-Caveat Lector- an excerpt from: The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism Henrik Kruger Jerry Meldon, Translator South End Press©1980 Box 68 Astor Station Boston, MA 02123 ISBN 0-89608-0319-5 240pps - one edition - out-of-print Orginally published in Danish Smukke Serge og Heroien Bogan 1976 --[20]-- PART III THE MIAMI CONSPIRACY TWENTY-TWO MY FRIEND PATRICE In the spring of 1976 I went to France to see people who might tell me something about Christian David, the Ben Barka affair, or the great heroin coup, which still had not fully crystallized for me. Among those I met with, three people filled in holes, and at least one opened up exciting new perspectives. The first was Patrice Chairoff, the author of Dossier B ... comme Barbouzes, w hose disclosures of SAC activities had caused a sensation. A former SAC and later narcotics agent, Chairoff appeared to have come over to the socialist camp, as he was now employed as a journalist for the left wing French newspaper, Liberation. Just the man to see. We met for the first time on Monday, April 26. Highly cooperative, Chairoff told me he knew a good deal about Christian David. Chairoff himself had been in Venezuela when Beau Serge sought to infiltrate Douglas Bravo's guerilla band. He also said that gun-running had been as important a part of David's Latin American operations as drug trafficking. Furthermore, he knew of proof that David had murdered Georges Figon in connection with the Ben Barka affair. David had retained the murder weapon, a 32 caliber Ruby automatic which was found in his arsenal when he was arrested in Brazil. It was now in the custody of the Americans, explained Chairoff, who added: "David is a psychopath, a born killer who goes berserk at the sight of blood. Though he has a certain amount of charm, he should be in an asylum." Before parting we agreed to meet again that Wednesday. In the meantime he would try to get hold of documents and other additional information. When I mentioned my trying to run down Daniel Guerin, Chairoff amicably suggested that we together see the highly esteemed journalist and author of a string of political-philosophical works.[1] He, too, had been wanting to meet Guerin, and would contact him for the two of us. That evening I met Claude, who was a fugitive in France.[2] A former military officer and OAS terrorist, he had been part of Commando Delta in Algeria and witnessed the demolition of Barbouze headquarters at Villa Andrea. He had also taken part in a plot to murder Charles de Gaulle and been sentenced to death after his arrest in 1962, Several years afterward, he was pardoned and released after de Gaulle's general amnesty for the OAS. When we spoke, Claude was commuting between Switzerland and Spain, where, like other OAS figures, he was an agent of the neo-Fascist Paladin group as well as the Spanish intelligence agency, Direcion General de Seguridad (DGS), both run by the Nazi war hero/criminal Colonel Otto Skorzeny until his death in 1975. During our conversation—overheard by my able assistant on matters French, Niels Levinsen, Paris correspondent of the Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten—Claud e made no secret of having been one of Chairoff's sources for Dossier B. Claude had been a DGS agent in 1972 when, as described earlier, SAC leader Charles Lascorz; fled to Spain and was captured by Spanish intelligence.[3] Lascorz had with him SAC archives, which DGS agents photographed before extraditing him to France. "At the moment," said Claude, "I am working for people quite seriously on the rise again in French politics. " Though he would not go any further, he must have been referring to an emergent, powerful coalition centered around former OAS leaders, who are farther to the right than their longtime arch enemies, the Gaullists. This very rivalry could explain recent years' leakage of material embarrassing to SAC, as well as a chain of incidents which have rocked France. Claude's description of Christian David clashed with Chairoff's: "That he murdered 54 people in Algeria is an exaggeration. David was neither better nor worse than the other barbouzes. . . He could appear to be no more dangerous than a common criminal, but that is how he has fooled people through the years. He is cool, calculating and intelligent, has no politics and always puts money first. But he was also true to his gangster friends, who revered him." Claude knew more about Beau Serge than he was willing to let on, as we discovered after a few more