[lbo-talk] "Left" Believers In Warren Report

[Michael Pugliese]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:12:30 -0500, Chip Berlet <cberlet at igc.org> wrote:

> Are you supporting the even further to the right theory that Kennedy was
> killed by the secret global Jewish elites and that their agent Jake
> Rubinstein was part of the vast plot when he killed Oswald?
>
> It is so hard to keep up....

   Shane is smarter than that. Though I am flummoxed why Shane believes 
some of the things he does about Pearl Harbour and ancillary subjects.
   The "Zionist Cabal" line on the JFK assasination is here, via Michael 
Collins Piper of The Spotlight/American Free Press. On Piper, 
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w16/msg00333.htm
http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html
The CIA's Drug-Trafficking Activities The CIA, Cocaine Smuggling at Mena 
and the Train Deaths Mind Control and the CIA's Use of LSD Ralph McGehee 
and CIABASE More about the CIA Links to Further Documents Concerning the 
CIA CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American 
business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically 
elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to 
conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize 
foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers 
and the environment...

   Kennedy's intended change in Vietnam policy — his plan to unilaterally 
withdraw from the imbroglio — infuriated not only the CIA but elements in 
the Pentagon and their allies in the military-industrial-complex. By this 
time, of course, the Lansky Syndicate had already set-up international 
heroin running from Southeast Asia through the CIA-linked Corsican Mafia in 
the Mediterranean. The joint Lansky-CIA operations in the international 
drug racket were a lucrative venture that thrived as a consequence of deep 
U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia as a cover for drug smuggling 
activities. — Michael Collins Piper, The Final Judgment, quoted at Vietnam, 
the CIA's Illegal Drug Trafficking, and JFK's Assassination 
http://www.babelmagazine.com/issue92/finaljudgment92.html
> ...Vietnam, the CIA's Illegal Drug Trafficking, and JFK's Assassination: 
> An Overview of Michael Collins Piper's "Final Judgment"
by Victor Thorn
 NOTE: The information below is derived from Michael Collins Piper’s Final 
Judgment. My role is that of a reviewer, and all credit for the research 
must be given to Mr. Piper. I urge everyone to purchase a copy of this 
book. Final Judgment is published by The Center for Historical Review, 132 
Third Street, SE, Washington, DC, 20003 (1-888-699-NEWS)

Perhaps the biggest secret of the Vietnam War is that our Central 
Intelligence Agency seized control of the infamous Golden Triangle during 
that time period, then, along with assistance from various elements of 
Organized Crime, shipped huge amounts of heroin out of that area into our 
country. Because piles of money were being made from this practice and many 
others, those who stood to profit from this horrendous war – the armament 
manufacturers, bankers, military men, and drug dealers – met any suggestion 
to withdraw from Vietnam with immediate consternation. But that’s exactly 
what John F. Kennedy intended to do upon re-election. In fact, he had 
already planned on telling the American people that their troops would be 
back home by 1965. Think about this momentous decision for a moment. If we 
had exited Vietnam by 1965, EIGHT years of bloodshed in the jungles and 
civil unrest on America’s streets and campuses could have been alleviated.

Michael Collins Piper writers in Final Judgment: “Kennedy’s intended change 
in Vietnam policy – his plan to unilaterally withdraw from the imbroglio – 
infuriated not only the CIA but elements in the Pentagon and their allies 
in the military-industrial-complex. By this time, of course, the Lansky 
Syndicate had already set-up international heroin running from Southeast 
Asia through the CIA-linked Corsican Mafia in the Mediterranean. The joint 
Lansky-CIA operations in the international drug racket were a lucrative 
venture that thrived as a consequence of deep U.S. involvement in Southeast 
Asia as a cover for drug smuggling activities.”

Piper’s simple one-paragraph explanation may be the most concise overview 
of the Vietnam War ever written. The military men and defense contractors 
were making out like bandits from the War Machine, while the CIA crooks and 
Lansky-led Mobsters (via Santo Traficante as the major wheeler-dealer) were 
likewise padding their pockets. Author Peter Dale Scott, in Deep Politics 
and the Death of JFK, said of this phenomenon, “The flood of drugs into 
this country since WWII was one of the major ‘unspeakable’ secrets leading 
to the ongoing cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.”

To provide a broader perspective on this situation, Professor Alfred McCoy 
stated in The Politics of Heroin, “Since the prohibition of narcotics in 
1920, alliances between drug brokers and intelligence agencies have 
protected the global narcotics traffic. Given the frequency of such 
alliances, there seems a natural attraction between intelligence agencies 
and criminal syndicates. Both are practitioners of what one retired CIA 
operative has called the ‘clandestine arts’ – the basic skill of operating 
outside the normal channels of civil society. Among all the institutions of 
modern society, intelligence agencies and crime syndicates alone maintain 
large organizations capable of carrying out covert operations without fear 
of detection.”

On the government side, the two main Golden Triangle runners were Ted 
Schackley and Thomas Clines – the same two men who ran Operation Mongoose 
(the plot to take out Fidel Castro). Thus, from 1960-1975, the CIA deployed 
a secret force of 30,000 Hmong tribesmen to fight the Laotian Communists. 
They also created heroin labs in this area; then brought it out via their 
own private airline – Air America.

Alfred McCoy, in The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug 
Trade, describes how the CIA first gave smack to our own American soldiers 
in Vietnam before shipping it into the United States, where Lansky mobsters 
dealt it on the streets.

Sam Giancana’s biographers reinforced this point by stating that while 
organized crime did its thing, “The CIA looked the other way – allowing 
over $100 million a year in illicit drugs to flow through Havana into the 
U.S. It was an arrangement similar to all the rest they’d made. The CIA 
received 10% of the take on the side of narcotics, which they utilized for 
their undercover slush fund.”

After the Mob and the CIA generated this dirty money, they laundered it 
into secret bank accounts controlled by the international bankers. That 
way, the government couldn’t get their hands on it and the funds could be 
invested in the stock market, loaned out to other businesses on the take, 
or channeled into the Secret Services’ black budgets.

So, even though the above information is only the tip of the iceberg, now 
do you see why it was so important to the CIA/Mobster/international banker 
cabal that JFK didn’t pull America out of Vietnam? The money (via illegal 
drug trafficking and for the War Machine) was incredible, while CONTROL of 
another area of the globe (the Golden Triangle) was secured.

As a final note, only FOUR DAYS after John Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon 
Baines Johnson, his successor, put his name on NSAM 273, which secured our 
increased involvement in Southeast Asia. These guys weren’t wasting any 
time! Within a few short months, our involvement in Vietnam went from 
20,000 troops to a quarter of a million! The CIA had won, and ten years 
later 57,000 American soldiers were dead - truly shocking and abysmal 
behavior – an embarrassment and blight on the American consciousness.

NEXT WEEK: The Media’s complicity in JFK’s Assassination -- Michael 
Pugliese