PJ#083, POLITICAL PSYCHOS

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PJ 83

CHAPTER 3

REC #2 HATONN

FRI., NOV. 19, 1993 1:05 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 095

FRI., NOVEMBER 19, 1993

(Editor's Note: The following is writing #10 in a series from "Committee of 300", a continuation of quoting from Chapter 1.)

The London "Times" never dared tell the British public that it was impossible to make VAST PROFITS from tea, nor did that illustrious paper even hint at a trade in opium being plied by those who spent their time in London's fashionable clubs or playing a chukka of polo at the Royal Windsor Club, or that the gentlemen officers who went out to India in the service of the Empire were financed SOLELY by the enormous income de-rived from the misery of the millions of Chinese coolies addicted to opium.

The trade was conducted by the illustrious British East India Company, whose meddling in political, religious and economic affairs of the United States has cost us very dearly for over 200 years. The 300 members of the British East India Company's board were a cut above the common herd. They were so mighty, as Lord Bertrand Russell once observed, "They could even give God advice when he had trouble in Heaven." Nor should we imagine that anything has changed in the intervening years. EXACTLY the same attitude prevails today among members of the Committee of 300, which is why they often refer to themselves as the "Olympians".

Later the British Crown, i.e., the Royal Family, joined the British East India Company's trade, and used it as a vehicle to produce opium in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, controlling exports through what was called "transit duties", that is, the Crown levied a tax on all producers of opium duly registered with the state authority, who were sending their opium to China.

Prior to 1896, when the trade was still "illegal"--a word used to extract greater tribute from the producers of opium--there never having been the slightest attempt to stop the trade, colossal amounts of opium were shipped out of India on board "China Tea Clippers", those sailing ships around which legend and lore were built, which supposedly carried chests of tea from India and China to the London exchanges.

So audacious did the British East India Company lords and ladies become that they tried to sell this lethal substance to the Union and Confederate Armies in pill form as a pain killer. Is it difficult to imagine just what would have happened had their plan succeeded? All those hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have left the battlefields totally hooked on opium. "The Beatles" were much more successful in turning out millions of teenage addicts in later years.

The Bengal merchants and the British controllers and bankers grew fat and intolerant on the enormous amounts of money that poured into the coffers of the British East India Company from the wretched Chinese coolies opium trade. BEIC profits, even in those years, far exceeded the combined profits made in a single year by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in their heydays. The trend in making huge profits out of drugs was carried over into the 1960s by such "legal" drug death merchants as Sandoz, the makers of LSD and Hoffman La Roche, manufacturers of Valium. The cost of the raw material and manufacturing of Valium to Hoffman La Roche is $3 per kilo (2.2 pounds). It is sold to their distributors for $20,000 per kilo. By the time it reaches the consumer, the price of Valium has risen to $50,000 per kilo. Valium is used in huge quantities in Europe and the United States. It is possibly the most used drug of its kind in the world.

Hoffman La Roche does the same thing with Vitamin C, which costs them less than 1 cent a kilo to produce. It is sold for a profit of 10,000 percent. When a friend of mine blew the whistle on this criminal company, which had entered into a monopoly agreement with other producers, in contravention of European Economic Community laws, he was arrested on the Swiss-Italian border and hustled into prison; his wife was threat­ened by the Swiss police until she committed suicide. As a British national he was rescued by the British consul in Berne as soon as word of his plight was received, removed from prison and flown out of the country. He lost his wife, his job and his pension because he dared to disclose Hoffman La Roche secrets. The Swiss take their Industrial Espionage law very seriously.

SWISS SURPRISES

Remember this the next time you see those lovely advertise­ments of Swiss ski slopes, beautiful watches, pristine mountains and cuckoo clocks. That is not what Switzerland is about. It is about dirty multi-billion dollar money laundering which is car­ried out by major Swiss banking houses. It is about the Com­mittee of 300--"legal" drug manufacturers. Switzerland is the Committee's ultimate "safe haven" for money and protection of their bodies in time of global calamity.

Now mind you, one could get into serious trouble with the Swiss authorities for giving out any information on these nefari­ous activities. The Swiss regard it as "industrial espionage" which usually carries a 5-year term in prison. It is safer to pre­tend that Switzerland is a nice clean country rather than look under the covers or inside its garbage can banks.

In 1931 the managing directors of the so-called "Big Five" British companies were rewarded by being made Peers of the Realm for their activities in drug money laundering. Who de­cides such matters and bestows such honors? It is the Queen of England who bestows honors upon the men in the top positions in the drug trade. British banks engaged in this terrible trade are too numerous to mention, but a few of the top ones are:

The British Bank of the Middle East.
Midland Bank.
National and Westminster Bank.
Barclays Bank.
Royal Bank of Canada.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
Baring Brothers Bank.

Many of the merchant banks are up to their hocks in pigswill drug trade profits, banks such as Hambros for example, run by Sir Jocelyn Hambro. For a really interesting major study of the Chinese opium trade, one would need access to India Office in London. I was able to get in there because of my intelligence service and received great assistance from the trustee of the pa­pers of the late Professor Frederick Wells Williamson, which provided much information on the opium trade carried on by the British East India Company in India and China in the 18th and 19th centuries. If only those papers could be made public, what a storm would burst over the heads of the crowned vipers of Eu­rope.

Today the trade has shifted somewhat in that less expensive cocaine has taken over a good part of the North American mar­ket. In the 1960s the flood of heroin coming from Hong Kong, Lebanon and Dubai threatened to engulf the United States and Western Europe. When demand outpaced supply, there was a switch to cocaine. But now, at the end of 1991, that trend has been reversed; today it is heroin that is back in favor, although it is true that cocaine still enjoys great favor among the poorer classes.

Heroin, we are told, is more satisfying to addicts; the effects are far more intense and last longer than the effects of cocaine and there is less international attention on heroin producers than there is on Colombian cocaine shippers. Besides which, it is hardly likely that the U.S. would make any real effort to stop the production of opium in the Golden Triangle which is under the control of the Chinese military, a serious war would erupt if any country tried to interdict the trade. A serious attack on the opium trade would bring Chinese military intervention.

The British know this; they have no quarrel with China, ex­cept for an occasional squabble over who gets the larger share of the pie. Britain has been involved in the China opium trade for over two centuries. No one is going to be so foolish as to rock the boat when millions upon millions of dollars flow into the bank accounts of the British oligarchists and more gold is traded on the Hong Kong gold market than the combined total traded in London and New York.

