Random Musings in the Never Ending Drug Trafficking World

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Apparently, a significant portion of the MDMA (ecstasy/molly/mandy) coming into the USA and Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s came from a South African biowarfare program overseen by the apartheid government and a trafficking operation controlled by Israeli organized crime. Wut?! No, C'mon! Special treat at bottom!

The South African program mostly manufactured stuff like tear gas & poisons that could be used to assassinate leaders of the anti-Apartheid movement, but it produced so much MDMA that the amount the leader claimed he sold was a tiny fraction of it.


Project Coast


As for the Israeli connection, (just before 9/11) more info here...


Drugs trafficking arrest leads police to Israeli underworld

Remember folks, settler-colonies that plunder together sell narcotics to their own college students together.


Some examples of Special Forces, US intelligence, national security & banksters collaborating with/facilitating the drug trade. Most of these come from this excellent compilation of info on tHE r H i z z o n E (an on­line message board where shit-tier Maoist Third Worldists and other random nerds can meet and mingle")

An investigation by El Universal found that between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.

The DEA and other U.S. agencies declined to comment to El Universal.

[UPDATE 1/14] This post has caused many to interpret that the U.S. government is actively supporting Sinaloa. That has not been established, despite claims by Zambada- Niebla's lawyer and Stratfor's source . What El Universal's investigation and the newly published court documents reveal is that there was a strong correlation from 2005 and 2009 between the rise of the Sinaloa cartel and the DEA's relatively regular contact with a top Sinaloa lawyer.

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel (January 13, 2014)

High level Cartel member indicates...

...a “simulated war” in which the Mexican and US governments are willing to show favor to a dominant narco-trafficking organization in order to minimize the violence and business disruption in the major drug plazas, or markets."

US, Mexican Officials Brokering Deals with Drug “Cartels,” WikiLeaks Documents Show (August 20, 2012)

DoJ attorney claims the DEA:

Kent’s memorandum contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers’ payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants who knew too much, and, most startlingly, directly involved in helping Colombia’s infamous rightwing paramilitary death squads to launder drug money.

The memo further claims that, rather than being simply a few “bad apples” who need to be reported to their superiors, these allegedly dirty agents are being protected by an ongoing cover-up orchestrated by “watchdog” agencies within the Justice Department.
Leaked Memo: Corrupt DEA Agents in Colombia Help Narcos and Paramilitaries

Bank of Tony Montana:
HSBC fined £64m for anti-money laundering failings (Dec 17, 2021)


In 2012 HSBC, a bank with origins in the 19th century opium trade controlled by Britain, caught laundering over $800 million for "the Cartel":

HSBC Holdings' (HSBC) agreement to pay a $1.9 billion fine to regulators for serving as a middleman for Mexican drug cartels and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement points to a lack of adequate control processes in compliance and anti-money laundering.1 Given the bank's size, it appears that it and some of its peers are too big to jail because they are too big to fail.
HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (July 19, 2023)

Immediately before becoming Trump's lieutenant, Steve Bannon, a former high-level(?) Naval intelligence officer and Goldman Sachs banker worked in Florida with a Gambino-affiliated private equity magnate Andrew Badolato who was recently Sentenced To Prison For ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Fraud Scheme...And resided in a "porn & meth house"


2023: "At least 13 soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are under investigation for drug trafficking." Military.com

...a decorated U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was arrested and charged in relation to an attempt to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to Florida, but he may just be one player in a multimillion-dollar operation.

Army Master Sgt. Daniel Gould was arrested in Florida on August 13 in connection with an attempt to bring 90 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. on a military aircraft, defense officials told NBC News earlier this month. That haul would be worth several million dollars on U..S streets.

Gould was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group based at Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida.

That Army Special Forces Soldier Busted For Drug Smuggling May Be Part Of A Larger Ring (Aug 30, 2018)

2019: Two Army Green Berets plead guilty in plot to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia...

A former 7th Special Forces Group soldier and a West Virginia National Guard Special Forces soldier pleaded guilty Dec. 21 and Dec. 17, respectively, to two federal charges each of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, according to court documents and a release from the Justice Department.

