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| + | The '''illegal drug trade''' concerns the production and shipment of the recreational drugs such as [[cocaine]], [[heroin]] and [[cannabis]] which the {{ccm}} refers to as "[[drug]]s", as opposed to "pharmaceuticals". The [[drug cartels]] who profit from this trade generally (perhaps almost invariably<ref>https://isgp-studies.com/cia-heroin-and-cocaine-drug-trafficking</ref>) do so with the knowledge (and often collusion) of [[intelligence agencies]], most notably the [[CIA]].<ref>https://www.opednews.com/conroyBill_091304_dea_whistleblower.htm saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20051122080109/http://www.opednews.com/conroyBill_091304_dea_whistleblower.htm Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/kF6d4 Archive.is]</ref> | ||
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==Official narrative== | ==Official narrative== | ||
| − | The global drug trade is an immensely profitable business, and as such, its reporting in the {{ccm}} is heavily influenced by [[deep state]] interests keen to protect their profits. The {{on}} emphasises the role of | + | {{YouTubeVideo |
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| + | }}The global drug trade is an immensely profitable business, and as such, its reporting in the {{ccm}} is heavily influenced by [[deep state]] interests keen to protect their profits. The {{on}} emphasises the role of small groups, noting that, for example, [[cocaine]] "is often brought in to the [[UK]] by drug mules; in suitcases or by swallowing bags."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7947000/7947930.stm</ref> Although larger level smuggling operations are occasionally reported, details are often sketchy and obscure the role of the [[deep state]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/08/police-bust-multi-billion-pound-drug-smuggling-gang-50-tonnes/</ref> <ref>https://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/270m-cocaine-tons-plane/2013/09/23/id/527252/</ref> | ||
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| + | National governments and [[authorities]] in general are routinely portrayed by [[the establishment]] as staunch ''opponents'' of the illegal drug trade, as evidenced by their pursuing a "[[war on drugs]]". Evidence of close ties between [[drug cartel]]s, [[intelligence agencies]] and [[deep state]] groups is almost never mentioned.<ref>For example, the [[Susurluk car crash]], [[Cocaine 1]] or [[Cocaine 2]]</ref> | ||
===Problems=== | ===Problems=== | ||
| − | + | [[image:darkalliance.gif|thumbnail|left|Gary Webb's [[Dark Alliance]] website which broke the CIA's involvement in the [[crack cocaine]] trade documented the development of drug smuggling methods and routes.<ref>http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm </ref>]] | |
| + | The methods of smuggling suggested by the official narrative do not allow for adequate explanation of the amount of drugs smuggled. [[Gary Webb]]'s exhaustive and convincing documentation of [[CIA/Drug trafficking|CIA-connected cocaine trafficking]] states that [[1970 | in the mid-1970s]] {{SMWQ | ||
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| + | |text=the [[drug]] [cocaine] was carried across the border hidden in suitcases and shoes [but] as the industry grew, the cartels expanded and shipped by cargo ships, planes, stolen cars and trucks. | ||
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| + | |source_URL=http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/startkb.htm | ||
| + | }} This would also explain why CIA planes have been found full of cocaine either when accidentally [[2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust|arrested]] or [[2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash|crashed]]. | ||
| − | + | The [[Susurluk incident]] is worth investigating for anyone who is interested in state approved drug trafficking, and also for anyone seeking evidence for the existence of a hidden nexus of high level [[politician]]s, [[drug trafficker]]s, [[arms dealer]]s and [[intelligence agency]] operatives - the Turkish term provided the English phrase "[[deep state]]". Another character worth looking up is [[Willem Matser]], a Dutch spook and [[deep state functionary]] who was "one of [[NATO Secretary General]] [[Lord Robertson]]'s top policy experts". In 2004 he was found guilty of forgery and fraud in connection with a $200m (£120m) money laundering operation between [[Colombia]] and [[Romania]].<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/robertsons-nato-aide-accused-of-200m-money-laundering-scam-110853.html</ref> | |
| − | The disinterest of authorities in investigating massive [[money laundering]] by large [[bank]]s,<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213</ref> the scale of drug smuggling operations and the apparently inability of the [[authorities]] to prevent it would seem to support the accusations of a lot of [[whistleblowers]]:- that the resources of [[nation states]] are being marshaled, not to hinder the global drug trade, but to actively promote and carry it out. | + | The disinterest of authorities in investigating massive [[money laundering]] by large [[bank]]s,<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213</ref> the scale of drug smuggling operations and the apparently inability of the [[authorities]] to prevent it would seem to support the accusations of a lot of [[whistleblowers]]:- that the resources of [[nation states]] are being marshaled, not to ''hinder'' the global drug trade, but to actively promote and carry it out. |