Those individuals who fondly imagine they can do some kind of a deal with a minor Chinese or Burmese overlord in the hills of the Golden Triangle apparently have no idea of what is in­volved. If they had known, they would never have talked about stopping the opium trade. Such talk reveals little knowledge of the immensity and complexity of China's opium trade.

British plutocrats, the Russian KGB, the CIA, and U.S. bankers are all in league with China. Could one man stop or even make a small dent in the trade? It would be absurd to imagine it. What is heroin and why is it favored over cocaine these days? According to the noted authority on the subject, Professor Galen, heroin is a derivative of opium, a drug that stupefies the senses and induces long periods of sleep. This is what most addicts like, it is called "being in the arms of Mor­pheus". Opium is the most habit-forming drug known to man. Many pharmaceutical drugs contain opium in various degrees, and it is believed that payer used in the manufacture of cigarettes is first impregnated with opium, which is why smok­ers become so addicted to their habit. [H: In many kinds of processing of "'hard' liquors" there is also addition of opium derivatives which is addicting as well, for the alcoholic. How can this get past the FDA? Come now--the FDA only bans things which can bring you GOOD health.]

The poppy seed from which it is derived was long known to the Moguls of India, who used the seeds mixed in tea offered to a difficult opponent. It is also used as a pain-killing drug which largely replaced chloroform and other older anesthetics of a by­gone era. Opium was popular in all of the fashionable clubs of Victorian London and it was no secret that men like the Huxley brothers used it extensively. Members of the Orphic-Dionysus cults of Hellenic Greece and the Osiris-Horus cults of Ptolemaic Egypt which Victorian society embraced, all smoked opium; it was the "in" thing to do.

So did some of those who met in St. Ermins Hotel in 1903 to decide what sort of a world we would have. The descendants of the St. Ermins crowd are found today in the Committee of 300. It is these so-called world leaders who brought about such a change in our environment that enabled drug usage to proliferate to the point where it can no longer be stopped by regular law en­forcement tactics and policies. This is especially true in big cities where big populations can conceal a great deal of what transpires.

Many in the circles of royalty were regular opium users. One of their favorites was the writer Coudenhove-Kalergi who wrote a book in 1932 entitled REVOLUTION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY which was a blueprint for the return of the world to a medieval society. The book, in fact, became a working paper for the Committee of 300's plan to de-industrial­ize the world, starting with the United States. Claiming that pressures of over-population are a serious problem, Kalergi ad­vised a return to what he called "open spaces". Does this sound like the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot? Here are some extracts from the book:

"In its facilities, the city of the future will resemble the city of the Middle Ages...and he who is not condemned to live in a city because of his occupation, will go to the countryside. Our civilization is a culture of the major cities; therefore it is a marsh plant, born by degenerated, sickly and decadent people, who have voluntarily, or in­voluntarily, ended up in this dead-end street of life." Isn't that very close to what 'AnkarWat' gave as "his" reasons for depopulating Phnom Penh?

The first opium shipments reached England from Bengal in 1683, carried in British East India Company "Tea Clippers". Opium was brought to England as a test, an experiment, to see whether the common folk of England, the yeomen and the lower classes, could be induced into taking the drug. It was what we could call today "test marketing" of a new product. But the sturdy yeomen and the much derided "lower classes" were made of stern stuff, and the test marketing experiment was a total flop. The "lower classes" of British society firmly rejected opium smoking.

The plutocrats and oligarchists in high society in London be­gan casting about for a market that would not be so resistant, so unbending. They found such a market in China. In the papers I studied at the India Office under the heading "Miscellaneous Old Records", I found all the confirmation I could have wished for in proving that the opium trade in China really took off follow­ing the founding of the British East India Company-funded "China Inland Mission", ostensibly a Christian missionary soci­ety but in reality the "promotion" men and women for the new product being introduced into the market, that new product be­ing OPIUM.

This was later confirmed when I was given access to the pa­pers of Sir George Birdwood in India Office records. Soon af­ter the China Inland Mission missionaries set out to give away their sample packages and show the coolies how to smoke opium, vast quantities of opium began to arrive in China. "The Beatles" could not have done a better job. (In both cases the trade was sanctioned by the British royal family, who openly supported the Beatles.) Where the British East India Company had failed in England, it now succeeded beyond its wildest ex­pectations in China, whose teeming millions of poor looked upon smoking opium as an escape from their life of misery.

Opium dens began proliferating all across China, and in the big cities like Shanghai and Canton, hundreds of thousands of miserable Chinese found that a pipe of opium seemingly made life bearable. The British East India Company had a clear run for over a 100 years before the Chinese government woke up to what was happening. It was only in 1729 that the first laws against opium smoking were passed. The 300 board members of BEIC did not like it one bit and, never one to back down, the Company was soon engaged in a running battle with the Chinese government.

The BEIC had developed poppy seeds that brought the finest quality opium from the poppy fields of Benares and Bihar in the Ganges Basin in India, a country they fully controlled. This fetched top price, while the lower grades of opium from other areas of India were sold for less. Not about to lose their lucra­tive market, the British Crown engaged in running battles with Chinese forces, and defeated them. In the same manner, the U.S. government is supposedly fighting a running battle against today's drug barons and, like the Chinese, are losing heavily. There is however one big difference: The Chinese government fought to win whereas the United States government is under no compunction to win the battle which explains why staff turnover in the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is so high.

Latterly, high grade quality opium has come out of Pakistan via Makra on the desolate coastline of the country from whence ships take the cargo to Dubai where it is exchanged for gold. This is said to account in part for heroin being favored over co­caine today. The heroin trade is more discreet, there is no mur­der of prominent officials such as became an almost daily occur­rence in Colombia. Pakistani opium does not sell for as much as Golden Triangle or Golden Crescent (Iranian) opium. This has greatly spurred heroin production and sales which threaten to overtake cocaine as the number one seller.

The vile opium trade was talked about in the upper-crust cir­cles of English society for many years as "the spoils of the Em­pire". The tall tales of valor in the Khyber Pass covered a vast trade in opium. The British Army was stationed in the Khyber Pass to protect caravans carrying raw opium from being pillaged by hill tribesmen. Did the British royal family know this? They must have, what else would induce the Crown to keep an army in this region where there was nothing of much worth other than the lucrative opium trade? It was very expensive to keep men under arms in a far away country. Her Majesty must have asked why these military units were there? Certainly not to play polo or billiards in the officers' mess.

