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Conclusion: A Continuous Succession of Drug-Related Deep Events

Mafias and empires have certain elements in common. Both can be seen as the systematic violent imposition of governance in areas of undergovernance. Both use atrocities to achieve their ends; but both tend to be tolerated to the extent that the result of their controlled violence is a diminution of uncontrolled violence. (I would tentatively suggest an important difference between mafias and empires: that, with the passage of time, mafias tend to become more and more part of the civil society whose rules they once broke, while empires tend to become more and more irreconcilably at odds with the societies they once controlled.)

In this book we have seen an overlap between the infrastructures of the American mafia and the indirect American empire. And in this chapter I have attempted to describe the epicenter of this overlap in a milieu, expanding at its outer limits into a global nexus that I have called the global drug connections, with intimate links to both the U.S underworld and U.S. overworld. The nexus links U.S. intelligence to the intelligence services of many other countries, including Taiwan, Israel, Italy, and Chile. It also oversees financial contributions to the leading politicians of many countries, including both parties of the United States.

All of the major deep events in recent American history, and all of the major expansions of the U.S. indirect empire since World War II, can be linked to this global drug connection:

-- The first U.S. postwar presence in East Asia was established in conjunction with the drug-financed KMT in Taiwan.

-- The U.S. presence in Southeast Asia began with Sea Supply’s support for KMT drug traffickers in East Burma, then expanded in the mid-fifties with the drug-financed PARU force into Laos, while the CIA secured Saigon by controlling drug distribution there.

-- The interlocking finance company Deak & Company, founded by OSS veteran Nicholas Deak, "was reportedly used by the CIA to finance covert operations, including the 1953 overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq."

-- The 1954 overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz was partly achieved with the support of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, a major figure in Lansky’s arms pipeline to Israel in the 1940s, and whose Guardia Nacional was deeply involved in Caribbean drug trafficking thereafter.

--- The introduction of CIA covert forces in Laos in 1960, which eventually grew into a drug-financed irregular army of tens of thousands, was achieved with a force that grew out of the Sea Supply operation in Thailand. The CIA’s private war in Laos, which President Kennedy sought vainly to contain, was the true starting point of the U.S. war in Vietnam.

-- Angleton’s "alternative CIA," CI/SIG, manipulated and falsified its "intelligence" about Lee Harvey Oswald in such a way as to prepare him to be the designated suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

-- The overthrow of democratically elected Indonesian President Sukarno in 1965 was achieved in part by covert assistance through Lockheed Corporation payoffs, and in part by the intervention of Sasakawa Ryoichi, a CIA agent of influence, along with his friend Kodama Yoshio, with the yakuza in Japan. Sasakawa and Kodama were also recipients of Lockheed payoffs facilitated partly by Deak & Company, and partly on the scene by Shig Katayama, whose ID Corp. in the Cayman Islands conducted mysterious business transactions with Helliwell’s Castle Bank.

-- BCCI provided the initial infrastructure for the CIA intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and the ensuing alliance with the major drug trafficker Gulbeddin Hekmatyar. Pakistan’s President Zia arranged for Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s National Security Adviser, to work with Lt.-Gen. Fazle Haq; while a BCCI informant told U.S. authorities that Fazle Haq was "heavily engaged in narcotics trafficking and moving the heroin money through the [BCCI] bank." Hekmatyar in the next decade received more CIA aid than any other CIA asset before or since.

-- In 1970, a CIA officer with the pseudonym Henry J. Sloman, who was also "a high-risk smuggler directly linked to the Mafia," was dispatched to Chile, where he became involved with the right-wing plotting to assassinate General René Schneider, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army.

-- Orlando Letelier was murdered in Washington in September 1976 by a team including Cuban exile drug-traffickers, working for the dug-financed Chilean intelligence agency DINA. Though the US Government was already aware of DINA’s Operation CONDOR for such foreign-based murders, CIA Director Bush chose publicly to deflect suspicion away from DINA.

-- According to Robert Parry, Alexandre de Marenches of the Safari Club arranged for William Casey (a fellow Knight of Malta) to meet with Iranian and Israeli representatives in Paris in July and October 1980, where Casey promised delivery to Iran of needed U.S. armaments in exchange for a delay in the return of the U.S. hostages in Iran. (This was the so-called Republican "October Counter-surprise." Parry suspects a role of BCCI in both the funding of payoffs for the secret deal, and also the subsequent flow of Israeli armaments to Iran.

-- In 1981 Mehmet Ali Agça, a member of the Turkish drug-trafficking Grey Wolves, attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Le Monde diplomatique later reported that the assassination attempt was organized, at the request of Turkish mafia chief Bekir Celenk, by Abdullah Çatli, a drug-trafficking Grey Wolf leader of death squads for Turkish intelligence. Le Monde diplomatique added that one year later Çatli visited Miami with the notorious Operation CONDOR killer, Stefano delle Chiaie.

-- Shackley, Khashoggi, and BCCI were instrumental in inaugurating the illegal Iran-Contra Connection of 1985-86, which diverted funds from arms sales to Iran to support of the Contras in Honduras and Costa Rica.

-- The looting of Russia during the Yeltsin era in the 1990s saw funds channeled through Rappaport’s Inter Maritime Bank into the Bank of New York, where Rappaport also had an important if not controlling interest.

-- In 1991, Shackley’s colleague Richard Secord created an airline in Azerbaijan which arranged to fly in hundreds of mujahideen from Afghanistan recruited by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

-- U.S. support for the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998, a group backed by al-Qaeda and financed in part by drugs, led to revelations that for years at least one of the KLA leaders had a longtime relationship with the U.S. private military company MPRI. (As late as 1997 the KLA had been recognized by the United States as a terrorist group supported in part by the heroin traffic.)

(The list could be indefinitely expanded. For example, the conversion of Australia into a dependable U.S. ally can be dated to the fall of democratically elected Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, in which Penny Lernoux and others have seen the hidden hand of the Nugan Hand Bank.)

This deep continuity underlying U.S. expansion since World War II helps make credible the startling phenomenon described in our last chapter – namely, that deep events such as the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 are not unrelated, or the product of forces attacking America from outside. Rather, at least in part, they surface into public awareness out of the deep connection described in this chapter, a connection whose presence is ongoing but almost completely unacknowledged.

Further Conclusion: The Increasing Threat to Stable Democracy

But when this list of covert interventions and deep events is viewed synoptically, a pattern can be seen of increasing deviation from the policies of the public state. The assistance of the global connection for the CIA’s interventions in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) was in support of operations previously sanctioned by the National Security Council (and before that the Council on Foreign Relations).

But the drug-financed evolution of a CIA-trained force in Thailand into an offensive force invading Laos was an operation explicitly not authorized by the National Security Council. As Daniel Fineman has noted,

JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] preference for direct aid to French forces forced the NSC [National Security Council] in September [1953] to authorize implementation of only phase one ["strengthening Thailand’s will and ability to resist"], postponing indefinitely execution of the provisions in phase two taking the psychological war to neighboring countries.

And the falsification of Oswald’s file by Angleton’s CI/SIG, although it may have been initially authorized as a legitimate tool in the search for an alleged mole in the CIA, eventually facilitated the successful assassination of John F. Kennedy and the ensuing cover-up. At this point, the global connection was no longer simply a force acting in support of the public American state; it had developed relations with forces attacking the public state.

This pattern of increasing deviation can be used to refine our notion of the American deep state. Initially the deep state can be identified with the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), the creation (invisible at the time) of the National Security Council that facilitated the original Helliwell-CIA-mob connection. With the absorption of OPC into the CIA in 1953, the American deep state ceased for many years to exhibit the relatively coherent and disciplined concentration of authority that one sees in the deep states of Turkey or Italy or Colombia, or at one time in Chile and Argentina. At this stage the American deep state was unified by the economy of drugs but not much else. Its nebulous connection to legitimate power had shrunk to Angleton’s "alternative CIA," and even this ceased when Angleton was fired in December 1974.

But according to Joseph Trento, the connection was indirectly restored by a "shadow CIA" working for the Safari Club and Saudi intelligence; and by the 1980s this shadow CIA "was not only working for the Israelis but also was involved in covert operations from Central America to Iran." It is certain that, with the blessing of Casey, – who had his own direct contacts with Rappaport, BCCI, and the global drug connection – Shackley, Khashoggi, and their contacts led to Iran-Contra. At least one member of Shackley’s group, Richard Secord, then created an airline which brought Islamist mujahideen to Afghanistan. Another, neocon Michael Ledeen, contributed not only to Iran-Contra but also, with Donald Rumsfeld and D. Cheney, to the creation of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Indeed, the decision of William Casey to work with the global connection, and more specifically BCCI and Theodore Shackley’s contacts in Iran-Contra, cannot be fully understood by focusing on the history of the global drug connection alone. Casey’s actions must be seen in the context of what Irving Kristol has called the intellectual counterrevolution of the 1970s, the successful reversal of Kissinger’s and Carter’s moves towards détente with the Soviet Union, and of the post-Watergate reforms introduced by Senator Frank Church and others. As I have written elsewhere, a key moment was the so-called Halloween massacre in 1975, which saw among other things the firing of Angleton’s nemesis, William Colby, the appointment of Rumsfeld to Secretary of Defense, and the end of Kissinger’s long tenure as National Security Adviser.

By 1976 the intellectual counterrevolution had consolidated a new anti-Kissinger coalition consisting of a) Cheney and Rumsfeld inside the Ford Administration, b) the Committee on the Present Danger lobbying for a vastly increased defense budget, and c) neocons like Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, who came together to work against Kissinger’s SALT agreements and (with the help of the CIA’s new director, George H.W. Bush) to radically escalate the CIA’s estimate of the Soviet threat. Casey played an important role in this anti-Soviet coalition, and in 1976 he joined the CPD along with long-time members of the global connection like Ray Cline (Helliwell’s old OSS associate from Kunming), Jay Lovestone, and George Olmsted.

The anti-government bias of the new neocon right has extended to increased dislike for the CIA, now seen as an enemy rather than an ally. But even the new outsourced forces of violence in private security companies (PSCs) like Blackwater have recruited from the violent resources of the old global drug connection – specifically, in Blackwater’s case, from the paramilitary forces in countries like Colombia.

In short, the recourse to the illicit violence of the global drug traffic, which began in the panicked early years of the Cold War, has continued ever since to increase and metastasize, until it is now an increasing threat to constitutional democracy. It is not easy for most people to understand this. In the short run, illicit violence breeds the redressively violent opposition which justifies its existence – so that today the PSCs in Iraq and Afghanistan earn multimillion dollar contracts to fight the resistance they themselves have provoked.

But the new system of indirect empire does not appear to be a stable one: if there is a momentary respite in Iraq, it is because opposing cadres have found it more fruitful to fight in Afghanistan. Rather, indirect empire is a violent substitute for politics, to deal with situations which only politics can ameliorate.

If this country were serious in wishing to deal with the problem of terrorism, it would seek to reduce, rather than increase, the oppression which is producing redressive violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, Lebanon, and Palestine. The present course is more likely to aggravate the deteriorating status quo, and also to accelerate the waning of American resources, influence, and good will, even among our allies.

Is it utopian to think that the present course can be corrected? Probably yes, as long as most Americans believe that 9/11 was an attack engineered solely by a group of malevolent Arabs. But a saner policy might ensue if it were shown that 9/11, as Sibel Edmonds has intimated, was a deep event involving elements from America’s global drug connection.

What I have called America’s global drug connection has been responsible in the past for global terrorist activities like Operation Condor, and also for strengthening drug networks as so-called parallel governments in countries like Laos, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Colombia. For decades this country has been largely in denial about U.S. complicity in this state of affairs, projecting responsibility for terrorism instead on the Soviet Union ("the Evil Empire" and more recently Iraq and Iran ("the Axis of Evil".

To overcome these decades of denial will not be easy. But it will be a necessary step towards diminishing terrorism, and restoring a saner world.

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor at the University of California , Berkeley , is the author of The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (August 2008).

Helliwell, Castle Bank, Bruce Rappaport, and BCCI

Through this rapid survey of Helliwell’s banks we have seen that he was central to a connection between the worlds of intelligence, organized crime, global drug trafficking, political influence, and speculative investment, often in hotel-casinos, with overworld figures. 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 (just as Castle Bank was beginning to attract the attention of journals like Newsweek).