| − | ==Heroin== | + | ==Globalisation== |
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| + | [[image:East India Company Opium.png|thumb|The [[British East India Company]] was the pioneer of the modern illicit drug trade. From their opium warehouse in India in the 1850s]] | ||
| + | [[Daniel Hopsicker]] wrote in 2016 that "The first industry to globalize vertically was the illegal drug business. It’s an open question whether drug trafficking drove globalization, or the other way around."<ref>http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/07/20/election-decides-drug-trade/#more-12288</ref> The profits of the trade provided a huge incentive for the formidable amount of work needed to organise and monopolize the trade to the extent seen in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Landmark events in the legal aspect of globalisation include the 1961 UN [[Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs]], which consolidated existing legislation and expanded the number of drugs to be effectively illegal worldwide (for example, by including [[cannabis]]) - establishing the huge potential for profits from the processing and smuggling of illegal drugs. | ||
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| + | ==Naturally derived drugs== | ||
| + | Humans have been using plant derived [[drug]]s, either partly processed or in natural form, since records began (and no doubt long before). | ||
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| + | ===Cannabis=== | ||
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| + | [[Image:Cannabis.jpg|right|220px]] | ||
| + | Cannabis is the most popular recreational drug. It can be grown in most locations with relative ease and is therefore less expensive to produce than other drugs, but, conversely, it is also more difficult to smuggle. As a result, production centres and smuggling routes are diverse. This presents a problem for the illegal drug trade. For the last half century, drug traffickers maintained profitability by strictly prohibiting its cultivation, especially in 'developed' countries such as [[North America]] and [[Europe]]. | ||
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| + | ===Cocaine=== | ||
| + | {{FA|Cocaine}} | ||
| + | [[Image:Crack cocaine.jpg|left|thumb|216px|[[Crack]], a smokable form of cocaine]] | ||
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| + | Cocaine is produced from coca grown in the Andes in [[South America]]. Its huge popularity and illegality has created huge profits for those who traffic it on a large scale. In the [[1980s]], [[George H. W. Bush]] as [[US Vice president]] oversaw a huge scaling up of the CIA's [[CIA/Drug_trafficking|importing cocaine into US]]<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9fgi7IZSk</ref> while simultaneously leading the "[[war on drugs]]". However, the US [[Deep State]] does not have a [[monopoly]] over cocaine trafficking; it is engaged in war with the [[Hezbollah]], [[Syria]], [[Iran]] triangle which uses [[submarine]]s to smuggle it via [[Africa]] (especially [[Sierra Leone]]).<ref>''[[Document:Battleground_Ukraine]]''</ref> | ||
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{{FA|Heroin}} | {{FA|Heroin}} | ||
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[[Alfred McCoy]] wrote in 1972 that the [[SDECE]] financed all of its covert operations during the Indochina War from its control of the Indochina drug trade. | [[Alfred McCoy]] wrote in 1972 that the [[SDECE]] financed all of its covert operations during the Indochina War from its control of the Indochina drug trade. | ||
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==Synthetic Drugs== | ==Synthetic Drugs== | ||
| − | + | Synthetic drugs can be made anywhere in the world with roughly equal ease, and so their production is harder to interdict. The problem is tackled by having a range of international treaties which attempt to limit and monitor these drugs' precursors, that is, the chemicals from which they are most easily and safely synthesized. This regulatory area is of course of great interest to [[big pharma]]. | |
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===Amphetamines=== | ===Amphetamines=== | ||
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{{FA|Amphetamines}} | {{FA|Amphetamines}} | ||
As well as recreational use, these can be used to facilitate fighters in [[war]], giving an energy boost, lifting mood and decreasing appetite and have historically been used as such. It also clouds judgment and has long term health consequences. | As well as recreational use, these can be used to facilitate fighters in [[war]], giving an energy boost, lifting mood and decreasing appetite and have historically been used as such. It also clouds judgment and has long term health consequences. | ||
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| + | ====LSD==== | ||
