Thread by @karolcummins

Hey folks,

I will be doing a series of threads focusing on Global Organized Crime, & how it all relates to numerous US scandals & of course it’s players.

This shadowy consortium has been referred as “The Octopus”, the “Deep State” among others.

First up Paul L.E. Helliwell

📌”One significant organizer of the post-war global drug connection — between CIA, organized crime, and their mutual interest in drug-trafficking — was former OSS officer Paul L.E. Helliwell.”

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📌Post WWII, Helliwell was head of the Special Intelligence branch of OSS in Kunming, and later an officer of OPC and the CIA.”

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“Helliwell was simultaneously the owner of the Bank of Perrine in Key West, Florida, “a two-time laundromat for the Lansky mob and the CIA,” and its sister Bank of Cutler Ridge.”

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“Here we shall see a number of interrelated mob-CIA money-laundering banks in the global drug connection, of which the greatest was undoubtedly the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).”

📌More on BCCI later.

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“In 1951, Mr. Helliwell helped set up and run Sea Supply Corp., a concern controlled by the CIA as a front.”

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“For almost 10 years, Sea Supply was used to supply huge amounts of weapons and equipment to 10,000 Nationalist Chinese [KMT] troops in Burma as well as to Thailand’s police.”

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“Both the KMT troops in Burma and the Thai Police were the two main arms of the CIA-KMT-Burma-Thai drug connection, and were involved together in the growth and trafficking of opium for the world market, including the United States.”

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“Helliwell’s favors for the CIA were not restricted to the Far East. Along with two old associates from the KMT-Burma drug connection, Frank Wisner of the CIA and General Claire Chennault of the CIA’s airline CAT.”

📌Which will become “Air America” later

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In 1943 Colonel Paul Helliwell became head of the Secret Intelligence Branch of the OSS in Europe. Helliwell was replaced in this post by William Casey in 1945.

📌I will dive more deeply into Mr. William Casey later.

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“In 1947 Helliwell joined the Central Intelligence Agency. In May 1949.

When Mao Zedong took power in China in 1950, Truman sent Helliwell to Taiwan.”

Yes, folks, this reaches waaay back.

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“Helliwell's main job was to help Chaing Kai-shek to prepare for a future invasion of Communist China.

The CIA created a pair of front companies to supply and finance the surviving forces of Chaing's KMT.”

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Helliwell “also worked CIA operations in Central America as early as 1953-54. In those days, the target was Guatemala and its government.”

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When Helliwell was sent to China he worked with Ray Cline, Richard Helms, E. Howard Hunt, Jake Esterline, Mitchell WerBell, John K. Singlaub, Jack Anderson, Robert Emmett Johnson & Lucien Conein. Others working in China then included Tommy Corcoran, Whiting Willauer & Wm Pawley.

“Paul Helliwell was put in charge of this operation. This included establishing Civil Air Transport (CAT), a Taiwan-based airline, and the Sea Supply Corporation, a shipping company in Bangkok.”

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“Sea Supply was used to supply huge amounts of weapons and equipment to 10,000 Nationalist Chinese troops in Burma as well as to Thailand's police.” #GoldenTriangle

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"Through Sea Supply, Helliwell imported large amounts of arms for the KMT soldiers to keep the Burmese military from throwing them out of the country.”

📌Today Burma is known as Myanmar.

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“The arms were ferried into Burma on CAT airplanes.

🔑CAT then used the "empty" planes to fly drugs from Burma to Taiwan, Bangkok, and Saigon.

There the drugs were processed for the benefit of the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt government on Taiwan."

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“Civil Air Transport (CAT), later renamed Air America, provided the CIA w/ the air power needed to sustain its covert operations for the next twenty-five years.

Helliwell was to play an important role in running these covert, & often illegal ops.”

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“By the late 1950s the main focus changed to stopping the spread of communism to countries like Burma, Thailand, Vietnam & Laos.

At the time, the main group “fighting communism” in the region were the large private armies controlled by the drug lords.”

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MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE 🐙 OP

In the early 1950s, “American leaders” repeatedly told the public that they should be fearful of subversive Communist influence in their lives.

Sinister Communists could be lurking anywhere! #Propaganda
#Fear

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Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn was the infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy

“Where’s my Roy Cohn?”

Even today TeamTrump hurls the McCarthism card. #Projection Get it?

politico.com/magazine/story…

Yes, folks the “Red Scare” was a propaganda op & cover for covert & overt US paramilitary & military actions, political dirty tricks & facilitating the Golden Triangle Drug Trade & more.
#GoldenTriangleDrugTrade

Drug trafficking in and out of the Golden Triangle

By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

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“People of the Opiate 
Burma's dictatorship of drugs.”