The BEIC was jealous of its monopoly in opium. Would-be competitors received short shrift. In a noted trial in 1791, a certain Warren Hastings was put on charges that he helped a friend to get into the opium trade at the expense of the BEIC.

The actual wording which I found in the records of the case housed in India Office gives some insight into the vast opium trade: "The charge is that Hastings has granted a contract for the Provision of Opium for four years to Steven Sullivan, without advertising for the same, on terms glaringly obvious and wantonly profuse, for the purpose of creating an INSTANT FORTUNE for the said William Sullivan Esq." (Emphasis added.)

BEIC MONOPOLY ON OPIUM TRADING

As the BEIC-British government held the monopoly in opium trading, the only people allowed to make instant fortunes were the "nobility", the "aristocracy", the plutocrats and oligarchical families of England, many of whose descendants sit on the Committee of 300 just as their forbears sat on the Council of 300 who ran the BEIC. Outsiders like Mr. Sullivan soon found themselves in trouble with the Crown if they were so bold as to try and help themselves get into the multi-billion pound sterling opium business.

The honorable men of the BEIC with its list of 300 counselors were members of all the famous gentlemen's clubs in London and they were for the most part members of parliament, while others, both in India and at home, were magistrates. Company passports were required to land in China. When a few busybodies arrived in China to investigate the British Crown's involvement in the lucrative trade, BEIC magistrates promptly revoked their passports, thus effectively denying them entry into China.

Friction with the Chinese government was common. The Chinese had passed a law, the Yung Cheng Edict of 1729, for-bidding the importation of opium, yet the BEIC managed to keep opium as an entry in the Chinese Customs Tariff books until 1753, the duty being three taels per chest of opium. Even then British special secret service (the 007 of the day) saw to it that troublesome Chinese officials were bought off, and in cases where that was not possible, they were simply murdered.

Every British monarch since 1729 has benefited immensely from the drug trade and this holds good for the present occupant of the throne. Their ministers saw to it that wealth flowed into their family coffers. One such minister of Victoria's was Lord Palmerston. He clung obstinately to the belief that nothing should be allowed to stop Britain's opium trade with China. Palmerston's plan was to supply the Chinese government with enough opium to make individual members become greedy. Then the British would withhold supplies and when the Chinese government was on its knees, supplies would be resumed--but at a much higher price, thus retaining a monopoly through the Chinese government itself, but the plan failed.

The Chinese government responded by destroying large cargoes of opium stored in warehouses, and British merchants were required to sign INDIVIDUAL agreements not to import any more opium into Canton. BEIC responded by sending scores of fully-loaded opium carrying ships to lie in the roads of Macao. Companies beholden to BEIC, rather than individuals, then sold these cargoes. Chinese Commissioner Lin said, "There is so much opium on board English vessels now lying in the roads of this place (Macao) which will never be returned to the country from which it came, and I shall not be surprised to hear of its being smuggled in under American colors." Lin's prophecy proved to be remarkably accurate. [H: Yes even to the point of being shipped via military craft--both sea and air--and processed right from military bases once in the U.S. You are really in for some interesting "Drug War" activities now that you will have no "borders" with which to contend. Further, YOU will not be able to legally deal or use--either. Did you notice TODAY it is announced that drug enforcement officers and police officers now have access to an "ion" machine which vacuums a suspect and even the most tiny presence of any drug is detected and identified. This means that you can innocently handle, say, a coin which has passed through a dealer's hands--AND YOU WILL BE IDENTIFIED AS HAVING DRUGS ON YOU. THIS IS SERIOUS, CITIZENS!]

THE OPIUM WARS

The Opium Wars against China were designed to "put the Chinese in their place" as Lord Palmerston once said, and the British Army did that. There was simply no stopping the vast, lucrative trade which provided the British oligarchical feudal lords with untold billions, while leaving China with millions of opium addicts. In later years the Chinese appealed to Britain for help with their immense problem and received it. Thereafter, respective Chinese governments realized the value in cooperat­ing instead of fighting with Britain--and this held good during the bloody rule of Mao Tsc-tung--so that today, as I have al­ready mentioned, any quarrels that come about are only over the share of the opium trade each is entitled to.

To advance to more modern history, the Chinese-British partnership was solidified by the Hong Kong agreement which established an equal partnership in the opium trade. This has proceeded smoothly, with an occasional ripple here and there, but while violence and death, robbery and murder marked the progression of the Colombian cocaine trade, no such baseness was allowed to disturb the heroin trade, which, as I said earlier, is once again coming into the ascendancy as we near the end of 1991.

The major problem that arose in Sino-British relations during the past 60 years concerned China's demand for a larger slice of the opium-heroin pie. This was settled when Britain agreed to hand Hong Kong over to full Chinese government control which will come into effect in 1997. Other than that, the partners re­tain their former equal shares of the lucrative opium trade based in Hong Kong.

The British oligarchical families of the Committee of 300 who were entrenched in Canton at the height of the opium trade left their descendants in position. Look at a list of prominent British residents in China and you will see the names of mem­bers of the Committee of 300 among them. The same holds good for Hong Kong. These plutocrats of a feudal era, that they seek to return to the world, control the gold and opium trade of which Hong Kong is THE center. Burmese and Chinese opium poppy growers get paid in GOLD; they do not trust the U.S. pa­per $100 bill. This explains the very large volume of gold traded in the Hong Kong exchange.

BIGGEST PRODUCERS

The Golden Triangle is no longer the largest producer of opium. That dubious title has since 1987 been shared by the Golden Crescent (Iran), Pakistan and Lebanon. [H: Still wonder about why the wars, etc., in the area? This is a product more dear to the hearts of the British than all the oil you can pump!] These are the principle opium producers, al­though smaller quantities are once again coming out of Afghanistan and Turkey. The drug trade, and more especially the opium trade, could not function without the help of banks as we shall demonstrate as we proceed.

Dharma, let us please have a new document.

