The CIA, the Military, and Drugs, Part 1 of 5: Anti-Fascist Archives #24 (1986) (A bit of real history that is hidden and raises the question: where is our Western Gestapo and SS?)

I have repeatedly stated that we live in a fascistic society, essentially a “Fourth Reich” hidden behind a rainbow flag instead of a swastika. In fact, one could argue that we are even worse than the Third Reich, as, based on my research, the Nazis, fascists, and communists all actively fought against organized crime. We could argue that, since the Nazis, fascists, and communists stole in the name of the state and were part of it, elements of the state itself could be seen as organized crime. However, organized crime outside the state was strongly opposed; for example, Mussolini famously eliminated much of the Mafia from Italy. This contrasts with the victor of the war, the United States, which actively collaborated with organized crime. Since Operation Underworld, the U.S. has been deeply connected to organized crime and the drug trade, which is unsurprising given that some American founding fathers got rich profiting from opium trading in China during the Opium Wars. Drug trade, one could say, was in their veins from the beginning.

A question I have pondered is this: if we are the “Fourth Reich,” where is our SS, our Gestapo? The answer is simple—organized crime and the Mafia function as our Western SS, our Gestapo. For example, the Mafia connections to the JFK assassination are well-documented. When Western governments want to carry out illegal actions, like assassinating problematic individuals, they reach out to their “Gestapo” in the form of the CIA, which in turn contacts their “SS” in the form of the Mafia. In this way, Western governments can operate similarly to the Reich while keeping their hands clean, as the violence is executed by organized crime, allowing the state to deny involvement in these heinous acts.

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But this difference matters little for the current point. Whether it was Lansky’s or Luciano’s doing or the doing of “social forces” pushing towards “multicorporatism” in every sphere of exchange, in business and politics as well as in crime, in Hughes’s and Rockefeller’s and Nixon’s worlds as well as Lansky’s, the fact of expansion and integration, of the centralizing of business authority in an unimpeachable bureaucracy, is the main fact of organized crime’s inner life from Prohibition on, and it seems appropriate to associate this general movement with the long period of Lansky’s preeminence.

Roosevelt’s problem then was how to guarantee the security of the docks against Fascist sabotage. Lansky’s problem was how to complete the organization of the Syndicate. What artist of the possible saw the convergence of these two problems in a common solution?

The precise origins of “Operation: Underworld” are not public knowledge. Both McCoy and Messick fasten upon a Brooklyn shipyards office of U.S. Naval Intelligence. That would not mean the initiative was necessarily federal or the Navy’s. The idea could have been dropped there by any messenger. In any case, it came down to a straightforward proposition. Lansky first turns to the reluctant capo and says: What if I can free thy leader, Luciano? Then he turns to the anxious Roosevelt and says: What if I can secure thy docks against sabotage?

The offer Lansky made in particular was simply for Roosevelt to intervene in the Luciano matter, although from the prosperity enjoyed by organized crime during World War II, it may appear to imply that the deal went much further and actually entailed federal protection for certain areas of Syndicate wartime activity, e.g., smuggling.

Later, to establish non-communist regimes in Greece, Italy, France, and Germany, the CIA cooperated with organized crime as well as former Nazis and fascists. In a recent interview on The Duran with Tom Luongo, Tom and Alexander discussed the influence of the Italian deep state. I hadn’t realized the extent of the Italian deep state’s power, but in reflecting on it, it makes sense. Luciano, the Mafia, and fascist collaborators were instrumental in rebuilding Italy after WWII, so it’s not surprising that Italy developed a powerful deep state, especially given that the U.S. deep state has connections to the CIA and organized crime. A state built by the Mafia, like Italy, is certainly deeply connected to organized crime.

After WWII, the West fought against communism by using criminals and supporting crime syndicates, which, to be honest, does not surprise me. The West operates on capitalist principles, where profit is the only thing that matters, regardless of legality. Therefore, our Western society is built on vulture capitalism and organized crime, which explains much of what we see today. For people who three and half hours of only the first episode, here is a  short introduction to this history:

This also explains why the West and the CIA are so supportive of Ukraine—a highly corrupt state where anything goes as long as there’s money involved, making it the perfect playground for the CIA. Now that we no longer need opium fields in Afghanistan due to the ability to manufacture fentanyl in labs, I wonder how many of those fentanyl labs the CIA might have in Ukraine, with weapons flowing in and drugs flowing out. I’m almost certain there are fentanyl labs; the only reason they wouldn’t exist is if it were more economical to operate them elsewhere, like in Mexico. But even then, I’m sure the CIA is involved in some horrific activities in a corrupt state like Ukraine. For example, there have been reports of many children disappearing in Ukraine. I suspect the CIA is selling these children on black markets, much like the slaves from Libyan slave markets they helped create.

We are ruled by literal evil—by the devil, by Satan—so in other words the final stage of capitalism, where the only thing that matters is profit, regardless of the cost or anything else. There are no rules, no morality, no concept of good and evil—THERE IS ONLY PROFIT.

As Carl Oglesby put it well: “Whether it was Lansky’s or Luciano’s doing or the doing of ‘social forces’ pushing towards ‘multicorporatism’ in every sphere of exchange, in business and politics as well as in crime, in Hughes’s and Rockefeller’s and Nixon’s worlds as well as Lansky’s, the fact of expansion and integration, of the centralizing of business authority in an unimpeachable bureaucracy.”

These were the “social forces” of our society. We live in a fascist capitalist society where material possessions and profit are all that matter, so it’s only natural that the “social forces” in such a society would lead to “expansion and integration, of the centralizing of business authority in an unimpeachable bureaucracy.”

3:16:26

“The main refinery from which the key narcotics organization is getting its heroin and opium is ostensibly a Pepsi Cola bottling plant. However, it is actually a heroin laboratory. Nonetheless, that heroin laboratory is being used by the key narcotics organization, the Hmong tribes, and the CIA to fly heroin into South Vietnam, where it’s going into the veins of our GIs. That plant is being subsidized by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which often serves as a conduit for U.S. intelligence. Niptuk is going to provide you with a very interesting piece of information about a well-known American politician who played a crucial role in getting that plant set up. He will share that later in the show.

This information is from “The Great Heroin Coup” by Henry Krueger. In August 1971, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs announced the location in Southeast Asia of 29 drug refineries, 15 of which were allegedly producing heroin. Among the largest was one in Vientiane, Laos, which was camouflaged as a Pepsi Cola plant. Richard Nixon, representing Pepsi’s interests in 1965, promoted its construction. Though the plant never capped a bottle, it continued to receive subsidies from U.S. aid for international development.

Richard Nixon, who at that time, among other things, was involved in the Kennedy assassination, worked for the Pepsi Cola Company. He was the one who promoted the establishment of that plant in Vientiane, which became the leading heroin refinery in all of Southeast Asia. The plant never capped a bottle of Pepsi; instead, the heroin, as Dave said, went straight into the arms of American GIs, supported by American taxpayers through USAID. Furthermore, the main person trafficking in that heroin, which was going into the arms of the GIs, was Nien Kalki, a key official of the government that those GIs were there to support in the first place. This is obviously a distasteful situation.”

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“States and nations that base their political thought on lies and on denying the truth are headed for ruin.” — Józef Piłsudski, Thoughts, Speeches, and Orders