PART IV
Creating the Market
The British Origins of the Counterculture
The acts or gestures that accompany the incantations constitute
the rite (of Isis). In these dances, the beating of drums and the
rhythm of music and repetitive movements were helped by
hallucinatory substances like hashish or mescal; these were consumed
as adjuvants to create the trance and the hallucinations that were
taken to be the visitation of the god. The drugs were sacred, and
their knowledge was limited to the initiated; their preparation and
their gathering were surrounded with . . . secrecy. . , . In some
cases, like the harvesting of the mandrake, they remained secret
until the Middle Ages.
Possibly because they gave the illusion of satisfied desires, and
allowed the innermost feelings to escape, these rites acquired
during their execution a frenzied character that is conspicuous in
certain spells: "Retreat! Re is piercing thy head, slashing thy
face, dividing they head, crushing it in his hands; thy bones are
shattered, thy limbs are cut to pieces." The House of Life: Magic
and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, by Paul Ghalioungui (1)
If this description of pagan cult ceremonies dating back to the
Egyptian Isis priesthood of the third millennium B.C. reads like a
journalistic account of a "hippy be-in" circa 1969 A.D., it should.
The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent
population is not merely analogous to the ancient Cult of Isis. It
is a literal resurrection of the Isis cult down to the
popularization of the Isis cross as the counterculture's most
frequently used symbol.
As we shall show here, the drug-rock counterculture was the result
of Britain's 30-year Opium War against the United States, which
included not only chemical and psychological warfare but the hideous
military project called the Vietnam War.
The British fostered the creation of the bestial rock and drug cult
for the same reason that their colonial policy enforced backwardness
throughout the empire and for the same reason that the pharaohs of
ancient Egypt and the Ptolemaic priests of the first century A.D.
Egypt fostered the practice. As long as a population is organized
around superstition, magic, hallucinogenic drugs, and animal-like
pursuit of immediate sensory gratification ("if it feels good, do
it"), it will remain incapable of acting on behalf of its own
interests. It was for this reason that the oligarchies of ancient
Egypt organized themselves into priesthoods and created dozens of
apparently contending pagan cults, all characterized by the same
bestialist outlook.
True religion, as opposed to the worship of magically endowed
cult-gods, addresses man's capacity for reason, his "Godliness."
Unlike the lower beasts, the human species is uniquely capable of
creative thought the ability to break out of the bounds of sense
certainty, develop new scientific knowledge, and socially apply
that knowledge through technological innovations that uplift the
material and cultural condition of man. Historically such true
religion has been associated with the development of urban
centers where science, culture, and commerce could flourish. Its
sworn enemy has been the oligarchy and its priesthoods and cults
which on countless occasions have mobilized to sack the cities,
murder the city-builders, and bring on the "dark ages" of plague
and ignorance.
The gentlemen at the Royal Institute of International Affairs
responsible for charting Britain's global drug trafficking
recognized that no mass-scale drug epidemic could be produced in the
United States until the American people's fundamental commitment to
scientific and technological progress had first been significantly
undermined. The drug-rock counterculture was no mere "sociological
phenomenon."
In his City of God, the great humanist St. Augustine described the
degeneration into cultism that brought on the destruction of Rome,
in terms that have direct bearing on the post-1963 degeneration of
the United States:
The stage plays, those exhibitions of depravity and unbounded
license, were not introduced in Rome by men's vices, but by the
command of your gods. Far more justifiably might you have paid
divine honors to your Scipio than worship gods such as those, for
they were not more virtuous than their high priest.
Are your minds bereft of reason? You are not merely mistaken; this
is madness. Here are people in the east bewailing Rome's
humiliation, and great states in remote regions of the earth holding
public mourning and lamentation and you Romans are searching for
theaters, pouring into them, filling them, behaving more
irresponsibly than ever before. It is this spiritual disease,
degeneration, decline into immorality and indecency that Scipio
feared when he opposed the erection of theaters. He saw how easily
ease and plenty would soften and ruin you. He did not wish you to be
free from fear.
He did not think that the republic could be happy while walls were
standing, yet morals were collapsing. But, you were more attached to
the seductions of foul spirits than to the wisdom of men with
foresight. That is why you take no blame for the evil you do, but
blame Christianity for the evil you suffer. Depraved by prosperity,
and unchastened by adversity, you desire, in your security, not the
peace of the State, but liberty for license. (2)
The high priesthood
The "case officer" for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the
grandson of Thomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Round Table
group and a lifelong collaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself
sat on the RIIA council for nearly 50 years, headed the Research
Division of British intelligence throughout World War II, and served
as wartime briefing officer to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Toynbee's "theory" of history, expounded in his 20-volume history of
Western civilization, was that its determining feature has always
been the rise and decline of grand imperial dynasties. At the very
point that these dynasties the "thousand year Reich" of the
Egyptian pharaohs, the Roman Empire, and the British Empire
succeed in imposing their rule over the entire face of the earth,
they tend to decline. Toynbee argued that this decline could be
abated if the ruling oligarchy (like that of the British Round
Table) would devote itself to the recruitment and training of an
ever-expanding priesthood devoted to the principles of imperial
rule. (3)
Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates
in the "Children of the Sun," a dionysian cult comprised of the
children of Britain's Round Table elite. (4) Among the other
initiates were T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sir Oswald Moseley, and D.
H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover. It was Huxley, furthermore,
who would launch the legal battle in the 1950s to have Lawrence's
pornographic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover allowed into the United
States on the ground that it was a misunderstood "work of art." (5)
Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford
by H. G. Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during
World War I. Wells's writings (Time Machine, etc.), along with those
of his protιgιs Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell
(1984, Animal Farm), were written as "mass appeal" organizing
documents on behalf of Britain's "en-lightened" world order. Only in
the United States are these "science fiction classics" taught in
grade school as attacks
against fascism. (A contemporary British intelligence operative
turned-author, Anthony Burgess, wrote Clockwork Orange in the
Wells-Orwell-Huxley tradition as a pornographic celebration of the
drug-rock counterculture.)