PJ 83

CHAPTER 4

REC #3 HATONN

FRI., NOV. 19, 1993 2:55 P.M. YEAR 7, DAY 095

FRI., NOVEMBER 19, 1993

CONFIRMATIONS OF A SICK SORT

For security and privacy I shall have to leave the author of the letter we will share with you readers, unnamed. I would that there were wondrous reports of fields of spelt for the taking freely and healing lights for your use in a free nation--but alas, the confirmations must remain a most disheartening contribution to your knowledge. I have ones who doubt my reports, disclaim possibilities--and then as with this person, come squarely in con­frontation of experience with that which we offer in TRUTH. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EXPERIENCE TO LEARN--IF YOU WILL ACCEPT THAT WHICH OTHERS SO WILL­INGLY SHARE WITH YOU. IT IS YOUR CHOICE.

November 15, 1993

Dear Commander Hatonn:

As I read in the November 11, 1993 writing, Concentration Camp Plans for U.S. Citizens, Continuation, Part II: I had to write the following to you as a first hand confirmation as to the TRUTH of what Mr. Pabst has shared. Also as further proof to any and all readers of your writings that they are being given the facts.

On October 8, 1972, I left Dallas, Texas by commercial air­line in route to Anchorage, Alaska. The last leg of the trip was from Seattle, Washington over Western Canada to ap­proximately 125/150 miles S.E. of Fairbanks. At that point the pilot stated over the intercom that the plane was going to make a 90 degree left turn in order to bypass a military preserve, that all aircraft private, commercial and military without special clearance were forbidden to fly over this area. The plane made the left turn, traveled for a few miles, banked to the right about 45 degrees and started its descent to Anchorage. I was puzzled by this incident but did not understand until later.

I went to Anchorage on a combination vacation/church meeting trip. The meeting was from October 10, 1972 to Octo­ber 18, 1972, and during the first part I met a man, CDC from Fort Worth. He and I rented a car and when we had free time we went sightseeing. We left Anchorage on Highway #1 to #4, up #4 to Delta Junction and #2. We drove a few miles and came to what appeared to be a logging road. "C" had worked for the Forestry Service in Northern California some years past so off we went up this snow covered, winding and very beautiful route. After some 30 to 50 miles of driving and photographing we rounded a mountain to be confronted by a warning sign with large red lettering on a yellow background. This sign I would estimate to have been 10' by 20'. It read: DO NOT AP­PROACH ANY NEARER THAN 200 FEET. FENCE ELEC­TRICALLY CHARGED (2400 VOLTS). ALL FIREARMS, CAMERAS, BINOCULARS, TELESCOPES, ETC., FOR­BIDDEN. We had a pair of binoculars with us and since we were some 300 yards away, I placed them to my eyes and scanned the 12' chainlink fence to the right and left as it disap­peared over the mountains in both directions. Then as I focused ahead and up the mountain to the summit I saw a Guardshack. Standing with a machine gun aimed directly at me was a military person dressed in a uniform that was foreign to me. (Later after some years passed I saw the United Nations uniforms and rec­ognized them as being identical to the man on top of the moun­tain.) I shouted for "C" to turn around and let's get out of there fast!

As we backtracked I explained what I had witnessed and we tried to put it all together. On the return trip to Anchorage we passed Elmendorf AFB where new construction was underway. There stood a 10 story "Hotel" that looked to cover an entire square block with steel bars on ALL windows and doors. More shock!!!

Later we had some more free time so we boarded the Alaska Railroad passenger train for Valdez, Alaska. Upon arriving in Valdez we went to a large Trading Post and being curious I went down to the bay and waterfront. Across the bay and island and up atop the mountain were what appeared to be new military barracks (WW II) with steel bars on all windows and doors!!! Further shock! I went back into the Trading Post and asked the owner about the structures across the way. He said "They are for Political Prisoners to be housed until they are transported to permanent quarters." What permanent quarters? "Up the Alaskan railroad through Anchorage to the chainlinked fenced AREA near Fairbanks," he replied.

On November 30, 1974 my family and I moved from Dallas, Texas to Tucson, Arizona. Several months later we went sight­seeing. We passed through the town of Florence, Arizona on U.S. 89. In Florence there is a Federal Prison which was un­dergoing remodeling and enlargement. We found out later that there was only ONE prisoner housed there at that time.

WHAT?? As I became more aware of these facilities over the U.S. things fell into place.

Commander, this information had to come from GOD OF LIGHT, I feel, in order for me to come to HIM and to be con­vinced of THE TRUTH and of your TRUTH-BRINGING.

With thanksgiving to God and to you,

(signature)

P.S.: The original Alaska Railroad was constructed and laid up to the enclosed area--first--then a spur track to Fairbanks (so I was informed). I obtained surface and aircraft maps and charts of Alaska. Mr. Pabst and I saw the same designations on them.

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Thank you, there is nothing like horse's mouth "seeing" to help your fellow-man see the incredible facts involved here, my friend. Now two decades later, it does not look hopeful for re­covery of freedom as an instant turn-around. So, all I can do is light a candle to help with the dark passage and urge you con­sider the plight in actual confrontation--not fantasy-land "wishes". A remnant of God shall make passage through this and actually, by agreement, pretty well--if you listen, act with REASON and WISDOM. Dead martyrs are not what God is about, my beloved friends. To serve, you must live! That means you do not FIGHT the system with weapons which will surely get you slain--we "turn the other cheek" and prepare for times which shall test the metal of all men--not just God's. In fact, there is no need for God's teams to be forfeit.

That which the Bible speaks of as the horrors of those calling themselves "Christians"--are not the TRUE Christ-followers-­this refers to the churches who teach what they believe to be Christian training--but no, it is NOT.

How many are there of you who will be included in the flock of God? Not many, I fear, as ones refuse to see and hear. Ah, they say, "OK, but I will continue in my ways for the human way is easier." So be it--GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS LAWS TO SUIT THOSE WHO WISH TO HAVE THEM OTHERWISE. On the other hand--without the "otherwise"--there would be no purpose in the journey, would there??

BACK TO "300"

CONTINUATION: From Chapter 3, writing #11 in a series from Conspirators' Hierarchy, The Story of the Committee of 300 by John Coleman, (WIR, 2533 N. Carson St., Carson City, NV 89706.) Please purchase directly from the author if you wish to acquire a copy of this masterpiece of intrigue and information. There are several books I highly recommend for your library--this is one. Defrauding America by Rodney Stich is another which you can get through CONTACT. (See ad at end of chapter.)

