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11. Lee, Beast Reawakens, p. 21.
12. Ibid., p. 28.
13. Hohne and Zolling, General Was a Spy, p. 107.
14. Ronald Kessler, “James Angleton's Dangerous CIA Legacy,” NewsMax, March 28, 2012, http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/James-Angleton-CIA-spies/2012/03/28/id/434109/ (accessed May 19, 2014).
15. Allen Douglas, “Italy's Black Prince: Terror War against the Nation State,” Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2005, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3205_italy_black_prince.html (accessed May 19, 2014).
16. “Operation Gladio,” British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Timeline series, June 10, 1992, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvrPvV-KQo (accessed May 19, 2014).
17. Jack Green and Alessandro Massignani, The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: The Story of Valerio Borghese and the Elite Units of the Decima MAS (Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2004), p. 181.
18. Ibid., p. 174.
19. Douglas, “Italy's Black Prince.”
20. Ibid.
21. “Operation Gladio,” BBC.
22. John Judge, “Good Americans,” in Selected Writings of John Judge, Citizens Watch, 1983, http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html (accessed May 19, 2014).
CHAPTER TWO: THE LUCKY BREAK: NEGROES AND NARCOTICS
1. Peter Dale Scott, “Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection,” Global Research, September 8, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-events-and-the-cia-s-global-drug-connection/10095 (accessed May 20, 2014).
2. Ibid.
3. Sterling Seagrove, The Marcos Dynasty (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), p. 361.
4. John Loftus and Mark Aarons, The Secret War against the Jews (New York: St. Martin's, 1994), p. 110–11.
5. Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Finance (Boston: South End, 1980), p. 68.
6. Joseph Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA, the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), p. 48.
7. Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), p. 58.
8. Alfred McCoy, Testimony before the Special Seminar focusing on allegations linking CIA secret operations and drug trafficking, convened February 13, 1997, by Rep. John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus. See, Alfred McCoy, “CIA Involvement in Drug Trafficking,” The New Renaissance, 1997, www.voxfux.com/features/cia_drug_trafficking2.html.
9. Declassified OSS documents show that Donovan's plans for the creation of a Special Intelligence Service to gather intelligence from countries throughout the world dates back to September 25, 1941. See “Memo Col. Donovan from Wallace B. Stevens,” WN #24299.
10. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 79.
11. Eustace Mullens, The World Order (New York: Modern History Project, 1983), p. 214.
12. Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Men Who Dared (New York: Touchstone, 1985), p. 9.
13. Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 116.
14. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), p. 7.
15. Donald R. Cressey, Theft of a Nation (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), p. 46.
16. Martin A. Gosch and Richard Hammer, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano (Boston: Little Brown, 1974), p. 146.
17. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 38.
18. Ibid., p. 42.
19. Joseph Bonanno, A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno, with Sergio Lalli (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), p. 270.
20. Ibid., p. 52. See also, Ellen Paulsen, The Case against Lucky Luciano: New York's Most Sensational Vice Trial (New York: Clinton Cook and Company, 2007), p. 98–104.
21. Staff report, “Luciania [sic] Sentenced to 30 to 50 Years, Court Warns Ring,” New York Times, June 19, 1936.
22. Tim Newark, Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010), p. 80–81.
23. Gosch and Hammer, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 260.
24. Tim Newark, “Pact with the Devil?” History Today 54, no. 4 (2007), http://www.historytoday.com/tim-newark/pact-devil (accessed May 20, 2014).
25. Gosch and Hammer, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 268.
26. Newark, “Pact with the Devil?”
27. Tim Newark, Mafia Allies: The True Story of America's Secret Alliance with the Mob in World War II (St. Paul: Zenith , 2007), p. 134–35.
28. Gay Talese, Honor Thy Father (New York: World Publishing, 1971), p. 271.
29. Claire Sterling, Octopus: How the Long Reach of the Sicilian Mafia Controls the Global Narcotics Trade (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 58.
30. McCoy, Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, p. 22.
31. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (New York: Verso, 2006), p. 26.
32. Norman Lewis, The Honored Society (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966), p. 107.
33. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, p. 75.
34. Sterling, Octopus, p. 56.
35. Michele Pantaleone, The Mafia and Politics (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966), p. 52.
36. Sterling, Octopus, p. 63.
37. Ibid.
38. Mario Francese, “Intervista a Luciano Leggio,” Giornale di Sicilia (Palermo), May 25, 1986.
39. Selwyn Raab, Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), p. 78–79.
40. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 130–32.