drinks. He then told us he would soon be off on a mission having much to do with Christian David. Claude's benefactor was interested in knowing just who was regularly sending David funds, and so he was going to America to find out. On Wednesday morning, Patrice Chairoff phoned me to say that Guerin was out of town, but that he himself would be interested in meeting with me at 1:30 PM in a restaurant on Ile Saint-Louis. I was there at the appointed time, but waited in vain for two hours. As I was on my way out, the manager called me to the phone. It was Chairoff, apologizing. He was at an important meeting with one of his contacts, and included in the topics of discussion were my investigation and the possibility of obtaining confidential material. We would meet the next evening at the Drug Store restaurant. That night I phoned Daniel Guerin despite Chairoff's claim that he was away. Guerin was indeed at home. He had gone nowhere at all, and was already mad at Chairoff for not appearing at a meeting they had arranged for that same afternoon. In fact, the meeting was to have coincided with the one Chairoff had set up with me. The next morning I went to see Guerin. When I arrived he was visibly upset. Following our conversation the previous evening, he had met his U.S. embassy contact, who informed him that Chairoff had spent that entire afternoon in the office of DE A chief Paul Knight. That was the "contact" with whom Chairoff had discussed my investigation. Guerin also said that his friend had told him not to believe "the garbage about David's having the Figon murder weapon on him when he was captured, and its presently being in the custody of the Americans." In the following hours Guerin supplied me with much additional information and allowed me to read a letter he had received from David in prison. That evening I was at the Drug Store as agreed, and this time Chairoff appeared. He was a changed man. The helpfulness had gone and it was his turn to pump me. I did not let on that I knew of his whereabouts the previous day. The meeting was short. He said that I would receive the material he had promised if at 5:30 PM the next day, Friday, I came to a restaurant in the Place de la Republique. Chairoff was not there the next day, and when I phoned his newspaper and publisher on Monday, I was told he had left on Friday for an extended weekend planned days in advance. In fact, Chairoff did not show up at all that week, nor the following one, and his employers were no less irate than I. Not until weeks after my return to Denmark was the true Chairoff revealed. It was then that the Italian magazine L'Europeo and the French L'Express ran exposes of his escapades.[4] The "left wing" writer had been a leading force in European neofascism and neonazism. Only as a leftist was he known as Chairoff. His true name was Dominique Calzi. By age fifteen he belonged to the Nazi movement, Jeune Nation. In 1961 he and the British Nazi leader Colin Jordan chartered an international Nazi movement. In 1962 he began publishing the newspaper Le Viking Provencal, a mouthpiece for Jean-Claude Monet's National Socialist Party. He joined SAC briefly in 1968, but otherwise operated with figures from the OAS. Calzi/Chairoff was also known as Yvan Dieter Calzi and Dieter von Freudenreich. In 1971 he was in Greece, thriving under the colonels as Dr. Siegfried Schoenenberg, a narcotics agent for the Americans and special agent for the head of Greek security forces, Colonel Georghis loannidis. There he coordinated joint actions of the CIA, Ioannidis' police, and European neo-Fascists, under cover of the World Service "press" bureau, a branch of the right wing terrorist network that included Aginter Press in Lisbon. Like Aginter, World Service had stations in many countries; the main, according to Chairoff, in Miami.[5] This was the man who, on an afternoon in April 1976, was in the DEA Paris office discussing my interest in Christian David.[6] pps. 199-202 Notes 1. The author of Les Assassins de Ben Barka (Guy Authier, 1975), Guerin has dedicated his life to unravelling that affair. 2. Though Claude is indeed his first name, he prefers not disclosing his surname. 3. See chapter twelve. 4. L'Express, 24 May 1976. 5. Ibid. 6. The publication of Chairoff's Dossier B ... comme Barbouzes suited perfectly the CIA's struggle against the Gaullist intelligence network and associated heroin traffickers. --[cont]-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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