-Caveat Lector- from: http://members.home.net/memresearch/econ/rogue.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://members.home.net/memresearch/econ/rogue.htm";> Rogue Elephant</A> ----- Ted Shackley had been the CIA�s JMWAVE station chief in Miami from 1962-65 and had directed the Cuban Bay of Pigs veterans against Castro; through Shackley's JMWAVE station, the CIA had a close relationship with mafia figures Santos Trafficante and Johnny Roselli. William Harvey, chief of Task Force W, the CIA�s Cuban task force, worked with Shackley and Roselli. Together, they schemed to undermine Castro, using sabotage and assassinations. There is as yet no proof that Shackley himself was acquainted with Roselli, and it is not uncommon for even higher-level officials involved in top-secret projects to be denied information which they do not have a "need to know." However, both Shackley's immediate superior and subordinate were known to have direct contact with Roselli. Shackley was present with his CIA superior William Harvey when the CIA passed Roselli a truckload of armaments; Shackley's JMWAVE operations chief, David Morales, also knew Roselli. As noted previously, Morales once implicated himself in the assassination ("We took care of that son of b----, didn�t we?"); he worked with David Atlee Phillips many times during his career. Shackley became the CIA�s Deputy Chief of Station in Laos 1965 and brought in some of his former Miami CIA colleagues (including case officer Thomas Clines); Trafficante was not far behind. In Vietnam, subordinates of Trafficante arrived not long after the first U.S. combat troops (Scott 1993:8). Frank Furci, the son of Trafficante's Tampa lieutenant, arrived in Saigon in 1965, soon taking over the military club racket (McCoy 1972:213). Miami syndicate representative John Pullman made a long stop in Hong Kong that year (Scott, et al 1987:36). After his release from prison in 1966 and before his departure for Mexico, Sam Giancana told his younger brother, "Overseas is where it�s all headin�, Chuck . . . " and shared how Trafficante was "on board for Asia." He continued, "The Vietnam War is gonna make a lot of guys rich" (Giancana 1992:328). Trafficante himself met with prominent Corsican gangsters in Saigon and other gangsters in Hong Kong as early as 1968. One DEA informant said that Trafficante brought "untold millions" to Southeast Asia that year, distributing it to important figures in the region's heroin industry, including the CIA's Hmong leader, Vang Pao. Trafficante was ensuring himself of a steady heroin supply, doing as Meyer Lansky had done by bringing six million dollars on similar trip to Marseilles in the late 1950s (Chambliss 1978:153,185). In the 1980s, Opium warlord Khun Sa named Trafficante as the man to whom he had sold his product in years past. Khun Sa also named Richard Armitage (George W. Bush�s Assistant Secretary of State) as the "money man" for the arrangement (Gritz 1991:369-373). A Special Forces colonel who was in Laos in early 1965 told Journalist Daniel Hopsicker that up until that time, the opium bought from the Laotian hill tribesmen was disposed of in a monthly bonfire. He noted that the arrival of Ted Shackley, Oliver North, and Richard Secord coincided with a change in procedures; orders were given to store the opium for removal to another site instead of burning it. Secord sent his Air Force planes to bomb Vang Pao�s rivals. Barry Seal at some point became a part of the Southeast Asian enterprise, piloting personnel and contraband (Hopsicker 2001:183-88). The loose association between Seal, North, Shackley, Clines, Secord, a handful of their anti-Castro Cuban associates from Miami - Felix Rodriguez, Rafael Quintero, and Luis Posada - and the pilots from Air America would survive the Southeast Asian years and come again to prominence during the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s. The Christic Institute, a public interest law firm, charged that Shackley and others helped sell Laotian guerrillas' opium to Santos Trafficante in return for a "piece of the action." Shackley is alleged to have had an account in an Australian Nugan Hand bank where his percentage of the proceeds was deposited. Frank Nugan and Michael Hand, a CIA agent from Long Tieng, had founded the bank with four Air America officials. Indeed, from Watergate to the Chilean assassinations to the Nugan Hand banking scandal to Iran-Contra, and in many of the scandals in between, the JMWAVE Cubans were always there. The antics of the Christic Institute's head lawyer and publicist in the case, Tom Sheehan, brought no small amount of ridicule upon their case. A 1994 biography of Shackley paints Sheehan as a rumor-monger and reckless opportunist, and his case