Under Wells's tutelage Huxley was first introduced to Aleister
Crowley (see Part II, Section 9). Crowley was a product of the
cultist circle that developed in Britain from the 1860s under the
guiding influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton who, it will be
recalled, was the colonial minister under Lord Palmerston during the
Second Opium War. In 1886, Crowley, William Butler Yeats, and
several other Bulwer-Lytton protιgιs formed the IsisUrania Temple
of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. This Isis Cult was
organized around the 1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Madame Helena
Blavatsky, in which the Russian occultist called for the British
aristocracy to organize itself into an Isis Priesthood. (6)
Crowley in turn initiated Aldous Huxley into the Isis-Golden Dawn
Temple and introduced him to psychedelic drugs in 1929. (7)
In 1937, Huxley moved to the United States, where he remained
throughout the period of World War II. Through a Los Angeles
contact, Jacob Zeitlin, Huxley and pederast Christopher Isherwood
were employed as script writers for MGM, Warner Brothers, and Walt
Disney studios. As we have seen, Hollywood was already dominated by
organized crime elements bankrolled and controlled through London.
Joseph Kennedy was the front man for a British consortium that
created RKO studios, and
"Bugs" Siegel, the West Coast boss of the Lansky syndicate, was
heavily involved in Warner Brothers and MGM.
Huxley was instrumental
in founding a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in a San
Francisco suburb called Ojai which consisted exclusively of
several hundred deranged worshippers of Isis and other cult gods.
(8) Isherwood, during the California period, translated and
propagated a number of ancient Zen Buddhist documents, inspiring
Zen-mystical cults along the way. (9)
In effect, Huxley and
Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mann and his daughter
Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid
the foundation during the late 1930s and the 1940s for the later LSD
culture by recruiting a core of "initiates" into the Isis cults that
Huxley's mentors Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and Crowley, had
constituted while stationed in India.
LSD: "visitation from the gods"
The next phase in the war involved the introduction of LSD for which
Aldous Huxley was the designated Crown agent.
Lycergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was developed in 1943 by Albert
Hoffman, a chemist at Sandoz A.G. a Swiss pharmaceutical house
owned by S. G. Warburg. While precise documentation is unavailable
as to the auspices under which the LSD research was commissioned, it
can be safely assumed that British intelligence and its subsidiary
U.S. Office of Strategic Services were directly involved. Allen
Dulles, the director of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 when that agency began its
covert LSD experiment, MK-ULTRA, was the OSS station chief in Berne,
Switzerland throughout the early Sandoz research. One of his OSS
assistants was James Warburg, of the same Warburg family, who was
instrumental in the 1963 founding of the Institute for Policy
Studies, and worked with both Huxley and Robert Hutchins. (10)
In 1952, Aldous Huxley returned to the United States from Britain,
accompanied by Dr. Humphrey Osmond, the Huxleys' private physician.
Osmond had been part of a discussion group Huxley had organized at
the National Hospital, Queens Square, London. Along with another
seminar participant, J. R. Smythies, Osmond wrote Schizophrenia: A
New Approach, in which he asserted that mescaline a derivative of
peyote mushrooms used in ancient Egyptian and Indian pagan rites
produced a psychotic state identical in all clinical respects to
schizophrenia. On this basis, Osmond and Smythies advocated
experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs as a means of developing a
"cure" for mental disorders.
Osmond was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent role in
MK-ULTRA. At the same time, Osmond, Huxley, and the
University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins held a series of secret
planning sessions in 1952-53 for a second, private LSD-mescaline
project under the Ford Foundation funding. (11) Hutchins, it will be
recalled, was the program director of the Ford Foundation during
this period. His LSD proposal incited such rage in Henry Ford II
that Hutchins was fired from the foundation the following year.
It was also in 1953 that Osmond gave Huxley a supply of mescaline
for his personal consumption. The next year, Huxley wrote The Doors
of Perception, the first public manifesto of the psychedelic drug
cult, which claimed that hallucinogenic drugs "expand
consciousness."
Although, through the sane intervention of Henry Ford, the Ford
Foundation rejected the Hutchins-Huxley proposal for private
foundation sponsorship of LSD, it appears that the project was not
dropped. Beginning in 1962, the RAND Corporation of Santa Monica
California began a four-year experiment in LSD, peyote, and
marijuana. The RAND Corporation was established simultaneously with
the reorganization of the Ford Foundation during 1949-50. RAND was
an outgrowth of the wartime Strategic Bombing Survey, a "cost
analysis" study of the psychological effects of random bombings of
German population centers. It is well known that RAND has been
responsible for conduiting such patently insane policies as
"limited thermonuclear war" and the "insanity doctrine" into the
U.S. Pentagon most notably through RAND's James Schlesinger.
According to the 1962 RAND Abstract, W. H. McGlothlin conducted a
preparatory study on "The Long lasting Effects of LSD on Certain
Attitudes in Normals: An Experimental Proposal." The following year,
McGlothlin conducted a year-long experiment on 30 human guinea pigs,
called "Short-Term Effects of LSD on Anxiety, Attitudes and
Performance." The study incredibly concluded that LSD improved
emotional attitudes and resolved anxiety problems. (12)
HUXLEY AT WORK
Huxley expanded his own LSD-mescaline project in
California by recruiting several individuals who had been initially
drawn
into the cult circles he helped establish during his 1937-45 stay.
The two most prominent individuals were Alan Watts and Dr. Gregory
Bateson (the former husband of Dame Margaret Mead). Mead).
Watts became a self-styled "guru" of a nationwide Zen Buddhist cult
built around a series of his well-publicized books. Bateson, an
anthropologist with the OSS, became the director of a hallucinogenic
drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration
Hospital. Under Bateson's auspices, the initiating "cadre" of the
LSD cult the hippies were programmed. (13)
Watts at the same time founded the Pacifica Foundation, which
sponsored two radio stations WKBW in San Francisco and
WBAI-FM in New York City. The Pacifica stations were among
the first to push the "Liverpool Sound" the British-imported
hard rock twanging of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and the
Animals. They would later pioneer "acid rock" and eventually
the avowedly fascist-psychotic "punk rock."
