Re: [CTRL] [0] Syndicate Abroad ruminations
-Caveat Lector- On 16 Dec 99, at 7:25, Das GOAT wrote: What if the exorbitant profits of CRIME so *outpaced* the profits from LAWFUL activity that, after a few decades, they were sufficient to finance a slow "hostile takeover" of all legitimate economic institutions, particularly those operating on a "global" scale, like the multinationals and their "political administrators," the NGOs of the ha "NWO"? When they SUCCEEDED in this --a global "coup" by the Mafia-- how could we TELL? Seems to me, we'd be presented with conditions such as exist NOW all around us ... Seems to me we're already there--and have been for at least a decade.. Stop the arms and drug traffic and the global economy would collapse. There was a post about US sales of some super sophisticated aircraft to some semi-hostile government. Isn't that so we can have a "better" war? sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [0] Syndicate Abroad ruminations
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 99-12-15 22:16:13 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the oddist twist of events, I was in Havana the weekend before Castro came down from the hills (He arrived in Havana on Monday and I left Sunday afternoon)and it was my impression that the people of Cuba were really behind him just about 100%. I sometimes wonder if this wasn't the PURPOSE of America's "anti-Communism" in the Cold War era. As a result of our support for repressive fascist dictators, America made the people of the Third World think of Communism as something of an improvement ... That sentiment was then used to justify a "need" for greater support of "our" fascists, until, at the appropriate moment of optimum resistance ... voila! ...the rug is pulled out from under any possible ALTERNATIVE "utopia," leaving only the same old feudalist Capitalism now surrounded by a halo promising even GREATER "utopian" fantasies of --Marx now wearing pinstripes, carrying a laptop-- a utilitarian "workers' paradise." Likewise, I wonder if Castro --whom WE trained, before he "betrayed" (?) us-- wasn't the first in a long succession of bogus "Satans" (Noriega, Saddam, etc) secretly on the CIA payroll, somehow never --despite our government's best military actions OR covert op-- ever successfully "overthrown" -- because they're far more useful to us IN POWER, as "Goldstein" types (see Orwell's "1984"), conveniently justifying American foreign policy that would otherwise be all too clearly seen as colonial-imperialist, international finance profit-oriented, and as FASCIST in nature. (Behind Castro stood the SOVIET "enemy," but since the fall of Communism, notice the shift of ideology in a Noriega or a Saddam. So actually, by this logic, it wouldn't be surprising if the "Free" World INVENTED and secretly funded "Communism," the ultimate "Goldstein" in a Hegelian puppet-show ... But I guess that's not new "conspiracy theory," noting how the creators of "Capitalism" in Britain's Royal Society in the 18th Century covertly supported the first "Socialists" in rival would-be empire France ...For CLIENT states of Capitalism, an only-theoretical "Communist" social order certainly makes for better slaves domestically, even more deluded about who their real masters are -- i.e., their masters' ULTIMATE Masters ...) What if the exorbitant profits of CRIME so *outpaced* the profits from LAWFUL activity that, after a few decades, they were sufficient to finance a slow "hostile takeover" of all legitimate economic institutions, particularly those operating on a "global" scale, like the multinationals and their "political administrators," the NGOs of the ha "NWO"? When they SUCCEEDED in this --a global "coup" by the Mafia-- how could we TELL? Seems to me, we'd be presented with conditions such as exist NOW all around us ... DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] [0] Syndicate Abroad
-Caveat Lector- On 14 Dec 99, at 13:22, Kris Millegan wrote: -Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Syndicate Abroad Hank Messick©1969 The Macmillan Company London-Tronoto LCCCN 69-11590 246 pps. First/only edition Out-of-print Prologue: Command Decision NEW YEAR'S EVE in Havana and two "high rollers" prepared to quit the game. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and Maier Suchowljanskybetter known as Meyer Lanskypossessed an active sense of realism. International gangsters of long standing, both had surrendered power before only to rebuild as the vagaries of man's ignorance created new opportunities. It was a warm night as 1958 died, and cloudless. Business boomed in a hundred brothels where virginsreal and allegedasked top prices. Experience was a commodity also concealed in the plush casinos where syndicate technicians cleaned the suckers as they had done for decades in scores of stateside joints. In the ballrooms of plush hotels subsidized by the casinos, tourist and Cuban bureaucrat danced the old year away. Reporters, their stories filed, joined the fun and games. The New York Times w ould be scooped by no newspaper next day for reporting: GOVERNMENT TROOPS SUPPORTED BY TANKS AND AVIATION HAVE FORCED THE REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM SANTA CLARA, ACCORDING TO REPORTS REACHING HAVANA TODAY. Perhaps reporters who never learned of the relation of crime to politics back home should not be expected to recognize a similar combination in a foreign country. For behind the official blandness things were happening. As bands in nightclubs across Havana broke into "Auld Lang Syne," President Batista began a series of telephone calls. The message to crook and crony was the same. Only those who had proven their value in the past received the warning. Presumably they might be useful in the future. By the oddist twist of events, I was in Havana the weekend before Castro came down from the hills (He arrived in Havana on Monday and I left Sunday afternoon)and it was my impression that the people of Cuba were really behind him just about 100%. sno0wl DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] [0] Syndicate Abroad
