Britain's Opium War Against the U.S. (major expose of global drug trade)

392 Pages·1978·4.03 MB·English

DOPE, INC.

Britain's Opium War Against the U.S

by a U.S. Labor Party

Investigating Team

directed by

Konstandinos Kalimtgis

David Goldman

Jeffrey Steinberg
Contents

Dedication iii
Acknowledgments v
Introduction 1
Part I: History 7
Introduction 9
1. Britain's First Opium Wars 12
2. Palmerston's Fifth Column, USA 25
3. Britain's "Noble Experiment" 43
Part II: How the Drug Empire Works 57
Introduction 59
1. Banking and the World's Biggest Business 63
2. From Opium to Dirty Money 78
3. How the Drug Trade is Financed 83
4. Britain's Gold and Dirty Diamond Operations 92
5. Hong Kong: The World's Drug Capital 106
6. The Peking Connection 113
7. How the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Runs Drugs and Dirty Money 139
8. Canada: North America's Hong Kong 160
9. All in the Family: The Real Syndicate 175
Part III: Organized Crime 261
Introduction 263
1. The Bronfman Gang 269
2. The Kennedys: Organized Crime in the Government 289
3. Britain's Assassination Bureau: Permindex 301
4. Permindex Unveiled: Resorts International Intertel 321
5. The Jacobs Family's Emprise: Sports and Crime 330
6. The Philadelphia Story 344
Dedication

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
New York City
October 18,1978
It is with proper pride that we dedicate this book to the often-
unsung U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officers who have
so often, so obscurely, died or languished in undeserved impris-
onment in the silent war of the United States against the British
monarchy's illegal drug traffic into our nation.
This book is published with special thanks to those intelligence
and law enforcement officials who have given us such extraordi-
nary assistance in cross-checking facts in putting the story to-
gether. These have included officials not only in the USA, but our
nation's French ally, and also patriots in Canada embittered
against what the Bronfmans and others have done to their nation
and our own.
It is no exaggeration to sum up the situation thus: the only
proper comparison for today's British drug traffic into the USA is
the British monarchy's 19th century Opium Wars against China.
There is more than a parallel. The same HongShang and other
banking interests that developed their wealth in the China opium
trade are involved in the financial side of the traffic against the
USA — aided by those leading elements of the Zionist Lobby
which have controlled organized crime in the USA and the Carib-
bean since the early 1920s.
This is a calculated form of political warfare against the USA
by the British monarchy. Not only are the London-centered Cana-
dian, Hong Kong, Singapore, and British West Indies financial in-
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terests involved in pulling tens of billions out of the USA — our
biggest source of balance-of-payments losses — but this is a pre-
calculated political warfare. The evil British intelligence exec-
utive — and head of the Aristotle Society — Bertrand Russell pro-
posed this use of drugs as political subversion back during the
1920s. Among Russell's most prominent collaborators in this
effort was Aldous Huxley, coordinator of the 1960s introduction of
psychedelic substances to U.S. youth.
The fight against illegal drugs and against the evil forces of
"decriminalization" is nothing less than a war against Britain, to
the purpose of saving our youth and our nation from the destruc-
tion the British monarchy has projected for us.
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Acknowledgments

Dope, Inc. was commissioned in September 1978 by U.S. Labor
Party National Chairman Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., and was
produced under his direction. At that time the Labor Party
launched an international campaign against organized crime and
drug traffic. As LaRouche has pointed out numerous times in the
pages of the Labor Party's newspaper, New Solidarity, the forces
that run the drug trade are the same forces that are now
unleashing every capability — including scenarios for thermo-
nuclear war — to halt the emergence of a new monetary system
represented by the July 6 establishment of the European
Monetary System in Bremen, West Germany, a system founded
on the principles elaborated by LaRouche in his 1975 proposal for
an International Development Bank. An October 1978 statement
issued by LaRouche — "A National Strategy to Control Crime" —
formed the kernel of this book.
This book is the product of a 100-person combined research
team of the U.S. Labor Party in New York City, the Mexican
Labor Party in Mexico City, and the European Labor Party in
Wiesbaden, West Germany. The efforts of this team, since its
founding in January 1974 under the direction of Lyndon
LaRouche, drew the circle tighter around the perpetrators of
narcotics traffic over a period of years. The authors particularly
acknowledge the efforts of Marilyn James, Richard Schulman,
and Alfred Ross, whose research supplied the core of this book,
and the contributions of Kathy Burdman, Scott Thompson, Paul
Goldstein, Harald Hermann, Joseph Brewda, Roger Moore,
Michelle Steinberg, Peter Wyer, Karen Steinherz, and Peter
Ennis. Our appreciation also goes to Linda Frommer, the book's
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editor, who accomplished the final stage of the manuscript's
completion.
The authors are unfortunately unable to thank by name the
many former and currently serving law enforcement officers of
several nations who took the greatest risk in coming forward with
information and experience to indict the most dangerous enemy
of all.
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Introduction