During the fall of 1960, Huxley was appointed Visiting
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Boston. Around his stay in that city, Huxley created a circle at
Harvard parallel to his West Coast LSD team. The Harvard
group included Huxley, Osmond, and Watts (brought in from
California), Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert.
The ostensible topic of the Harvard seminar was "Religion and
its Significance in the Modern Age." The seminar was actually a
planning session for the "acid rock" counterculture. Huxley
established contact during this Harvard period with the president
of Sandoz, which at the time was working on a CIA contract to
produce large quantities of LSD and psilocybin (another synthetic hallucinogenic drug) for MK-ULTRA, the CIA's official
chemical warfare experiment. According to recently released
CIA documents, Allen Dulles, purchased over 100 million doses of
LSD almost all of which flooded the streets of the U.S. during
the late 1960s. During the same period Leary began privately purchasing large quantities of LSD from Sandoz as well. (14)
From the discussions of the Harvard seminar, Leary put
together the book The Psychedelic Experience, based on the ancient
cultist Tibetan Book of the Dead. It popularized Osmond's previously
coined mind expanding."
Back in California, Gregory Bateson had maintained the Huxley
operation out of the Palo Alto VA hospital. Through LSD
experimentation on patients already hospitalized for psychological
problems, Bateson established a core of "initiates" into the
"psychedelic" Isis Cult. Foremost among his Palo Alto recruits was
Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson administered the first dose of LSD to
Kesey. By 1962, Kesey had completed a novel, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, which popularized the notion that society is a prison
and the only truly "free" people are the insane. (15)
Kesey
subsequently organized a circle of LSD initiates called "The Merry
Pranksters." They toured the country disseminating LSD (often
without forewarning the receiving parties), building up local
distribution connections, and establishing the pretext for a high
volume of publicity on behalf of the still miniscule
"counterculture." By 1967, the Kesey cult had disseminated such
quantities of LSD that a sizable drug population had emerged,
centered in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Here
Huxley collaborator Bateson set up a "free clinic."
Among the
founders of the "free clinic" were: Dr. David Smith now a "medical
advisor" for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws (NORML), an entity we shall discuss in Part V; Dr. Ernest
Dernberg an active-duty military officer, probably on assignment
through MK-ULTRA; Roger Smith a street gang organizer trained by
Saul Alinsky. During the Free Clinic period, Roger Smith was the
parole officer (and probable controller) of the cultist mass
murderer Charles Manson; Dr. Peter Bourne formerly President
Carter's special
assistant on drug abuse. Bourne did his psychiatric residency at the
clinic. He had previously conducted a profiling study of GI heroin
addicts in Vietnam.
The Free Clinic paralleled a project at the Tavistock Institute, the
psychological warfare agency for British Secret Intelligence
Service. Tavistock, founded as a clinic in London in the 1920s, had
become the Psychiatric Division of the British Army during World War
II under its director, Dr. John Rawlings Rees. (16)
During the 1960s, the Tavistock Clinic fostered the notion that no
criteria for sanity exist and that psychedelic "mindexpanding" drugs
are valuable tools of psychoanalysis. In 1967, Tavistock sponsored a
Conference on the Dialectics of Liberation, chaired by Tavistock
psychoanalyst Dr. R. D. Laing, himself a popularized author and
advocate of drug use. That conference drew a number of people who
would soon play a prominent role in fostering terrorism; Angela
Davis and Stokely Carmichael were two prominent American delegates.
(17)
Thus, by 1963, Huxley had recruited his core of "initiates." As
the general reader is well aware, all of them Leary, Osmond,
Watts, Kesey, Alpert were highly publicized promoters of the
early LSD counterculture. By 1967, with the cult of "Flower
People" in Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the antiwar
movement, the United States was ready for the inundation of
LSD, hashish, and marijuana that hit American college
campuses in the late 1960s.
"The beating of drums ..."
In 1963, the Beatles arrived in the United States, and with their
decisive airing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the "British sound" took
off in the USA. For their achievement, the four rocksters were
awarded the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen.
The Beatles and the Animals, Rolling Stones, and homicidal punk
rock maniacs who followed were, of course, no more a spontaneous
outpouring of alienated youth than was the acid culture they
accompanied.
The social theory of rock was elaborated by British agent and
musicologist Theodor Adorno, who came to the United States in 1939
to head the Princeton University Radio Research Project
(18)
Adorno writes:
In an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden domain, the
listener who remembers a hit song will turn into the song's ideal
subject, into the person for whom the song ideally speaks. At the
same time, as one of many who identify with that fictitious subject,
that musical I, he will feel his isolation ease as he himself feels
integrated into the community of "fans." In whistling such a song he
bows to a ritual of socialization, although beyond this
unarticulated subjective stirring of the moment his isolation
continues unchanged ....
The comparison with addiction is inescapable. Addicted conduct
generally has a social component: it is one possible reaction to the
atomization which, as sociologists have noticed, parallels the
compression of the social network. Addiction to music on the part of
a number of entertainment listeners would be a similar phenomenon
(emphasis added). (19)
The Hit Parade is organized precisely on the same principles used by
Egypt's Isis priesthood and for the same purpose: the recruitment of
youth to the dionysiac counterculture.
In a report prepared for the University of Michigan's Institute of
Social Research, Paul Hirsch described the product of Adorno's Radio
Research Project. (20) According to Hirsch, the establishment of
postwar radio's Hit Parade "transformed the mass medium into an
agency of sub-cultural programming." Radio networks were converted
into round-the-clock recycling machines that repeated the top 40
"hits." Hirsch documents how all popular culture movies, music,
books, and fashion is now run on the same program of pre-selection.
Today's mass culture operates like the opium trade: the supply
determines the demand.
The Vietnam war and the antiwar trap
But without the Vietnam War and the British Secret Intelligence
Services' "antiwar" movement, the Isis Cult would have been
contained to a fringe phenomenon no bigger than the beatnik cult
of the 1950s that was an outgrowth of the early Huxley ventures in
California. The Vietnam war created the climate of moral despair
that opened the educated elite of America's youth
the first 20th-century generation raised in a climate free from
depression and war to drugs.