One of the most important may have been former OSS Chief William Donovan (about whom we shall have more to say). According to Pete Brewton,

One of the attorneys in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest case made the statement that Kanter was introduced to Helliwell by General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, the famous leader of the OSS during World War II, and Helliwell’s OSS boss. Kanter denied that. "I personally never met Bill Donovan. I believe I may have spoken to him once by phone at Paul Helliwell’s request…"

Another OSS figure, more directly involved, was Helliwell’s partner in the Florida bank holding company (called HMT and later Florida Shares) that owned the Bank of Perrine and the Bank of Cutler Ridge. This was

E.P. Barry, who had been a U.S. military intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. By the end of the war, he was the head of U.S. Counterintelligence (X-2) in Vienna…. Barry … was a longtime associate of [CIA Director] William Casey, according to a Castle Bank officer.

Barry was simultaneously a key shareholder in Florida Shares and in the Inter Maritime Bank of Bruce Rappaport, a close friend and business associate of William Casey. Rappaport, an oilman and oil tanker broker "thought to have ties to U.S. and Israeli intelligence," had numerous connections to the world’s largest-ever intelligence-drug laundromat – the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The Gokal shipping family of Pakistan, leading BCCI investors who later contributed to BCCI’s bankruptcy, was also shareholders with Rappaport and Barry in the Inter Maritime Bank. Alfred Hartmann, a board member of BCCI, was both vice-chairman of Rappaport’s Swiss bank, Bank of New York-Intermaritime, and also head of BCCI’s Swiss subsidiary, the Banque de Commerce et de Placements (BCP).

And according to Block and Weaver, "Rappaport worked the National Bank of Oman (a BCCI/Bank of America joint venture), helping funnel millions of CIA and Saudi dollars to Pakistan for the Afghan rebels during its 1980s war with the Soviets." Rappaport’s key man in Oman was Jerry Townsend, an alleged former CIA operative who now ran Colonial Shipping Co. in Atlanta, where he knew BCCI associate Bert Lance.

BCCI and an Israeli intelligence agent were also involved in Medellin arms sales, via a "melon farm" in Antigua partly financed by William Casey’s friend, Bruce Rappaport.

Bruce Rappaport … owned the land on which Maurice Sarfati, a former Israeli military officer, set up his melon farm. And one of Rappaport’s banks in Antigua made a large loan to Sarfati—which was never repaid. Sarfati (who also walked away from a loan guaranteed by OPIC, the U.S. government insurance agency) took it from there, first cultivating government officials and then providing entree to their offices to his compatriot Yair Klein.

Klein’s work [was] in Colombia, where his Israeli-licensed "security" company, Spearhead Ltd… trained the hit squads of the Medellin cocaine cartel in assassination and bombing techniques, was beginning to attract unwelcome attention. …. In 1988, Klein was in Antigua, looking for a new way to provide arms to his Medellin client, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha.

Rappaport’s apparent links to Mossad raise the question whether Helliwell’s connections to Lansky’s Bank of World Commerce and Tibor Rosenbaum did not also constitute a connection to Mossad. The same question is raised by Helliwell’s legal representation (according to the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Register) of the Eastern Development Company: a firm of this name cooperated with Lansky, Hank Greenspun, and others in the supply of arms to the nascent state of Israel.

It is clear that Jews were, like many other minorities, a constituent in the global drug connection. More importantly, they were an important part of the financial infrastructure of that connection – but even at this level they did not operate alone. The global drug connection combined Jewish banks in Florida and Switzerland with those of Teochew, Fujian, and Hokkien Chinese in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, the Muslims of Bank Intra and later BCCI in the Middle East, and furthermore Italian banks like those of Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, both members of the intelligence-linked Masonic Lodge P-2, and both murdered after their banks failed from mafia involvement. It is my impression that none of these ethnic minority elements ever surpassed in power the dominant role of figures from the mainstream, like Donovan and Helliwell.

(As a person deeply committed to nonviolence, I also have to acknowledge that the violence of the ethnic groups in the global drug connection, although later powerful and indeed intelligence-related, had its origins in redressive violence, against a system dominated above all by European and American interests.)

One of these mainstream figures was the mysterious E.P. Barry, an investor with both Helliwell and Rappaport. One of the very few things known about Barry is that he was in OSS during World War II, and that towards the end of the war Donovan appointed him head of OSS Counterintelligence (X-2) in Vienna.

OSS X-2, or Counterintelligence, was the most secretive and highly classified of the OSS branches, and the one whose precise mission was to penetrate the German Sicherheitsdienst [SD]. According to a 1946 OSS Report, "an equally interesting X-2 activity was the investigation of RSHA [SD] financial transactions" (Operation Safehaven). In the course of these investigations, the U.S. Third Army took an SD major "on several trips to Italy and Austria, and, as a result of these preliminary trips, over $500,000 in gold, as well as jewels, were recovered." Some of the Nazi gold recovered under Barry’s supervision was subsequently used to finance U.S. intelligence operations in Germany in the immediate post-war years.

Barry, with this intriguing background, represents the continuity between the Helliwell intelligence-drug connection which flourished until 1972 (the year the IRS’s Operation Tradewinds began to investigate the Bank of Perrine) and the BCCI intelligence-drug connection which flourished after 1972 (the year BCCI was founded).

Like Khashoggi before it, BCCI had the ability to broker Arab-Israeli-China arms deals, as well as its contacts to western intelligence and politicians. Indeed, the bank seems to have largely inherited Khashoggi’s function as an agent of influence in the Middle East and elsewhere after the United States, by the Corrupt Federal Practices Act of 1978, outlawed direct payments by U.S. corporations to foreign individuals.

BCCI also inherited and vastly expanded Khashoggi’s use of money to influence and corrupt American politicians. BCCI’s Pakistani president, Agha Hasan Abedi, rescued Jimmy Carter’s Treasury Secretary Bert Lance from bankruptcy, and thereby developed a relationship with Carter himself.

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 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, 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.

And from two well-researched books by journalists from Time and the Wall Street Journal, we learn that among later highly-placed recipients of largesse from BCCI, its owners, and its affiliates, were


Ronald Reagan’s Treasury Secretary James Baker, who declined to investigate BCCI; and

Democratic Senator Joseph Biden and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which declined to investigate BCCI.

The CIA, BCCI, and a "Long Tradition of Shady Banks"

But Barry is not the only link between the drug banks of Helliwell and BCCI. A more central figure is General George Olmsted, the head of the Washington bank holding company known as the International Bank. In March 1973 Olmsted had the International Bank (which "had a reputation as a CIA bank" buy 66 percent of the capital stock of the failing Mercantile Bank in the Bahamas (Castle’s predecessor), even though "International’s officers knew the actual state of Mercantile’s financial health." Starting in 1977, International started to sell its stock in Financial General Bankshares (later known as First American), a major American bank holding company, to BCCI front men, who later took over First American for BCCI.

The most common explanation is that the CIA not only used the bank, but had helped develop it. Journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, the authors of the definitive book on BCCI, speculated that the CIA’s relationship with its founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, might have gone back to before BCCI’s founding in 1972. They observed also that BCCI was only the latest in an overlapping series of money-laundering banks that did services for the CIA – Deak & Company, Castle Bank & Trust, and Nugan Hand.

The Global Connection and Narcotics

One of these interlocking banks, the World Finance Corporation in Florida, became the target of "perhaps the largest narcotics investigation of the decade." But the investigation, "involving scores of federal and state agents, had to be scrapped after a year because the CIA complained to the Justice Department that a dozen top criminals were ‘of interest’ to it."

Another drug-linked bank was the Australian Nugan Hand Bank, which chose as auditor Price Waterhouse in the Bahamas in 1976, the year that both Castle and Mercantile were collapsing. After its spectacular collapse in 1980, Australian investigators concluded that Nugan Hand had been involved in the financing of major drug deals, as well as the laundering of profits: two official investigations "placed Nugan Hand in the critical role of surreptitiously transferring drug income overseas, where it obviously could be reinvested in more illegal drugs."

Nugan Hand collected an impressive number of former CIA officers, including its "mysterious puppetmaster" Bernie Houghton, who back in the 1950s allegedly took the place of Helliwell in Bangkok, and former CIA Director William Colby. Of particular interest is the involvement with Nugan Hand of Thomas Clines, a CIA officer in Laos under Theodore Shackley who later resigned to work in the outsourced intelligence network of Edwin Wilson. When the Nugan Hand Bank collapsed spectacularly in 1980 (with the suicide or murder of Frank Nugan), it was Thomas Clines who helped spirit Houghton quietly out of Australia, The two men, along with Edwin Wilson and Theodore Shackley and BCCI, then participated in off-the-books covert operations against the Soviets in Afghanistan, working not for the CIA but for the Safari Club.

The CIA office in Chiang Mai, when the main business of the city was opium trafficking, was on the same floor as the local office of the DEA. According to Jonathan Kwitny, "The DEA receptionist answered Nugan Hand’s phone and took messages when the bank’s representatives were out." Nugan Hand’s representative there, Neil Evans

has said he was present when Michael Hand and Ron Pulger-Frame – the former Deak & Company courier who went to work at Nugan Hand – discussed the shipment of CIA money to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, and Panama. Evans has said Nugan Hand moved $50 to $60 million at a time for the CIA, and also that Nugan Hand was involved in Third World arms deals.

Evans also told Australian television that the millions he handled were "garnered from the drugs transiting the area. The bank, he put it starkly, was a ‘laundry’ for Meo [Hmong] tribesmen and other poppy growers."

In The Road to 9/11 I describe how Casey’s reliance on BCCI to distribute U.S. assistance to the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Russians led to most aid reaching the faction of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leading drug trafficker in Afghanistan who soon (thanks to aid from the U.S. and Pakistan) became perhaps the leading heroin trafficker in the world.

This pattern of a drug connection repeated itself in the 1990s, after the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan and BCCI collapsed soon thereafter. In Azerbaijan (under oil company cover), veterans of CIA operations under Shackley and Clines in Laos, like Richard Secord, Heinie Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn, set up an airline on the model of Air America which soon was "picking up hundreds of mujahideen mercenaries from Afghanistan." The Arab Afghans’Azeri operations were also financed with Afghan heroin.

Loretta Napoleoni has argued that there is an Islamist drug route of al Qaeda allies across North Central Asia, reaching from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan through Azerbaijan and Chechnya to Kosovo. This leads us to the paradoxical fact that in 1998 Clinton came to the support of the al Qaeda-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He did so even though "[i]n 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA … as an international terrorist organization, saying it had bankrolled its operations with proceeds from the international heroin trade and from loans from known terrorists like Osama bin Laden."

Finally, if former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is to be believed, this same flow of heroin has been financing the corruption of Congress under George W. Bush. Edmonds was fired from the FBI in 2002, after accusing a colleague of being a security threat. She has since contested her firing in a whistleblower suit which the government has blocked by invoking the State Secrets privilege. She has also been prohibited from speaking publicly about her case.

According to Daniel Ellsberg, Edmonds’ concern is the al Qaeda connection described by Napoleoni:

Al Qaeda, she's been saying to Congress, according to these interviews, is financed 95% by drug money - drug traffic to which the U.S. government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours - such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all the 'Stans - in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed

in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe's heroin, by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo - Albanian Muslims in Kosovo - basically the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century….Sibel says that suitcases of cash have been delivered to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, at his home, near Chicago, from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money.

In 2005 Sibel Edmonds’ charges were partly aired in Vanity Fair. There it was revealed that she had had access to FBI wiretaps of conversations among members of the American-Turkish Council (ATC), about bribing elected U.S. officials, and about "what sounded like references to large-scale drug shipments and other crimes."

The CIA, Eddie Cellini, Edward K. Moss, and the CIA-Mafia Plots

But there was more to the CIA-Resorts connection. Back in 1967 Resorts casino (at that time, Paradise Island) had hired as its casino manager Eddie Cellini, who had formerly managed Lansky’s casino in Havana’s Hotel Internacional. 1967 was the year that the CIA’s Inspector-General, in his Report on CIA Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, had written that Eddie Cellini and his more famous brother Dino

were believed to be in touch with [Tony] Varona [member of the CIA’s front group for the Bay of Pigs Operation]… and were reported to have offered Varona large sums of money for his operations against Castro, with the understanding that they would receive privileged treatment 'in the Cuba of the future.’

The Inspector-General’s Report was written to deal with the political flap raised by Jack Anderson’s spectacular charge in 1967 that John F. Kennedy might have possibly been killed as the result of an assassination plot against Castro "which then possibly backfired" against Kennedy himself. Jack Anderson’s ultimate source for the story was John Roselli, a mob member disgruntled that his cooperation with the CIA on the assassination plots had not protected him from conviction and possible deportation.

