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Dec 28, 2024 24 tweets 13 min read
From 1978-1980, brothers Michael and Earl Griffin smuggled weed through the Caribbean and conspired to launder the proceeds with Barclay's attorney Herbert S. Waldman, introduced to the brothers by "Atlanta real estate developer" Gary A. Beller. Image
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Gary A. Beller was Chief Counsel and later Executive VP for American Express from approximately 1968-1994 through a scandal tangential to Iran-Contra. He incorporated several nondescript companies in Fulton Co. registered to trusts in relatives' names.
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Dec 10, 2024 10 tweets 5 min read
Hypothesis: the OFAC sanctions of Tornado Cash, Roman Semenov and the DPRK hackers known as the Lazarus Group are directly related to a criminal conspiracy behind Donald Trump's "mishandling" of TS/SCI/SAP documents Image
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12 June 2018 - Singapore, Malaysia

The historic first meeting between an American President and the North Korean Chairman. Trump agrees to stop joint military exercises with South Korea for absolutely nothing in return. The art of the deal, baby! Image
Mar 15, 2024 4 tweets 3 min read
Bit of deep lore: the company that imported the rifle used to assassinate JFK, Century Arms, is the same company that supplied the first covert shipment of arms to the Nicaraguan contras. Today the same Century Arms supplies the majority of dirt cheap AKs to Mexican cartels.

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After a brutal gun battle in which cocaine and heroin kingpin Arturo Beltrán Leyva was killed by the Mexican Marines in 2009, almost 30 Romanian AKs imported by Century Arms were recovered at the scene and traced back to a single gun store in Phoenix.