The reader has already been shown that the Kennedy Ad-ministration
installed in the White House by the 1960 elections was sponsored by
the British Round Table (see Part III). Under Kennedy, American
involvement in Vietnam which had been vetoed by the Eisenhower
Administration was initiated on a limited scale. Under Lyndon
Johnson, American military presence in Vietnam began in earnest.
Johnson's principal Vietnam advisor was not even American. He was a
British officer, Sir Robert Thompson, whose entire career had been
spent conducting counterinsurgency warfare in Southeast Asia.
Playing on the President's "yahoo" anticommunist profile, Thompson
convinced President Johnson that communist insurgency had to be
stopped at all costs and that a strong U.S. military presence in
South Vietnam was necessary for that containment. Johnson, a
military and foreign policy incompetent whose other chief Vietnam
advisor, National Security Council Director Walt Rostow, held the
Cross of the Order of the British Empire, was dragged by the nose
into Vietnam by the British.
The British, to put it simply, had two reasons for manipulating the
United States into Vietnam. The first was to foster a "limited war"
confrontation in Southeast Asia between the United States and the
Soviet Union (through its North Vietnamese "surrogate") that would
both refuel the Cold War and effectively undercut the influence of
both powers in the region. The second and equally significant reason
was to demoralize the American people to such a degree that the
sense of national pride and
confidence in the future progress of the republic would be forever
shattered.
Just as Aldous Huxley began the counterculture subversion of the
United States 30 years before its consequences became evident to the
public, Lord Bertrand Russell began laying the foundations for the
antiwar movement of the 1960s before the 1930s expired. Lord Russell
and Aldous Huxley co-founded the Peace Pledge Union in 1937 just
before both went to the United States for the duration of World War
II. (21)
Russell's antiwar zeal, it should be noted, was a patent fraud.
During World War II, Lord Russell opposed British and American
warfare against the Nazis because he was a peripheral member of the
pro-Nazi Cliveden Set. In 1947, when the United States was in
possession of the atomic bomb and Russia was not, Russell loudly
advocated that the United States preemptively commence World War III
against the Soviet Union. His 1950s "Ban the Bomb"
about-face was
fundamentally an anti-technology movement against the
peace-through-development potentials represented by President
Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative to the Soviets;
Eisenhower's 1954 proposal to the United Nations was predicated on
the development of thermonuclear fusion power and concomitant
city-building projects throughout the underdeveloped sector.
From the mid-1950s on, Russell's principal assignment was to build
an international antiwar and anti-American movement. Coincident with
the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam under British
manipulation, Russell upgraded the old Peace Pledge Union (which had
been used in West Germany throughout the postwar period to promote
an anti-capitalist "new left" wing of the Social Democratic Party,
recruiting several future members of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist
gang in the process) into the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
In the United States, New York's Our Crowd banks provided several
hundred thousand dollars to establish the Institute for Policy
Studies (IPS), as effectively the U.S. branch of the Russell Peace
Foundation. Among the founding trustees of the IPS was James
Warburg, directly representing the family's interests.
IPS drew its most active operatives from a variety of British
dominated institutions. IPS founding director Marcus Raskin was a
member of the Kennedy Administration's National Security Council and
also a fellow of the National Training Labs, a U.S. subsidiary of
the Tavistock Institute founded by Dr. Kurt Lewin.
IPS in turn financed and ran the Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) the student antiwar movement up through and beyond its
splintering into a number of terrorist and Maoist gangs in the late
1960s. (22) If one were to take the time to trace the pedigrees of
all of the leaders of the antiwar movement in the United States, an
almost unbroken pattern of either IPS or direct Russell Foundation
control would emerge. This is not to say that the majority of
antiwar protesters were paid, certified British agents. On the
contrary, the overwhelming majority of antiwar protesters went into
SDS on the basis of outrage at the developments in Vietnam and
subsequently got trapped.
Once caught in the environment defined by
Russell and the Tavistock Institute's wartime psychological warfare
experts, their sense of values and their creative potential were
snatched up in a cloud of hashish smoke.
The LSD connection
Who provided the drugs that swamped the antiwar movement and the
college campuses of the United States in the late 1960s? The
organized crime infrastructure which had set up the Peking
Connection for the opium trade in 1928 provided the same services
in the 1960s and 1970s it had provided during Prohibition. This
was also the same network Huxley had established contact with in
Hollywood during the 1930s.
The LSD Connection begins with one William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock.
Hitchcock was a graduate of the University of Vienna and a scion of
the millionaire Mellon banking family of Pittsburgh. (Andrew Mellon
of the same family had been the Treasury Secretary throughout
Prohibition.) In 1963, when Timothy Leary was thrown out of Harvard,
Hitchcock rented a 55-room mansion in Millbrook, New York where the
entire Leary Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its later
move back to California. (23)
Hitchcock was also a broker for the Lansky syndicate and for the
Fiduciary Trust Co., Nassau, Grand Bahamas a wholly owned
subsidiary of Investors Overseas Services. He was formally employed
by Delafield and Delafield Investments where he worked on buying and
selling vast quantities of stock in the Mary Carter Paint Co. soon
to become Resorts International.
In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus
Owsley Stanley III. As Owsley's agent, Hitchcock retained the law
firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin and Standard (24) to conduct a
feasibility study of several Caribbean countries to determine the
best location for the production and distribution of LSD and
hashish.
During this period, Hitchcock joined Leary and his circle in
California. Leary had established an LSD cult called the Brother
hood of Eternal Love and several front companies, including Mystics
Art World, Inc. of Laguna Beach, California. These California-based
entities ran lucrative trafficking in Mexican marijuana and LSD
brought in from Switzerland and Britain. The British connection had
been established directly by Hitchcock, who contracted the Charles
Bruce chemical firm to import large quantities of the chemical
components of LSD. With financing from both Hitchcock and George
Grant Hoag, the heir to the J.C. Penney dry goods fortune, the
Brotherhood of Eternal Love set up LSD and hashish
production-marketing operations in Costa Rica in 1968. (25)
Toward the end of 1968, Hitchcock expanded the LSD-hashish
production operations in the Caribbean with funds provided by the
Fiduciary Trust Co. (IOS). In conjunction with J. Vontobel and Co.
of Zurich, Hitchcock founded a corporation called 4-Star Anstalt in
Liechtenstein. This company, employing "investment funds" (i.e.,
drug receipts) from Fiduciary Trust, bought up large tracts of land
in the Grand Bahamas as well as large quantities of ergotamine
tartrate, the basic chemical used in the production of LSD. (26)
Hitchcock's personal hand in the LSD connection abruptly ended
several years later. Hitchcock had been working closely with Johann
F. Parravacini of the Parravacini Bank Ltd. in Berne, Switzerland.
From 1968, they had together funded even
further expansion of the Caribbean-California LSD-hashish ventures.