Researcher Alan A. Block notes that it was strangely imprudent of Paradise Island to have hired Eddie Cellini in 1967, when it had just weathered an organized crime scandal of its own. But the CIA was facing the even bigger organized crime scandal raised by Jack Anderson’s column, and the I-G Report had just told CIA Director Helms that Cellini was possibly a go-between in the assassination plots between the two plot principals Varona and Santos Trafficante. One possibility is that Resorts hired Cellini to ensure that he would not join Roselli in going public.

There is an important FBI report reproduced without demurrer in a CIA document contained in its Lansky Security file, which is almost devoid of references to Lansky but could very well be called a file on the CIA-mafia plots. According to this FBI report, the contact between Varona and the Cellini brothers, representing the mob, was through a Washington public relations agent named Edward K. Moss:

Verona [sic] has taken on Edward K. Moss as his assistant for raising funds to finance operations against Castro….Julia Cellini is alleged to be Moss’ mistress and operates a secretarial service [that] is really a front for Edward K. Moss’ activities….Julia Cellini’s brother, Dino Cellini and his brother (first name unknown), are active fronts for two of the largest casinos that operated in Cuba until the Batista regime….It is alleged that the Cellini brothers are in close contact with Tony Verona [sic] through Edward K. Moss and have offered to contribute considerable sums of money (reported as high as two million dollars) through Edward K. Moss to Tony Verona to finance operations against the Castro regime with an understanding that they would have the major slice "in the Cuba of the future."

According to the same CIA memo, Moss was a past president of the Public Relations Society of America. At the same time, according to a verbal report from Dun and Bradstreet to then-CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson, "Moss’ operation seems to be government contracts for the underworld and possibly surfaces Mafia money in legitimate business activities."

All this supplies some context to the decision of the CIA Office of Security, on November 7, 1962, to secure a Covert Security Approval (CSAS) for the use of Moss by the Political Action Group of the CIA’s Covert Action (CA) staff. This of course was more than a year after the FBI had advised the CIA that reportedly "the Cellini brothers are in contact with Varona through Moss and have offered to contribute as high as two million dollars to finance anti-Castro operations." Furthermore, FBI information sent to the CIA indicated that Moss’s mistress Julia Cellini and her brother Dino Cellini were alleged to be procurers, while "the Cellini brothers have long been associated with the narcotics and white slavery rackets in Cuba." The CIA itself had notified the FBI on December 16, 1960, that Julia "Cellino" had advised that her brothers "have long been associated in the narcotics and white slavery rackets in Cuba."

Still further FBI information indicated that Dino Cellini "was formerly associated with Joseph Francis Nesline WFO [i.e., Washington] top hoodlum, in a gambling operation." I have written elsewhere how Meyer Lansky and Joe Nesline "systematically used sexual blackmail [i.e., through white slavery] to compromise a number of people in Washington who were politically influential."

The CIA remembered that Moss was a questionable character; a memo of November 28, 1962 referred to his "‘unscrupulous and unethical’ business practices." According to the I-G Report and other memos, "A memorandum prepared by CA [Covert Action] staff in 1965 states that records do not show any use made of Moss;" but this carefully worded language would not of course rule out use made of Moss off the books. In fact, the Moss folder’s documents confirm the CIA’s interest in him, and many documents concern Julia, Eddie, Dino, and Goffredo Cellini.

The documents concerning Moss, the Cellinis, and Varona are very revealing. The FBI alerted the CIA to their relationship and the offer of two million dollars to Varona, "in view of the serious implications of [mob] infiltration of this CIA-supported activity [against Castro]." On January 23, 1961, the FBI communicated their concerns to the new Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, then in office for less than a week.

The response of the CIA was the opposite of what decorum might expect: instead of distancing itself from Moss and his associates, the CIA warmed to them. The CIA arranged for poison pills to be supplied via the mafia to Varona, who in February 1961 became the point man in the CIA-mafia plot to kill Castro. In 1962 Varona was selected again to participate, as ZRRIFLE-2, in William Harvey’s renewed assassination plots against Castro. And in the same year, as we have seen, the CIA took steps to use Moss himself.

More on the CIA, Moss, and the Politics of Corruption: Adnan Khashoggi

The indirect relationship of the CIA to Moss through a cut-out (Varona) appears to have survived into the 1970s. By this time the cut-out was Adnan Khashoggi, who for a while (like T.V. Soong and Phao Sriyanon before him) was known as "the richest man in the world." Khashoggi was also listed in the Kerry-Brown BCCI Report as one of the "principal foreign agents of the U.S," and at some point in the 1970s he engaged Edward K. Moss as his public relations agent.

Khashoggi replicated the politics of corrupt influence through money and sex which we have already encountered. His contributions to Nixon’s election campaigns – some legal, some illicit – were investigated by the Senate Watergate Committee. Khashoggi is said by some to have given $1 million to Nixon covertly in 1972, allegedly in a briefcase which he "mistakenly" left behind in Nixon’s San Clemente residence.

In addition, Khashoggi is known to have deposited several million dollars (some say $200 million) in the bank of Nixon’s friend, Bebe Rebozo. He then "withdrew all but $200,000 of it in the form of checks written to ‘cash’ and signed over to the Sands Hotel" in Las Vegas. It was as if Khashoggi was using the Sands as his personal laundromat. Known as "the biggest high roller ever to hit Las Vegas," Khashoggi would lose as much as $250,000 in one fling.

The Sands was one of the Las Vegas casinos originally part-owned by Meyer Lansky, and from which proceeds were skimmed to be deposited (as we saw) in the Miami National Bank. In the 1970s the Sands was now owned by Howard Hughes; but two veterans of the Lansky era, Carl Cohen and Jack Entratter, continued to work in the casino. Khashoggi meanwhile involved in his business deals the manager of Hughes’ Vegas properties, F. William Gay; and eventually, when Hughes was spirited secretly out of Vegas to Wallace Groves’ resort in Freeport, Bahamas, it was in Khashoggi’s plane.

Even in the Hughes era, Las Vegas casinos continued to be preferred sites for the laundering of money (disguised as gambling losses). This practice was so well established that eventually, in Operation Casablanca, U.S. Customs actually created a fake casino near Las Vegas at which top-level Mexican bank officials congregated and "avidly discussed how to handle the latest half-billion dollars in drug proceeds already on hand." In one important case, thousands of dollars in money wrappers from the Stardust casino (mentioned above) were found on a suspected drug-smuggling plane in Florida.

There are also reports that in addition to money, Khashoggi "used sex to win over U.S. executives." The bill for the madam who supplied girls en masse to his yacht in the Mediterranean ran to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The CIA’s interest in Khashoggi and Moss was not limited to the funds the two men had accessible. By the 1970s, Moss was Chairman of the elite Safari Club in Kenya, where he invited Khashoggi in as majority owner. And as former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once revealed publicly, the intelligence chiefs of a group of countries (France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran under the Shah) met regularly at the Safari Club to conduct covert operations which the CIA was unable to carry out in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

CIA officers such as Miles Copeland and James Critchfield became part of Khashoggi’s milieu. They advised Khashoggi on diplomatic initiatives, such as a proposed Mideast Peace Fund that would reward both Israel and Palestine for recognizing each other. Khashoggi had the ability to negotiate with the Israelis; he is said to have been introduced to the Israelis by former gunrunner Hank Greenspun, the politically influential editor of the Las Vegas Sun.

In general, Khashoggi represented the post-war emigration offshore of immense wealth and the power it conveyed. He served as a "cut-out," or representative, in a number of operations forbidden to those he represented. Lockheed, for one, was conspicuously absent from the list of military contractors who contributed illicitly to Nixon’s 1972 election campaign. But there was no law prohibiting their official representative, Khashoggi, from cycling $200 million through the bank of Nixon’s friend, Bebe Rebozo.

All this suggests that the CIA’s interest in Moss – as later in Khashoggi, in Wallace Groves, in Operation ███, and in Eddie Cellini’s employers at Resorts International – had to do with irregular funding for off-the-books covert operations. And if any such funds were passed, the context suggests that the man fingered to handle them would have been Paul Helliwell, the man the Wall Street Journal reported was "‘deeply involved’ in financing a series of covert forays between 1964 and 1975 against Cuba."

Helliwell, Castle, and the Overworld

We have not yet dealt with the overworld connections of Castle Bank. The most affluent depositors there "were members of the fabulously rich Pritzker family from Chicago, clients of the Kanter firm." Block observes that the Pritzkers, whose vast holdings include the Hyatt hotel chain, also obtained a loan from the Teamsters Pension Fund for a hotel-casino investment in Nevada, and that "Jimmy Hoffa and Allen Dorfman worked personally on Pritzker loans."

Kanter and Castle Bank also planned developments with other members of the overworld, such as Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina. Mercantile, the predecessor bank to Castle, represented investments from two shipping magnates: the billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig, and the extremely wealthy Norwegian shipbuilder Inge Gordon Mosvold, who was perhaps fronting for Ludwig.

Mercantile and Castle interlocked closely with another Helliwell Bahamas bank, eventually called Underwriters Bank, Limited. Here the majority holder with 95 percent was the American insurance conglomerate American International Underwriters Corp. [AIUC], which began as part of the insurance empire headed by former OSS agent C.V. Starr, and is today part of the giant multinational AIG. Block correctly reports that AIUC "was an insurance conglomerate with suspected ties to the C.I.A. in Southeast Asia."

I have written elsewhere how the C.V. Starr group was represented in Washington by Thomas ("Tommy the Cork" Corcoran, and headed after World War II by Corcoran’s former law partner, William S. Youngman. It thus interlocked with the so-called Chennault circle (or Chennault’s "Washington squadron", the powerful cabal put together with Roosevelt’s blessing in 1940 to enable the equipment, staffing, and financial support of General Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers in China.

Corcoran had been a key figure in Washington since the 1930s, when he headed "FDR’s informal intelligence service and international spy operations long before there was an OSS." By the 1950s, when he was said by Fortune to maintain "the finest intelligence service in Washington," his lobbying activities had become intimately involved with influencing CIA covert operations:

Most of [his clients] are companies with international interests and he has a choice clientele in this field. It includes United Fruit Co., American International Underwriters Corp. (part of the C. V. Starr interests in Asia and elsewhere) and General Claire Chennault’s Civil Air Transport, Inc. In late 1951 Corcoran, for

one example, was working his intelligence service overtime keeping up with American policy on Iran—what the State Department did in this affair would be a guide to what it might or might not do to keep his client, United Fruit, from being thrown out of Guatemala.

Helliwell and Corcoran played a crucial role together in the prolongation of Chennault’s Asian influence, when the two men persuaded Frank Wisner of OPC to purchase and refinance Chennault’s post-war airline CAT (later the CIA proprietary Air America). Also figuring in this important decision was William Pawley, a key figure in Chennault’s so-called "Washington squadron" during World War II. Together with Sea Supply Inc., Helliwell’s other creation, CAT became the chief logistic infrastructure for the KMT drug-trafficking troops in Burma.

Helliwell and the Politics of Influence

Helliwell and Corcoran’s law firm, Corcoran and Rowe, also cooperated with William Donovan in using Thai money to influence Congress. Helliwell himself was a key organizer for the Republican Party in Florida, helping to win the state for Eisenhower in 1952 and thus launching the Republican ascendancy in the South. (Helliwell later became close to Nixon’s companion, Bebe Rebozo.)

Corcoran and Rowe, meanwhile, were Democrats, the latter close to the upcoming Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson. Corcoran in the 1940s had managed the accounts and political business of Chiang Kai-shek’s brother-in-law, T.V. Soong, who by diverting millions in Chinese gold to his California accounts had become one of the richest men in the world.

Together with Soong, Corcoran lobbied successfully for a lend-lease program to Nationalist (KMT) China, and to a private American Volunteer Group recruiting pilots from the armed forces for a private company headed by Corcoran’s friend, William Pawley. In fact, the pilots were being recruited to fight in China as part of Chennault’s irregular Air Force, for Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT:

In effect, Corcoran was running an off-the-books private war in which a private company, China Defense Supplies, was diverting some of the war materiel destined for China to a private army, the American Volunteer Group.

After the war, Soong, Corcoran, and Pawley became strong backers of the pro-KMT China Lobby. The State Department officers unfortunate enough to be entered in T.V. Soong’s "black book" became targets of the purges conducted by J. Edgar Hoover and later Joseph McCarthy.