-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: Syndicate Abroad Hank Messick©1969 The Macmillan Company London-Tronoto LCCCN 69-11590 246 pps. First/only edition Out-of-print Prologue: Command Decision NEW YEAR'S EVE in Havana and two "high rollers" prepared to quit the game. General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and Maier Suchowljanskybetter known as Meyer Lanskypossessed an active sense of realism. International gangsters of long standing, both had surrendered power before only to rebuild as the vagaries of man's ignorance created new opportunities. It was a warm night as 1958 died, and cloudless. Business boomed in a hundred brothels where virginsreal and allegedasked top prices. Experience was a commodity also concealed in the plush casinos where syndicate technicians cleaned the suckers as they had done for decades in scores of stateside joints. In the ballrooms of plush hotels subsidized by the casinos, tourist and Cuban bureaucrat danced the old year away. Reporters, their stories filed, joined the fun and games. The New York Times w ould be scooped by no newspaper next day for reporting: GOVERNMENT TROOPS SUPPORTED BY TANKS AND AVIATION HAVE FORCED THE REBELS TO WITHDRAW FROM SANTA CLARA, ACCORDING TO REPORTS REACHING HAVANA TODAY. Perhaps reporters who never learned of the relation of crime to politics back home should not be expected to recognize a similar combination in a foreign country. For behind the official blandness things were happening. As bands in nightclubs across Havana broke into "Auld Lang Syne," President Batista began a series of telephone calls. The message to crook and crony was the same. Only those who had proven their value in the past received the warning. Presumably they might be useful in the future. To Camp Columbia, the military fortress in the suburbs of Havana, the chosen were directed. A ten-foot-high Christmas tree still stood in the lobby of the Air Force building, and it attracted the wonder of sleepy children who might otherwise have asked why Santa Claus was fleeing by plane. The short, stocky Batista, escorted by seven carloads of armed men, arrived about 2:30 A.M. Once again the hopeless military situation was reviewed. Contrary to the reporters' stories, the rebels were advancing, and resistance had collapsed. The decision to run was ratified. Farewells were short. Most of the men had prepared for this day by stashing their loot in Swiss banks. Within the hour planes began taking off with the world's latestand richestcrop of refugees. The Dominican Republic was Batista's immediate destination. His home in Daytona Beach, Florida, occupied for four years during a previous exile, was not politically practical. Since regaining power, Batista's public image had suffered. Perhaps later, when the excitement died, and new villains caught the public fancy, it would be possible to return to Florida and from that base plot a new coup in Cuba. Meanwhile, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo offered temporary haven at a price Batista was well able to pay. Within two years El Benefactor would be dead, shot down like a dog while returning from a visit to his mistress. Unlike Batista, he proved unable to adapt to the realities of a changing situation. Long before that happened, however, Batista moved to the Madeira Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. Portuguese officials were happy to welcome the wealthy visitor. At least one effort would be made to get Batista into Florida. Leonard Bursten of Miami Beach, a man with important friends, conceived a scheme to have Representative Abraham J. Multer (D-NY) invite the ousted dictator to testify in Washington before the House Banking and Currency Committee. The FBI investigated, and the plan was dropped. Later the Department of Justice found "no sufficient predicate for criminal prosecution." Meanwhile, as rumors swept Havana, and dice continued to roll, some of the new refugees headed straight for Florida. Among them was Meyer Lansky. He had been an international gangster even longer than Batista but, over the years, had learned how to make himself virtually invisible. The Gold Coast, which he had looted ten years before, was still open to him as home and headquarters. It was to Broward County he flew in a chartered plane. For the short, slender Lansky, the flight marked his second retreat from Havana. In the late Thirties he had begun building a gambling operation around the Hotel Nacional, only to have Pearl Harbor interrupt his plans. Before the war ended, Batista gambled on a free election and lostmaking it impossible for his friend to resume the gambling program when peace returned. Only after Batista's second coup had the syndicate been able to pick up the pieces in Havana. As the plane soared over the Florida Straits, Lansky wasted no time on regrets. Even yet he was not ready to write off Cuba as hopeless. Every man had his pricebe it money, women, idealsand presumably Fidel Castro was no exception. When