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| + | [[Image:LSD.jpg|left|thumbnail|[[LSD]], dissolved onto blotter|220px]] | ||
| + | [[LSD]], or 'Acid' is a popular psychedelic that was first produced in [[1938]], derived from ergot. Just after [[World War II]] it was researched by the [[MK Ultra]] and related projects for its potential in extracting information from prisoners, but those projects concluded that it was not reliable enough. LSD is extremely small (normal doses are a ''fraction of a milligram'') but the drug itself is relatively fragile. Skilled chemists such as [[Nicholas Sand]] have produced millions of doses of LSD. | ||
====MDMA==== | ====MDMA==== | ||
{{FA|MDMA}} | {{FA|MDMA}} | ||
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[[MDMA]], 'Ecstasy' or 3-4,Methylenedioxymethamphetamine was made illegal in UK in 1977 and in USA in 1985. It functions similarly to an amphetamine in terms of energy, but increases empathy which renders it unsuitable for exploitation in combat situations. | [[MDMA]], 'Ecstasy' or 3-4,Methylenedioxymethamphetamine was made illegal in UK in 1977 and in USA in 1985. It functions similarly to an amphetamine in terms of energy, but increases empathy which renders it unsuitable for exploitation in combat situations. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:40, 3 December 2022
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A central subject for deep state research worth expanding on |
 Illegal drug trade  (Crime)   
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| Interest of | • British East India Company • Bill Conroy • Europol • Federal Bureau of Narcotics • Mario Ferraro • Geopolitics & Empire • Daniel Hopsicker • Mad Cow News • Alfred McCoy • NATO • Narco News • Netherlands/Deep state • Brian Downing Quig • SDS • Peter Dale Scott • Barry Seal • Sinaloa cartel • Fred Teeven • Gary Webb • World League for Freedom and Democracy |
| An extremely profitable business, which is also extremely low risk when undertaken on a large enough scale, with protection from the various law enforcement agencies. A natural for deep state groups, which can be safely assumed to control the overwhelming majority of global drug trafficking. | |
Not to be confused with the (legal) drug industry.
The illegal drug trade concerns the production and shipment of the recreational drugs such as cocaine, heroin and cannabis which the commercially-controlled media refers to as "drugs", as opposed to "pharmaceuticals". The drug cartels who profit from this trade generally (perhaps almost invariably[1]) do so with the knowledge (and often collusion) of intelligence agencies, most notably the CIA.[2]
Contents
Official narrative
| Peter Dale Scott on the global drug trade |
The global drug trade is an immensely profitable business, and as such, its reporting in the commercially-controlled media is heavily influenced by deep state interests keen to protect their profits. The official narrative emphasises the role of small groups, noting that, for example, cocaine "is often brought in to the UK by drug mules; in suitcases or by swallowing bags."[3] Although larger level smuggling operations are occasionally reported, details are often sketchy and obscure the role of the deep state.[4] [5]
National governments and authorities in general are routinely portrayed by the establishment as staunch opponents of the illegal drug trade, as evidenced by their pursuing a "war on drugs". Evidence of close ties between drug cartels, intelligence agencies and deep state groups is almost never mentioned.[6]
Problems
The methods of smuggling suggested by the official narrative do not allow for adequate explanation of the amount of drugs smuggled. Gary Webb's exhaustive and convincing documentation of CIA-connected cocaine trafficking states that in the mid-1970s “the drug [cocaine] was carried across the border hidden in suitcases and shoes [but] as the industry grew, the cartels expanded and shipped by cargo ships, planes, stolen cars and trucks.” [8] This would also explain why CIA planes have been found full of cocaine either when accidentally arrested or crashed.
The Susurluk incident is worth investigating for anyone who is interested in state approved drug trafficking, and also for anyone seeking evidence for the existence of a hidden nexus of high level politicians, drug traffickers, arms dealers and intelligence agency operatives - the Turkish term provided the English phrase "deep state". Another character worth looking up is Willem Matser, a Dutch spook and deep state functionary who was "one of NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson's top policy experts". In 2004 he was found guilty of forgery and fraud in connection with a $200m (£120m) money laundering operation between Colombia and Romania.[9]
The disinterest of authorities in investigating massive money laundering by large banks,[10] the scale of drug smuggling operations and the apparently inability of the authorities to prevent it would seem to support the accusations of a lot of whistleblowers:- that the resources of nation states are being marshaled, not to hinder the global drug trade, but to actively promote and carry it out.