The Soong-backed China Lobby’s fortunes declined dramatically with those of McCarthy in 1954. At this point Corcoran and Donovan, who had previously collaborated on Chennault’s preemptive purchase via CAT of China’s commercial air fleet in 1949, collaborated again to maintain the flow of funds from Asia to influence Congress. The new source was the Thai dictator, Phao Sriyanon, a major beneficiary of the KMT drug network established by Helliwell, Sea Supply, and CAT. (At the time of his death as an exile in Switzerland, Phao was said to be "one of the richest men in the world."

After scandals and exposés had forced the revamping of the China Lobby in Washington,

the private arm of the Thai Lobby had mustered its own resources…. Through Donovan, [OSS veteran Willis] Bird [Sea Supply’s purchasing agent in Bangkok], or his other CIA connections, Phao had, by that time, hired lawyer Paul Helliwell…as a lobbyist in addition to Donovan. Donovan [who received a reported $100,000 from the Thai government] and Helliwell divided the Congress between them, with Donovan assuming responsibility for the Republicans and Helliwell taking the Democrats.

How did Helliwell, an influential Republican lawyer working full-time in Miami, "take" the Democrats? By acting in his role as Thai Consul in Miami: his annual reports as a foreign lobbyist reveal that he passed tens of thousands of dollars a year to James Rowe, of Corcoran and Rowe.

Helliwell, Resorts International, and the Politics of Corruption

Helliwell and his banks also handled real investments for the Lansky crowd:

Among the Florida real estate companies that benefited from Helliwell’s sleight of hand was General Development Corporation, controlled by Louis Chesler, a Florida real estate developer and associate of Lansky, and "trigger Mike" Coppola, a Lansky crony. Chesler was the partner of Wallace Groves….Chesler and Groves were partners in a gambling venture with Resorts International, through a Grand Bahamian company whose counsel was the law firm of Helliwell, Melrose, and DeWolf.

Resorts International, formerly the Mary Carter Paint Company controlled by James Crosby, was the majority owner of a Bahamas resort, Paradise Island, which was unable to obtain a license until Wallace Groves was brought in as a partner in 1966. The well-known reaction of a U.S. Justice Department official to this change of ownership was, "The atmosphere seems right for a Lansky skim." Years later, "lawyers for New Jersey’s Gaming Enforcement Division would oppose the granting of a gambling license to Crosby and his company [Resorts International], citing ‘links with disreputable persons and organizations,’ and specifically their record on Paradise Island."

Like Helliwell and Groves, so Resorts International was part of the global CIA-mob connection. According to a 1976 CIA memorandum included in its Meyer Lansky Security file,

Resorts International, Inc., is the Subject of OS [Office of Security] file #591 722. This file reflects that Resorts International, Inc. was of interest to Cover and Commercial Staff, DDO [Operations Directorate], in 1972 and 1973.

As the same CIA memo makes clear, this was after a 1969 book, The Grim Reapers by Ed Reid, had exposed the company’s connections to Wallace Groves and, through its casino manager Eddie Cellini, to what the CIA memo called "the gambling activities of the organized crime boss Meyer LANSKY." Resorts International, in other words, occupied a "cut-out" intermediary role between the CIA and Eddie Cellini, just as (we shall see in a moment) a similar cut-out role was performed in 1960 by the CIA’s Bay of Pigs leader, Tony Varona.

1972, the year in which Resorts became "of interest" to the CIA, was also the year in which Meyer Lansky was indicted in Miami, along with Dino Cellini (Eddie’s brother). One of the charges in the indictment was that "in 1968 Lansky maintained at least some control over running junkets (a profitable part of a casino operation) to the Paradise Island Casino." I shall argue later that both Resorts and the Lansky indictment may have been "of interest" to the CIA in these two years because of the showdown at that time between Nixon and the CIA in the wake of the Watergate break-in.

The CIA may have been aware of the allegations, which surfaced in 1972, that funds from the Paradise Island casino were being secretly carried to Nixon and his friend Bebe Rebozo, by a casino employee. This was Seymour (Sy) Alter, an associate on the one hand of Lansky and his man Eddie Cellini, and on the other hand "a friend of Nixon and Rebozo since 1962." The funds came from the Paradise Island Bridge Company, a company partly owned by an officer of Benguet International, a firm represented by Paul Helliwell. It is likely that Nixon himself had a hidden interest in the Bridge Company, which might explain the revelation through Operation Tradewinds that a "Richard M. Nixon" (not otherwise identified) had an account at Helliwell’s Castle Bank

The CIA, the Mob, and Off-the-Books Operations

Helliwell was not the only CIA connection to the mafia, nor the most highly placed. Plots to assassinate Castro in 1960 were initiated from the CIA’s Office of Security through a go-between, Robert Maheu, whose independent business had been launched with the help of an Office of Security retainer. It was Maheu who transmitted the CIA assassination proposal to John Roselli.

A more on-going relationship to the mob was maintained by the CIA’s Counterintelligence (CI) Staff Chief, James Angleton. He too used a go-between--the New York lawyer Mario Brod--who, according to a CIA memo, was a CI Staff agent in New York City from 1952 to 1971. One of the sensitive CI Staff agents handled by Brod in New York was Jay Lovestone, the AFL-CIO International Affairs Chief who transmitted funds to strong-arm gangs in Marseille allied with Corsican drug traffickers who were part of the Lansky-Luciano global drug connection.

According to Doug Valentine, Lovestone’s assistant Irving Brown was implicated in drug smuggling activities in Europe, at the same time that he used CIA money to establish

a "compatible left" labor union in Marseilles with Pierre Ferri-Pisani. On behalf of Brown and the CIA, Ferri-Pisani (a drug smuggler connected with Marseilles crime lord Antoine Guerini), hired goons to shellack striking Communist dock workers.

Lovestone, a former Communist turned militant anti-Communist, together with his mentor David Dubinsky of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, had also fought the creation of the more militant CIO union movement in the 1930s, and the United Auto Workers of Walter and Victor Reuther in particular. The rival UAW-AFL, which Lovestone favored, turned to mobsters for muscle, and hired as its New York regional director John Dioguardi, a member of the Lucchese mafia family. Dioguardi was later blamed by U.S. Attorney Paul Williams for the blinding of labor journalist Victor Riesel and the subsequent murder of the man who threw acid in Riesel’s face.

Another sensitive agent handled by CI Staff agent Brod, Angleton’s go-between with the mob, was the Russian defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, whom Angleton segregated from the regular CIA bureaucracy in his unending search for a high-level mole inside the CIA. Angleton (according to his biographer Tom Mangold) was "quietly building an alternative CIA," with its own communication system, archive, and vault, using very dubious information from Lovestone and Golitsyn. The heart of this alternative CIA was CI’s "inner sanctum: the super-secret Special Investigation Group" (CI/SIG), where were assembled files to show that Henry Kissinger and Averell Harriman were possible KGB moles.

A third sensitive agent handled by Brod was Herbert Itkin, a controversial double agent working with the mob on the one hand, and CIA and FBI on the other. But like Itkin, Brod himself "had contacts with the Mafia." A CIA flap occurred in 1970 when Itkin was being used by the Justice Department and FBI to prosecute a number of mob figures with one-time connections to Havana, such as James Plumeri, Ed Lanzieri, and Sam Mannarino, for illegal kickback arrangements with the Teamsters. The U.S. Attorney telephoned the CIA’s Legal Counsel to advise that Mario Brod had entered the courtroom in order to work with the defense.

According to Court records, "The defense sought to call Mario Brod, who was described as Itkin's contact with the Central Intelligence Agency. It was stated that Brod would testify that he would not believe Itkin under oath and that Itkin's reputation for truthfulness was bad." The CIA’s Legal Counsel concurred with the U.S. Attorney’s steps to block Brod from testifying. His office noted Brod’s explanation of his behavior for the record: "One of the defendants by the name of Lenzieri [(sic), i.e., Edward the Buff Lanzieri] was Brod’s only contact inside the Mafia who would alert Brod if he was in personal danger."

But Brod may have been acting out of more than self-interest, for it has been suggested that some of the mafia defendants in the kickback trials also had a deeper CIA connection, even if off the books. According to Dan Moldea, two of the defendants, John La Rocca and Gabriel Mannarino, had been involved in Cuban gunrunning operations with Hoffa; and he suggests that Hoffa persuaded La Rocca and Mannarino, along with two other kickback defendants (Salvatore Granello and James "Jimmy Doyle" Plumeri), "to cooperate with the agency." Moreover, all of the defendants in the kickback trials where Itkin testified, and Brod tried to intervene for the defense, were members of so-called "paper locals" in the Teamsters (and earlier the UAW-AFL), controlled by Plumeri’s nephew, John Dioguardi.

In June 1975, six months after the leak about Angleton and Operation CHAOS that led to Angleton’s ouster, Time magazine alleged that the CIA had used Brod’s mafia contacts, Plumeri and Granello, "to do some spying in Cuba in preparation for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion." (I have found no corroboration for Time’s claim in released CIA documents.)

Like Brod, Angleton himself allegedly had mafia contacts, and on at least one occasion intervened to prevent another part of the CIA from investigating the banking of illegal Lansky skim from Las Vegas. A senior official in Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department asked John Whitten, the CIA’s one time chief of the Mexico/Panama desk in Western Hemisphere Division, to investigate numbered bank accounts in Panama because Las Vegas gamblers were using them to smuggle cash, "which they skimmed off the top of their daily take." Using his CIA pseudonym "John Scelso," Whitten testified to the Church Committee about Angleton’s actions.

At that time we were in an excellent position to do this…. I thought it was a great idea. And promptly this came to Mr. Angleton’s attention, and we had to brief him on it, and he said, well, we’re not going to have anything to do with this. This is the Bureau’s [FBI’s] business. And whammo, end of conversation. We were called off. I went to Colonel J.C. King, who was at that time the Chief of the WH Division, and told him this, and J.C. King said….well, you know, Angleton has these ties to the Mafia, and he is not going to do anything to jeopardize them. And then I said, I didn’t know that. And he said, yeah, it had to do with Cuba.

Angleton’s defense of Lansky’s skim cannot be separated from his second function in the CIA, as handler of the Israel desk. Angleton’s connections with Mossad dated back to World War II, when he had coordinated OSS operations in Italy with the Jewish underground headed locally by Teddy Kollek (later Israel’s Mayor of Jerusalem).

Angleton’s "Alternative CIA" and Its Legacy

Moreover CI/SIG, the "inner sanctum" of Angleton’s "alternative CIA," affected U.S. history significantly in 1963. Its so-called 201 or "personality" file on "Lee Henry Oswald" (the man known to the world as Lee Harvey Oswald), had been filled with false and falsified information since it was opened in December 1960. And two messages in the 201 file were falsified again in October 1963, in such a way as to allow Oswald to be a credible "designated suspect" in the assassination of John F. Kennedy one month later.

The falsification of Oswald’s 201 file may have originated as a legitimate counterintelligence operation. I have argued that the uniquely falsified messages were part of a so-called "marked card" or "barium meal" test to determine if and where leaks of sensitive information were occurring. This was a familiar technique, and was the responsibility of the CI/SIG, which was responsible for the 201 file.

But by October 1963 we see signs that CIA cables on Oswald were also being manipulated, in order to enable him to become a designated suspect in the November 22 assassination of President Kennedy. A CIA teletype to the FBI in October 1963 (drafted by a CI/SIG officer) withheld the obviously significant information that Oswald had reportedly met in Mexico City with a Soviet Vice-Consul, Valeriy Kostikov, believed by CIA officers to be an officer of the KGB. This withholding helped ensure that Oswald would not be subjected to surveillance by the FBI after the alleged encounter, surveillance which presumably could have limited his ability to become a designated suspect by his presence at a particularly sensitive corner in Kennedy’s Dallas parade route. I have argued that similar CIA withholding from the FBI of information about two alleged 9/11 hijackers, Nawaz al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mihdar, likewise made it possible for them to play the role of designated suspects by preventing FBI surveillance, as well.

CIA Director William Colby forced Angleton to resign from the CIA in the post-Watergate climate of December 1974, following public revelations about Angleton’s involvement in the CIA’s possibly illegal Operation CHAOS (the surveillance of Americans in the United States). This spelled the end of Angleton’s "alternative CIA" in the Counterintelligence Staff. For about another year leaks like the one we saw about CIA links to Brod’s mobsters continued to expose (and in this way help terminate) the morass of CIA links to Cuban exile terrorists and other members of the global drug connection.

