The CIA’s complicity with the Mexican drug cartels (including military training at Fort Bragg)

The following is an excerpt from Paul L. Williams’ book “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia”:

As the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan became uncertain, the CIA worked with Mexican drug cartels to develop poppy fields in the mountains of Mexico’s west coast. In 2013, heroin and cocaine from Mexico—with a street value of $3 billion—flooded Chicago. The drugs arrived by land, rail, and air, including on 747 jetliners. When Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, a member of the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested by Chicago police, he claimed to be a CIA agent under government protection. His trial was halted by federal prosecutors under the Classified Information Procedures Act. Prosecutors argued that Niebla’s testimony would pose a threat to national security.

In 2018, the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero became the largest source of heroin for the U.S. drug epidemic, which resulted in more than sixty-four thousand deaths in 2016. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, 93 percent of the heroin in America now comes from Mexico, more than double the rate of five years earlier. Guerrero emerged as a heroin hub because its mountains are inaccessible and trap warm, humid air from the Pacific Ocean.

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The Sinaloa cartel controls the flow. Its only rival is the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which emerged from infighting after the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in January 2016. The Sinaloas group’s strength comes from the support in the form of weapons and immunity the cartel has received from the CIA. In a 2011 article for the Washington Times, Robert Farago and Ralph Dixon state the following about this support: “The CIA’s motive is clear. The U.S. government fears that Los Zetas will stage a successful coup against the government of (Mexican President) Felipe Calderon.

But the motive is not clear because the CIA allegedly controlled and supported Los Zeta by providing military training to members of this criminal syndicate at Fort Bragg and other military installations in the United States.

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What is clear is that the Gladio strategy of tensions may also be applied south of the border. For example, new poppy fields may be planted to continue the CIA’s covert operations. These operations are not intended to protect the American people, but to protect the assets of an elite group of bankers and businessmen.

“The only thing that is constant is change,” said Heraclitus 2,500 years ago. Gladio provides proof of this saying. Gladio began as a covert operation to prevent the spread of communism and evolved into an attempt to promote the economic hegemony of an Anglo-American money cartel. It no longer sought to make the world safe for democracy, but to subjugate humanity to the designs of a synarchy. Its activities were no longer limited to the borders of Western Europe, but extended across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and Central Asia.

From the beginning, Gladio was fueled by heroin.

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This dependence created a plague that spread throughout the civilized world. The CIA’s illegal profits from the trade were originally embezzled by the Holy See.

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But the Vatican Bank was able to handle the flood of income that flowed into the Bastion of Nicholas V. New financial institutions were created to serve as laundries, including the Castle Bank and Trust in Miami, the Nugan Hand Bank (co-founded by Michael Hand, a Green Beret) in Sydney and the Bank of Commerce and Credit in Karachi.

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But even these banks were unable to manage the billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains. So the dirty money began to flow through major American banks, including Citibank, American Express of Beverly Hills, Manufacturers Banks, the Great American Bank, Chemical Bank and Chase Manhattan.

The CIA’s dependence on La Cosa Nostra also changed, and the creation of Gladio II forced the agency to forge new alliances with Latin American cartels, Turkey’s babas and Gray Wolves, inner-city street gangs in America, and the Albanian mafia that emerged almost overnight as “the leading criminal organization in the United States.”

And so Gladio continues to advance the interests of an Anglo-American money cartel. It will continue to ride the winds of war as long as the affairs of men are governed by greed and avarice. Never mind that a handful of people pull back the curtain to reveal figures with bloody swords.

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On January 27, 1980, two American police officers driving along the Great Western Highway near Sydney Harbour came across a 1977 Mercedes Benz parked at the side of the road. Inside the car, slumped in the front seat, was the body of a muscular middle-aged man. The officers searched his pockets and found the business card of William Colby, the former director of the CIA. The back of the card contained Colby’s itinerary for a trip to Hong Kong and Singapore. The dead man’s hand was wrapped around the barrel of a new .30-caliber rifle. Next to the body was a Bible with a meat pie wrapper as a bookmark. The wrapper bore the names of Colby and California Congressman Bob Wilson, then the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.

The dead man was identified as Frank Nugan, co-owner of the Nugan Hand Bank and one of Australia’s most prominent lawyers. His death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that Nugan’s fingerprints were not on the gun and only a contortionist could have shot himself in the head from the position in which he was found in the vehicle.

When Nugan’s partner, Michael Hand, a former Green Beret who had served in Vietnam, heard of the death, he rushed back to Sydney from a business trip in London and began shredding enough bank documents to fill a small cottage. The next day, Hand held a meeting of Nugan Hand Bank directors, warning them that they must follow his instructions to destroy all transaction records or “end up with concrete shoes” or have their wives delivered to them “in pieces”. By June 1980, Nugan Hand Ltd was in liquidation, owing creditors some $50 million. Hand fled to the United States, never to be heard from again.

The Nugan Hand Bank was founded in 1973 by Nugan and Hand. Shortly after setting up its Sydney headquarters, the bank expanded to twenty-two branches. One branch was set up in Chiang Mai, the heart of Thailand’s opium trade, in the same suite as the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The DEA receptionist answered the bank’s phones and took messages when the representatives were away. Neil Evans, the former head of the Chiang Mai branch, told investigators that he had seen millions pass through his office and claimed that the bank operated “solely for the purpose of disbursing funds anywhere in the world on behalf of the CIA, and also for the purpose of taking money on behalf of the CIA.”

The money the CIA withdrew from the bank was used to buy weapons from international arms dealer Edwin Wilson for guerrilla fighters in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil and the white Rhodesian government of Ian Smith. Wilson was a former CIA agent who was later convicted of selling weapons and explosives to the Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi. Funds were also spent to undermine the Liberal government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who had withdrawn Australian troops from Vietnam and condemned the bombing of Hanoi. These actions were orchestrated by Theodore Shackley, the CIA’s deputy director of operations. After Whitlam was removed from office by John Kerr, the Australian governor-general, in 1975, the money from covert operations flowed to Italy and the IOR, in support of the Christian Democrats.

The bank also imported heroin from the Golden Triangle into Australia. This dirty work was done by Australian police officers employed by the CIA, according to the Commonwealth-New South Wales Joint Task Force on Drug Trafficking. In 1976, one of those agents, Murray Riley, organised five heroin shipments to Australia, mostly in false-bottom suitcases. In each shipment, the Nugan Hand branches were used to transfer the purchase amount from Sydney to Hong Kong. Each import involved over a hundred pounds of heroin, much of which was eventually shipped from Hong Kong to the United States. Riley was also involved in two heroin importations in July and September 1977.

Doctor Guy Parker – an expert from the RAND Corporation
Major General Richard Secord – director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency, who worked closely with Ted Shackley in smuggling heroin money out of Vietnam…
Walter McDonald – retired CIA deputy director and head of the Annapolis branch
Dale Holmgreen – former chairman of the CIA’s Civil Air Transport and manager of its Taiwan branch
Theodore Shackley – former CIA deputy director for covert operations
Richard L. Armitage – special adviser to the Pentagon in Thailand who oversaw the transfer of heroin profits from Indonesia to Shackley’s account in Tehran, Iran
Patry Loomis – former CIA advisor to the provincial reconnaissance unit in Vietnam
Robert “Red” Jansen – former CIA station chief in Bangkok, who represented Nugan Hand in Thailand

(The following are excerpts from Paul L. Williams’ book “Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia”)