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Henrik Kruger - The Great Heroin Coup; Richard Nixon

In this post a book by the Danish Henrik Kruger.
The value of this book to this thread is that it takes a different perspective than the other books I’ve posted about. Kruger starts his investigation in France, and winds up in South America and the US.
Maybe the most important information, is that also disgraced US President Richard Nixon was connected to the mob. I´ll add some information on Nixon after my summary of the book.

There is at least one aspect that I disagree with; Kruger claims that until the beginning of the 1970s Marseille, France was the biggest heroin exporter with the Turkish poppy production. As far as I can tell, Turkey was never near the largest poppy producer in the world but was an important entry point for transporting heroin into Europe...
According to Kruger, the Marseille heroin monopoly by the Corsican Mafia, mainly used Paraguay to transfer the heroin. It was replaced by the CIA-backed monopoly of South East Asia heroin exported to the US through Mexico.

Kruger starts his investigation with the French crook Christian David.
When David was locked up in prison; 1961 he was released after making a deal with Pierre Lemarchand to join the terror organisation of French intelligence agency SAC.
In 1965, David was recruited by French intelligence agency SDECE: and sent to Africa and South America, for activities that included murders.
In 1965, David was involved in the assassination of Ben Barka in Paris, who was a political enemy of Moroccan King Hassan.

David claimed Antoine Guerini told him he hired Lucien Sartri, who recruited 2 Frenchmen, to kill John F. Kennedy.
This was confirmed by Michel Nicoli, who named the other 2 snipers as Francois Chiappe and Jean-Paul Angeletti.

In 1971, 29 drug refineries in South East Asia were dismantled, including one that was disguised as a Pepsi Cola plant, financed with USAID money.

In 1975, Sam Gianca was extradited to Mexico, from where he was sent to France to face trial. En route to France he was murdered by US agents.

In 1975, Alberto Sicilia-Falcon arrested, who claimed that CIA had $260 million on Swiss accounts for covert operations:

The FBI destabilised Mexican government, after President Echevaria refused loans from World Bank and IMF.

In 1976, convicted cocaine and marijuana smuggler Kenneth Gordon Burnstine would testify against Mitch Werbell III (who was in business with John Singlaub). Before he could; he died in a plane crash, and Werbell was acquitted.

Juan Cesar Restoy tried to get his freedom and hundreds of thousands dollars by threatening to expose a close friend of Richard Nixon as a drug trafficker; Restoy was shot and killed by narcotics agents.
Santo Trafficante Jr. knew Jack Ruby, and was an associate of Meyer Lansky and Jim Hoffa, who supported Richard Nixon.
Nixon was involved with real estate firms that laundered Lanksy’s money.
IOS millionaire Robert Vesco, who handled Lansky’s money, was a friend of Nixon.

There is relatively large amount information added since 1980.
Henrik Kruger also wrote the following book (I haven´t found a freely viewable version, here are some excerpts) – The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism (1980): http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.nl/2013/12...er-14.html
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In March 1985, Capital Cities Communications (formerly named Mary Carter Paint Company) bought the giant ABC network.

Some of the major players in Capital Cities are:
William Casey, former CIA director, was a founder in 1954. Casey was also a major shareholder.
Tom Dewey, former New York governor and twice Republican candidate for president, was also a founder.
Tom Murphy, also a director of Texaco and IBM, was Capital Cities’ president in 1985.

In 1959, Capital Cities was purchased by an investment group that included Lowell Thomas, Thomas Dewey and John Crosby, who were also prominent in Resorts International.
The late James Crosby (son of John Crosby) was a close friend of Nixon; he donated $100,000 to his campaign in 1968. James would become chief executive of Mary Carter/Resorts International and his sister would become Tom Murphy's wife.

James Crosby played host to the (then) recently deposed Shah of Iran at Resorts International's hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
James Crosby was also a friend of Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, who was also in business with Santo Trafficante.
See Rebozo with Nixon.


In 1968, the Mary Carter Paint Company changed its name to Capital Cities Communications and concentrated on hotels and casinos in Atlantic City and the Bahamas.
Later, it acquired Intertel, which specialised in private "security" and intelligence gathering for corporate and other clients. Some of these clients were close the CIA, including ITT, Anastasio Somoza, the Shah of Iran and Howard Hughes' empire of casinos and arms manufacturers.

Resorts International was involved with Robert Vesco and the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate: https://kennedysandking.com/articles/the...ng-company
(archived here: http://archive.is/TbK9v)


On 30 October 1978, it was reported that the principle investors of Resorts International were Meyer Lansky, Tibor Rosenbaum, William Mellon Hitchcock, David Rockefeller, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild.

In one of those strange coincidences, in 1987 Donald Trump purchased his first casino interests when he acquired 93% of the shares in Resorts International.: https://philosophyofmetrics.com/how-roth...p-freepom/