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.
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 1700’s 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 Nations said about this world-wide threat:
“The problem of drugs bas 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.”
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.
Rainer-Gut, a Credit Suisse del-egate 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 Rainer-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 it 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 that 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 this biggest names in royal
circles, the oligarchy, the plutocracy are running it, even if it is done through
intermediaries.
The main countries involved in growing poppies and the cocoa bush are Burma, Northern
China, Afghanistan, Iran, Pa-Kistan, Thailand, Lebanon, Turkey, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.
Co-lombia 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 kidnaped 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,
but 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 coun-tries 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 boarder posts. TlR 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
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.”
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.
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 tribesman 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 tribesman–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 tribesman 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 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.
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 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 inquiry, 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.
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 it 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.
Let us stop here for a moment. Are we to believe that with all the modern and vastly
improved surveillance techniques, including satellite reconnaissance, available to law
enforcement agencies in these countries, that this vile trade cannot be pin-pointed and
stopped? How is it that law enforcement agencies cannot go in and destroy these
laboratories once they are discovered? If this IS the case, and we still cannot interdict the
heroin trade, then our anti-narcotics services ought to be known as “The Geriatrics” and
not drug enforcement agencies.
Even a child could tell our alleged “drug watchers” what to do. Simply keep a check on
all factories making acetic anhydride, THE most essential chemical component needed by
laboratories to refine heroin from raw opium. THEN FOLLOW THE TRAIL! It is as
simple as that! I am reminded of Peter Sellers in the “Pink Panther” series when I think
of law enforcement efforts to locate heroin-refining laboratories. Even someone as
bumbling as the imaginary inspector would have had no trouble in following the route
taken by acetic anhydride shipments to their final destination.
Governments could make laws that would oblige manufac-turers of acetic anhydride to
keep scrupulous records showing who buys the chemical and for what purposes it is to be
used. But do not hold your breath on this one, remember Dope=Big Business and Big
Business is done by the oligarchical families of Europe and the United States Eastern
Liberal Establishment.
The drug business is not a Mafia operation, nor one run by the Colombian cocaine
cartels. The noble families of Britain and America’s top people are not going to advertise
their role in the shop windows; they always have a layer of front men to do the dirty
work.
Remember British and AMERICAN “nobility” never dirtied their hands in the China
opium trade. The lords and ladies were much too clever for that, as were the American
elite: the Delanos, Forbes, Appletons, Bacons, Boylestons, Perkins, Russells,
Cunninghams, Shaws, Coolidges, Parkmans, Runnewells, Cabots and Codmans, by no
means a complete list of families in America who grew immensely wealthy from the
China opium trade.
Since this is not a book about the drug trade, I cannot of necessity, cover the subject in an
in-depth manner. But its importance to the Committee of 300 must be emphasized.
America is run not by 60 families but by 300 families and England is run by 100 families
and, as we shall see, these families are intertwined through marriage, companies, banks,
not to mention ties to the Black Nobility, Freemasonry, the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem and so on. These are the people who, through their surrogates, find ways to
protect huge shipments of heroin from Hong Kong, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and ensure
they reach the market places in the U.S. and Western Europe with the minimum cost of
doing business.
Shipments of cocaine are sometimes interdicted and seized That is mere window
dressing. Often times the shipments seized belong to a new organization trying to break
into the trade. Such competition is put out of business by informing the authorities
exactly where it is going to enter the U.S. and who the owners are. The big stuff is never
touched; heroin is too expensive. It is worthy of note that U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
operatives are not allowed into Hong Kong. They cannot examine any ship’s manifest
before it leaves the port. One wonders why, if there is so much “international
cooperation” going on–what the media likes to characterize as “smashing the dope
trade.” Clearly the trade routes for heroin are protected by “a higher authority. “
In South America, apart from Mexico, cocaine is king. The production of cocaine is very
simple, unlike heroin, and great fortunes are to be made by those willing to take risks for
and on behalf of the “higher ups.” As in the heroin trade, interlopers are not welcome and
often finish up as casualties, or victims of family feuds. In Colombia the drug mafia is a
closely knit family. But such has been the bad publicity generated by the M19 guerrilla
attack on the Justice Building in Bogota (M19 is the private army of the cocaine barons)
and the murder of Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, a prominent prosecutor and a judge, that the
“higher authority” had to rearrange matters in Colombia.