41. Staff Report, “Pardoned Luciano on His Way to Italy,” New York Times, February 11, 1946.
42. David Martin, “Who Killed James Forrestal?” Willicut Report, May 28, 2003, http://www.dcdave.com/article5/101104.htm, accessed May 20, 2014.
43. Alan Block, “European Drug Trafficking & Traffickers between the Wars: The Policy of Suppression and Its Consequences,” Journal of Social History (Winter 1989): 151–60.
44. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, p. 76.
45. Gosch and Hammer, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 292–93.
46. Jerry Serra, “Lucky Luciano Not So Lucky in Cuba,” Cuba on My Mind: A Personal Look at Cuban History, July 24, 2005, cubaonmymind.blogspot.com/2005/07/lucky-luciano-not-so-lucky-in-cua.html.
47. Gosch and Hammer, Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 314.
48. “US Department of State: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945–1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment,” state.gov, United States Department of State, Document 292, Section 5.
49. Ibid.
50. Jamie Cameron Graham, “The Secret History of the CIA's Involvement in the Narcotics Trade” (doctoral dissertation, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, 2009), https://www.scribd.com/doc/113413267/CIA-and-the-Narcotics-Trade.
51. Peter Dale Scott, “Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma,” Asia Pacific Journal 44, no. 2 (Nov. 2010), http://japanfocus.org/-peter_dale-scott/3436 (accessed May 20, 2014).
52. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 82–84.
53. Scott, “Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection.”
54. McCoy, Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, p. 24. See also, Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 130.
55. Sterling, Octopus, p. 100–1.
56. Ibid.
57. John Bevilaqua, “Harry Anslinger: Head of the Bureau of Narcotics since 1930,” Education Forum, December 4, 2009, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=15084 (accessed May 20, 2014).
58. Graham, “Secret History of the CIA's Involvement in the Narcotics Trade.”
59. Ib
id.
60. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 141.
61. Ibid., p. 132–33.
62. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, 2003, p. 24.
63. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terror in Italy (London: Constable, 1991), p. 57.
64. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: 2012), p. 114.
65. Ibid.
66. National Security Council document 1/1, obtained under Freedom of Information Act. See also, Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 23.
67. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 24.
CHAPTER THREE: THE VATICAN ALLIANCE
1. Thomas J. Reese, Inside the Vatican (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), pp. 18–22.
2. Eric Frattini, The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage, translated by Dick Cluster (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004), p. 302.
3. Jonathan Levy, Esq., “The Vatican Bank,” in Everything You Know Is Wrong (New York: The Disinformation Company, 2002), pp. 18–22.
4. Nicole Winfield, “Vatican Posts $19 Million Deficit, Worst in Years,” Huffington Post, July 5, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120705/eu-vatican-finances/.
5. Malachi Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984), pp. 76–77.
6. Ibid.
7. David Gibson, “Vatican Bank Needs More Transparency, Regulators Say,” Huffington Post, July 18, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/vatican-bank-needs-more-transparency-regulators-say_n_1684198.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
8. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984), p. 159.
9. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New York: Viking, 1999), p. 329.
10. Cooney, American Pope, p. 157.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 161.
13. Frederic Laurent, L'Orchestre Noir (Paris: Editions Stock, 1978), p. 29.
14. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 138.
15. Ibid.
16. Eustace Mullins, “The CIA,” chapter 5 in The World Order: A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism, 1984, Modern History Project, http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=WorldOrder&C=5.0 (accessed May 20, 2014). See also, R. Joseph, America Betrayed (San Jose, California: University Press, 2003), p. 176.
17. Cardinal Spellman's memo to General George Marshall, undated. See, Cooney, American Pope, p. 161.
18. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 130.
19. Ibid., p. 131.
20. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (New York: Verso, 2006), pp. 139–40.
21. Ibid., p. 75.
22. Ibid., p. 140.
23. Ibid.
24. Bradley Ayers, p. 82.
25. Peter Dale Scott, “Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection,” Global Research, September 8, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-events-and-the-cia-s-global-drug-connection/10095 (accessed May 20, 2014).
26. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 137.
27. Ibid., p. 138.
28. Ibid., p. 137.
29. Ibid., p. 138.
30. Federal Document, “Appendix B: The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance,” Washington, DC: The Library of Congress; Federal Research Division, 1987, http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/germany_east/gx_appnb.html.
31. Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 40.
32. Pius XII, “Excommunication of Communists,” Decree of the Holy Office, July 1, 1949, http://www.geocities.ws/caleb1x/documents/communism.html.
33. CIA memo, in Cooney, American Pope, p. 167–68.
34. Ronald Kessler, “James Angleton's Dangerous CIA Legacy,” NewsMax, March 28, 2012, http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/James-Angleton-CIA-spies/2012/03/28/id/434109/ (accessed May 19, 2014).