In the early 1970s, as the result of a Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation, both Hitchcock and Parravacini were
indicted and convicted of a $40 million stock fraud. Parravacini had
registered a $40 million sale to Hitchcock for which Hitchcock had
not put down a penny of cash or collateral. This was one of the rare
instances in which federal investigators succeeded in getting inside
the $200 billion drug fund as it was making its way around the
"offshore" banking system.
Another channel for laundering dirty drug money a channel
yet to be compromised by federal investigative agencies is
important to note here. This is the use of tax-exempt foundations
to finance terrorism and environmentalism. One immediately
relevant case makes the point.
In 1957, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins
established the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
(CSDI) in Santa Barbara, California. Knight Commander
Hutchins drew in Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Mann Borghese, and
some Rhodes Scholars who had originally been brought into the
University of Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s.
The CSDI was originally funded (1957-61) through a several
million-dollar fund that Hutchins managed to set up before his
untimely departure from the Ford Foundation. From 1961 on, the
Center was principally financed by organized crime. The two
funding conduits were the Fund of Funds, a tax-exempt front for
Bernie Cornfeld's IOS, and the Parvin Foundation, a parallel
front for the Parvin-Dohrman Co. of Nevada. IOS and Parvin
Dohrman held controlling interests in the Desert Inn, the Aladdin,
and the Dunes all Las Vegas casinos associated with the
Lansky syndicate. IOS, as already documented, was a conduiting
vehicle for LSD, hashish, and marijuana distribution throughout
the 1960s. (27)
In 1967 alone, IOS channeled between $3-4 million
to the center. Wherever there is dope, there is Dope, Inc.
Notes
IV. CREATING THE MARKET: THE BRITISH ORIGINS OF THE COUNTERCULTURE
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Paul Ghalioungui, The House of Life: Magic and Medical Science in
Ancient Egypt (New York: Schram Enterprises Ltd., 1974).
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Saint Augustine, The City of God (New York: Oxford University Press,
1963).
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Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1935).
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Martin Green, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in
England After 1918 (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1976).
-
See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
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Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, A Master Key to the Mysteries of
Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (Los Angeles: Theosophy Co.,
1931).
-
Francis King, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (New York: Citadel,
1974), p. 118.
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Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf and Harper & Row, 1974).
-
Ibid.
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Institute for Policy Studies, "The First Ten Years, 1963-1973,"
Washington, D.C., 1974.
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Humphrey Osmond, Understanding Understanding (New York: Harper &
Row, 1974).
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RAND Catalogue of Documents.
-
Gregory Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of the Mind (New York:
Chandler, 1972).
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Ralph Metzner, The Ecstatic Adventure (New York: Macmillan, 1968).
-
See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
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Michael Minnicino, "Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory of
War," The Campaigner (April, 1974).
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R.D. Laing et al., The Dialectics of Liberation (London: Tavistock
Press, 1967).
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Theodor Adorno was a leading professor at the Frankfurt School of
Social Research in Germany, founded by the British Fabian Society. A
collaborator of twelve-tone formalist and British intelligence
operative,
Arnold Schonberg, Adorno was brough into the United States in 1939
to head up the Princeton Radio Research Project. The explicit aim of
this project, as stated in Adorno's Introduction to the Sociology of
Music, was to program a mass "musical" culture that would steadily
degrade its consumers. Punk rock is, in the most direct sense, the
ultimate result of Adorno's work.
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Theodor Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music (New York:
Seabury Press, 1976).
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Paul Hirsch, "The Structure of the Popular Music Industry: The
Filtering Process by Which Records are Pre-selected for Public
Consumption," Institute for Social Research's Survey Research
Center Monograph, 1969.
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Ronald W. Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1976), p. 457.
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Illinois Crime Commission Report, 1969. The Institute for Policy
Studies (IPS) was established in 1963 by Marcus Raskin, a former
National Security Advisor under NSC Director McGeorge Bundy, and
Richard Barnet, a former State Department Advisor on Arms Control
and Disarmament. Among the Board of Trustees of IPS were Thurmond
Arnold, James Warburg, Philip Stern, and Hans Morgenthau, with seed
money from the Ford Foundation (later to be headed by McGeorge
Bundy). IPS has functioned as the "New Left" think tank and control
center for local community control, community mental health centers
and direct terrorist organizations, In its report "The First Ten
Years," the Institute lists among its lecturers and fellows members
of the Weathermen group, known associates of the Japanese Red Army,
the Puerto Rican terrorist Armed Forces of National Liberation
(FALN), and the Black Liberation Army. See also Carter and the Party
of International Terrorism, Special Report by the U.S. Labor Party,
August, 1976.
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Mary Jo Warth, "The Story of Acid Profiteers," Village Voice, August
22,1974.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Hutchinson, Vesco.
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PART V
The Drug Lobby
The Criminals Come Out in the Open
In California, laws are now before the state legislature that would
decriminalize all drug use on the grounds that this would free law
enforcement and judicial agencies to deal with "more serious crime."
The sponsor of that bill is State Representative Willie Brown, a
paid lobbyist for Resorts International.
That's the tip-off to the real nature of the Drug Lobby. Britain's
secret army of organized crime is now out in the open demanding the
expansion of its dope market.
Since 1973, when Watergate finished off Nixon's attempt to shut down
the drug trade, the Drug Lobby has succeeded in decriminalizing
marijuana in nine states. In every case, the result has been an
immediate outbreak of drug abuse of epidemic proportions. According
to Dr. Peter Bensinger, Director of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the decriminalization of marijuana in the state of
Maine additionally opened the coastal area as a major smuggling
center for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.