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Apr 3, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
A question for @VFelbabBrown: when exactly was the golden era for U.S.-Mexico security cooperation? At what point in the past were synthetics under control as a result of security cooperation rather than production increasing exponentially?
mexicotoday.com/2023/04/02/opi… Follow up question: do you think maybe the architect of the "war on drug traffickers" himself protecting the world's biggest drug traffickers for 20 years might have also hurt security cooperation?
nytimes.com/2023/02/21/wor…
Apr 3, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read
The Republicans don't really believe that using military force will diminish the drug trade and it's not why they want to do it. Ken Cuccinelli and his longtime patron Rebekah Mercer are devising a plan to fundamentally transform the world order.
thedailybeast.com/we-shouldnt-us… The plan to designate drug cartels as FTO (the committing step down a path that leads to the eventual use of military force) has been in motion since 2007 when Gov. Rick Perry hired Fred Burton of the private intelligence firm Stratfor to head the Border Security Council (BSC).
Mar 8, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
This isn't advice and you're responsible for your own safety but these are the areas in Tamaulipas along the border that I would personally avoid altogether right now. The area east of Nuevo Laredo and west of Reynosa where a lot of migrant smuggling happens is a no man's land. The State Department keeps travel warnings up to date on their website which you should check if considering travel. Tamaulipas is currently listed as 'Do Not Travel' and that's sound advice. If you don't have to, there's no reason to travel there.
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Mar 6, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
The people attacked and kidnapped in Matamoros on Friday were U.S. citizens that were in a van with North Carolina plates.
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washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/…
Dec 7, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Fentanyl and meth are here to stay and traffickers will continue to increase market share with counterfeit pills because for every IV heorin or meth user, there are at least ten more people that would buy a pill that looks like percocet or adderall. Accepting reality is step 1. The DEA's crackdown on prescriptions has been a success from their perspective because it's now almost impossible to find real pharmaceutical oxys and percs in the U.S., but demand wasn't fazed so now there's an industrial supply of percocet-shaped fentanyl from Mexico.
Dec 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Thoughtful reflection from a Mexican perspective on the regulation of drugs like cannabis and cocaine. I was talking to someone recently about this because they asked how the cartels would be effected by drug regulation.
sinembargo.mx/06-12-2022/429… First, what exactly would ending prohibition actually look like? The most likely scenario in the U.S. is a national commercial market for cannabis and decriminalization of simple possession of the 'hard' stuff, which won't effect the cartels whatsoever.
Nov 30, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
Imagine trafficking cocaine for the CIA, getting away with it and they make a movie about the bear that died from the cocaine you dropped and blamed on the guy you murdered by sabotaging his parachute.
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nytimes.com/1985/12/23/us/… ImageImageImage 32 years later, the son of the former CIA-ARSOF adviser busted in a $2 billion cocaine trafficking conspiracy in 1984 was charged with distributing meth for the Sinaloa cartel. He may have personally known the Delta Force operator executed on Fort Bragg.
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Nov 28, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Since Cocaine Bear is trending, as good of a time as any to re-up this story about one of the last known associates of the former DEA TF officer who jumped out of a plane with a bunch of cocaine and fell to his death when his parachute failed to open.
narco.news/articles/darke… Supposedly a bear found the cocaine, ate some, overdosed and died which sounds like a bunch of bullshit but anyways they made a movie about. Image
Nov 8, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Get a trauma kit with tourniquet. chest seals, hemostatic gauze, etc. Learn how to stop someone from bleeding to death. Get several weeks of food, water, fuel, batteries, medicines, toiletries, cash. Get a pair of athletic or trail shoes with socks and liners & warm, dry clothes. Get in shape. Get comfortable being on your feet and sleeping on the ground. Learn how to navigate without a map. Learn how to find water and make it safe to drink. Learn how to start a fire when it's wet and cold. Learn how to siphon gas. Get a backpack.
Sep 1, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Two military-aged males disappear. Their families allege they were on their way home from work and said they were stopped by the Marina. The families demand answers. They protest by blocking the highway. This is all from a thread by @Calvarie_Locus.
eluniversal.com.mx/estados/espera… ImageImageImageImage A drone video purporting to show the Marina disposing of the subjects' motorcycles surfaces. It isn't clear from the video what actually happened, or when it was filmed, or the identity of the subjects in the video, or why there was a drone filming.
Aug 30, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
I'm only two episodes into A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair on Netflix but so far the thing I keep thinking about is why there isn't more stuff in english about Mexico of the same quality as Jorge Volpi's work.
apnews.com/article/drug-c… The Netflix series is based on the work of journalist Jorge Volpi and tells the story of how Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) Chief Genaro García Luna fabricated a case against romantic partners Florence Cassez and Israel Vallarta for kidnapping.
netflix.com/title/81134165
Jul 22, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
The secret history of hurricane Katrina: DHS, Blackwater, Brandon Darby and a laboratory for the future of warfare.
motherjones.com/environment/20… "NEW ORLEANS: WAS IT THEIR OWN FAULT?" - a reflection on Katrina from the author and editor of The Handbook of 5GW, Daniel H. Abbott ("tdaxp")
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Jul 12, 2022 11 tweets 7 min read
The CIA was on the ground in Afghanistan by 20 September 2001 and set to work like a director composing a scene. They distributed millions in cash and traveled in an old Soviet Mi-8/17 helicopter seen in the photo. archives.gov/files/declassi… ImageImage The story goes that the CIA only had a single helicopter and needed more and so they tasked the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) with procuring and modifying two more Mi-8s under contract DATM05-02-C-0005 in November 2001.
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Jul 5, 2022 16 tweets 9 min read
Victor Bout's business partner in South Africa was Deirdre Ward, who operated a charter airline called Norse Air. Norse Air had been operating in South Africa since at least 1981. In 1990, law firm Porter Wright incorporated a Norse Air subsidiary in Ohio
bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/… Image On 9 November 2020, The New York Times reported that Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and Jones Day were representing the Trump admin in lawsuits to overturn the election. Jones Day represented the Bin Laden family in a 2013 lawsuit over 9/11.
nytimes.com/2020/11/09/bus…
Jun 15, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
L'Explosif! In 1965, a subsidiary of British firm Imperial Chemical Industries called Canadian Industries Limited (CIL) acquired Produits Chimiques Valleyfield (PCV), a state owned plant in Quebec that manufactured explosives. Called something else now.
rand.org/content/dam/ra… Image CIL operated the plant until 1975 when it was acquired by Canadian engineer and artillery enthusiast Gerald Bull, through "his" Space Research Corporation, a Quebecois textile company founded in 1953, when it was used for laundering the CIA's heroin money.
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Jun 14, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
You guys familiar with Operation Watchtower?
Gene Paul Thacker (the suspected CIA/Green Beret private network cocaine trafficker) was a principal of Takex, Inc. in Kentucky, which might have been a subsidiary of the electronic manufacturer Takenaka Sensor Group. ImageImage I'm sure most of you already know about Watchtower but if you don't, the CIA and Mossad got the 10th SFG to build a corridor of sensors from Colombia through Panama in Dec 1975-76 that were used to protect authorized air traffic carrying loads of cocaine. afrocubaweb.com/news/cutolo.htm Image
Jun 3, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
It's important for you to understand this story because this shows that the CIA or a private network that includes former high ranking CIA, FBI, 🇨🇴&🇪🇸 mil/intel officials was trafficking cocaine to the U.S. from at least January 2001-December 2019
narco.news/articles/justi… Last week in the sentencing memo for Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr., the defense confirmed that he was former U.S. Marine SOF with TS clearance. That should raise some eyebrows but it could be explained away by, say, a tragic accident.
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Jun 2, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
For the last 6 years, the Tamaulipas government has used its authority to persecute political opponents, fabricate evidence and manipulate perceptions, only taking partial responsibility after being caught. Justice has been painfully slow. @GCorreaCabrera
sinembargo.mx/30-05-2022/419… They've systematically persecuted political rivals in ways that would be international news under any other circumstances.

Even when it's reported by the national press, a language firewall protects them.
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