Illegal drug trade
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Official narrative
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 bit players, noting that, for example, cocaine "is often brought in to the UK by drug mules; in suitcases or by swallowing bags."[1] National governments and authorities in general are routinely portrayed by the establishment as staunch opponents of the illegal drug trade. The evidence pointing to close ties between drug cartels, intelligence agencies and deep state groups, is almost never mentioned in the context of drug running.
Problems
Gary Webb's Dark Alliance provided very detailed evidence that the CIA was complicit in importing illegal drugs to the USA, as did corroborating evidence by Mike Ruppert. Their charges were never answered by authorities such as the DEA who are officially tasked with investigating them.
The official narrative makes no mention of deep events such as the Susurluk incident which provide compelling evidence for the existence of a deep state, a hidden nexus of high level politicians, drug traffickers, arms dealers and intelligence agency operatives.
"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
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.
Opium
The majority of the world's opium is produced 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.
Cocaine
The world's cocaine is grown in the Andes in South America. Plan Colombia was officially intended to decrease cocaine production and export to the US. On its announcement, Peter Dale Scott predicted that increased involvement of the US military would have an entirely converse effect. His prediction, that the amount of cocaine produced and exported would increase, proved correct.
Examples
| Page name | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