But in 1976 the climate changed dramatically, after Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in the so-called "Halloween massacre" (managed from President Ford’s White House) replaced CIA Director Colby with George H.W. Bush, and sent Rumsfeld from the White House to be Secretary of Defense. If 1975 was the post-Watergate year of dramatic disclosures about CIA involvement with Cuban exiles and mobsters in assassination efforts, 1976 was the year in which mob-connected Cuban exiles and the Chilean intelligence agency DINA, both involved in drug trafficking, indulged in a wave of terrorist killings. These included the blowing up of a civilian Air Cubana airliner and the assassination in Washington of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier.

However, the CIA was now no longer the sole or perhaps even the chief point of U.S. contact with the DINA-sponsored international Operation CONDOR, which carried out multiple killings. U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Robert White, a career State Department official whose antipathy to these murders cost him his job after Reagan was elected, heard from the Paraguayan Armed Forces Commander that "intelligence chiefs from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay used ’an encrypted system within the U.S. [military] telecommunications net[work],’ which covered all of Latin America, to ‘coordinate intelligence information.’"

Henry Kissinger, who in 1976 was in his last year as Secretary of State, played at best an equivocal role vis-à-vis this wave of right-wing violence. Before lecturing Chile publicly in Santiago for its human rights violations ("The condition of human rights…has impaired our relationship with Chile and will continue to do so.", Kissinger privately assured Pinochet that he was compelled by U.S. politics to say this, and that in fact his main concern was the move in the U.S. Congress to cut off aid to Chile.

U.S. protection and even support for the terrorists of 1976 has continued to the present day. Luis Posada Carriles, the principal architect of the Air Cubana bombing, "served prison time in Venezuela for the Cubana bombing;" and "later, in the 1980s, he worked again on behalf of the CIA in Central America, helping to coordinate the Contra supply network." Posada was arrested and convicted again in Panama in 2000 for an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro, this time with Guillermo Novo, one of Letelier’s murderers. Both men were promptly pardoned by Panama’s outgoing president. In May 2008, Posada was honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala in Miami, after charges against him for illegal entry into the United States were thrown out by a federal judge in Texas.

CIA Director Bush also promoted Theodore Shackley, who for years had handled the CIA’s maverick Cuban exiles in Miami. According to Kevin Phillips,

In late 1976, Bush had also protected wayward or hot-triggered Agency operatives – veterans of everything from Chilean assassinations to Vietnam’s Phoenix Program and improper domestic surveillance – from indictment by President Ford’s Justice Department.

But the spirit of post-Watergate restraint returned to the CIA under President Carter and his CIA Director, Admiral Stansfield Turner. Thanks largely to a series of leaks about his friend, Edwin Wilson, Shackley’s standing in the CIA diminished until he left in 1978.

However, it is the argument of William Corson and Joseph Trento that the spirit of an alternative and more activist CIA survived under Shackley in exile. Trento writes that Shackley was supported by the Shah of Iran’s Safari Club (see below), and by Richard Helms, U.S. Ambassador to Iran. The regular CIA Station Chief in Iran "repeatedly complained that Helms seemed to be running his own intelligence operations out of the embassy," and that CIA veterans who had worked under CIA officer Theodore Shackley, "formed the cadre of a private, shadow spy organization within America’s official intelligence service."

Deep Events and the CIA’s Global Drug Connection

by Peter Dale Scott'

Global Research, September 19, 2008

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10095

Introduction

Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history – those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in the American media. The first article pointed to overall similarities in many deep events since World War II. The second pointed to surprising points of comparison in the two deep events which were followed shortly by major U.S. wars: the John F. Kennedy assassination and 9/11. In the background of all these events, I suggested, was recurring evidence of the milieu "combining intelligence officials with elements from the drug-trafficking underworld."

In this essay I shall first attempt to lay out the complex geography or network of that milieu, which I call the global drug connection, and its connections to what has been called an "alternative" or "shadow" CIA. I shall then show how this network, of banks, financial agents of influence, and the alternative CIA, contributed to the infrastructure of the Kennedy assassination and a series of other, superficially unrelated, major deep events.

In this narrative, the names of individuals, their institutions, and their connections are relatively unimportant. What matters is to see that such a milieu existed; that it was on-going, well-connected, and protected; and that, with increasing independence from governmental restraint, it played a role in major deep events in the last half century.

This of course strengthens the important hypothesis to be investigated, that this on-going milieu may also have contributed to the disaster of 9/11.

Paul Helliwell, OPC, and the CIA

In areas where Communist forces have appeared strong, the United States, at least since 1945, has resorted repeatedly to supportive counterviolence from mobsters involved in the drug traffic. At first, as in post-war Italy, these arrangements were temporary and ad hoc, as when Vito Genovese, a New York mafia leader, was installed as interpreter in the Allied Military Government office of Col. Charles Poletti, a former New York Tammany politician. Then in 1947 William Donovan, now a corporate lawyer and no longer the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), reportedly financed a May Day massacre of leftists in Sicily, organized by the recently deported Detroit mafia figure Frank Coppola.

Such arrangements became more centralized in 1948, after the newly created National Security Council created an Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) to carry out "subversion against hostile states" – i.e., conduct law-breaking as national policy. Thanks to OPC, the U.S. began giving significant covert support to organized drug-traffickers around the world, in the Far East, Europe, and eventually the Middle East and Latin America.

These world-wide activities became more and more inter-related. Since at least 1950 there has been a global CIA-drug connection operating more or less continuously. Especially with the passage of time, this connection has contributed to unexplained deep events and the consolidation of the global dominance mentality, at home as well as abroad. More specifically, the global drug connection is a factor underlying such unexplained deep events as the JFK assassination, the second Tonkin Gulf incident of 1964, and Iran-Contra.

The global drug connection is not just a lateral connection between CIA field operatives and their drug-trafficking contacts. It is more significantly a global financial complex of hot money uniting prominent business, financial and government as well as underworld figures. It maintains its own political influence by the systematic supply of illicit finances, favors and even intimacy to politicians around the world, including leaders of both parties in the United States. The result is a system that might be called indirect empire, one that, in its search for foreign markets and resources, is satisfied to subvert existing governance without imposing a progressive alternative.

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. Helliwell, who was head of the Special Intelligence branch of OSS in Kunming, and later an officer of OPC and the CIA, 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. 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).

Most people have never heard of Paul Helliwell. Mainstream books about CIA wrongdoings, like Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes, make no mention of him, of his important CIA-related bank, Castle Bank in the Bahamas, or for that matter of an even more important successor bank to Castle, BCCI. In the flood of CIA documents released since 1992, one does not find the name of Helliwell in the archival indices of the National Archive, the National Security Archive, or the Federation of American Scientists. In the million declassified pages stored and indexed on the website of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, Helliwell’s name appears exactly once – and that is on a list of documents that were withheld from review during the CIA’s search in 1974 for records concerning, of all things, Watergate! This silence, even in internal CIA files, about the principal architect of the post-war CIA-drug connection, is eloquent.

Most of what we know about Helliwell derives from the press reaction to the successful CIA effort to block an IRS investigation in the 1970s, known as Operation Tradewinds, of his money-laundering banks. This struggle with Helliwell and the CIA began in 1972, when IRS investigator Richard Jaffe, tracing the funds of arrested marijuana and LSD dealer Allan George Palmer, learned that Palmer "had personally brought some of his money south to the Perrine-Cutler Ridge Bank for deposit."

Jaffe learned also that the funds had been deposited in the account of a Bahamian entity called Castle Bank. According to Jim Drinkhall in the Wall Street Journal, this bank was "set up and principally controlled" by Helliwell, who "was instrumental in helping to direct a network of CIA undercover operations and ‘proprietaries.’" Drinkhall wrote that the CIA shut down Jaffe’s investigation of the Castle Bank because Castle

was the conduit for millions of dollars earmarked by the CIA for the funding of clandestine operations against Cuba and for other covert intelligence operations directed at countries in Latin America and the Far East.

Drinkhall further noted what Helliwell is probably most famous for (and what I have written about in The War Conspiracy):

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

But Drinkhall did not point out what is now not disputed, that 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.

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

Like Chennault and his old associates from his days in China, Whiting Willauer and William Pawley, Helliwell then assisted the CIA in operations against Guatemala in 1954, and after 1960 against Castro. According to Drinkhall,

One former federal official who helped scrutinize Castle says, "Castle was one of the CIA’s finance channels for operations against Cuba." Mr. Helliwell reputedly was one of the paymasters for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, as well as for other "extensive" CIA operations throughout Latin America.

As for ex-convict Wallace Groves’ connection to the CIA, a number of CIA documents have since been released that confirm this relationship. According to one of them,

The Wallace GROVES, mentioned in the attachments as being connected with Meyer LANSKY and the Mary Carter Paint Co./Resorts International, Inc., is identical with the Wallace GROVES who is the subject of OS file #473 865. This file reflects that from April 1966 to April 1972, GROVES was of interest to the [CIA] Office of General Counsel for the utilization of GROVES as an advisor or possible officer of one of the Project ████ entities. Additional information in this file would suggest that GROVES was connected with Meyer LANSKY.

I suspect that these "Project ████ entities" involved the use of off-the-books funds not included in the authorized CIA budget.

EzeUche:
I hate when people continue to bash the United States.

The U.K. and most of Europe is the reason why the world is so messed up. Last time I checked, the United States didn't colonize anyone!!! 

Ignorance is a disease!

texazzpete:
So the US wants to keep haiti poor, eh? So how does that dovetail with the fact that the US has been the biggest source of foreign aid to Haiti for the past 2 decades? Or the fact that the US is in the fight to ensure haiti's debt is cancelled completely?
So the UN was looking for an excuse to send troops to haiti. Did your friends at your favourite conspiracy websites not tell you that there have been over 8000 UN troops in haiti since 2004? Did they tell you that even there, there were some slums in haiti the police and the UN forces did not dare to enter due to the danger, and any incursion there was only when supported by armoured vehicles?

So if in 2005, there were large groups of armed gangs that roamed the streets, how much more in 2010 when more people are desperate, resources are few and the entire prison populace is now loose due to the damage to the prisons?

As a wise man once said, "There are none so blind as those who will not see"!

So the UN troops have been in Haiti since 2004 ,why is that dummy? Because the people of Haiti removed the then leader of Haiti who was the puppet of the USA. The UN troops were brought in to maintain the presence of the USA,

UN troops represent the USA's interest.

How come the USA did not obey the resolution by the UN that ordered the USA not to invade IRAQ. They invaded IRAQ under the pretence that Saddam had MAD but the UN did nothing about it.

If it was Nigeria that invaded Cameroon the USA would have ordered the UN to send troops and defend Cameroon. I have told you before you are narrow minded. Stick to watching CNN and leave this thread alone. You are in dark, we are in light because we see the truth. When Jesus was alive people did not believe he was the messiah but look at his legacy today.

We don't want you to believe our "conspiracy theories" ,go to the nearest Mc Donald’s, have a happy meal and chill out.

You are obviously not a thinker just a brainwashed clown!

And by the way the Aid the USA gives other countries is from all their stolen loot. Years of plundering Angola, DRC and congo brazaville. They stopped aid to haiti when the people chased their puppet out.

The USA has been after haiti for years,but you are too goofed up to see that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_rebellion

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIE402A.html

texazzpete:
@Shoot2kill

This is the 21st century now, and oil and gas exploration is done by not only Governments, but also by massive multinational companies whose only allegiance is to their shareholders and their bottom line.

If oil was in Haiti to that extent, what would have kept away Shell, Chevron, Total, Exxon Mobil et al?

Funny how the only references to this Haitian husband and wife 'scientist' team are from this one article in a Haitian newspaper.

The only photo of them is standing in front of the logo of the newspaper.

His scientific 'study' can be found nowhere.

Of course, this didn't stop this nonsense from being posted on over 40,000 blogs and kook sites, all of them referencing each other as the 'source'.

Gotta love the internet, every time i see one of you on Nairaland post stuff as brainless as this, it helps me identify one more re'tard.

It is you who is brainless and a fuxktard!

Did i force the information down your throat if you don't belive it,then piss off to another thread.Dumb Kaffir!

Loony cuxt,go eat dirt for all i care.Many of the people exposing the USA are Americans themselves so go fuxk yourself you retarded coon!


http://remixxworld..com/2010/01/haiti-has-larger-oil-reserves-than.html

pcmecom:
its really sad, if only people knew what's really happening behind the scenes

No they are in denial ,they have sold their humanity for foreign citizenship! The Arabs ,the Russians ,the Chinese ,the North Koreans ,the south Americans and the Iranians are probably the only group in the world  who see the USA for what they really are.