By the open admission of the Drug Lobbyists, legalized proliferation
of marijuana is just the foot-in-the-door for eventual
legal cocaine and heroin proliferation. Dr. Peter Bourne, who until
1978 was President Carter's special advisor on drug abuse, making
him the highest ranking federal drug enforcement officer, has
appeared on nationwide television to advocate national legalization
of cocaine.
A systematic campaign to legalize heroin use has been underway since
1977. A bill was placed before the state legislature of Ohio and
narrowly defeated in committee in 1977 removing heroin from the list
of Category I drugs (those drugs outlawed for even medical use). New
Mexico and Florida both states identified by the DEA as major
distribution points for heroin have bills presently pending that
would, like the Ohio bill, legalize the use of heroin under medical
supervision in cases of terminal illness and for "experimental
purposes." When a similar bill was briefly enacted in New York (in
1919, coincident with Prohibition) , the widely documented
consequences were an immediate jump in heroin addiction, far in
excess of the number of "officially registered" patients.
At present, two Zionist Lobby sponsored bills are before the
U.S. Congress that would nationally legalize marijuana: the
Javits-Koch bill and the Kennedy-authored S.1437 which thoroughly
overhauls the Federal Criminal Codes on a British "common law"
basis.
Kennedy's drug-death Cult
The U.S. Drug lobby is run out front by the Most Venerable
Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
In the 11th century, the Knights-Hospitallers had organized hospices
as a "death cult" where the sick were administered hallucinogenic
drugs instead of medical treatment. The hospices became known as the
dissemination point for drugs and lethal poisons, often targeted at
the Knights' humanist adversaries.
In 1967, the Order of St. John resurrected the 11th century hospice movement at St. Christopher's Hospice in London. Here,
"patients" are administered a "pain-killer" called the Brompton
Mixture. It consists of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, tranquilizers, and
chloroform water. It is administered every three hours until the
patient dies. (1)
In 1977, the Order of St. John launched a hospice movement in the
United States. It advocates the decriminalization of heroin and
cocaine on the "humanitarian" grounds that everyone has the human
right to die as he or she sees fit.
To propagate the hospice movement here, the Order founded the
National Committee on the Treatment of Intractable Pain (NCTIP). Its
honorary chairman is Lady Mary Ward, a British specialist in the
hospice movement who founded Hospice, Inc. in Connecticut as the
first operating "death clinic" in the U.S. The director of the NCTIP
is another British national, Arthur Trebach. A professor at the
Center for the Administration of Justice at the American University
in Washington, D.C., Trebach is also the Director of the Institute
on Drugs, Crime and Justice in Britain. For the past five years,
Trebach has sponsored hundreds of U.S. medical students,
professional physicians, and others for special indoctrination
sessions at the Imperial College of Science and Technology,
University of London. The theme of the session is the "success" of
Britain's policy of legalizing heroin in curbing the illegal drug
problem. (2)
In the United States, the Hospice, Inc. is financed by the Kaiser
Foundation, which includes on its board Kingman Brewster, current
U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James and also a member of the
Order of St. John. The Kaiser Foundation's participation in
Britain's Opium War dates back to at least 1958, when Dr. Timothy
Leary conducted his first experiments with LSD at the Foundation's
Kaiser Experimental Hospital in San Francisco.
The other institution currently involved in financing the hospice
project is the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of
Human Reproduction and Bioethics at Georgetown University. (3)
In October, 1978, the first annual National Hospice Organizing
Meeting took place in Washington, D.C.; the two keynote
speakers were Senator Edward Kennedy, now chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate
Public Health Committee, and Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Joseph Califano.
The Order of St. John also maintains significant influence on the
board of directors of the Ford Foundation, the world's largest tax
exempt funding conduit for dionysian cults. On the board are John
Loudon, a Commander in the Knights of St. John, the chairman of
Royal Dutch Shell, and the present President of the World Wildlife
Fund (the funding conduit for the terrorist component of the
environmentalist movement worldwide) (4) and Eugene Black, another
Knight and former director of the World Bank. The foundation's
current policy thrust was charted during the 1951-54 period when its
associate director and policy formulator was Knights Commander
Robert M. Hutchins, whom we met earlier as a controller of the
Capone mob.
The Ford Foundation gives multimillion dollar annual grants directly
to the Royal Institute of International Affairs; it is also the
principal funder of the Drug Lobby in the U.S. In 1972, the
Foundation established the Drug Abuse Council with a $1 million war
chest which has been refilled every year since. (5)
As its first public act, the Drug Abuse Council issued a widely
circulated report advocating the decriminalization of marijuana, a
tenfold increase in methadone (synthetic heroin) clinics, and the
British system of legalized government-sponsored heroin addiction.
Following the release of that report, the Kaiser Foundation and
the Commonwealth Fund established a matching fund that more than
doubled the annual revenues available to the Drug Abuse Council to
push drug legalization.
Jacob Javits and organized crime
From this level down, the so-called "liberal" drug decriminalization
lobby is thoroughly interlocked with organized crime, by those
forces whose monetary interest lies in the expansion of the drug
market.
The interlock is keyed around the Zionist Lobby, and more precisely
around the person of Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.). It has been
reported by several knowledgeable sources that Senator Javits gets
his orders several times a week at private
planning briefing sessions at a number of exclusive New York City
apartments. Among those present are Arthur Ross of London's
International Institute for Strategic Studies and a subagent of
Rio Tinto Zinc's Mark Turner, Rio Tinto Zinc's Sam Harris, Nahum
Bernstein of the Jerusalem Foundation, and Warburg, Pincus's Henry
Simon Bloch. This, in turn, is the same circle that maintains
ownership of the Bronfman family.
Startling evidence of this Bronfman-Javits relationship surfaced in
1977 when bribery and extortion were employed to pass a marijuana
decriminalization bill through the New York State Legislature and to
subsequently cover up the findings of a legislative investigating
committee that showed a 300 percent jump in adolescent marijuana
abuse in the state following decrim. As the sponsor since 1968 of
legislation to federally decriminalize marijuana, Javits (along with
cosponsor Edward Koch, now Mayor of New York City) was the most
outspoken organizer for the New York State marijuana legalization
bill.
