gh0stpinballa posted:

been reading about heroin trafficking and the middle east.

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/afghan-heroin-the-cia-519/

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A few years after the Taliban came to power they began a campaign to eradicate Afghanistan’s opium crops, and “The success of Afghanistan’s 2000 drug eradication program under the Taliban government was recognized by the United Nations” as a monumental feat, in that “no other country was able to implement a comparable program.”[12] In October of 2001, the UN acknowledged that the Taliban reduced opium production in Afghanistan from 3300 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001.[13]

In June of 2001, a few months before 9/11, it was reported that a “recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan” was announced “by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, [which] made the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban.”[14]

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Drug trafficking is the largest global commodity in profits after the oil and arms trade, consequently, “immediately following the October 2001 invasion opium markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the domestic price of opium in Afghanistan (in dollars/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.”[15] The Anglo-American invasion of Afghanistan successfully restored the drug trade. The Guardian recently reported that, “In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined.”[16].

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I've dipped into this thread a few times but not really kept up with the narrative. But today I was off on a long hike down the coast looking for some listening material, and one of the things I'd bookmarked for listening to was the Ghost Stories For The End Of The World podcast, which I think is made by a goon.

I listened to the first 3 episodes and, against the advice of the podcaster, looked up the more morbid details of the Marc Detroux affair and crack-loving-ping.

I think I'm gonna spend some time reading this thread from the start and collating all the recommended source materials.

Zmej posted:

wasn't it well documented that US troops were being used to guard poppy fields in Afghanistan a few years ago? my only assumption is that they were guarding them for local warlords willing to work with us against the taliban?

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I've dipped into this thread a few times but not really kept up with the narrative. But today I was off on a long hike down the coast looking for some listening material, and one of the things I'd bookmarked for listening to was the Ghost Stories For The End Of The World podcast, which I think is made by a goon.

I listened to the first 3 episodes and, against the advice of the podcaster, looked up the more morbid details of the Marc Detroux affair and crack-loving-ping.

I think I'm gonna spend some time reading this thread from the start and collating all the recommended source materials.

nut posted:

that’s the gh0stpinballa touch

gh0stpinballa posted:

been reading about heroin trafficking and the middle east

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/afghan-heroin-the-cia-519/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/sedat-peker-turkey-erdogan-crime/2021/05/24/79a40a44-bc1c-11eb-922a-c40c9774bc48_story.html

CNN posted:

"Following the assassination of President Moïse, the suspect reached out to his contacts at the DEA. A DEA official assigned to Haiti urged the suspect to surrender to local authorities and, along with a U.S. State Department official, provided information to the Haitian government that assisted in the surrender and arrest of the suspect and one other individual," the DEA said.

nut posted:

u know its obvious but there's just something about hearing em say it

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1414722575071125506?s=20

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nut posted:

when i was in public elementary school the cops came and fingerprinted all of us for a database in case we got lost and at some point u realize no one is going to use ur fingerprints to help find u

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I've dipped into this thread a few times but not really kept up with the narrative. But today I was off on a long hike down the coast looking for some listening material, and one of the things I'd bookmarked for listening to was the Ghost Stories For The End Of The World podcast, which I think is made by a goon.

I listened to the first 3 episodes and, against the advice of the podcaster, looked up the more morbid details of the Marc Detroux affair and crack-loving-ping.

I think I'm gonna spend some time reading this thread from the start and collating all the recommended source materials.

Zmej posted:

wasn't it well documented that US troops were being used to guard poppy fields in Afghanistan a few years ago? my only assumption is that they were guarding them for local warlords willing to work with us against the taliban?

Jetto Jagga posted:

A lot of these warlords were also chomos which is one place where the taliban has popular support in their religious fanaticism against. Dumbass GIs would talk about how "afghani culture" included child rape when it was just these degenerate collaborator criminals we were propping up.

Ace of Baes posted:

https://twitter.com/k1llurboss/status/1168374890266628097?s=19

smarxist posted:

Tubgoat posted:

Uh, yeah, those are the only ones the U.S. wants to prop up. Easily controlled now, easily discarded and vilified later!