Good read on the cost of human lives toiling in the poppy fields.

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📌”At the time, the main group “fighting communism” in the region were the large private armies controlled by the drug lords.

For example, General Vang Pao was employing his 30,000-man army to help the Pathet Lao.”

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“Helliwell helped Vang Pao to modernize the drug trade.
Wm Corson:

“Portable heroin processing facilities were brought in. It was a creation of the CIA's tech services division." Some of these profits went to help CIA run some unofficial covert ops.”

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CIA drug connex

📌The CIA Drug ConnectionIs as Old as the Agency

Dec. 3, 1993

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

The US Opium Wars: China, Burma and the CIA

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN

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“In 1960 Paul Helliwell was transferred to provide business cover for the CIA’s Cuban operations.”

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“According to Peter Dale Scott (The Iran Contra Connection) Helliwell worked with E. Howard Hunt (Nixon “Plumber”, Mitch WerBell and Lucien Conein on developing relationships with drug-dealing Cuban veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion.”

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“It was during this period that Helliwell met Ted Shackley and Thomas Clines.

Helliwell later became CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE.

In this way, Shackley was able to finance unofficial CIA operations against Cuba.”

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A Brief History of Miami's CIA Ties and Propaganda Efforts

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After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Helliwell was sent by the CIA to the Bahamas where he set up offshore banks for CIA use.

He was instrumental in helping to direct a network of CIA undercover operations and "proprietaries."

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Most COs (LLC shell companies) were formed or controlled by Paul Helliwell & his associates.

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“At first he established the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company and then the Castle Bank and Trust Company.

Helliwell also ran the American Bankers Insurance Company based in Galveston, Texas.”

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"Castle Bank was one of the CIA's finance channels for operations against Cuba."

Helliwell reputedly was one of the pay-masters for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, as well as for other CIA operations throughout Latin America.”

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In particular, the former federal official said, Helliwell was "deeply involved" in financing a series of covert forays between 1964 and 1975 against Cuba by CIA operatives working from Andros Isand, the largest of the Bahamas.

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Helliwell’s insurance company provided ins cover for businessmen who cooperated with the CIA.

Helliwell also created the Intercontinental Holding, a company in the Cayman Islands that owned the Lear jet used by Barry Seal for his drug running activities.

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‼️Air Cocaine: Poppy Bush, the Contras,and a Secret Airbase in the backwoods of Mena, Arkansas (Clinton’s/RoseLawFirm) & the exploits of Barry Seal

By Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St, Clair 12/5/18

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“Helliwell also established a Miami office for the Sea Supply Corporation. According to Joseph Trento (Prelude to Terror):

“The primary objective of Helliwell's operations in Florida was to cement the CIA's relationship with organized crime." “

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This included Santos Trafficante, who had a common business interest in Asia, the "successful exportation of Chinese white heroin."

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Santo Trafficante Jr. was one of the last of the old-time reputed Mafia dons, who was reportedly enlisted in 1960 in a futile effort to kill Fidel Castro.

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On 17 March 1960, President Eisenhower officially set the wheels in motion ordering the CIA to organize, equip and train a group of Cuban exiles in a foreign country for future guerrilla operations.

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Record of the Paramilitary action against The Castro Government
Sanitized CIA Release 1997

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IG Survey of the Cuban Operation

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Official History of the Bay of Pigs V1

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“According to Daniel Hopsicker (Barry and the Boys), Helliwell ran Red Sunset Enterprises in Miami.

Hopsicker claims it was a CIA front company set up to recruit frogmen and explosives experts for Operation Mongoose.”

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Operation Mongoose: The Story of America's Efforts to Overthrow Castro

And how they helped seal America’s fate in Vietnam

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Operation Mongoose

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In 1973 the IRS began an investigation called Operation Trade Winds.

During its investigation it discovered that some major organized crime figures such as Morris Dalitz, Morris Kleinman and Samuel A. Tucker were using the Castle Bank and Trust Company.

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“It soon became clear that the bank was laundering Cia funds and drug profits. The IRS eventually announced that it was dropping its investigation of Castle Bank because of "legal problems".”

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“It now appears that pressure from the CIA, rather than any legal problem, was what caused the DOJ to drop what could have been the biggest tax evasion case of all time.“

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“The supposed legal obstacle to using the Castle Bank Depositors' list was questionable at best -- the gov’t already had in the same list, legally obtained.”

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“Project Haven/Op Tradewinds was dropped by the IRS — turmoil ensued.

📌One IRS memo says that when the inv’n was shut down there were 488 pending cases involving tax deficiencies of "hundreds of millions" of dollars.

Many veteran IRS agents resigned.”