Did you notice that the president of IRAN started enriching his plutonium after the earthquake? Iran knows that the USA wants to attack with HAARP , that is why it is fast tracking it’s nuclear weapons program. You know IRAN also has a lot of Oil and the ousted Iranian emperor was the puppet of United States. The USA wants to crush the Islamic government and install a puppet democracy.

The year 2012 will probably be the year the USA will unleash the HAARP weapon on the world the will cause major devastation world wide that will look like natural disasters. Do remember the climategate scandal. Global warming was a scam after all ,the united states has been fabricating data about global warming so that when they attack the world with HAARP ,no one will suspect it is a weapon. That way they will deploy troops all over the world to help devastated countries. After a while the USA will declare a joint economy and one president for the world.

Haiti was just a test to see how the weapon fared and now they are emboldened to try it out on other countries. France is currently nervous because they don’t have the technology. Russia and China probably have it, that is why the USA is wooing them these days. Remember Hillary Clinton gave the Russian president a “reset” button and lately the Russians have the developed the most advanced Jet fighter plane in the world. The USA is also partnering with Russia to continue is space programs. It knows it can not defeat china or Russia so Obama is reaching out and trying to make them allies. The United States and these other super power will eventually rule the world like the ways the USA and Russia ruled Germany after the Second World War. They will have access to our mineral resources without paying for them. Do you also know that the USA wants to introduce the use of tattooed barcodes as a means of identifying humans. These barcodes will be tattooed on wrists or foreheads. This is real and no conspiracy theory. They started with credit cards and Atm cards and now moving to tattooed barcodes!(the CIA already uses it for “sleeping” agents)

Everything in the bible(revelations) is already happening ,we are in the end days. The antichrist is definitely amongst us.

blacksta:
Can a mod move this nonsense to the foreign section where it belongs

Dont worry maybe when the USA kills one of your relatives ,you will wake the fuxk up!

The United Staes of Evil has done it again,they have succesffulyy murderd over 200,000 fellow Africa all in the name of greed:

Haiti's oil reserves are larger than Venezuela's, Haiti also has huge resources of Gold & Minerals like Iridium

Scientists Daniel and Ginette Mathurin indicate that under Haitian soil is rich in oil and fuel fossible which were collected by Haitian and foreign experts. "We have identified 20 sites Oil, launches Daniel Mathurin stating that 5 of them are considered very important by practitioners and policies.

The Central Plateau, including the region of Thomond, the plain of the cul-de-sac and the bay of Port-au-Prince are filled with oil, he said, adding that Haiti's oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela . An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water that is the comparison to show the importance of oil Haitian compared to those of Venezuela, "he explains.

Venezuela is one of the world's largest producers of oil.

Daniel Mathurin reveals that investigations of several previous governments have allowed to verify the existence of these large deposits of oil. It reminds a document of Lavalas party to power in 2004, had specified the number of sites in Haiti hydrocarbons.

According to Daniel et Ginette Mathurin, the lake region, with cities like Thomazeau and Cornillon, contains large deposits of oil.

Asked about the non-exploitation of these sites, Ginette Mathurin said that these deposits are declared strategic reserves of the United States of America. While stating his incomprehension of such a situation, it reminds that the Caribbean is considered the backyard of the United States.

But Daniel and Ginette Mathurin indicate that the U.S. government in 2005 authorized the use of strategic reserves of the United States. This door must be used by the Haitian political négiciations to launch with U.S. companies with a view to exploiting these deposits adds Daniel Mathurin

Experts argue that the government acted Jean Claude Duvalier had verified the existence of a major oilfield in the bay of Port-au-Prince shortly before its fall.

Moreover, Daniel et Ginette Mathurin show that uranium 238 and 235 and the deposit zyconium exist in several regions including in Jacmel. Uranium is used in nuclear reactors to produce electrical energy.
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Haiti has huge resources of Gold and other Minerals

The former president of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (REFIDOMSA), Leopoldo Espaillat Nanita, considered one of the solutions of the Haitian State to pay its foreign debt and solve socio-economic issues that overwhelms Haitians found in deposits of gold and other minerals that owns the territory of the neighboring country.

Espaillat Nanita revealed that according to geological studies and research conducted on Haitian soil, indicating that the nation shares with the Dominican Republic gold deposit, untapped world's largest and a little known and rare mineral that is vital for building of spacecraft and other appliances extraterrestrial iridium. Estos dos recursos son suficientes para aliviar la “pobre” realidad de los nacidos en Haití. These two resources are sufficient to alleviate the "poor" reality of those born in Haiti.

The architect also claimed that these resources are poorly understood because of a multinational conspiracy that aims to extract their natural wealth Haitians, especially those derived from minerals that abound in the neighboring state.

REFIDOMSA's former president said that this group of firms and individuals in State are dedicated to fostering poverty in Haiti, suggesting that the Dominican Republic serves as a crutch to the centuries-old misery and marginality living the vast majority of our neighbors.

In this regard supported the pronouncements of the newly appointed Prime Minister of Haiti, Jean-Max Bellerive, on the search for new alternatives that will facilitate job creation and attracting foreign investors to the smallest of the two who share the island of Hispaniola instead of charges only to the Dominican nation.

Espaillat admitted that in Haiti there is a national class, comprising politicians and intellectuals-mainly belonging to Bellerive, concerned that Haiti's problems are resolved in its territory and not elsewhere, such as its neighbor island.

Former energy official made these statements in an interview conducted on the radio program traces Leaving that airs Monday through Friday Dominican FM station, in schedule 4 to 6 pm.

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=9620

http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/dhaz-street-journal/40720-oil-discovered-cuba-haiti-before-earth-quake.html
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The west have started fighting over haiti ,the french are already accusing the USA of occupying Haiti:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYXx5TYJ1Hc

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The invasion of Haiti has begun:

The EU has agreed to send a force of up to 350 police to Haiti, where law and order is precarious following the devastating earthquake.

Spanish EU officials said police from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands would join the force. They will come under UN authority.

The agreement came at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday.

Thousands of US troops are leading the Haiti relief effort alongside the UN, distributing emergency supplies.

There has been widespread criticism of the delays in getting food, water, medical aid and shelter to the desperate survivors.

The US has poured about 20,000 troops into the earthquake zone and the UN plans to deploy an extra 3,500 police and troops in the area.

It is believed the quake on 12 January killed as many as 200,000 people.

An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless.

The EU has pledged more than 400m euros (£354m) in emergency aid for Haiti.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8478892.stm
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How come there are so many troops on the ground but the people of haiti are not getting any Aid? because the USA wants them to die of hunger,the more haitians that die the better for the USA.

I remember watching on CNN how the US helicopters landed in the presidential compound and the marines jumped our to pitch the tents on the presidential lawn. For 4 days the US troops were only setting up tents and communication equipment ,they did not help any Haitian. The world must wake up now and stop this wolf in sheep clothing.The USA is the one we must all fear not the Arabs, the Arabs are merely defending their homeland from US invasion.

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Who knows maybe the USA will cause an earthquake in the Niger Delta  and move their troops in all in the name of assistance! There has been valid reports of US naval ships frequenting Apapa sea port. The USA is becoming and more desperate to control the whole world. May the Good Lord save us all from this beast of a nation.

May the soul of the dead in Haiti rest in perfect peace .Those people did not deserve to die like that. They suffered most of their lives but the USA did not care and murdered them all the same. Shame on you USA, shame on you.

For those of you who have been blinded by your green cards and Mc Donalds burger, The United STATES is a criminal organisation. They attacked HAITI because they want to tap the OIL reserves in Haiti's coast. I bet you dummies did not know that the United states discovered OIL in Haiti years ago but failed to tap it because they did not want the black nation of Haiti to be rich and because they wanted to wait for the OIL in middle east to dry. Now they want the OIL for themselves and the only way they can get it to scare Haitians out of their country and relocate them to Dominican republic. Have you not heard Journalists on CNN talking about the possibility of evacuating the whole country of Haiti.By the way Hait also has big gold mines which have not been properly tapped.The USA wants to boost their gold bullions in fort knox.

Conspiracy theory my yansh,the USA is evil finish and clar!Here is the link ,wipe the poo steam from your eyes and see the truth :

http://pakalert./2010/01/22/oil-in-haiti-economic-reasons-for-the-unus-occupation/

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=9620

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/oil_sites.html#fortliberte

http://www.google.co.za/#hl=en&q=oil+discovered+in+haiti&meta=&aq=f&oq=oil+discovered+in+haiti&fp=6d947bb3c737bd44
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http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html

snowdrops:
Earthquake missile
How true is this? I am a bit sceptical as most of the alleagations are coming from Russia, Venezuela and Iran

Check this out :

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

http://www.haarp.net/

http://www.livevideo.com/video/3DDCA3ECDDB44895AD4E98868C7BEAFC/haarp-project-bluebeam-pt-ii.aspx

pcmecom:
I am happy some people are beginning to see beyond the smoke screen!!

@shoot2kill, You have really done your home work, I am proud of you.

America indeed have weapons that can generate earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, floods and famine. These weapons are known as tectonic weapons and was first discovered by a scientist named nicolas tesla. Today tesla works still continues in a research facility called H.A.A.R.P.

I know some people would be reading this and by saying this is another conspiracy theory or even come to the conclusion that I may be nuts!!, I urge them to do their own research

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/

http://www.haarp.net/

http://www.livevideo.com/video/3DDCA3ECDDB44895AD4E98868C7BEAFC/haarp-project-bluebeam-pt-ii.aspx

NB: Like I said in my previous post, I am not anti-american, I only dislike US foreign policy. It should be noted that the above weapons and technology is not only exclusive to the US, russia and china also have the technology

Thanks bro for the support,you are well informed yourself.

I hope Nigerians will wake up and stand up for their nation now before we become slaves again.

Conspiracy theory or not.This sounds like the truth!


Report: US weapon test aimed at Iran caused Haiti quake
Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Press TV


An unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets says the Haiti earthquake was caused by a flawed US Navy ‘earthquake weapons’ test before the weapons could be utilized against Iran.

United States Navy test of one of its ‘earthquake weapons’ which was to be used against Iran, went ‘horribly wrong’ and caused the catastrophic quake in the Caribbean, the website of Venezuela’s ViVe TV recently reported, citing the Russian report.

After the report was released, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also made a similar claim, saying that a US drill, carried out in preparation for a deliberate attempt to cause an earthquake in Iran, had led to the deadly incident in Haiti, claiming more than 110,000 lives.

Though Russian Northern Fleets’ report was not confirmed by official sources, the comments attracted special attention in some US and Russian media outlets including Fox news and Russia Today.

Russia Today’s report said that Moscow has also been accused of possessing and utilizing such weapons.

In 2002, a Georgian Green Party leader claimed that Moscow had instigated an earthquake on Georgian territory, the TV channel said.

According to ViVe, the unconfirmed Russian report says earlier this month the US carried out a similar test in the Pacific Ocean, which also caused another 6.5 magnitude earthquake in an area near the town of Eureka, California.

The California quake resulted in no deaths or serious injury, but left many buildings damaged.

The Venezuelan news website said that the report also introduced the possibility that the US Navy may have had “full knowledge” of the damage that the test could cause.

The report also speculated that knowledge of the possible outcome was why the US military had pre-positioned the deputy commander of US Southern Command, General P. K. Keen, on the island so that he could oversee relief efforts if the need arose.

Based on the alleged report, the ultimate goal of the US weapons tests was to initiate a series of deadly earthquakes in Iran to topple the current Islamic system in the country.

The tests are believed to be part of the United States’ High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which has been associated with many conspiracy theories.

Other than being blamed for earthquakes, HAARP has also been associated with weather anomalies that cause floods, droughts and hurricanes.
Some sources have even linked the 7.8 magnitude quake that shook the Chinese city of Sichuan in May 12, 2008 with the program.

Allegations have been made that since the late 1970’s, the US has ‘greatly advanced’ the state of its earthquake weapons to the point where it is now utilizing devices that employ a Tesla Electromagnetic Pulse, Plasma and Sonic technology, along with ’shockwave bombs.’

Russia has accused the US military of employing such devices in Afghanistan to trigger the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit the country back in March, 2002.

In the mid-1990s the Russian State Duma issued a press release on HAARP, which was signed by 90 deputies. The statement said the US was “creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves.”

“The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons.”

“This new type of weapons differ from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component,” the statement explained.

In 1997, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen also expressed concern about activities that “can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.”