as a "grand unified theory" of all conspiracies, portraying Shackley as a modern Professor Moriarty pulling all the strings (Corn 1994). In fairness to Sheehan, it must be pointed out that in nearly every place in which the CIA was involved in large-scale dirty deeds over a period of several years, one does not have to look far to find a connection to Shackley. Ted Shackley rose to the post of Associate Deputy Director of Operations (an office with Agency-wide responsibilities to which he was appointed by Director George Bush) before officially retiring from the CIA in 1979 after the Carter Administration had been doing some "housecleaning" in the Agency by dismissing hundreds of covert operatives. The heroin trade from Southeast Asia was affecting the lives of many Americans who bought it as an import, but it had more immediate effect among U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, eleven percent of whom were smoking the ultra-pure grade available there. Not long after Trafficante's 1968 visit to Hong Kong, opium refineries in the Golden Triangle were producing this high grade of heroin, 90 to 99 percent pure, with the help of master chemists brought in from Hong Kong and Bangkok. Of these, one of General Ouane's several refineries became the largest. By late 1969, they were producing limited supplies for the GIs. Trafficante's Florida syndicate had followed the army into Vietnam in 1965 and had several military club managers "on the take." Such places would seem ideal outlets for some of the narcotics that the Mob was smuggling through the area. Heroin was almost as common among GIs in Vietnam as cigarettes were in the States. After suffering withdrawal long enough to pass their home-going medical exam, they carried this addiction back to the states, where the habit was much more expensive and often required criminal activity for support. In other words, some GI addicts became dealers, using overseas contacts as suppliers (McCoy 1972). Alfred McCoy (1991) suggests that the addiction of the GIs in Vietnam represented a "consumer test" for the U.S. market. >From 1968 until 1972 there was a major change in the pattern of heroin smuggling into the U.S. Near Eastern opium refined and processed by the Corsicans comprised 90 percent of the heroin entering the U.S. in 1968 (Chambliss 1978:153). This "French Connection" peaked in 1971 at an estimated annual import of ten tons into the U.S. but began to dry up in 1972, when U.S. law enforcement began to catch up with the traffickers (Blumenthal 1988:94-96). As U.S. forces took over and supercharged the opium and heroin sources in Southeast Asia, the Nixon White House worked through diplomatic channels to cut off the French Connection's major heroin supply in Turkey (Mills 1986:1118). At that point, the Sicilian-American mafia's share of the market grew to equal the French Corsican share. CIA-trained Cuban exiles became prevalent among traffickers; in one major bust, seventy percent of those arrested were members of Operation Forty. By the early 1970s, American organizers had supplanted the Corsicans in the heroin trade (Kr�ger 1980). BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumenthal, Ralph. 1988. The Last Days of the Sicilians: The FBI's War Against the Mafia. New York: Times Books. Brown, Madeleine. 1997. Texas In The Morning. (out of print) Caro, Robert. 1982. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power. New York: Knopf . Chambliss, William. 1988a. "State-Organized Crime." 1988 Presidential Address to American Society of Criminology. 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New York: St. Martin's Press. Wyden, Peter. 1979. Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. New York: Simon & Schuster. ARTICLES Feinilber. Mike. "Ford altered crucial JFK report." Associated Press article appearing in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3 July 1997, p. A3. Lewis, Neil A. "Castro feared U.S. invasion after JFK assassination." New York Times article appearing in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 20 August 1997, p. A3. Myers, Laura. "CIA wanted to pay mob for Castro hit." Associated Press article appearing in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 July 1997, p. A1. Ruppert, Mike. 2000. "The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire." See www.copvcia.com . TAPES/BROADCASTS The Assassination of JFK. Oak Forest, IL: MPI Home Video, 1992. Best Evidence: The Research Video. Santa Monica, CA: Rhino Video, 1990. Jack Anderson: JFK, the Mob, and Me. New York: A & E Home Video, 1994. The Men Who Killed Kennedy. New York: A & E Home Video ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. 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