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“An affidavit by a DOJ official warned a federal court against "the anticipated revelation of illegal payoffs" in the Bahamas.”

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“The official further counseled against the disclosure of one U.S. diplomatic cable concerning Castle becase the contents "would have a bombshell effect" on U.S.-Bahamas relations. #CoverUp

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💰Nugan Hand

The CIA now needed a new bank.

📌Later that year, Frank Nugan, an Australian lawyer, and Michael Hand, a former CIA contract operative, established the Nugan Hand Bank.

📌I will do a deeper dive into Nugan Hand later.

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“Another key figure in this venture was Bernie Houghton, who was closely connected to CIA officials, Ted Shackley and Thomas G. Clines.”

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📌Bernie Houghton

Per Alexander Butterfield, Houghton worked with him as an intel officer during the Vietnam War.

📌Houghton was also connected to General John K. Singlaub, who ran covert air operations throughout the Vietnam-Laos-Thailand war.

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Per Parks: Houghton was active in the drug trade in the 1970s.

"There's no doubt about it, he'd fly anything. The GoldenTriangle, that's where he got his opium from.
In the early 1970s Houghton spent a great deal of time w/ Michael Hand-fmr CIA colleague

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Theodore (Ted) Shackley aka the “Blond Ghost"

#BlackOps “Executive Action” (a plan to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power). #BayofPigs #OpMongoose Project JM/WAVE #Operation40

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Thomas G. Clines

Joined the Central Intelligence Agency after the Second World War. He was involved in covert operations in Cuba (1961-1962) before joining Ted Shackley, David Atlee Phillips and David Morales at JM WAVE in Miami

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🔑”Nugan ran operations in Sydney whereas Michael Hand established a branch in HK.”

“This enabled Australian depositors to access a money-laundering facility for illegal transfers of Australian money to Hong Kong.”

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“According to Alfred W. McCoy, the "Hand-Houghton partnership led the bank's international division into new fields - drug finance, arms trading, and support work for CIA covert operations." “

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Hand told friends "it was his ambition that Nugan Hand became banker for the CIA."

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Nugan Hand Aided US

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Nugan Hand had a roster of top ex-military officials and CIA figures that attracted suspicion that it was deeply involved in unsavory activities.

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“Over the years, the two words Nugan Hand became shorthand for drug-dealing, gun-running, organised crime and clandestine intelligence activities,"

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I digressed, back to Helliwell ..

“Helliwell, Castle Bank, Bruce Rappaport, and BCCI
 
Through this rapid survey of Helliwell’s banks we have seen that he was central to a connex between the worlds of intel, organized crime, global drug trafficking.”

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Con’t “Political influence, & speculative investment, often in hotel-casinos, with overworld & underworld figures.”

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🔑”But the connection was not one engineered by Helliwell himself; there were other powerful people in the background, some of whom would maintain the connection after Helliwell died in 1976 “🐙

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There are a number of interrelated mob-CIA money-laundering banks in the global drug connection, of which the greatest was undoubtedly the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).

📌I will focus on BCCI later—it’s important.

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🔑BCCI SCANDAL:

🔑BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS'

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💰Castle Bank in the Bahamas, was the precursor to its successor BCCI.

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“A Senate report on BCCI concluded that BCCI’s systematically relied on relationships with, and as necessary, payments to, prominent political figures in most of the 73 countries in which BCCI operated. …The result was that BCCI had relationships that “

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“Ranged from the questionable, to the improper, to the fully corrupt with officials from countries all over the world, including Argentina, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, the Congo, Ghana, Guatemala, the Ivory Coast, “

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India, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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‼️The BCCI Affair
Senate Report by John Kerry

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MARK LOMBARDI'S ART WAS FULL OF CONSPIRACIES—NOW HIS DEATH HAS BECOME ONE

"the FBI was fully aware of Lombardi's art" and that its agents came to the Whitney after 9/11, demanding to see his BCCI drawing.”

H/T @LincolnsBible

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🔑About a month after Sept. 11, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan got a call from someone at the FBI who wanted to see "the Lombardi drawing."

It turns out that years before the advent of the most sweeping police investigation in history

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Mark Lombardi was, without knowing it, hard at work mapping the shadowy figures behind global terrorism and the financial connections linking them.🐙

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“Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.”
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Meyer Lansky

https://twitter.com/lincolnsbible/status/1003870522629713920?s=21

Meyer Lansky

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Meyer Lansky

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Helliwell simultaneously the owner of the Bank of Perrine in Key West, Florida, “a two-time laundromat for the Lansky mob and the CIA,” and its sister Bank of Cutler Ridge.