During the 1977 legislative session, the bill was defeated. In an
unprecedented move pushed by the senior U.S. Senator, Governor
Carey personally conducted a pressure campaign on behalf of a
reintroduced version of the same bill, which passed by one vote in
June, 1977. The decisive vote was cast by a severely ill
hospitalized member of the legislature who was helicoptered back and
forth from his sickbed by state police on personal orders from the
Governor.
These extraordinary measures were perhaps clarified several weeks
later when Edgar Bronfman made a personal "loan" to Carey of
$350,000 to pay off the Governor's outstanding 1974 campaign debts.
The loan was in violation of state and federal campaign financing
laws.
Like the Bronfman family itself, Javits's direct connections to
organized crime and drug trafficking run deep. According to
affidavits on file from the Internal Revenue Service and the
Securities and Exchange Commission, Javits functions as a listening
post and conduit of classified government information for the Lansky
syndicate.
In one recently publicized incident, Javits provided Lansky and
other crime figures with information on IRS moves to secretly
shut down a multibillion dollar tax loophole that enabled mob investors in the domestic coal industry to claim 500 percent tax
write-offs on their investments. Through Javits's "tip" Lansky and
Co. made a huge, final move to take over the independent coal
operators 24 hours before the new codes went into effect. Another
crime figure implicated in the coal industry killing was Richard
L. Herring, a Georgia-based intermediary of Robert Vesco. In ad
dition to his involvement in the creation of the offshore Caribbean
"dirty money" apparatus through Investors Overseas Services, Vesco
is a known collaborator of Lansky's in running the Caribbean Silver
Triangle drug traffic in heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. (6)
Javits's links to Lansky and Vesco surfaced in yet another context
in October, 1978. After a several ton marijuana bust off the coast
of Massachusetts, the defendants were represented in court by James
Lawson, the head of the state chapter of the National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). NORML is the principal
public lobby for the decriminalization of marijuana and addictive
drugs in the U.S. Sitting on its Advisory Board is Sen. Jacob
Javits. Evidence surfaced in the course of the trial that the front
money for the captured marijuana shipment had been provided by
Meyer Lansky and Robert Vesco. (7)
Should there be any lingering doubt in the reader's mind that Javits
is a witting conspirator in the campaign to poison the country
through drugs, the following should be considered. From 1940 to 1942
Javits was the Assistant to the Chief of Chemical Warfare, Office of
Strategic Services. From 1954 to 1956, as New York State Attorney
General, Javits administered a clandestine experiment on the effects
of LSD in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency. At least
one active duty military officer died as the result of being given
an unsolicited dose of LSD an incident which Javits covered up and
which only came to light through recent Freedom of Information Act
disclosures. (8)
Javits is, of course, the unofficial public head of the Zionist
Lobby in the United States. He is the National Chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and a board member of the
American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, and
the Amer-Israel Cultural Foundation.
Kennedy's NORML
Next to Jacob Javits, the most outspoken drug lobbyist in
Washington, D.C. is Senator Edward Kennedy, the sponsor of the other
pending marijuana decriminalization bill. As the new chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, Kennedy has necessarily steered away
from Javits's open lobbying posture on behalf of drugs in order to
maintain a modicum of credibility among the powerful law enforcement
lobby. Yet the Kennedy family is directly represented on NORML's
advisory board by ex-brother-in-law Peter Lawford.
Like Javits, Kennedy too is up to his neck in Lansky-Vesco offshore
criminal activities. At the top of Kennedy's 1976 campaign
contributors list is Joseph Linsey, a leading Zionist Lobby
"philanthropist," who is also known as the kingpin of organized
crime in New England. Linsey is a business partner of Meyer Lansky
in the International Airport Hotel Distributing, Inc.
The Kennedy fortunes are even more directly linked to Lansky through
the already documented Resorts International-Intertel interface.
Nowhere is this interface more evident than in New Jersey, where a
combination of Justice Department "water-gating specialists" teamed
with a $1 million Resorts International lobbying and payoff
campaign to legalize casino gambling.
New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne, who was recruited out of the
Essex County Prosecutor's office by the Kennedy Justice hands and
installed in the Governor's mansion, is a nationally prominent
spokesman for drug decriminalization. As Chairman of the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) National Advisory
Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, Byrne
commissioned a series of studies supporting decriminalization of
marijuana and casino gambling.
NORML, the clearinghouse organization for the various local
dionysian cults and Zionist Lobby "liberal" legislators, is itself a
thinly veiled cover through which the poisoning influence of organized crime is extended into the high schools and neighborhoods
of the country. NORML is virtually indistinguishable from the drug
cult-pornographic magazine High Times, which boasts a
several hundred thousand circulation predominantly among high school
age drug users.
The magazine features dozens of pages of
advertisements for drug paraphernalia, instructions on the
production and use of legal and illicit drugs, and pornographic
photographs and interviews with various "high priests" of the drugrock cult. Through the revenues of High Times, through an
average of $100,000 per year in tax exempt grants from the Playboy
Foundation, and through "frequent anonymous contributions from drug
dealers," NORML is financed. (9)
The Advisory Board of NORML includes (in addition to Javits and
Peter Lawford): Max Palevsky, chairman of the board of the Xerox
Corporation; Hugh Hefner, owner of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.;
William F. Buckley Jr.; Burton Joseph, Director of the Playboy
Foundation; Canon Walter D. Dennis of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine in New York City, the " temple and headquarters" of the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem in the United States; and Stewart Mott,
heir to the General Motors fortune.
NORML's general counsels Michael Kennedy and Gerald Lefcourt, are
also connected to terrorism through their defense of the Puerto
Rican FALN (Armed Forces for National Liberation) and
Weather underground leader Mark Rudd.
Notes
V. THE DRUG LOBBY
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Karen Steinherz and Marie Mendez, "The Hospice Movement -Taking the
Pain Out of Genocide," New Solidarity, Vol. IX, No. 62, October 6,
1978. See also Sandol Stoddard, The Hospice Movement (Briarcliff
Manor, New York: Stein & Day, 1978).