Globalisation
- Full article: Globalisation
- Full article: Globalisation
Daniel Hopsicker wrote in 2016 that "The first industry to globalize vertically was the illegal drug business. It’s an open question whether drug trafficking drove globalization, or the other way around."[11] The profits of the trade provided a huge incentive for the formidable amount of work needed to organise and monopolize the trade to the extent seen in the 21st century. Landmark events in the legal aspect of globalisation include the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which consolidated existing legislation and expanded the number of drugs to be effectively illegal worldwide (for example, by including cannabis) - establishing the huge potential for profits from the processing and smuggling of illegal drugs.
Naturally derived drugs
Humans have been using plant derived drugs, either partly processed or in natural form, since records began (and no doubt long before).
Cannabis
- Full article: Cannabis
- Full article: Cannabis
Cannabis is the most popular recreational drug. It can be grown in most locations with relative ease and is therefore less expensive to produce than other drugs, but, conversely, it is also more difficult to smuggle. As a result, production centres and smuggling routes are diverse. This presents a problem for the illegal drug trade. For the last half century, drug traffickers maintained profitability by strictly prohibiting its cultivation, especially in 'developed' countries such as North America and Europe.
Cocaine
- Full article: Cocaine
- Full article: Cocaine
Cocaine is produced from coca grown in the Andes in South America. Its huge popularity and illegality has created huge profits for those who traffic it on a large scale. In the 1980s, George H. W. Bush as US Vice president oversaw a huge scaling up of the CIA's importing cocaine into US[12] while simultaneously leading the "war on drugs". However, the US Deep State does not have a monopoly over cocaine trafficking; it is engaged in war with the Hezbollah, Syria, Iran triangle which uses submarines to smuggle it via Africa (especially Sierra Leone).[13]
Heroin
- Full article: Heroin
- Full article: Heroin
The majority of the world's heroin is produced from opium grown in Afghanistan. Sibel Edmonds has stated that deep state interests move most of it to Turkey for refinement before it is shipped to Europe or North America. Harvests are much greater now than before the US lead invasion.
Alfred McCoy wrote in 1972 that the SDECE financed all of its covert operations during the Indochina War from its control of the Indochina drug trade.
Synthetic Drugs
Synthetic drugs can be made anywhere in the world with roughly equal ease, and so their production is harder to interdict. The problem is tackled by having a range of international treaties which attempt to limit and monitor these drugs' precursors, that is, the chemicals from which they are most easily and safely synthesized. This regulatory area is of course of great interest to big pharma.
Amphetamines
- Full article: Amphetamines
- Full article: Amphetamines
As well as recreational use, these can be used to facilitate fighters in war, giving an energy boost, lifting mood and decreasing appetite and have historically been used as such. It also clouds judgment and has long term health consequences.
LSD
- Full article: LSD
- Full article: LSD
LSD, or 'Acid' is a popular psychedelic that was first produced in 1938, derived from ergot. Just after World War II it was researched by the MK Ultra and related projects for its potential in extracting information from prisoners, but those projects concluded that it was not reliable enough. LSD is extremely small (normal doses are a fraction of a milligram) but the drug itself is relatively fragile. Skilled chemists such as Nicholas Sand have produced millions of doses of LSD.
MDMA
- Full article: MDMA
- Full article: MDMA
MDMA, 'Ecstasy' or 3-4,Methylenedioxymethamphetamine was made illegal in UK in 1977 and in USA in 1985. It functions similarly to an amphetamine in terms of energy, but increases empathy which renders it unsuitable for exploitation in combat situations.