Accordingly, the Ochoas of the Medellin Cartel turned themselves in after being assured
that they would not suffer any loss of fortune, harm of any kind, nor would they be
extradited to the United States. A deal was struck that, provided they repatriated the bulk
of their huge narco-dollar fortunes to Colombian banks, no punitive action would be
taken against them. The Ochoas–Jorge, Fabio, and their top man, Pablo Escobar, would
be held in private jails that resemble a luxury-class motel room, and then be sentenced to
a maximum term of two years– to be served in the same motel jail. This deal is ongoing.
The Ochoas have also been guaranteed the right to continue to manage their “business”
from their motel-prison.
But that does not mean that the cocaine trade has come to a screeching halt. On the
contrary, it has simply been transferred to the second-string Cali cartel, and it is business
as usual. For some strange reason the Cali cartel, which is equal in size to the Medellin
cartel, has been–at least up until now–largely ignored by the DEA. Cali differs from the
Medellin cartel in that it is run by BUSINESSMEN, who eschew all forms of violence
and never break agreements.
Even more significant is that Cali does virtually no business in Florida. My source told
me that the Cali cartel is run by shrewd businessmen unlike any seen in the cocaine
business. He believes that they were “specially appointed,” but does not know by whom.
“They never call attention to themselves,” he said. “They do not go around importing red
Ferraris like Jorge Ochoa did, attracting immediate attention, because it is forbidden to
import such cars into Colombia.”
Cali cartel markets are in Los Angeles, New York and Houston, which closely parallel
the heroin markets. Cali has not shown any signs of moving into Florida. A former DEA
operative who is a colleague of mine said recently, “These Cali people are sure smart.
They are a different breed to the Ochoa brothers. They act like professional businessmen.
They are now larger than the Medellin cartel and I think we are going to see a lot more
cocaine get into the United States than ever before. The kidnaping of Manuel Noriega
will facilitate an easier flow through Panama of cocaine and money, what with so many
banks there. So much for President George Bush’s Operation Just Cause. All it did was
make life a great deal easier for Nicolas Ardito Barletta who used to be run by the Ochoa
brothers and who is fixing to front for the Cali cartel.”
Based on my experience with the heroin trade I believe that the Committee of 300 has
stepped in and taken over full control of the South American cocaine trade. There is no
other explanation For the rise of the Cali cartel which is coupled with the kidnaping of
Noriega. Did Bush take his orders from London regarding Noriega? There is every
indication that he was literally PUSHED into invading Panama and kidnaping Noriega,
who had become a serious impediment to “trade” in Panama, especially in the banking
business.
Several former intelligence agents have given me their opinions which coincide with my
own. Like the Gulf War that followed in the wake of Panama, it was only after several
calls from the British Ambassedor in Washington that Bush finally plucked up enough
courage to make his totally illegal move on General Noriega. That he was supported by
the British press and the New York Times, a British intelligence run newspaper, speaks
volumes.
Noriega was formerly the darling of the Washington establishment. He frequently hobknobbed
with William Casey and Oliver North and even met with President George Bush
on at least two occasions. Noriega was often seen at the Pentagon where he was treated
like one of those Arab potentates, and the red carpet was always laid out for him at CIA
headquarters in Langley Virginia. U.S. Army Intelligence and the CIA are on record as
having paid him $320,000.
Then storm clouds began to appear on the horizon at about the same time the Cali cartel
was taking over the cocaine trade from the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar. Led by
Senator Jesse Helms, who sold out to Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Histradut Party in
1985, there suddenly began an agitation for the removal of Noriega. Jesse Helms and
those of a like mind were backed up by Simon Hersh, a British intelligence agent
working for the New York Times, which has been a British intelligence mouthpiece in
the U.S. since the time that M16 boss, Sir William Stephenson, occupied the RCA
building in New York.
It is very significant that Helms should have chosen to lead the charge against Noriega.
Helms is the darling of the Sharon faction in Washington and Sharon was the principal
gun-runner in Central America and Colombia. Moreover, Helms has the respect of the
Christian fundamentalists who believe in the maxim: “Israel, my country, right or
wrong.” Thus a powerful momentum was created to “get Noriega.” It is evident that
Noriega could well prove a serious impediment to the international drug merchants and
their Committee of 300 bankers, so he had to be removed before he could do some
significant damage.