The US government, however, has chosen to stick to its position that HAARP is merely a program aimed at analyzing the Earth’s ionosphere for the purpose of developing communications and surveillance technology.


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Latin American leaders say US occupying Haiti
Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Press TV

Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover.

Bolivian President Evo Morales said that he will request an emergency UN meeting to reject what he calls the US military occupation of Haiti.

“It’s not right that the United States should use this natural disaster to invade and militarily occupy Haiti,” Morales told a press conference on Wednesday.

“If you have all these problems with the injured and the dead from the earthquake, you have to go there to save lives, and you don’t do that from a military standpoint,” he added.

An outspoken critic of US policies, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez also had accused Washington of occupying Haiti “under the guise of the natural disaster.”

Nicaragua also has taken a similar stance toward US with respect to the situation in Haiti.

The United States is deploying up to 20,000 troops to Haiti. US servicemen have taken control of the country’s international airport.

The Pentagon has sent one of its biggest aircraft carriers to Haiti, along with other navy and coast guard vessels.

On Friday, Arturo Valenzuela, the US assistant secretary of state for Western hemisphere affairs rejected that the US was occupying Haiti.

“Haiti is a sovereign country, everybody respects Haiti’s sovereign country, the United States respects Haiti’s sovereignty,” said Arturo Valenzuela.


http://realisticbird./2010/01/23/report-us-weapon-test-aimed-at-iran-caused-haiti-quake-and-l-american-leaders-say-us-occupying-haiti/

As a matter of fact the United states caused the Haiti earthquake here is a link to the story ;

http://realisticbird./2010/01/23/report-us-weapon-test-aimed-at-iran-caused-haiti-quake-and-l-american-leaders-say-us-occupying-haiti/

You guys might say conspiracy theory but russia know wht's up!

If they can invent the HIV virus why cant they cause an earthquake.We all know this weapon has been around for a few years now.

pcmecom:
@abagworo
I know you wont believe america has fought 50 wars since the end of the second world war, it sounds like another conspiracy theory!!!
maybe you can start your own research from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations

my brother open your eyes and begin to see beyond the news headlines!!!

Bros Agbaworo wht do you have to say to the above ^^^^^ Is that a country who wants peace or control ?

By the way those are the ones we know about.What about covert operations unertaken by their numerous secretive security outfits all over the world like the US Navy seals , 67 Unit Cell , The NSA , The CIA , Biopan e.t.c

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I don’t know if you know the man they call Charlie Wilson.He was the American man who solely secured funding for the cold war against Russia in Afghanistan.

Charlie was a corrupt American senator who collaborated with the CIA to smuggle opium out of Afghanistan using the C-17 Globemaster III miltary cargo planes and selling  it outside the country in the USA ,Europe ,Canada and Australia. The Opium trade generated over $5 billion dollars during the war.(but the American government will want you to believe that they funded the war from their national coffers).Haven’t you ever wondered how come the United states is so rich?

The united states has so many reserves in minerals and precious stones than you can ever imagine. Osama was the leader of the Afghan islamic millitia fighting the russians.Osama was an ally of the USA. Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA in covert warfare (stealth attacks & evasion tactics). Bad blood erupted between the United States and Osama when he refused to give the united states 70% of the profits of the opium sales. The agreement between the USA during the war was that the USA will keep 70% of the profits.40% percent goes to the US government (politicians)while 30% goes to funding weapons and logistics for the US covert trainers,spot-men,snipers and allied afghan militias. The disagreement came when the united states to refused to listen to OSAMA who asked them to share 50 -50 since the war was ended.

The CIA realizing that OSAMA was becoming a headache attempted to assassinate him Al Mujaden militia 3 times but failed. OSAMA fled to Saudi Arabia and the USA asked the KING of SAUDI to kick him out which they did. This angered OSAMA and he vowed to deal with America. He left Saudi and went to Yemen where he found sympathetic radical Imans who organised his safe passage back to Afghanistan. That is how all these problems of terrorism came to be. The USA out of greed and corruption started this problem.

Abagworo:
@shoot2kill.why are you so anti-american?try to appreciate their role and sacrifices in global stability.

Bros this has nothing to do with “anti – American” , this is about my home country. I love my country more than any country in the world and i will not allow these demonic group of people to destroy it.

I don’t hate America as a country ,i hate the American Government because over the years their foreign policy has not changed. We Nigerians are monkeys to them and they can swat us like a fly if they want to ,that is why we must be united and resist them. They should leave us alone.

For your information i come from a family that contributed to the woes of Nigeria and i rebelled against the corrupt politicians in my family. That is the kind of person i am .I am not supposed to worry about the ordinary man but i do because that is just my nature. I hate to see my fellow Nigerians suffer just because one capitalist country wants to secure it's hold on our OIL.

GLOBAL STABILTY you say ? What Global Stabilty ?

They invented the HIV virus in an effort to kill Africans!

IRAQ was a peaceful country until they invaded !

Afghanistan was a peaceful country until they invaded !

Angola was a peaceful country until they sponsored UNITA !

They Supplied the South Africa Apartheid government with Computers and the HIV virus (which was used as a bio-weapon to infect millions of black babies all in the name of controlling Africa’s overblown population).The South African government listened to former apartheid agents who openly made this claim to the truth and reconciliation commission.

They armed the Afghans with AK-47s and stingers

They developed the first Nuke

They supplied guns to Liberian war lords

They sponsored rebels all over Africa

They killed Abiola

A weapon that can cause an earthquake(known as HAARP) has been developed by the United States (it was used for haiti)

The list is endless……………….


Have you forgotten AFRICOM? How can you not see that America will cause more problems in Nigeria by dealing with IBB and his cohort.

Are you telling me that in a nation of 150 Million IBB is the only one they can talk to ,what about Jonathan ,why did they not talk to Jonathan. I will answer that for you. Because he is if from Niger Delta. They don't trust him.

Who knows maybe they will threaten Jonathan with invasion and he will step aside to allow babangida onto the "throne".

Why do you think Al Qaeda is fighting the US now ? Because they wanted to control their country after the cold war and the afghans resisted. Why did the United states not capture Osama when they had a chance ? Because they are not really after him ,they just want to maintain their presence in Afghanistan.

Listen bro ,i am not just blowing steam here, I have contacts in the intelligence community and news coming to me is that the united states in currently building secret missile defence systems in a remote part of Afghanistan. These are being built to counter any missile attack by IRAN.I know you may not believe it but my source is solid and has never failed me.

If care is not taken the USA will gain access to Nigeria in full and built a military base in the north in the name of helping us deal with Islamic militants. We will be forever imprisoned by the US forces. The reason they are coming to see IBB is because they want to discuss the possibility of them building a fully functioning military base in the nigeria where they can maintain a presence that will scare countries like Libya and any other Islamic countries in north Africa. They will also be able to launch up to the minute air raids on Niger Delta militants from that position with Air force unmanned drones. Those in Niger Delta calling for the USA to intervene are very silly. The USA is their enemy because “they” threaten the supply of OIL to the USA.

The should go an ask the lingala people of DRC how they were massacred by Mobutu Seseko hit squads under the order of the CIA all in an effort to supply the united sates Fort Knox and Jewish-American mafia outfits with tons and tons of cheap diamonds. Remember that new OIL deposit have been found in Nigeria along with New gold deposit. We are in a rough ride if we don’t wake up now and cry foul. Once Babangida gains momentum, nobody will be able to stop him. The USA will assign Israeli trained body guards to protect him from any assasination attempts and he will be installed into the presidency just like they did in 1985.

[quote author=Iyke-D=topic=395996.msg5495816#msg5495816 date=1265905154]I am not surprised my point was lost on you.  In my very first comment I made no mention of whether I had a US visa or passport, just stating the facts as I saw them regarding the reality of Nigerian politics and the US. I was insulted for being an "azz kisser" for America because of the visa they gave me.  All you seem to do is engage in name-calling, you never address any single issue. Do you have any idea how silly you sound?

In any case, here you are telling us how "successful" you are in South Africa and I guess I am supposed to be so impressed by your
"success". You have proceeded to tell me how you have been traveling to the US since you were 13 until you turned 30? Oh, and you
are a "business man". What do I care? I don't need your biography, this is just an internet forum! Christ!

Yes, I know Nigeria will be saved by the Chinese or whoever from the "blood sucking US government". Terrorists invading your country?
Are you for real? So from age 13 you were traveling to a terrorist country until you turned 30? Please take your medications or if you don't
have any see a doctor. [b]Better yet, enroll in a good school in South Africa (there are none left in your country) because it appears you need[/b]it (even though you are a very successful businessman). You are not rooted in reality.

Dude
Azz Kissers
Fxcking
Can't do jack

Can't get enough of US music videos or films?[/quote]Dude you are so lame, who in his right mind supports a foreign country over his own knowing fully well that the foreign country only mean to destroy his home country out of pure capitalist greed. And yes i have been visiting "your" terrorist country since i was 13 ,I wanted you to know that so you know your USA passport does not “shack” me. As for you insulting the Nigerian educational system, I will let you know that UNilag alone produced 87 first class graduates last year so you suck on that.

I am sure if the USA decides to invade the hausas in the north you will support the idea, fuxking traitor. Look at the way he said “there is none left in your country “ like he was never a Nigerian or like Nigerian blood does not flow through his veins. I am done wasting my time with you ,your loyalties obviously lie elsewhere

Don't worry i will leave you links of what the USA is capable of doing in Nigeria if they are given a chance.As for me going to school ,you should test your knowledge base first and actually ask yourself if you have been schooled right.

[quote author=citizenY=topic=395996.msg5495816#msg5495816 date=1265905154]@Shoot2kill.

One question only. WHY di the Americans not consult you?

Answer- You are inconsequential, out of your depth and even outside Nigeria and
too young to even know IBB and Nigerian terrain. Na word of mouth you hear.

You are squeezing a few coins in South Africa, so what? This IBB still has clout.

Otherwise, I like your patriotism but be more practical.[/quote]I wonder how you know that "na word of mouth i hear " Dude i only left Nigeria in 2002 what are you talking about?

As for me squeezing a few coins,never underestimate South Africa.Their economy is far better and stable than USA's at the moment 

Like i said before IBB is a piece of poo who will get what is coming to him if he dares attempt rubbish in Nigeria


[quote author=texazzpete=topic=395996.msg5495816#msg5495816 date=1265905154]@Shoot2Kill
When making your points, can't you at least TRY and sound intelligent?

Anyway, the article clearly says IBB and other influential politicians will be contacted. Singling out IBB was merely to generate a sensationalist headline.

Finally, no matter how many rabid, paranoid fantasies you have about the CIA, it's obvious that America's main concern is not with the oil, but the long term stability of Nigeria. An unstable Nigeria will be a massive breeding ground for the next generation of Islamic terrorists. And no-one wants that.

I beg to differ. Was it not the same Obama that drew criticism during the campaign for insisting that he'd talk to the 'enemies' if that would bring peace? is it not the same Obama who is amenable to reaching out to moderate members of the Taliban if that could end the war in Afghanistan early enough, and if that could help keep out the infinitely worse Al Qaeda?
if Obama can dialogue with the North Koreans (with their human rights record), why not IBB?[/quote]^^^First off professor ,you dont have a clue about the United States Government ,Unites States Marine corps and the Central Intelligence Agency.You say America is not interested in the OIL ,I have a few names for you :

IRAQ
KUWAIT
ANGOLA
IRAN
VENEZUELA

Since some of you seem to be blind ,let me open your eyes (and please note that the whistle blower in this article was murdered):

CIA HISTORY & Attrocities

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_time.htm

^^^^Murder of the above arthur : http://www.psnw.com/~bashford/kang-ev0.html

http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html

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CIA are also Drug Traffickers (one of the reasons they want to control afghanistan is because of the huge "opium" farms in Afghanistan)

http://www.wethepeople.la/drugs1.htm

http://www.ciadrugs.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/cia_drug_trafficking.htm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/webb/index.html
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http://thehive.modbee.com/node/17977

http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-a-timeline-of-cia-crimes-and-atrocities/

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/S&L_Scandal_CIA.html

And you wonder why the venezuelan president refers to the USA as the devils's own country

[quote author=Iyke-D link=topic=395996.msg5490163#msg5490163 date=1265832014]@shoot2kill

No need to argue with fools, just keep talking. With all your experience and strong man talk I wonder why you haven't
given that bullet to IBB and co. Let me guess, you are another commander of the 21st Keyboardist Division, right?