America is at war. For the first time since 1865, the battle-
ground is not abroad, but on the streets and schools of American
cities. Casualties registered in the course of the conflict are
incomparably higher than at any other time in American history.
We are fighting for our lives, and in the most literal sense, for the
lives of our children. Until now, we have been losing.
The enemy's most deadly weapon is dope.
Unlike most wars, which force both combatants deeply into
debt, in this undeclared war the offensive power becomes
wealthier and wealthier, while the stupefied victim becomes
impoverished. In return for destroying the minds, and in many
cases the lives, of the 48 million Americans hit by this weapon,
the enemy exacts a payment of $50 billion in retail drug sales
alone in the United States, and $200 billion worldwide. That $200
billion, robbed from the world's productive sector, is the slush
fund for everything evil in the world, including political
terrorism — and including the murder of American Presidents.
There is not a parent, thinking over the destruction of a child,
who really believes that drug abuse is a self-inflicted crime.
Americans, no matter what else they have learned to tolerate,
believe that the advancement of the next generation is part of the
way things should be. If an entire generation of Americans is in
jeopardy of being lost, then someone has done this to them.
We will tell you precisely who has done this — who has the
ability to control the flow of dope from the mountains of the Far
East and the valleys of Colombia to American high schools, who
controls the banks which launder the $200 billion in take, who
puppeteers the crime syndicates in charge of retail distribution,
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and who corrupts our political life. It is the same people against
whom we fought the American Revolution, who set up the world
opium trade a century and a half ago, and who run it today: the
aristocratic and banking oligarchy of Great Britain..
Look into the motionless stupor of the mind of a youth who has
been sapped and destroyed by addiction. Incapable of reason,
incapable of thought, today's addicted youth lives for only one
thing: his "fix," his "high." Then consider the body count of
Britain's Opium War against the United States: Over 48 million
Americans, mostly between theages of 12 and 25 are officially
known by the Drug Enforcement Administration to be frequent
users of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. Over one-fourth of the
American people are severely wounded or dead in a war the
country has not yet mobilized to fight.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has released these
statistics on drug use by Americans:
Heroin
500,000 daily users (other sources place this hardcore addict
figure at between 750,000 and 1 million)
4,000,000 occasional users
Cocaine
575,000 users between the ages of 12-17
4,500,000 users between the ages of 18-25
1,000,000 users over the age of 25
Marijuana
11,000,000 daily users
24,000,000 occasional users
These figures do not include that portion of the population
addicted to amphetamines, barbiturates, and hallucinogens. This
figure alone according to recent reports from the National
Institute of Drug Abuse constituted between 12 and 25 percent of
all patients admitted to federally funded drug clinics during 1977.
The last census taken of drug abuse in 1974, issued as a Report to
the President, calculated conservatively that close to one and a
half million Americans had "gotten into trouble"—been
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arrested, treated, or hospitalized — through the use of amphet-
amines or barbiturates. When calculated for only youth of high
school age, the rate of amphetamine and barbiturate use was
four times as great as that of the adult population.
Since the inauguration of Jimmy Carter, whole categories of
drug abuse are no longer monitored. The computer system of the
Drug Enforcement Administration has been shut down. Behind
that action is the grim fact that many of Mr. Carter's domestic
policy advisors are on record as being committed to decrimin-
alization of deadly drugs — beginning with marijuana. If such
policies go through, statistics will be meaningless: drug abuse
will treble within months of legalization. The $200 billion take for
the British drug traders will climb to $300 billion.
The world's biggest business

How is the $200 billion monstrosity of world drug revenues
hidden? In the most important way, it is not. The flow of
narcotics and dirty money is conducted in the full light of day, the
same way rum-running was conducted during Prohibition. Only
misdirection prevents the public from understanding who the
enemy is. Massive crimes are not hidden under cover of
darkness, but under the cover of an effective lie. The operative lie
in this case is "Free Enterprise."
When Sam Bronfman sold his rotgut to American mobsters,
supplied by the old British distillers and financed by the old
British banks, it was a matter of free enterprise: what the mob
did with it after it crossed the American border was of no concern
to him. When Meyer Lansky made his first heroin connection
with Britain's dope-trading Keswick family in Shanghai in 1920,
the sale was legal and in the light of day; what the mob did with
the heroin later was not the responsibility of Britain's Far East
traders.
Now, when the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank "launders" the
$10 billion annual flow of narcotics money through Hong Kong, is
it anything but a matter of "free enterprise" where their deposits
come from and their loans go? When the Bronfmans in Canada