence, national security & banks collaborating with/facilitating the drug trade. Most of these come from this excellent compilation of info rhizzone.net/forum/topic/14…
finance.yahoo.com/news/confirmed… "...between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels"
High level Cartel member indicats "a 'simulated war' in which the Mexican & US governments are willing to show favor to a dominant narcotrafficking organization in order to minimize the violence and business disruption in the major drug plazas, or markets" narconews.com/Issue67/articl…
narconews.com/Issue40/articl… DoJ attorney claims DEA "are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much...directly involved in helping Colombia’s infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads to launder drug money."
bbc.com/news/business-… HSBC fined £64m for anti-money laundering failings in 2021
In 2012 HSBC, a bank with origins in the 19th century opium trade controlled by Britain, caught laundering over $800 million for "the Cartel" investopedia.com/stock-analysis…
Immediately before becoming Trump's ghoul, Steve Bannon, a former high-level Naval intelligence officer and Goldman Sachs banker worked in Florida with a Gambino-affiliated private equity rapist (heraldtribune.com/story/news/loc…) & resided in a "porn & meth house" americanindependent.com/steve-bannons-…
2023: "At least 13 soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are under investigation for drug trafficking" military.com/daily-news/202…
2018: "a decorated U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was arrested and charged in relation to an attempt to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to Florida, but he may just be one player in a multimillion-dollar operation" taskandpurpose.com/news/special-f…
2019: Two Army Green Berets plead guilty in plot to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia armytimes.com/news/your-army…
Reported in 2021: U.S. Special Forces Train Drug Cartel Enforcers Linked to Rape, Torture and Decapitation of Victims covertactionmagazine.com/2021/04/29/lat…
Keep in mind that US Special Forces have expanded exponentially all around the globe for the purposes of training "local forces" ever since 9/11j theintercept.com/2015/09/09/u-s…
Also keep in mind that Los Zetas, noted by many as Mexico's "most brutal Cartel" was started by members of Mexico's own Special Forces businessinsider.com/how-34-command…
Brief History of Mexican Cartels recruiting US soldiers as hitmen businessinsider.com/cartels-are-re…
ice.gov/news/releases/…. 2013: Former captain in the US Army pleads guilty to charges or importing heroin
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