The Ellsberg Deceit

Although Daniel Ellsberg is an icon of the Left, there is abundant evidence that he was and is a CIA stalwart who was used to topple a president who had outlived his usefulness and to protect an agency on the verge of serious exposure as a criminal enterprise. Indeed, the Pentagon Papers leaks of Ellsberg are simply the opening act of Watergate.

 

The background for this blog post is 2 online interviews and 1 article by Douglas Valentine who studied extensively Ellsberg, especially his rise to prominence by way of the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Ellsberg (b. 1931) was educated at Harvard, joined the Marines, and subsequently found himself stationed in Vietnam where he met key figures in America’s intelligence community. He had an audiographic ability to remember conversations which made him an ideal spy, a talent which ingratiated him to CIA Saigon station chief John Hart because it allowed the agency to better track the opinions of leading intelligentsia in the country.

 

During 1965-67 he was assigned to the Revolutionary Development Program in South Vietnam, a CIA program which was designed to “pacify” the country especially against the Viet Cong. It is during this time that he came under the influence and direction of men like Edward Lansdale, Lucien Conein, and Frank Scotton, the latter 2 of whom became his close friends. As for Lansdale, to this day Ellsberg reveres him.

 

Although the operations of the RDP were diverse, they involved a huge element of drug dealing, especially with the Corsican drug dealers, particularly Michel Seguin who enters the story as one of the men from whom Ellsberg took a fiancé in one of his many Lothario escapades.

 

The CIA was heavily engaged in the drug trade in Vietnam, a leading factor for driving the US into the war. While there are many reasons for the war, communism was not really one of them. That was the branding which made the war acceptable to a majority of Americans for a while. The CIA realized that the drug industry yielded enormous profits, thus it collaborated with the mob and banks to erect a drug empire which involved drug revenues, money laundering, and plenty of murder. The Golden Triangle was the fount of much illicit wealth.

 

While researching Ellsberg, Valentine was told by Frank Scotton that he authorized Ellsberg to release what became known as the Pentagon Papers. Scotton was a CIA officer who formed assassination squads around Saigon in what was the forerunner of Operation Phoenix, a program led by future CIA Director William Colby, which murdered in cold blood at least 40-60,000 people, most of whom were civilians. It made the My Lai Massacre look like an ice cream social.

 

But if Scotton and Conein were close friends of Ellsberg, why would they hang him out to dry – though quite mildly – by saying that Ellberg’s actions were not the result of conscience but of intrigue? Valentine then struggles with the epistemological problem of knowing truth among campaigns of whispers, innuendo, and deceit – the ingredients of a perfect CIA stew.

 

Valentine proceeds to document that not only had the main stream press caught on to the drug dealing of the CIA in 1970, but Congress was beginning to investigate the atrocities of the Phoenix Program, and other CIA war crimes the following year.

 

In addition, Nixon launched his War on Drugs in 1971 which unleashed a series of attacks on operations near and dear to the CIA’s heart. At this point the left hand was fighting against the right hand, and order had to be brought from chaos.

 

In order to divert attention from the CIA, Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers which had the dual effect of diverting attention from the CIA to the military, and also undermining Nixon. Many say that Hunt bungled the Watergate break in; we say that he succeeded masterfully.

 

The Rockefeller cabal used Nixon while he was useful, but threw him away like so much used toilet paper when he stood in the way or caused it troubles. The primary problem was that Vietnam was in large measure about getting control of the drug trade and its great lucre, about which the plutocrats brooked no opposition. In any event, unraveling the drug business would expose the CIA for all of its sordid crimes and subject it to manifold publicity problems.

 

By reacting to the Pentagon Papers leaks as he did, Nixon exposed himself as an easy target of the war protesters and those defending civil liberties. This was the segue to Watergate which finished off Nixon by the Rockefeller –Bush alliance which worked so effectively to murder Kennedy.

 

This foray of Nixon into the drug war set back the CIA which then had to spend several years suborning the DEA into supporting its drug operations. But by the 1980s, they were back in full swing with the Mena drug connection, Iran Contra drug running, and BCCI drug money laundering operations.

 

Valentine reports that Ellsberg protested adamantly that Scotton or Conein were the source of the Pentagon Papers leaks, a protestation which we think is too much. As noted above, Ellsberg idolizes Edward Lansdale, the man who was ground supervisor of Dealey Plaza, and one of the leading planners and executives of the Kennedy assassination. How can a man who idolizes the psychopathic Lansdale be believed about having a conscience which led him to leak the otherwise useless Pentagon Papers?

 

The CIA got what it wanted out of Vietnam, and by 1970-71 was ready to evacuate Southeast Asia. It was time to move on to bigger projects in world conquest and imperial aggression. The plutocratic paymasters needed to turn its attention to the USSR, which they ruled, and the Middle East oil, for which they lusted.