Examples
| Page name | Date | Description |
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| 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust | A DC-9 made an emergency landing and was found to be containing over 5 tonnes of cocaine. The pilot "disappeared", unnamed, and the plane was deregistered and sold within days to an unknown customer in Venezuela. | |
| 2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash | A plane used by the CIA for rendition, which later crashed in Mexico, with tons of cocaine aboard. | |
| Angel Fire | A hub of deep state guns and drug running in the 1980s, similar to Mena, Arkansas, but much less known. | |
| CIA/Drug trafficking | Drug trafficking by the CIA makes up a large contribution to its black budget | |
| Drug smuggling | The covert transport of drugs. Although increasingly legal in some places, when not, governments clandestinely often get involved. | |
| Mena | A now somewhat infamous hub of deep state guns and drug running | |
| Mena/Intermountain Municipal Airport | Center of drug trafficking in the 80s. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Our Secret Servants - The Shayler Affair | “the Americans have devoted several hundred times the money and the manpower at the disposal of MI6 to attacking the global drug trade without appearing to have any significant result.” | ||
| Drug smuggling | “I stood at the Friendship Bridge at Termez [Uzbekistan] in 2003 and watched the Jeeps with blacked-out windows bringing the heroin through from Afghanistan, en route to Europe. I watched the tankers of chemicals roaring into Afghanistan. Yet I could not persuade my country to do anything about it.” | Craig Murray | |
| Far West | “There are two kinds of businesses: those which flourish from peace and the strengthening of law and those which require the opposite - zones of incessant chaos like Chechnya Colombia Afghanistan where drugs can be grown or trafficked under the watch of PMCs.” | Peter Dale Scott | 26 February 2006 |
| Netherlands/Deep state | “The Netherlands has a long history with cocaine. In the early 1900s, the Dutch East India Company – having exploited and enslaved millions of people – began growing coca in its colonies in Indonesia. There was even a cocaine factory in Amsterdam, which supplied marching powder to all sides in World War One. When international treaties finally put a halt to the Dutch’s rampant coke dealing, Rotterdam emerged as a key import site for the illicit trade of the drug from South America.” | Vice News | 2020 |
| Augusto Pinochet | “was widely supported in ultraright western circles surrounding the CIA and private groups as the WACL, Le Cercle and American Security Council” | Augusto Pinochet |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bo Gritz Letter to George Bush | letter | 1 February 1988 | Bo Gritz | A letter from Bo Gritz to George H. W. Bush |
| Document:American War Machine | book introduction | 1 November 2010 | Peter Dale Scott | A precis of the entire book, an analysis of the hidden mechanisms behind the exercise of real power in the Western World. The book is a culmination and synthesis of all of the author's earlier work on 'Deep Events' and the 'Deep State. Together with the work of Ola Tunander on the same subjects, it is a highly recommended for anyone seeking more than superficial understanding of the predicament of 21st Century humanity. |
| Document:Obama and the Intelligence Cabal | webpage | 3 August 2011 | Natasha Barch Vadim Stolz | |
| Document:The Global Drugs Meta-Group | article | October 2005 | Peter Dale Scott | |
| Document:Transnationalised Repression Parafascism and the US | article | September 1986 | Peter Dale Scott |
Convicted of Illegal drug trade
| Person | Born | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evelin Banev | 8 October 1964 | Bulgaria Turkey Ukraine | Drug trafficker | Bulgarian "cocaine kingpin". |
| Hüseyin Baybaşin | 25 December 1956 | Drug trafficker Deep state actor | A druglord with close and acknowledged ties to Turkish government leaders, who also worked as an informer for UK Customs & Excise. Now in prison |
Rating
30 July 2017 Robin Disorganised but helpfulThis article needs a revision, but is packed with important leads.
References
- ↑ https://isgp-studies.com/cia-heroin-and-cocaine-drug-trafficking
- ↑ https://www.opednews.com/conroyBill_091304_dea_whistleblower.htm saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7947000/7947930.stm
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/08/police-bust-multi-billion-pound-drug-smuggling-gang-50-tonnes/
- ↑ https://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/270m-cocaine-tons-plane/2013/09/23/id/527252/
- ↑ For example, the Susurluk car crash, Cocaine 1 or Cocaine 2
- ↑ http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm
- ↑ http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/startkb.htm Dark Alliance
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/robertsons-nato-aide-accused-of-200m-money-laundering-scam-110853.html
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213
- ↑ http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/07/20/election-decides-drug-trade/#more-12288
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9fgi7IZSk
- ↑ Document:Battleground_Ukraine