Our subject has been centered around the British East India Company and the monopoly on the drug trade. We will now take up the subject of:

BANKS

How do banks with their great air of respectability fit into the drug trade with all of its attendant filth? It is a very long and complicated story, which could be the subject of a book on its own. One way in which banks participate is by financing front companies importing the chemicals needed to process raw opium into heroin. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank with a branch office in London is right in the middle of such trade through a company called TEJAPAIBUL, which banks with Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. What does this company do? It imports into Hong Kong most of the chemicals needed in the heroin refilling process.

It is also a major supplier of acetic anhydride for the Golden Crescent and the Golden Triangle, Pakistan, Turkey and Lebanon. The actual financing for this trading is hived off to the Bangkok Metropolitan Bank. Thus, the secondary activities connected with processing opium, while not in the same category as the opium trade, nevertheless generates substantial income for banks. But the real income of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and indeed all banks in the region is financing the actual opium trade.

It took a lot of research on my part to link the price of gold to the price of opium. I used to tell anyone who would listen, "If you want to know the price of gold find out what the price of a pound or a kilo of opium is in Hong Kong." To my critics I answered, "Take a look at what happened in 1977, a critical year for gold." The Bank of China shocked the gold pundits, and those clever forecasters who are to be found in great numbers in America, by suddenly and without warning, dumping 80 tons of gold on the market.

That depressed the price of gold in a big hurry. All the experts could say was, "We never knew China had that much gold; where could it have come from?" It came from the gold which is paid to China in the Hong Kong Gold Market for large purchases of opium. The current policy of the Chinese government toward England is the same as it was in the 18th and 19 centuries. The Chinese economy, tied to the economy of Hong Kong--and I don't mean television sets, textiles, radios, watches, pirated cassette and video tapes--I mean opium/heroin--would take a terrible beating if it were not for the opium trade it shares with Britain. The BEIC is gone but the descendants of the Council of 300 linger on in the membership of the Committee of 300. [H: You must understand the capability of these powerful people to changes names, companies and profiles at the drop of a whim. This has happened to "democracy", "communism"--whatever, when the name attracts too much unhealthy attention--drop it and give it another birth and label. It is a VERY GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICE.]

The oldest of the oligarchical British families who were leaders in the opium trade for the past 200 years are still in it today. Take the Mathesons, for instance. This "noble" family is one of the pillars of the opium trade. When things looked a bit shaky a few years ago, the Mathesons stepped in and gave China a loan of $300 million for real estate investment. Actually it was billed as a "joint venture between the People's Republic of China and the Matheson Bank". When researching India Office papers of the 1700s I came across the name of Matheson, and it kept on cropping up everywhere--London, Peking, Dubai, Hong Kong, wherever heroin and opium are mentioned.

The problem with the drug trade is that it has become a threat to national sovereignty. Here is what the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States said about this world-wide threat:

"The problem of drugs has already ceased to be dealt with simply as one of public health or a social problem. It has turned into something far more serious and far reaching which affects our national sovereignty; a problem of national security, because it strikes at the independence of a nation. Drugs in all their manifestations of production, commercialization and consumption, denaturalizes us by injuring our ethical, religious and political life, our his­toric, economic, and republican values."

BANK OF INTERNATIONAL
SETTLEMENTS (BIS) & INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND (IMF)

This is precisely the way the Bank of International Settle­ments and the IMF are operating. Let me say without hesitation that both these banks are nothing more than bully-boy clearing houses for the drug trade. The BIS undermines any country that the IMF wants to sink by setting up ways and means for the easy outflow of flight capital. Nor does BIS recognize nor make any distinction when it comes down to what is flight capital and what is laundered drug money.

The BIS operates on gangster lines. If a country will not submit to asset-stripping by the IMF, then it says in effect, "Right, then we will break you by means of the huge cache of narco-dollars we are holding." It is easy to understand why gold was demonetized and substituted with the paper "dollar" as the world's reserve currency. It is not as easy to blackmail a country holding gold reserves as it is one having its reserves in paper dollars.

The IMF held a meeting in Hong Kong a few years ago which was attended by a colleague of mine and he told me the seminar dealt with this very question. He informed me that the IMF agents told the meeting that they could literally cause a run on any country's currency, using narco-dollars, which would precipitate a flight of capital. Ranier-Gut, a Credit Suisse dele­gate and member of the Committee of 300, said he foresaw a situation where national credit and national financing would be under one umbrella organization by the turn of the century. While Ranier-Gut did not spell it out, everybody at the seminar knew exactly what he was talking about.

From Colombia to Miami, from the Golden Triangle to the Golden Gate, from Hong Kong to New York, from Bogota to Frankfurt, the drug trade, and more especially the heroin trade, is BIG BUSINESS and it is run from the top down by some of the most "untouchable" families in the world, and each of those families have at least one member who is on the Committee of 300. It is not a street corner business, and it takes a great deal of money and expertise to keep if flowing smoothly. The ma­chinery under control of the Committee of 300 ensures this.

Such talents are not found on the street corners and subways of New York. To be sure the pushers and peddlers are an inte­gral part of the trade, but only as very small part-time salesmen. I say part-time because they are caught and rivalry gets some of them shot. But what does this matter? There are plenty of re­placements available.

No, it is not anything the Small Business Administration would be interested in. IT IS BIG BUSINESS, a vast empire, this dirty drug business. Of necessity, it is operated from the top down in every single country in the world. It is, in fact, the largest single enterprise in the world today, transcending all oth­ers. That it is protected from the top down is borne out by the fact that, like international terrorism, it cannot be stamped out, which should indicate to a reasonable person that some of the biggest names in royal circles, the oligarchy, the plutocracy are running it, even if it is done through intermediaries.

COUNTRIES WHO GROW POPPIES AND
COCOA BUSHES

The main countries involved in growing poppies and the co­coa bush are Burma, Northern China, Afghanistan, Iran, Pak­istan, Thailand, Lebanon, Turkey, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia. Colombia does not grow the cocoa bush but, next to Bolivia, is the main refiner of cocaine and the chief financial center of the cocaine trade which, since General Noriega was kidnapped and imprisoned by President Bush, is being challenged by Panama for first place in money laundering and capital financing of the cocaine trade.

The heroin trade is financed by Hong Kong banks, London banks and some Middle East banks such as the British Bank of the Middle East. Lebanon is fast becoming the "Switzerland of the Middle East". Countries involved in the distribution and routing of heroin are Hong Kong, Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy, Monaco, France (Corsica and Marseilles) Lebanon and Pak­istan. The United States is the largest consumer of narcotics, first place going to cocaine, which is being challenged by heroin. Western Europe and Southwest Asian countries are the biggest users of heroin. Iran has a huge heroin addict popula­tion--in excess of 2 million as of 1991.