Jetto Jagga posted:

Same MO for all the other scumbags like Noriega and Saddam etc et al

Tubgoat posted:

"Look, I don't like it either, but we have to work with these scumbags and give them absolutely whatever they want or the communists win!"

"Look, we have to take them out, they keep loving the kids we send for the express purposes of loving! Our hands are clean, though."

Jetto Jagga posted:

A very early crack ping for me was Iraq war poo poo about how Saddam was evil for gassing the Kurds... which he did in the 80s, when we supported him, and learning that at the time we tried to blame Iran for it

smarxist posted:

meanwhile US forces bathed Iraq in white phosphorous lmao

Jetto Jagga posted:

And the British empire back in the day, pick a minority group or class and raise em up, and let em know they're hosed without you because of what you've done to the rest of the population

smarxist posted:

smarxist posted:

Ace of Baes posted:

https://twitter.com/k1llurboss/status/1168374890266628097?s=19

GWBBQ posted:

I lost journal/paper/archival access last week*, anyone got the link for the article about the Tsarnaev relative who just overtly lived in a CIA owned property?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

I am reviewing the thread because I wanted to get a peculiar ~~historical account~~ to help me write some stuff and this, for some reason, triggered the gently caress out of me as something preternaturally evil, holy poo poo

this is world of darkness style A+ uncut cultish obscurantism lmao

Tubgoat posted:

Humor is the only force that can give us a chance against the Old Ones.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Robert Vesco, who in 1974 gave an interview to Walter Cronkite alleging that he knew of a plot to use a deliberately bungled burglary attempt to be used to depose President Nixon weeks before the actual Watergate break-in, was an intelligence asset, controlled through senior CIA agent Lucien Conein, who was Daniel Ellsberg's mentor when he was still working for the government in Vietnam.

Jetto Jagga posted:

Oh poo poo another good book for thread is The Fire This Time by Ramsey Clark which is about US War crimes in Gulf War I. poo poo about how we bomb dams and water systems and plan for X,000 deaths for cholera or whatever

Jetto Jagga posted:

And the British empire back in the day, pick a minority group or class and raise em up, and let em know they're hosed without you because of what you've done to the rest of the population

Lobster, issue 1, pp. 3-5 posted:

[Colin] Wallace came originally from County Antrim and was working as a PR man for the Royal Ulster Rangers when the British Army moved into Northern Ireland in 1969. He was the author of a briefing document issued to British officers on arrival. He moved into the Army's headquarters at Lisburn and was promoted to Senior Press Officer, where he worked closely with the Psychological Operations Department (Psyops) then headed by Major Richard Stannard. (5) It is claimed that Wallace effectively ran the operation until 1975. … Black propaganda and covert action began once it became clear that internment had failed. 1971 saw Oliver Wright replaced by Howard Smith (later head of MI5) as intelligence co-ordinator, and the establishment of a Psyops Unit at the Lisburn Headquarters. The then head of the Information Policy Unit told reporters "there is nothing sinister in this."(7) A confidential document "Training in Psychological Operations" states that "strategic psywar pursues long-term and mainly political objectives. It is designed to undermine the will of the enemy or hostile groups to fight. … It can be directed against the dominant political party in the enemy country, the government or particular elements of it. It is planned and controlled at the highest political authority."(8) … At the Lisburn headquarters there was close liaison between the Psyops Units, Army Intelligence and the Security Services. One of their chief sources of information came from homosexuals who were used to gather intelligence on extreme Protestant groups.(9) The Army didn't trust the RUC Special Branch.(10) Homosexuality was still a crime in Northern Ireland and provided excellent opportunities for compromise and blackmail. One of the Protestant politicians used in this manner was William McGrath. The 65 year old McGrath became a Kincora housewarden in 1971. Since the 40's he had been well known both as a homosexual and a religious extremist. It is likely that Wallace was one of those who knew: it is understood that as early as 1973 Wallace had quietly briefed journalists about McGrath's activities. … By the spring of 1971 the authorities had become desperate to penetrate the terrorist networks. Under the influence of counter-insurgency expert, Frank Kitson, the Army organised other intelligence operations along the lines used by Kitson against the Mau-Mau in Kenya. The Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) was created for this task. SAS trained, and including SAS personnel, the MRF numbered about 40 and specialised in covert action. They set up Loyalist and Republican 'pseudo-gangs' to infiltrate and subvert their enemies' operations. (12) The pseudo-gangs set up in 1972 "contributed towards the stimulation of real psychosis of a 'war of religion'. It was the year of the sectarian murder. Appalling, motiveless murders. At nightfall Catholics were murdered apparently without reason: in some cases corpses were dumped in Protestant ghettos. It seemed that these were ritual killings, at times accompanied by mutilations; they terrorised the nationalist population."(13) The pseudo-gangs were directed from the outside by the Army Intelligence. They retained a high degree of independence but were always open to manipulation and infiltration. They owed much of their training, supply of intelligence and materials to the British Army, routed through the RUC and the Ulster Defence Regiment. (14) Among the pseudo-gangs were the 'Red Hand Commando' and the 'Ulster Freedom Fighters'. The self-confessed head of the shadowy para-military group, Tara, another pseudo-gang, was none other than the 'Beast of Kincora' - William McGrath. During the sixties McGrath held Sunday night meetings at his house in the University area, attended by up-and-coming Unionists. He forecast a holocaust in Ulster and portrayed liberal Unionists as IRA dupes. In 1969 he founded an Orange Lodge: in line with his claim that Protestants originally inhabited Ireland, its motto was in Gaelic. Several of the young Unionists from those meetings appear to have graduated to the paramilitary Tara. (15) Other gangs appeared on the scene. It is known, for example, that British Intelligence was responsible for the Ulster Freedom Fighters in the summer of 1973. "Initially it consisted of a small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British Intelligence. These in turn recruited and controlled others who believed they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation." (16) The gangs were designed to spread disinformation, dissension within the Loyalist ranks, and foment infighting. In the wake of the successful Ulster Worker Council's strike in May, 1974, the British Government, under Prime Minister Wilson, tried to renew contacts with the Republican movement. It felt that it was still possible to extract concessions from the IRA for a possible peace settlement. The British State had learned one lesson from the failure of the 1972 Whitelaw meeting with the IRA: (17) the hardliners had to be separated off from the middle ground - and, more importantly, that included Protestants and Republicans.

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At least one of the men arrested in connection to the assassination by Haitian authorities previously worked as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA said in a statement in response to CNN.

"At times, one of the suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise was a confidential source to the DEA," the DEA said in a statement.

Haitian police arrest suspect accused of orchestrating President's assassination
Haitian police arrest suspect accused of orchestrating President's assassination
"Following the assassination of President Moise, the suspect reached out to his contacts at the DEA. A DEA official assigned to Haiti urged the suspect to surrender to local authorities and, along with a US State Department official, provided information to the Haitian government that assisted in the surrender and arrest of the suspect and one other individual," the DEA said.

The DEA said it is aware of reports that some assassins yelled "DEA" at the time of their attack. The DEA said in its statement that none of the attackers were operating on behalf of the agency.

Other suspects also had US ties, including working as informants for the FBI, the people briefed on the matter said. The FBI said in response to CNN's reporting that it doesn't comment on informants, except to say that it uses "lawful sources to collect intelligence" as part of its investigations.

Authorities on Monday announced the arrest of a suspect who they say orchestrated the assassination. Haitian-born Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, entered the country on a private jet in June, Police Chief Leon Charles said at a news conference.

Haitian authorities say that Sanon hired the Florida-based company CTU Security, which they alleged recruited men initially to provide security for Sanon, though their mission appears to have changed thereafter.

"He came to Haiti accompanied by a few people in the beginning of June, these people were supposed to ensure his security and his business," said Charles at the news conference. "He came with the intention to take over as President of the Republic."

Two Colombian suspects who were killed in Haiti by police also had links to CTU Security, which is owned by a Venezuelan national, said Colombian police on Monday. They have requested assistance from the US Interpol office to investigate the company's data.

It's not clear that the men who worked as US law enforcement informants wittingly participated in the assassination plot or were aware of the mission, the people briefed on the matter said.