Most of you have no clue how the real world works. You think China or Russia or any other country won't do the same?
Was it not the same CIA you are cursing that brought out millions like you to celebrate on the street when they helped
to "settle" the Abacha problem as alleged?

Oh by the way, its not the American visa I am protecting, its the American passport. Suck on that! And yes keep blaming
elements in the US government for causing most of the problems in Africa. I believe those same elements asked Yar Adua
not to write a simple damn letter to ensure a smooth transfer of power or it was those same elements that gave you the
Aaoodonkaa (sp).[/quote]Hahaha you sound like you are the first person in your family to travel to the USA. See the way said you “American passport,suck on that” like your passport is a cure for AIDS. Am I supposed to be impressed because you have a US passport. Dude grow up the USA means nothing to me ,I have been travelling to Houston since I was 13yrs old and I am 30 years old now so don’t even go there. I have been to several countries but live in SA because there is less competition here and better opportunities for a BLACK MAN. My relatives in the USA are not even as successful as i am and they have been there for over 2 decades while i have only been in SA for 8 years.They work 8am to 5pm while i run my own business. I am not of one those people who get hyped about the USA. As far as I am concerned it is just another country. So you will sell your country for a mere passport and allow terrorists to invade it just because the terrorists gave you citizenship of their country? Go figure, who is the fool now? Do you think a Saudi Man can betray his own country for a passport?

You have just proven to us that you do not wish Nigeria well, you can go stuff your blue passport up your anus for all I care. Yes I am a keyboard commando, don’t worry about my combat capabilities. Worry about the fact that nemesis will soon wipe your adopted country off the face of the planet at the rate they are going. Nigeria is also GOD’s own country and knowing the way my people pray, Nigeria will be saved one day from your blood sucking US government.

pcmecom:
@ shoot2kill
                    I feel you brov, please tell my people so that they will wake up from their slumber, believe it or not,colonialism didnt end in 1960, it has continued up to this day(neo-colonialism).Elements in the US government are responsible for most of the crisis plaguing Africa since the 1960's. Even the 9/11 attacks was masterminded by elements in the US government.

Unfortunately some people still dont believe it, rather they will dismiss you as a "conspiracy theorist" or even a nutcase.

Spot on bro ,spoken like a true patriotic Nigerian.

South Africans died for their country and look at it today freedom and true democracy.

The polish fourth for their country in 1989 and today Poland is thriving better than Nigeria.

The same with Germany and many other countries.

Like someone said on this forum ,we Nigerian prefer sit behind our computers and type with our manicured fingers instead of organising protest and being very vocal like the Iranians and dealing with corrupt politicians like the Iraqis and the Afghans.

I live in South Africa ,i am a very successful person with a lot of achievements in life but that does not mean I will not run to nigeria and pick up arms if my country needs me. I am a Nigerian till the day I die ,whether Nigeria splits or remains one ,I still believe that something can be done but it is hard to find people who are ready to fight for their country. Look at Americans they are ready to fight tooth and nail to defend their country but we Nigerians prefer to speak big grammar in public forums and leave the rest to GOD. That is why I really respect what MEND is doing even though I may not agree with their tactics.


If America decided to impose IBB on us ,many of the people here will not make a single sound,they will just accept their fate.And we wonder why the westerners refer to us as monkeys?

Abagworo:
@shoot2kill.welcome newbie.''you are nobody till somebody kills you''.maybe you are ''ready to die'' cos ''somebody got to die''

Yeah whatever!

redsun:
If this caption is true,the non fugitive nairalanders in america should organize some delegates or any other form of communication that must reach Obama to warn him against dealing with a criminal like babangida as regards ngerians interest.That he can not in anyway represent a rational and patriotic nigerian.

This are things we should be doing as people that are aware,well dispose in dyer need for change

Don't mind them they won't do that because they don't care about Nigeria.They would not want to risk losing their green cards.Typical Nigerian cowards.

[quote author=Iyke-D link=topic=395996.msg5489817#msg5489817 date=1265828369]@shoot2kill

I wonder want sort of screen name is that. . .

If I ask you who are the most 12 most powerful people/politician in Nigeria, I am sure you will list IBB among.
Granted that the US acts as every other country on earth (maybe with the exception of Nigeria) to protect their
interest, why wouldn't they want to meet with IBB considering the fact that the country has been tethering on
the edge for the past 3 months?

For the good of the country, don't you think IBB's clout is needed to keep the ruling elite class in the North calm
especially during this transition form Yar Adua to Jonathan? You and I may not like it, but this is the reality of power
politics in Nigeria today.

Lastly, lets consider this US interest you are talking about, if Nigeria blows up today, do you have any idea how
much the US will be forced to chip in for humanitarian/rescue causes?  I will give you an idea. Think of Haiti, and
you can be rest assured that the US will be spending far more money in Haiti now than they probably may have
spent in the past 20 years.

So before you start blowing off your mouth you need to understand that there is another side to that "interest".

Lastly, I will be careful with this your trash talk about supporting terrorists, don't think because you are hiding
behind a computer you can't be found out. The Secret Service, CIA, etc. have had their lapses, but I will bet my
money on them against any other similar groups in the world.  If you think they are that incompetent, try them
and you will see.[/quote]^^^Another America azz kisser. I wonder if your views will remain the same if the CIA murders your relative? Who told you IBB is powerful, let me tell you this if IBB attempts to take power he will be dead before the 31st of September 2010.Nigeria has “Zuilk” people who can take him out right now but nobody give a fxck about him.He no longer matters. He only becomes a threat if America supports him. And for your information the only powerful person in Nigeria is the president, the rest of you can be eliminated with one single 50 calibre bullet!

Dude i am not mouthing it off, don’t think because I share a forum with you that I am not experienced, I know who I am even if you don’t. It is not everything I have to tell you but be rest assured ,where I am even if I am found .They can’t do jack!

The US security forces don’t scare me ,they are terrorist themselves.

It is people like you who make me regret being a Nigerian. Why should we accept ideas that are wrong,why should we dialogue with a bullet deserving IBB. No other nationalities support the USA over their country , Nigerians are the only boot lickers on the planet. Nigerian are the only ones who will pray that The USA invades them.They lack self esteem and national pride.GOD why me ? why did you let me belong to country of morons?

I say it again I hope Al Qaida nukes the USA and bleep you and your bleeping CIA.
Because you live in the USA you think are an American now and you can tell patriotic Nigerians like me to kizz America’s behind.

I swear, if they try what they want to try in Nigeria, Afghanistan will look like child’s play to them. Obama better piss off with you fake Nigerians and leave us the hell alone otherwise……………………

otawa:
Thisday is clearly a reputable newspaper in NIGERIA.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=166150


Assistant Secretary of State, United States of America, Ambassador Jonnie Carson who has been in the country as a special envoy of the US President, Barack Obama is to confer with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida as part of efforts to meet with major stakeholders in the country in the light of the lingering political crisis in the country.

THISDAY gathered that several issues bordering on bilateral relationship and sustenance of democracy in Nigeria will form part of the discussion at the home of the former President in Minna, Niger State.

This is looking like Obama-IBB Presidency in 2011!

^^^ Bros God blass you and your family may you live long, you are the kind of Nigerian that Nigeria needs, not all these azzholes who are supporting IBB and Obama over Nigeria.Kai this your picture na solid,I don save am for my computer ,I go use badmouth Obama for evey forum wey I fit access .That obama guy na serious douchebag and two face liar.

Afam:
Having maintained a consistent position on the double standards and hypocrisy of the West this news is no surprise at all.

The US, Australia and Britain will gladly dine with the devil once the price is right.

It is a shame that Nigerians just because of the unconditional love they have for anything foreign are ready to defend these countries even till death regardless of their atrocities and mistakes.

^^^ Gbam right on point my brother,na so he be o ! All these mumu people wey we dey unfortunate to share the same nationality with.They will die for strangers but betray their own country and brother all in the name of green card.Stupid inferior human beings!

Abagworo:
I cant actually understand why y'all seem to be jealous of ibb's influence in affairs of nigeria and africa.he was never partial in his dealings with people and has friendship that cuts across ethnic and religious lines.he annuled june 12 for reasons we might never know but let him be.

Na GOD go punish you for that comment ,you this fuxking slowpoke.See this bastard they talk in support of babangida,he be like say your relatives be babangida friend.No worry na bullet g finish all of una one.If they born you well make u go campaign for babangida in 2011  ,i go personally erase you,you Fuxking coon!

I just tire for the whole situation.

If Jonathan cannot exercise his authority without fear or favor ,then he is of no use.

We have just jumped from fry pan to fire.Honestly i hope i am wrong but after today's event ,i have little hope for Nigeria.

Where are all those unpatriotic American Azz kissing niggers, why are they quiet now?

Their beloved America is not only insulting Nigeria by meeting IBB but by actually meeting him in his house. Talk about sheep faced terrorists.

Who is the terrorist now? These are the same people calling the Muslim religion a violent religion and calling Arabs terrorists. What are they themselves? Trying to imprison a nation of 150 million people under Mara Dona leadership.

This is America showing support for someone who killed dele giwa with a bomb. I am sure the CIA packaged that bomb.

The CIA and IBB are long time friends. I remember in those days when the news magazine TELL told the story of Babangida's relationship with the US government.

Death to the USA, their failing economy is just a start go and read revelations in bible and read about how a mighty nation will be brought to it’s knees by a small nation.

Obama is no real African, he preaches democracy but practices something different. This is the same coon who avoided visiting Nigeria because he felt the elections were rigged but now he is supporting a murderer  , a terrorist , a national looter. Fuxking hypocrite.

Well done OBAMA ,thank you for deceiving Nigerians, you are exactly what Americans are calling you a two faced liar. You say one thing only to trun around and do another.Fake azz democrat , a coward and slowpoke ,may you burn in Hell for attempting to force my people back into slavery. You dare to toy with my country,i pray you lose your second bid, you fuxking retarded half cast cxnt

proudly9ja:
Guys, this report was on SUN newspapers and we all know who owns SUN and where his allegiance lies.

Show me another newspaper that reported it then I can make my comment.

You have a point there but this goes beyond SUN newpapers reporting the news. I have been documenting a lot of illegal activities committed by the United States Government over the past 4 decades in Africa.

The United States is bad news, any state that stands up to them thrives. Look at Libya and Cuba. Fidel and Gadaffi saved their countries from US manipulation. It paid off for Libya but Cuba unfortunately got it’s economy messed up because of internal saboteurs working for the CIA.But even so Cuba has progressed at a the better rate than Nigeria. Libyans on the other hand at totally loyal to their leader knew from the start American are devil incarnate and that is why their country has one of the leading economies in the world today.

Americans put babangida in power from the start just like they put Mobutu Seseko in power. We should close the both USA embassies in Nigeria to send a strong message to the USA to leave our shores and leave us alone, we don’t need their Oil companies, there are many Oil companies in the world today who can take over from where shell ,BP and chevron left off.

Liberia ,Angola ,Mozambique, South Africa you name it the conflict and the USA had a hand in it ,all in an effort to control Africa's resources. We are still under slavery ,kwe are not independent yet until we can have government like Gadaffi’s and Jerry Rawlings. You see now shell is moving to Angola and Ghana because they have found new OIL wells. The United States does not care about anyone but themselves. The war in Iraq has clearly proven to us that they are just after OIL.

I support Al Qaeda  , they should bomb them to smitherins! If American lives have to be lost to create a better life for ordinary Nigerians then I am all for it. bosom for Tat ,Americans have been murdering Nigerians for decades so why can we do the same. They murdered Abiola or have you all forgotten?

And for all you unpatriotic American azz kissers on NL.FUxK U

Fuxk the incompetent CIA

Fxck the NSA

Fxck the Secret service

I hope someone nukes washington and send all these moderfuxker to hell!

Virgo83:
@Shoot2Kill
You are right my dear; but there many ways to it. Though it might be our wishes but of God and the Situationthat have forced the death deserving PDP Party as you've stated and the so called Born to rule Idiots from the North, The Nigerian God is telling them that everybody is Equal, I only wish they could all learn from this.

I hope so my brother, me i am tired. I have given Nigeria an ultimatum in my mind. If things do not change by the time my ultimatum is up i will change my nationality. I am tired of giving my self a heart attack over Nigeria when Nigerians themselves are cheering on corrupt leaders and corrupt political processes.

AC is correct but as we all know Nigeria a lawless country parading a 419 democracy as usual.

^^^ Dude wake up! Jonathan becoming president is not an ordinary Nigerian man's wishes, it is just the situation forced on us by the corrupt death deserving PDP party.