Crime syndicate
 Crime syndicate  (syndicate)   | |
|---|---|
| Interest of | • Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime • Lok Lau • Guy Lawson • Operation Tiberius • Celina Realuyo • Jürgen Roth |
| An organised group engaged in criminal behaviour | |
A crime syndicate is a group which carries out crimes, particularly is large scale and/or long lived. Such groups generally seek to operate covertly, may have a public cover and seek to establish a culture of impunity.
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Official narrative
Crime syndicates are sworn enemies of police forces, and many nation states have special police units to deal with them. Isolated cases of corruption do exist ("bad apples") but relations between crime syndicates and law enforcement are almost always antagonistic.
Concerns
The above official narrative is more characteristic of smaller, independent gangs. Where deep state groups have effective control of a government, they tend to have cooperative, sometimes mutually supportive relations with local crime syndicates.[citation needed]
Perhaps the most infamous criminal syndicate in US history, The Mafia, did not have a generally adversarial relationship with the FBI. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI refused to even admit that such a group existed until the intervention of Robert F. Kennedy.[clarification needed][citation needed] The US Deep state outsourced some of the JFK Assassination to The Mafia.[1]
In the 1960s, Scotland Yard were prevented from investigating The Firm, a notorious London syndicate run by the Cray brothers.
Activities
Criminal syndicates usually engage in multiple activities, although often specialising in just a few areas.
Deep state groups
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Deep state groups are criminal syndicates whose core business is to control national governments. As such, they are of importance to all but the most localised criminal syndicates.
Drug cartels
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Drug cartel
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The large majority of drugs are trafficked, not as the commercially-controlled media almost invariably suggest[2] by individual drug smugglers or by small gangs, but by cartels which produce and traffic drugs by the tonne. This is generally done with the complicity of the US Deep state (mainly through the CIA in the USA, although with local partners elsewhere).[3]
Intelligence agencies
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As they draw funding from national governments, intelligence agencies are not widely regarded as criminal syndicates, and they may only rarely engage in illegal activities.[4] However, they are included in this list since they fit the criteria: they tend to have an unparalleled culture of impunity (almost always de facto, sometimes also de jure)[5], they operate covertly, heavy emphasis on secrecy, often exhibit nepotistic recruitment patterns and establish long term relationships with other crime syndicates.
Legal business
Control of legal businesses is often a very important aspect of some crime syndicates. Money laundering, for example, is greatly facilitated by operational control of banks, although ownership be unnecessary. Gambling or prostitution require premises. Trafficking operations, whether of drugs, people, stolen goods or whatever else are facilitated by control of transport businesses. Any illegal business can benefit from a cover. Intelligence agencies also seek to control commercially-controlled media[6]
Inter-relationships
Large, long-lived syndicates inevitably attract the attention from governmental bodies such as the police and establish ongoing relationship with them, often mediated by deep state groups or intelligence agencies.
While turf wars and rivalry do erupt between crime syndicates, cooperative relationships are more stable. Historically, a code of silence has often prevailed among criminal syndicates, especially deep state groups, which have a lot to lose should the general public understand the deep patterns of their activities.
Liaison
The disciplines of compartmentalisation and the need to know basis are best served in the case of limited contact between a pair of criminal syndicates by having one a few, perhaps a single individual to handle relationships. The Integrity Initiative leak revealed various members whose responsibility was liaison or "relationship building". Guy Spindler's other roles are listed as "Govt-NGO relationship building; network and cluster management".[7]
Mergers
Where inter-operations between crime syndicates are frequent and close the above strictures may not be followed, leading to extensive interdependence. In this case, although separate cover is retained for purposes of misdirection, a de facto merger between formerly separate groups is possible, potentially creating a crisis of leadership.
Perhaps the most important example of merging is the world's intelligence agencies. The Safari Club, coinciding with US President Carter's dismissal of hundreds of CIA agents, began an offshoring process, which moved the de facto CIA off piste, and facilitated a much closer collaboration between the intelligence agencies.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Deep state | A "deep state" is a group with covert de facto control of a nation state. Just as monarchies often had a "power behind the throne", so democracies similarly have an unacknowledged secret hand with a greater or lesser degree of control over decisions taken. This website uses the phrase "Deep State" (capital D, capital S) as a shorthand to refer to the Supranational Deep State, the global alliance of deep states which was fused by 9/11. |
| Drug cartel | A large business entity in the illegal drug trade |
| Hungarian Mafia | A powerful organized crime network of Jewish-Hungarian "businessmen" in Australia |
| Satanism | |
| The Enterprise | A sprawling criminal network of thousands of people in key positions across USA. Set up by head of The Cabal, George H. W. Bush. |
| US/Mafia | |
| Yakuza |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klaas Bruinsma | “Who is to say that Abbas, Bruinsma and "the Hakkelaar" weren't used as pawns in a game much larger than they were, much as Mink Kok seems to have been used time and again? They are allowed to flourish a little bit, receive a little protection, a little legal aid, and when their time is up some rival gang takes them out and that one gets the protection when necessary. It's entirely possible. But where would the manipulation of these mafia groups come from? Most likely CIA Gladio/"stay behind" networks, which, during the Cold War, revolved around Prince Bernhard and individuals as Bib van Lanschot and Cees van den Heuvel.” | Joël van der Reijden ISGP Klaas Bruinsma | 2014 |
| Al Capone | “This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.” | Al Capone | 1930 |
| Peter Gøtzsche | “Bribery is routine and involves large amounts of money. Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties. In Latin America, posts as ministers of health are avidly sought, as these ministers are almost invariably rich with wealth coming from the drug industry. In the beginning of this chapter, I asked the question whether we are seeing a lone bad apple now and then, or whether pretty much the whole basket is rotten. What we are seeing is organised crime in an industry that is completely rotten.” | Peter Gøtzsche | 2013 |
| US/Deep state | “During the 1940s and 1950s, corrupt politicians championed the politics of anti-communism in order to divert attention from the growing nexus between organized crime, big business and government. At the center of this nexus stood FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), who cultivated mob connected businessmen in his war against communism, while refusing to cooperate with the Kefauver Committee's landmark investigation of organized crime in 1950-1951.” | Jeremy Kuzmarov | 10 June 2021 |
| US/VIPaedophile | “I can tell you that a very reliable source has confirmed to us that Kendall has in fact been trafficked, raped, molested, and severely abused by a very large, very dangerous organization” | Phil McGraw | 21 March 2017 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:The Octopus | article | 1999 | David Guyatt | An introduction to the involvement of senior US politicians, bureaucrats and the CIA in globalised criminal activities, the investigation of which cost investigative reported Danny Casolaro his life |
References
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/
- ↑ By omission: although often remarked upon that the "war on drugs" affects only low or mid level dealers, government connections to high level drug trafficking are a third rail topic
- ↑ For example, see Cocaine 1 or Cocaine 2.
- ↑ If only because some state-backed intelligence have a de facto exemption from the legal system.
- ↑ The only officer punished with regards to the CIA Torture programme was John Kiriakou, the whistleblower who exposed it
- ↑ Most infamously the CIA's Operation Mockingbird, although the Integrity Initiative leak revealed that group's establishment of "clusters" and its study of social media in perception management.
- ↑ [[Integrity Initiative/Leak]/4]]