Reference

Douglas Valentine, Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up! Counter Punch, March 8-10, 2003

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Prohibition and the Rise of Narco-Nation

Drugs are an endemic and organic feature of American life, a scourge whose sponsors are America’s elite who copied the British example of the opium trade. The rise of the drug cartels began with Prohibition whose supporters were the blueblood elite of Wall Street.

 

Contrary to what most Americans believe, the United States government is not opposed to drugs and their distributions. Rather, it only opposes competitors. So if you are involved in drug dealing, but are not under the control of the US government and its rulers, you will soon find yourself wiped out as became the fate of the Medellin Cartel when it crossed with the Bush Crime Syndicate (BCS).

 

The drug culture started with Prohibition when leading foundations such as the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rockefellers, and Women’s Christian Temperance Union agitated to bring about the 18^th Amendment. The Astors, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Warburgs, and other plutocratic elite hired these organizations - often without their witting understanding - to agitate for criminalization of alcohol.

 

But these sponsors had no concern whatsoever for the welfare of those who succumbed to the ravages of drink. Their concern was for control of the liquor business, but more importantly, the establishment of organized crime as another arm of its invisible government.

 

The plutocrats have two effective branches of government – the CIA, NSA, and other elements of what is euphemistically termed the “intelligence community”, and organized crime. Indeed, notorious crime boss Myer Lansky stated that the CIA and organized crime are two sides of the same coin.

 

Perhaps the most famous collaboration of the two branches of plutocratic government was the murder of President John Kennedy executed by the CIA and the Mob. It also explains why J Edgar Hoover spent precious little effort – if any at all – pursuing organized crime. It is true that there were a couple of high profile cases in the 1930s associated with the FBI, but this merely represented the resolution of turf wars rather than any fundamental opposition to organized crime.

 

There is substantial evidence that Hoover had significant social relationships with crime bosses, further explaining his see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil policy towards the mob.

 

Prohibition was a huge success for the plutocrats as it raised profit margins on their product, and proliferated organized crime throughout the country, which in turn allowed them to branch out into gambling and even many legitimate businesses.

 

As Sherman Skolnick puts it, it raised tolerance for criminals as it put the mob into every day contact with millions of Americans. But the enmeshing wasn’t just with the lower tiers of society. The Rockefeller controlled University of Chicago supplied much intellectual talent to the mob under the guise of social studies programs, one such neophyte being Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) who was for several years an accountant for the mob according to Skolnick. Alinsky was influential in both the Clinton and Soetoro political fortunes.

 

While the mob sponsored drug trade began in earnest in the 1950s, it was not until the 1960s that the Bush Crime Syndicate (BCS) working through the CIA professionalized it, and began to consolidate it under US government auspices. One of the side benefits of the Vietnam War for the CIA and its handlers was the massive drug profits. So ravenous were the plutocrats for its lucre that it sent tons of drugs back to the United States in the corpses of GIs.

 

The Mena, Arkansas drug trade was but the tip of the iceberg in a series of drug centers which stretched across the southern USA confirmed by veteran Washington reporter Sarah McClendon. In the 1990s she related that the Bush Crime Syndicate operated a string bases from Florida to Arizona through which arms were exported in exchange for drugs. One of the most famous persons in this government sponsored activity was Barry Seal whose story made it to the Wall Street Journal in a rare defiance of the Establishment.

 

The War on Drugs was a façade to destroy competition to Bush Crime Syndicate operations. It not only jacked up drug prices and margins, but it put out of business competitors to the BCS, at whose center was the CIA. The law was only applied to competitors.

 

More recently, Dr Jim Willie has reported on the extensive escort services of the United States Coast Guard and various military contractors such as Grumman to smuggle drugs into the country. His most explosive revelation was the story, confirmed by multiple sources, that George Bush, Sr bailed out Bank of America in 2010 with his massive stash of drug money which he has been accumulating since the 1960s.

 

Willie states matter of factly that all major US banks stay afloat due to either money laundering for the BCS/CIA drug trade or to financing its operations, although with the enormous profitability, it is hard to imagine the need for much financing.

 

One of the unstated goals of the Iraq war was to take over the drug trade. Heroin is produced in Afghanistan, shipped to US bases in Europe, where the Vatican launders the money, then shipped to various destination in Europe and the USA.

 

The common thread throughout this historical development is the guiding and protecting hand of the plutocrats who use the drug laws to create the largest incarcerated population in the world, and to finance their quests to rule the world.

 

Reference

PROHIBITION LEADS TO "DOPE NATION", Conspiracy Nation, Vol 8 Number 35

Jim Willie, various radio interviews

 

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