@DavidManOnFire Ha! That was my phrase exactly, when reading it.
@DavidManOnFire Helliwell:
- became the CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE
- was sent by the CIA to Bahamas after the JFK assassination - set up offshore banks for CIA use
- ran American Bankers Insurance Company based in Galveston - provided insurance for businessmen who cooperated with the CIA
- became the CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE
- was sent by the CIA to Bahamas after the JFK assassination - set up offshore banks for CIA use
- ran American Bankers Insurance Company based in Galveston - provided insurance for businessmen who cooperated with the CIA
@DavidManOnFire - created Intercontinental Holding, a company in the Cayman Islands that owned the Lear jet used by Barry Seal for drug running
- established a Miami office for the Sea Supply Corporation
- established a Miami office for the Sea Supply Corporation
@DavidManOnFire According to Joseph Trento (Prelude to Terror): "The primary objective of Helliwell's operations in Florida was to cement the CIA's relationship with organized crime." This included Santos Trafficante, who had a common business interest in Asia, "exportation of Chinese heroin."
@DavidManOnFire Frank Carmen Furci (now living in Orange City FL) was a mafiosa from Tampa, Florida, where his father, Dominick, was a lieutenant in the Mafia family run by Santo Trafficante Jr.
gangsterreport.com
gangsterreport.com
@DavidManOnFire American Mafia boss Santo Trafficante, Jr. visited Saigon in 1968 and is believed to have contacted Corsican syndicate leaders there.
@DavidManOnFire Stars and Stripes - June 4, 1972
South Vietnam's heroin racket is run by three of that nation's top politicians, linked to Corsican and US Mafia gangsters, and is virtually condoned by some US officials, narcotics researcher Alfred W. McCoy told a Senate Foreign Aid panel.
South Vietnam's heroin racket is run by three of that nation's top politicians, linked to Corsican and US Mafia gangsters, and is virtually condoned by some US officials, narcotics researcher Alfred W. McCoy told a Senate Foreign Aid panel.
@DavidManOnFire "Beginning in 1965, he said, members of the Florida-based Trafficante family...began appearing in SE Asia. "Santo Trafficante Jr, heir to the international criminal syndicate established by Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, traveled to Saigon and Hong Kong in 1968," he said."
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