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Richard Helms

Bissell and Helms decided to arrange the assassination of Fidel Castro. In September 1960, Bissell and Allen W. Dulles, the director of the (CIA), initiated talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana.
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Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (JFK's father) set up a meeting with Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana to obtain Giancana's support (& secret funding) for Jack Kennedy's run for the White House

H/T @LincolnsBible

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Everette Howard Hunt

Hunt was CIA station chief in Mexico during the early 1960s

On 7th July, 1971, Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appointed Hunt to the Nixon WH staff.

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Working under Egil Krogh and Gordon Liddy Hunt became a member of the Special Investigations Group (SIG).

The group was (informally known as "the Plumbers"

#LibbyPardon

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*Jake Esterline

Esterline was sent to India in early 1943. Later that year he was infiltrated into Burma.

By the end of the war he had became a commander of a guerrilla battalion fighting the Japanese Army in China.

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Esterline joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was sent to work at what became known as "The Farm" - a clandestine training school for CIA recruits at Williamsburg, Virginia. Esterline was put in charge of guerrilla warfare training.

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Mitchell WerBel

📌During the WWII Werbell joined the (OSS) and saw action in Burma and China. According to Gaeton Fonzi, this enabled WerBell to join "the superspy fraternity" that included Allen W. Dulles, William Casey, Richard Helms and E. Howard Hunt.
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John K. Singlaub

“In 1964 Singlaub became chief of Military Assistance Command Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG). This was an unconventional warfare task force that oversaw assassination and paramilitary operations throughout Southeast Asia.”

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Ted Shackley

In 1966 Ted Shackley was placed in charge of CIA secret war in Laos. He Appt’s Thomas G. Clines as his deputy.

He also took Carl E. Jenkins, David Morales, Rafael Quintero*, Felix Rodriguez* and Edwin Wilson with him to Laos.

*IranContra

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They did this via General Vang Pao, the leader of the anti-communist forces in Laos. Vang Pao was a major figure in the opium trade in Laos.

To help him Shackley used his CIA officials and assets to sabotage the competitors.

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Eventually Vang Pao had a monopoly over the heroin trade in Laos

In 1967 Shackley & Clines helped Vang Pao to obtain financial backing to form his own airline, Zieng Khouang Air Transport Company, to transport opium & heroin btwn Long Tieng & Vientiane.

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🔑In 1968 Shackley and Clines arranged a meeting in Saigon between Santo Trafficante and Vang Pao to establish a heroin-smuggling operation from Southeast Asia to the United States.

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Jack Anderson

In the late 1940s Anderson became friendly with Joseph McCarthy.

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Robert Emmett Johnson

It is believed that Johnson was involved in bringing in the weapons for the Central Intelligence Agency that was used to assassinate Trujillo on 30th May 1961.

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During the 1970s it is believed that Johnson's was employed by the British intelligence services to hunt down and kill members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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It has also been claimed that Johnson was involved in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero on 24th March, 1980.

The assassination had been ordered by Roberto D'Aubuisson, the founder of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).

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Lucien Conein

In 1944 he was sent to Vichy France with orders to help the French Resistance attack the German Army during the Allied landings in Normandy.

He worked with the Jedburghs, a multinational band directed by the (OSS) and the British Special Ops Executive (SOE).

While in France Conein working with the Corsican Brotherhood, an underworld organization allied with the resistance. #CorsicanMob

Read more here:

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Tommy Corcoran

“Corcoran was once a close confidant of Roosevelt & an isolationist. However, once he learned that he could make a fortune out of the arms trade his thoughts changed.”

Apparently he fixed an elex for LBJ too. Read on:

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William Pawley

Pawley became president of the Intercontinent Corporation based in NY. The following year he moved to China where he became president of the China Nat’l Aviation Corporation.

Pawley also formed a business relationship with Tom Corcoran.

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Stay tuned folks, much more coming.

@threadreaderapp unroll please and TY

#Helliwell #Octopus #GoldenTriangle

Thank you @LincolnsBible

James Bond’s SPECTRE

(an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-intel, Terrorism, Revenge & Extortion)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE

Fleming's warning of the Nazi fascists surviving after the Second World War first detailed in the novel Moonraker (1954). SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation.

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Oh looky,

Circa 1973 onward, working in the CIA’s intelligence directorate analyzing Chinese radio broadcasts, we find Barr toiling away...interesting.

His father Donald worked for the OSS — it’s quite the family affair. #BuryBarr

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Barr later transferred to the CIA’s legislative affairs unit during the tense period when special Senate and House committees were investigating the agency’s (illegal) activities, particularly those that seemed to exceed the CIA’s charter.
#BuryBarr

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At age 27, Barr was helping to carry out some of the agency’s most delicate domestic relations.

I guess this is where Barr learned how to cover up illegal activity. #BuryBsrr

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