There is not a single government that does not know precisely what is going on with regard to the drug trade, but individual members holding powerful positions are taken care of by the Committee of 300 through its world-wide network of sub­sidiaries. If any government member is "difficult", he or she is removed, as in the case of Pakistan's Ali Bhutto and Italy's Aldo Moro. No one is beyond the reach of this all-powerful Com­mittee, even though Malaysia has been successful in holding out up until now. Malaysia has the strictest anti-drug laws in the world. Possession of even small amounts is punishable by the death penalty.

Like the Kintex Company of Bulgaria, most smaller countries have a direct hand in these criminal enterprises. Kintex trucks regularly ferried heroin through Western Europe in its own fleet of trucks bearing the EEC marker Triangle Internationale Routier (TIR). Trucks bearing this marker and the EEC recog­nition number are not supposed to be stopped at customs border posts. TIR trucks are allowed to carry only perishable items. They are supposed to be inspected in the country from whence-they originated and documentation to this effect is supposed to be carried by each truck driver.

Under international treaty obligations this is what happens, thus Kintex trucks were able to load their cargoes of heroin and certify it as "fresh fruit and vegetables", and then make their way through Western Europe, even entering high-security NATO bases in Northern Italy. In this manner, Bulgaria be­came one of the principal countries through which heroin was routed.

The only way to stop the huge amounts of heroin and cocaine presently finding their way to markets in Europe is to end the TIR system. That will never happen. The international treaty obligations I have just mentioned were set up by the Committee of 300, using its amazing networks and control mechanisms, to facilitate passage of all manner of drugs to Western Europe. Forget perishable goods! A former DEA agent stationed in Italy told me, "TIR=DOPE".

FRENCH CONNECTION PROGRAM
BY NIXON

Remember this the next time you read in the newspapers that a big haul of heroin was found in a false-bottom suitcase at Kennedy Airport, and some unlucky "mule" pays the price for his criminal activity. This kind of action is only "small pota­toes", sand in the eyes of the public, to make us think our gov­ernment is really doing something about the drug menace. Take for example, "the French Connection", a Nixon program em­barked upon without the knowledge and consent of the Com­mittee of 300.

The entire amount of opium/heroin seized in that massive ef­fort is somewhat less than one quarter of what a single TIR truck carries. The Committee of 300 saw to it THAT NIXON PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR A RELATIVELY SMALL SEIZURE OF HEROIN. It was not the amount of heroin in­volved, but a matter of one whom they had helped up the ladder to the White House believing that he could now do without their help and backing, and even go against direct orders from above.

MECHANICS OF THE TRADE

The mechanics of the heroin trade go like this: wild Thai and Burmese Hill tribesmen grow the opium poppy. At harvest time, the seed-bearing pod is cut with a razor or sharp knife. A resinous substance leaks through the cut and starts to congeal. This is raw opium. The crop of raw opium is made up into sticky roundish balls. The tribesmen are paid in 1 kilo gold bars--known as 4/10ths--which are minted by Credit Suisse. These small bars are used ONLY to pay the tribesmen--the nor­mal-weight gold bars are traded on the Hong Kong market by the big buyers of raw opium or partly processed heroin. The same methods are used to pay hill tribesmen in India--the Baluchis--who have been in this business since the days of the Moguls. The "Dope Season", as it is called, sees a flood of gold traded on the Hong Kong market.

MEXICO IN THE DEALING

Mexico has started producing relatively small amounts of heroin called "Mexican Brown" which is much in demand by the Hollywood crowd. Here again the heroin trade is run by top government officials who have the military on their side. Some producers of "Mexican Brown" are making a million dollars a month by supplying their U.S. clients. On occasions when a few Mexican Federal police are prodded into taking action against the heroin producers, they are "taken out" by military units who seem to appear as if from nowhere. [H: Still think that Mexican Free Trade Treaty is a GOOD idea?]

Such an incident occurred in November 1991 at an isolated airstrip in Mexico's opium producing region. Federal narcotics agents surrounded the strip and were about to arrest people who were in the act of loading heroin when a squad of soldiers ar­rived. The soldiers rounded up the Federal narcotics police agents and systematically killed all of them. This action posed a serious threat to Mexican President Goltarin, who is faced with loud demands for a full-scale investigation into the murders. Goltarin is over a barrel; he can't back off from calling for an enquiry, and neither can he afford to offend the military. It is the first such crack in the tight chain of command in Mexico that stretches all the way back to the Committee of 300.

FRENCH PROCESSING

Raw opium from the Golden Triangle is pipelined to the Si­cilian Mafia and the French end of the business for refining in the laboratories that infest the French coastline from Marseilles to Monte Carlo. Nowadays, Lebanon and Turkey are turning out increasing amounts of refined heroin and a large number of laboratories have sprung up in these two countries in the past four years. Pakistan also has a number of laboratories, but it is not in the same league as France, for example.

The route taken by the raw opium carriers of the Golden Crescent goes through Iran, Turkey and Lebanon. When the Shah of Iran was in control of the country he refused to allow the heroin trade to continue and it was forcibly discontinued--up until the time that he was "dealt with" by the Committee of 300. Raw opium from Turkey and Lebanon finds its way to Corsica, from where it is shipped to Monte Carlo with the connivance of the Grimaldi family. Pakistani laboratories, under the guise of "military defense laboratories" are doing a bigger share of re­fining than they were two years ago, but the best refining is still done along the French Mediterranean coastline and in Turkey. Here again, banks play a vital role in financing these operations.

TO BE CONTINUED

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As this is unfolding Dharma, like all of you familiar with the story of one Col. "Bo" Gritz, is pretty much in a state of shock. Is it feasible to think that one American [Lt.] Colonel could act in the circles of the most high-ranking dealers and NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON TO SOME EXTENT? It is feasible that he would certainly not know everything and, moreover, that any actions could and would be at the orders of his authorities above him. However, the innocent story as told by Col. Gritz is simply not believable in its entirety--as presented. This is the biggest cash crop in the WORLD--is it likely that Khun Sa would be allowed to shut it down in its most prolific growing fields--even if he wanted to do so? Come now, citizens. So what have we with this Intelligence Special Forces Officer? Well, that is not my business. He could have been a superb leader for you during this time of chaos beginning in full intent but it is as well things have a way of working out as they should!