Former Master Sgt. Daniel Gould, 36, and Sgt. 1st Class Henry Royer, 35, had planned to smuggle 90 pounds of cocaine ― about $1 million worth ― on a military transport plane from Colombia to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, according to federal court documents.
Army Times

Reported in 2021: U.S. Special Forces Train Drug Cartel Enforcers Linked to Rape, Torture and Decapitation of Victims:

A classified 2009 memo from the U.S. State Department published by WikiLeaks claimed that their own incomplete official records found that none of the known Zetas had ever participated in U.S.-funded training programs using their real names, but acknowledged that other intelligence sources indicated that one former Mexican military officer trained in the U.S. was forcibly recruited by the Zetas.

According to Lt. Col. Craig Deare (U.S. Army, retired), the former Academic Dean at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, the intellectual center of gravity of U.S. defense policy in Latin America since 1997, it was likely that more than 500 GAFEs trained in the U.S. with the 7th Special Forces Group (SFG), nicknamed the “snake-eaters.”
Covert Action magazine

Keep in mind that US Special Forces have expanded exponentially all around the globe for the purposes of training "local forces" ever since post 9/11. I'm sure 99% were trying to do the right thing in keeping America safe.

Secret Warfare - U.S. Special Forces Expand Training to Allies With Histories of Abuse (Sept 9, 2015)

The training program was part of a shadowy and growing global engagement strategy involving America’s most secretive and least scrutinized troops. Since 9/11, Special Ops forces have expanded in almost every conceivable way — from budget to personnel to overseas missions — with JCETs playing a significant role. Special Operations Command keeps the size and scope of the program a well-guarded secret, refusing to release even basic figures about the number of missions or the countries involved, but documents obtained by The Intercept demonstrate that from 2012 to 2014 some of America’s most elite troops — including Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets — carried out 500 Joint Combined Exchange Training missions around the world.

Also keep in mind that Los Zetas, noted by many as Mexico's "most bloody brutal Cartel" was started by members of Mexico's own Special Forces...where some were trained by US special forces, such as the infamous "School of Americas" dating back to the 80s.

How 34 commandos created Mexico's most brutal drug cartel

The leader of Mexico's most brutal drug cartel was arrested early Wednesday morning, but his capture will most likely have only a minor impact on what the US government has called "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico."

With a strong presence in about 17 Mexican states — or half the country — Los Zetas is the largest criminal syndicate operating in Mexico.

Brief History of Mexican Cartels recruiting US soldiers as hitmen.
Mexican Cartels Are Recruiting US Soldiers As Hitmen, And The Pay Is Good (Aug 5, 2013)

Former US Army captain pleads guilty to importing heroin from Afghanistan (2012)



JURORS ACQUIT COCAINE SUSPECT

What do you think the odds are he's related to a Tim Thacker?

Tim Thacker is serving 40 years for a meth distribution conspiracy. He was a pilot and also involved in the skydiving community in Raeford, NC.

Hoke County Man Sentenced to Forty Years for Meth Distribution (August 22, 2019)

Tim Thacker was linked to Delta operator William Lavigne, who was executed somewhere on Fort Bragg on December 2, 2020 in a double murder along with Timothy Dumas, from 7th Special Forces Group. Tim Thacker and Billy Lavigne were both involved in some parachute club.

"And now that man who shot Leshikar, William Lavigne, has died — in an incident under investigation as a homicide, with the FBI involved — "It's like the perfect conspiracy at this point ... there's really no other party to hold accountable for it," Ciolino said." Link

Billy Lavigne shot another member of the SOF community to death in 2018 after he was behaving erratically or something, supposedly in self defense but there are some big inconsistencies with the story.

Do Delta Force operators have a license to kill? Green Beret death raises questions

Tim Thacker, high-test methamphetamine distributor serving 40 years in federal prison is the son of former acquitted cocaine distribution conspiracy defendant and Green Beret, Gene Paul Thacker.

I'm nearly in the mood to rewatch...




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