35. Martin A. Lee, “Their Will Be Done,” Mother Jones, July/August 1983, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done (accessed May 20, 2014).
36. Ibid.
37. David Guyatt, “Holy Smoke and Mirrors,” Nexus Magazine, August–September 2000, http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican16.htm (accessed May 20, 2014).
38. Mary Ellen Reese, General Reinhard Gehlen: The CIA Connection (Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1990), p. 59–92.
39. Lee, “Their Will Be Done.”
40. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terror in Italy (London: Constable, 1991), p. 54.
41. Greg Szymanski, “Vatican in Possession of Top Secret CIA Documents about Nuclear Weapons, According to Discovery Made Recently in Northern California Federal Court involving Vatican Bank,” Arctic Beacon, April 25, 2006, http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/25-Apr-2006.html.
42. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 27.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE DRUG NETWORK
1. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 45.
2. Ibid.
3. Thomas W. Braden, “I'm Glad the C.I.A. Is ‘Immoral,’” Saturday Evening Post, May 20, 1967.
4. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity, p. 47.
5. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 116.
6. Ghassan Karam, “The Heroin French Connection,” Ya Libnan, November 12, 2012, http://www.yalibnan.com/2012/11/12/the-heroin-french-connection-turkey-syria-lebanon-marseille-ny/ (accessed May 20, 2014).
7. Peter Dale Scott, “Deep Events and the Global Drug Connection,” Global Research, September 8, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-events-and-the-cia-s-global-drug-connection/10095 (accessed May 20, 2014).
8. Francis W. Belanga, Drugs, the US, and Khun Sa (Bangkok, Thailand: Editions Duang Kamal, 1989), pp. 85-87.
9. Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), p. 64.
10. Bradley Ayers, “The War That Never Was” (New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1976), p. 78.
11. Peter Dale Scott, “Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma,” The Asia Pacific Journal, 2008, http://japanfocus.org/-peter_dale-scott/3436 (accessed May 20, 2014); Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, Gold Warriors (London: Bowstring, 2008), p. 324.
12. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 216.
13. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity, p. 183.
14. Ibid.
15. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 226.
16. Belanga, Drugs, the U.S., and Khun Sa, p. 92. In his interview with David Borsamian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Alfred McCoy states that Marseilles became a major destination point for freighters from the Golden Triangle with shipments of heroin during the 1950s. McCoy adds that the amount of drugs that arrived in the French port from this area of Asia remains a matter of conjecture. See, http://www.lycaeum.org/drugwar/DARKALLIANCE/ciah2.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
17. Scott, American War Machine, p. 48.
18. Ibid., pp. 50–54.
19. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, p. 153.
20. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984), p. 242.
21. Ibid., p. 244.
22. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), p. 160.
23. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (New York: Verso, 2006), p. 153.
24. Carl Bernstein, “The CIA and the Media,” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
25. Valentine. The Strength of the Wolf, p. 166.
26. Ibid.<
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27. “Massimo Spada,” Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,” August 31, 2008, http://moversandshakersofthesmom.blogspot.com/2008/08/massimo-spada.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
28. Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf, p. 167.
29. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 31.
30. “Michele Sindona,” Strano, 1989, http://www.strano.net/stragi/stragi/nomi/sindona.htm (accessed May 20, 2014).
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
CHAPTER FIVE: THE SECRET SOCIETY
1. William Scobie, “Stay Behind Units,” London Observer, November 11, 1990.
2. Natalino Zuanella, Gli anni bui della Slavia: attività delle organizzazioni segrete nel Friuli orientale (Cividale del Friuli: Società Cooperativa Editrice Dom, 1996).
3. Ibid.
4. Robert Hutchinson, Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006), pp. 208–9.
5. Ibid.
6. Editors, “The CIA in Western Europe,” Wake Up Magazine (UK), 2007, http://www.american-buddha.com/cia.westeurope.htm (accessed May 20, 2014).
7. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 108.
8. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 68.
9. Alphonse Cerza, “The Truth Is Stranger than Fiction,” Masonic Service Association, September 1967.
10. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 201.
11. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terror in Italy (London: Constable, 1991), p. 32.
12. Ibid., p. 30.
13. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Declaration on Masonic Associations,” November 26, 1983, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19831126_declaration-masonic_en.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
14. “Ten Reasons Catholics Cannot Be Masons,” Consecration, Militia of the Immaculata, Liberty, Illinois, 2013, http://www.consecration.com/default.aspx?id=46 (accessed May 20, 2014).