Magnitude of offenses? Can you describe a "passport" charge which was dismissed, and freedom, along side what has happened to Captain Russbacher? No way, is there? Did Russbacher know more, did Gritz know more? Or, is one possibly still working to some extent with the powers that be? Is this "against" a person? No, it is wise indeed--when dead martyrs are being discussed as the "final solution". YOU DO NOT KNOW THE CONTRACT OF ANOTHER--SO DON'T WORK SO HARD AT JUDGEMENT! CAN'T YOU LEAVE THAT TO GOD WHILE YOU DO YOUR OWN TASKS? THANK YOU.

A long day, scribe, let us rest. Blessings and Light upon each and every one of you. Salu.

DEFRAUDING AMERICA

By Rodney Stich

Makes The Godfather pale by comparison

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PJ 83

CHAPTER 5

MIND CONTROL--LOOK WHAT'S GOING ON

CONTACT editor's note: Quite often, over the last several years of writings, Commander Hatonn has referred to the central role that active "mind control" plays in the elite controllers' ongoing New World Order plan. For example, VoL 2 #7, August 10, 1993 we reprinted again, in the CONTACT, on pages 64-80, THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION & THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO the basic longstanding blueprint for Satanic takeover and control--and note how this disgusting information overflows with mind control innuendo.

Such mind control takes the form of everything from blunt and obvious psychosurgery--like a lobotomy--at the one extreme, to the skillful use of subtle forms of brainwashing such as occurs just about every second of radio and television broadcasting. After all, the soap operas tell us how to behave (gag) and the ever-prolific commercials tell us--no, SCREAM at us--about what it is we really can't be without for another day longer (perish the thought).
Also, in the April 6, 1993 CONTACT, on pages 5-17, we presented information under the headline "Microwave Harassment And Mind-Control Experimentation" which went into great detail about dastardly directed-energy weapons, for example employing microwaves, and their scary utilization for mind control and incapacitations, both mental and physical. In other words, the bottom line is: WE ARE THERE!
Well, it has. been our intention to flesh out this topic of "mind control" for some time, though you may have noticed the size of recent CONTACT issues has sort of kept us from desiring to add even more pages to the size of the "logs" arriving on your doorsteps. But now it is time to get on with this subject.
The best general and introductory investigation into modern mind control shenanigans has been done by Harry Martin's Napa Sentinel--the same source that you readers may remember gave us the incredible report on the INSLAW software scandal, computer software that our government stole from the inventor and uses to keep track of its sordid drug business, among other obscene enterprises.
We begin our presentation of this superb Napa Sentinel material below. While reading along here, the alert, long-time reader of CONTACT and, before that, THE PHOENIX LIBERATOR, will no doubt be making numerous connections to other issues and people since undercurrents of CIA involvements and key names connected to other scandals, appear here too. Naturally. It especially adds strength to the "cast of recurring criminal characters" to read this information from the Napa Sentinel's investigations in conjunction with the assemblage you may have read of in Ray Renick's (previously printed in CONTACT ) writings on "The SLO Connection". Geez, that gang of crooks are a busy lot. But remember, OUR best defense begins with the KNOWING of what they are up to. So read on!

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

First in a Series
Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

AUGUST 13, 1991

There was just a small news announcement on the radio in early July after a short heat wave--three irunates of Vacaville [California] Medical Facility had died in non-air conditioned cells. Two of those prisoners, the announcement said, may have died as a result of medical treatment. No media inquiries were made, no major news stories developed because of these deaths.

But what was the medical treatment that may have caused their deaths? The Medical Facility indicates they were mind control or behavior modification treatments. A deeper probe into the death of these two inmates unravels a mind-boggling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time--and one that caused national outcries two decades ago.

Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons. But, it is not just in the penal society that mind control measures have been used. Minority children were subjected to experimentation at abandoned Nike Missile Sites, veterans who fought for American freedom were also subjected to the programs. Fund­ing and experimentations of mind control have been part of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, the Depart­ment of Veterans Affairs, the Central Intelligence Agency through the Phoenix Program, the Stanford Research Institute, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

California has been in the forefront of mind control experi­mentation. Government experiments also were conducted in the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco at the height of the Hippy reign. In 1974, Senator Sam Erwin--of Watergate fame--headed a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights studying the subject of "Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification." Though little publicity was given to this committee's investigation, Senator Erwin issued a strong condemnation of the federal role in mind control. That condemnation, however, did not halt mind control experiments--they just received more circuitous funding.

Many of the case histories concerning individuals of whom the mind control experiments were used, show a strange concept in the minds of those seeking guinea pigs. Those subject to the mind control experiments would be given indefinite sentences; their freedom was dependent upon how well the experiment went. One individual, for example, was arrested for joyriding, given a two-year sentence and held for mind control experi­ments. He was held for 18 years.

Here are just a few experiments used in the mind control program:

* A naked inmate is strapped down on a board. His wrists and ankles are cuffed to the board and his head is rigidly held in place by a strap around his neck and a helmet on his head. He is left in a darkened cell, unable to remove his body wastes. When a meal is delivered, one wrist is unlocked so he could feel around in the dark for his food and attempt to pour liquid down his throat without being able to lift his head.

* Another experiment creates a muscle relaxant. Within 30 to 40 seconds paralysis begins to invade the small muscles of the fingers, toes, and eyes and then the inter-costal muscles and di­aphragm. The heart slows down to about 60 beats per minute. This condition, together with respiratory arrests, sets in for as long as two to five minutes before the drug begins to wear off. The individual remains fully conscious and is gasping for breath. It is "likened to dying, it is almost like drowning" the experi­ment states.

* Another drug induces vomiting and was administered to prisoners who didn't get up on time or were caught swearing or lying, or even not greeting their guards formally. The treatment brings about uncontrolled vomiting that lasts from 15 minutes to an hour, accompanied by a temporary cardio-vascular effect in­volving changes in the blood pressure.

* Another deals with creating body rigidness, aching restless­ness, blurred vision, severe muscular pain, trembling and fogged cognition.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Army have admitted mind control experiments. Many deaths have occurred.

In tracing the steps of government mind control experiments, the trail leads to legal and illegal usages, usage for covert intel­ligence operations, and experiments on innocent people who were unaware that they were being used.