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Seminar listings for the Fifth Institute on Drugs, Crime and Justice
in Britain, held in London in July 1978. The Institute has held five
such annual conferences at the Imperial College of the University of
London, bringing American university students and American public
health officials to study drug abuse in Britain and the "British
Model" of treatment.
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Steinherz and Mendez, op. cit.
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Who's Who in America (Chicago: Marquis, 1974); Annual Reports of the
World Wildlife Fund of America, 1976 and 1977; see also, The
Foundation Directory, 5th Edition (New York: The Foundation Center).
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Ford Foundation Annual Reports, 1972-78, and The Drug Abuse Council
Annual Reports, 1972-77.
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NBC-TV News broadcast transcript, "Coal Fraud," Reporters Ross and
Silverman, September, 1978.
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Federal District Court Records of the First Circuit Court, Boston,
Massachusetts. Additional information was provided on drug charges
by New England-based officials of the Drug Enforcement
Administration in September, 1978.
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In 1976, following Congressional hearings into the intelligences
community, the files pertaining to the Central Intelligence Agency's
MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE programs were released to the
public. The FOIA documents reveal extensive details of the CIA and
Army's experiments with mind control techniques including LSD. In
1977, Renee J. Roberts, the daughter of Harold Bauer who died as the
result of a dosage of a hallucinogenic drug administered to him at
the New York State Psychiatric Institute as part of an
Army-contracted experiment, began a civil damages suit against
offiicials responsible for failing to investigate the circumstances
of her father's death. Sen. Jacob Javits is a defendant in that
suit, stemming from his position as New York State Attorney General
at the time of Bauer's death.
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Interview with Keith Stroup, Playboy Magazine, 1978; see also issues
of NORML Newsletter describing anonymous contributions.
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Epilogue
On October 18,1978, the authors of this book met in Washington,
D.C., with eight officials of the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors, including Mr. John E. Ryan, director of Banking
Supervision and Regulation, and Mr. Robert Mannion, director of the
Board of Governors' legal department. Present were two lawyers for
the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, including the HongShang's chief
legal counsel in the United States, Mr. Steuart
L. Pittman. At this meeting, the authors presented evidence
incriminating the HongShang in the international narcotics traffic
and argued that the Federal Reserve should block HongShang's
proposed acquisition of 51 percent of the shares of the $20 billion
Marine Midland Bank of New York. On October 25, a similar meeting
was held with officials of the New York State Banking Authority,
including New York State Deputy Superintendent of Banking William
Heany.
Also, portions of the manuscript have circulated in photostat form
for several weeks prior to publication through the State Department,
Treasury Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and related
enforcement and regulatory agencies.
In public meetings and radio and television appearances in a dozen
cities in the United States, the authors have outlined the contents
of this book before a broad and diverse audience. Through these
various channels, word has gotten out.
Most readers will have asked themselves the question that the
authors have been asked often in the course of this report's
preparation: "How will the powerful men who stand behind the
narcotics traffic react to this exposure?" The answer is already
evident, at least in part. On November 11, European collaborators of the U.S. Labor Party team conducted a public meeting in
Paris to present the results of the investigation. The meeting was
attacked by 20 hooded and armed members of the fascist organization,
Betar. French police were on guard and prevented injuries to members
of the audience, but one policeman was injured by the assault. The
French authorities believe that the attack was ordered by the
Mossad, Israel's foreign secret service. The Betar was founded in
the 1930s by Yakob Jabotinsky, a Polish Zionist who modeled himself
on Benito Mussolini, and who was the mentor of present Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin. Undoubtedly, the decision to launch an
attack against not only the collaborators of the authors, but the
French police who know well how to deal with such matters
indicates a great fear in the perpetrators of the narcotics traffic.
What this report has intersected, however, goes far beyond the petty
thuggery of the Mossad. Discreetly, officials of the HongShang
warned the authors shortly after the cited meetings in Washington
what would happen to the United States if they persisted: "You know,
of course," an official said, "that the British government has made
representations to the American authorities on behalf of the
HongShang, which is after all a British bank. American banks have
had pretty much a free run of it all in London, and we British
rather feel that we should have the same privileges here. If the
American authorities give us any trouble, the Bank of England will
start exhuming skeletons from the closets of the American banks."
In fact, the British had already surfaced an undercover agent in New
York's Citibank in mid-July, a junior official named David Edwards,
who sued the bank for $14 million and made numerous allegations of
illegal money transfer operations. Recently, after the HongShang
official made the statement quoted above, the Edwards case has taken
a new turn. On November 5, Katharin Graham's Washington Post added
major new expose material to Edwards's original allegations, citing
its own sources inside Citibank. The authors have learned that
Katharin Graham is personally directing Edwards's appearances before
one Senate and three House of Representatives committees.
Coming at a time when the British banks are making a massed bid to
acquire American banking assets, the inside-outside job against
Citibank is ominous. Apart from the HongShang's cited plan to
acquire Marine Midland, the Canadian Bank of Montreal wants to buy
out 81 retail branches of New York's Bankers Trust; Standard and
Chartered Bank wants to buy up the $3 billion Union Bank of
Caliornia; and buy-out attempts or branch office openings are in the
works involving Barclays Bank, National Westminster Bank, Bank
Leumi, Bank Hapoalim, and other financial institutions implicated in
the world narcotics traffic. An invasion is on against the already
weakened American monetary system, and the evidence suggests that
the British dope-runners are deliberately seeking to destabilize
American banks to further this invasion.
Apart from the dirty tricks operations aimed at American banks,
numerous other attempts will emerge from the dope-traffickers to
cushion themselves from the impact of this report. Lower-level
operatives, expendable portions of the network may be sacrificed,
the way that assassins like Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan were
sacrificed by their masters.
But the enemy cannot recoup what it has lost. The $200 billion dope
trade cannot be hidden; it can only be protected through
misdirection. The web of lies now hangs in tatters. If the American
public forces its legislators and law enforcement officials to act,
Dope, Inc.'s defense will no longer avail. The first blood has
already been drawn from a group of gentlemen who have been long
accustomed to working at a distance from the combat zone. The terms
of the battle have been redrawn to make an American victory
possible.
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Jeffrey Steinberg New York City
November 17,1978
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