PJ 83

CHAPTER 6

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Sentinel commenced a series on mind control in early August and suspended it until September be­cause of the extensive research required after additional infor­mation was received.

In July, two inmates died at the Vacaville Medical Facility. According to prison officials at the time, the two may have died as a result of medical treatment--that treatment was the use of mind control or behavior modification drugs. A deeper study into the deaths of the two inmates has unraveled a mind-bog­gling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time--and one that caused national outcries years ago.

In the August article, the Sentinel presented a graphic portrait of some of the mind control experiments that have been allowed to continue in the United States. In November, 1974, a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights investigated federally-funded behavior modification programs, with emphasis on federal involvement in, and the possible threat to individual con­stitutional rights of, behavior modification, especially involving inmates in prisons and mental institutions.

The Senate committee was appalled after reviewing docu­ments from the following sources:

* Neuro-Research Foundation's study entitled The Medical Epidemiology of Criminals.

* The Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence from UCLA.

* The closed adolescent treatment center.

A national uproar was created by various articles in 1974, which prompted the Senate investigation. But after all these years, the news that two inmates at Vacaville may have died from these same experiments indicates that though a nation was shocked in 1974, little was done to correct the experimentations. In 1977, a Senate subcommittee on Health and Scientific Re­search, chaired by Senator Ted Kennedy, focused on the CIA's testing of LSD on unwitting citizens. Only a mere handful of people within the CIA knew about the scope and details of the program.

To understand the full scope of the problem, it is important to study its origins. The Kennedy subcommittee learned about the CIA Operation MK-ULTRA through the testimony of Dr. Sid­ney Gottlieb. The purpose of the program, according to his tes­timony, was to "investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual's behavior by covert means". Claiming the protection of the National Security Act, Dr. Gottlieb was unwilling to tell the Senate subcommittee what had been learned or gained by these experiments.

He did state, however, that the program was initially engen­dered by a concern that the Soviets and other enemies of the United States would get ahead of the U.S. in this field. Through the Freedom of Information Act, researchers are now able to obtain documents detailing the MK-ULTRA program and other CIA behavior modification projects in a special reading room located on the bottom floor of the Hyatt Regency in Rosslyn, VA.

The most daring phase of the MK-ULTRA program involved slipping unwitting American citizens LSD in real life situations. The idea for the series of experiments originated in November, 1941, under William Donovan, founder and director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--the forerunner of the CIA during World War Two. At that time the intelligence agency invested $5000 for the "truth drug" program. Experiments with scopolamine and morphine proved both unfruitful and very dan­gerous. The program tested scores of other drugs, including mescaline, barbiturates, benzedrine, cannabis indica, to name a few.

The U.S. was highly concerned over the heavy losses of freighters and other ships in the North Atlantic--all victims of German U-boats. Information about German U-boat strategy was desperately needed and it was believed that the information could be obtained through drug-influenced interrogations of German naval POWs - in violation of the Geneva Accords.

Tetrahydrocannabinol acetate--a colorless, odorless marijuana extract--was used to lace a cigarette or food substance without detection. Initially, the experiments were done on volunteer U.S. Army and OSS personnel, and testing was also disguised as a remedy for shell shock. The volunteers became known as "Donovan's Dreamers". The experiments were so hush-hush, that only a few top officials knew about them. President Franklin Roosevelt was aware of the experiments. The "truth drug" achieved mixed success.

The experiments were halted when a memo was written: "The drug defies all but the most expert and search analysis, and for all practical purposes can be considered beyond analysis." The OSS did not, however, halt the program. In 1943 field tests of the extract were being conducted, despite the order to halt them. The most celebrated test was conducted by Captain George Hunter White, an OSS agent and ex-law enforcement of­ficial, on August Del Grazio, aka Augie Dalls, aka Dell, aka Little Augie--a New York gangster. Cigarettes laced with the acetate were offered to Augie without his knowledge of the content. Augie, who had served time in prison for assault and murder, had been one of the world's most notorious drug deal­ers and smugglers. He operated an opium alkaloid factory in Turkey and he was a leader in the Italian underworld on the Lower East Side of New York. Under the influence of the drug, Augie revealed volumes of information about the under­world operation, including the names of high ranking officials who took bribes from the mob. These experiments led to the encouragement of Donovan. A new memo was issued: "Cigarette experiments indicated that we had a mechanism which offered promise in relaxing prisoners to be interrogated."

When the OSS was disbanded after the war, Captain White continued to administer behavior-modifying drugs. In 1947, the CIA replaced the OSS. White's service record indicates that he worked with the OSS, and by 1954 he was a high ranking Fed­eral Narcotics Bureau officer who had been loaned to the CIA on a part-time basis.

White rented an apartment in Greenwich Village equipped with one-way mirrors, surveillance gadgets and disguised him­self as a seaman. White drugged his acquaintances with LSD and brought them back to his apartment. In 1955, the operation shifted to San Francisco. In San Francisco, "safehouses" were established under the code name Operation Midnight Climax. Midnight Climax hired prostitute addicts who lured men from bars back to the safehouses after their drinks had been spiked with LSD. White filmed the events in the safehouses. The pur­pose of these "national security brothels" was to enable the CIA to experiment with the act of lovemaking for extracting information from men. The safe-house experiments continued until 1963, until CIA Inspector General John Earman criticized Richard Helms, the director of the CIA and father of the MK-ULTRA Project. Earman charged the new director John McCone had not been fully briefed on the MK-ULTRA project when he took office and that "the concepts involved in manipulating human behavior are found by many people within and outside the Agency to be dis­tasteful and unethical." He stated that "the rights and interests of U.S. citizens are placed in jeopardy". The Inspector General stated that "LSD had been tested on individuals at all social lev­els, high and low, native American and foreign."

Earman's criticisms were rebuffed by Helms, who warned, "Positive operation capacity to use drugs is diminishing owing to a lack of realistic testing. Tests were necessary to keep up with the Soviets." But in 1964, Helms had testified before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John Kennedy, that "Soviet research has consistently lagged five years behind Western research".

Upon leaving government service in 1966, Captain White wrote a startling letter to his superior. In the letter to Dr. Got­tlieb, Captain White reminisced about his work in the safehouses with LSD. His comments were frightening. "I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun," White wrote. "Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?"

(NEXT: How the drug experiments helped bring about the rebirth of the Mafia and the French Connection.)