Bush was pressured by his British masters to conduct an illegal search and seizure
operation in Panama that resulted in the deaths of no less than 7,000 Panamanians and
wanton destruction of property. Nothing to implicate Noriega as a “drug dealer” was ever
found, so he was kidnaped and brought to the U. S. in one of the most blatant examples
of international brigandry in history. This illegal action probably best meets the Bush
philosophy: “The moral dimensions of American (read British royal family-Committee of
300) foreign policy require us to chart a moral course through a world of lesser evils.
That’s the real world, not black and while. Very few absolutes.”
It was a “lesser evil” to kidnap Noriega, rather than have him up-end the banks in Panama
working for the Committee of 300. The Noriega case is a prototype of monstrous One
World government actions waiting in the wings. An emboldened Bush came right out in
the open, unafraid, because we, the people have put on a spiritual mantle that
accommodates LIES and wants no part of TRUTH. This is the world we have decided to
accept. If it were not so, a firestorm of anger would have swept the country over the
invasion of Panama, which would not have stopped until Bush was hounded from office.
Nixon’s Watergate transgressions pale into insignificance next to the many impeachable
offenses committed by President Bush when he ordered the invasion of Panama to kidnap
General Noriega.
The government case against Noriega is based upon perjured testimony by a group of big
men, for the most part, already convicted and lying through their individual and
collective teeth to gel their own sentences lightened. Their performance would have
pleased Gilbert and Sullivan immensely, were they alive today. “They made them the
rulers of DEA,” might be apropos instead of, “They made them the rulers of Queen’s
Navy,” from “HMS Pinafore.” It is an altogether grotesque scene to see how these conartists
are performing like not-so-well-trained seals for the U.S. Justice Department; that
is if we care to insult such a nice clean animal by such an unworthy comparison.
Key dates conflict wildly, key details are altogether conspicuous by their absence, lapses
of memory on crucial points all add up to the obvious fact that the government has no
case against Noriega, but that does not matter; the Royal Institute for International Affairs
(RIIA) says “convict him anyway” and that is what poor Noriega can expect. One of the
Justice Department’s star witnesses is one Floyd Carlton Caceres, a former pilot for the
Ochoa brothers. Following his arrest in 1986, Carlton tried to ease his position at the
expense of Noriega.
He told his DEA interrogators that the Ochoa brothers had paid Noriega $600,000 to
allow three planes loaded with cocaine to land and refuel in Panama. But once in court in
Miami, it soon became apparent that what was billed as the “star witness” for the
prosecution was at best damp squib. Under cross-examination the true story emerged: Far
from being paid to allow the flights, Noriega wasn’t even approached by the Ochoas.
Worse yet, in December of 1983, Noriega had ordered that all flights to Panama from
Medellin be refused permission to land in Panama. Carlton is not the only discredited
witness.
One who is even a sorrier liar than Carlton is Carlos Lehder, who was a kingpin in the
Medellin Cartel until he was arrested in Spain and sent to the U.S. Who gave the DEA
the most vital information that Lehder was in Madrid? The DEA reluctantly concedes
that they owe this important catch to Noriega. Now, however, the Justice Department is
using Lehder as a witness against Noriega. If nothing else, this single witness demonstrates
the wretchedness of the United States government’s case against Manuel Noriega.
In return for services rendered, Lehder has been granted an easing of his sentence and far
nicer quarters–a room with a view and television–and his family was given permanent
residence in the U.S. Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Lehder in
1988 told the Washington Pose “I don’t think the government should be in the business of
dealing with Carlos Lehder, period. This guy is a liar from beginning to end.
The Justice Department, purely a name which bears no resemblance to what it is
supposed to stand for, has pulled out all its dirty tricks against Noriega: illegally wiretapping
his conversations with his lawyer; appointing a government lawyer to pretend he
was serving Noriega but who quit in the middle of everything; freezing his bank accounts
so that Noriega is unable to conduct a proper defense; kidnaping, illegal search and
seizure. You name it, the government has broken more laws than Noriega has ever done–
if indeed he has broken any laws at all.
It is the U.S. Justice Department that is on trial tenfold more than General Noriega. The
Noriega case shows the glaringly evil system that passes for “justice” in this country. The
U.S. “war on drugs” is on trial as is the Bush Administration’s so-called drug policy. The
Noriega trial, although it will end in a violent and flagrant rape of justice, will
nevertheless offer some compensation to those who are not blind, deaf and dumb. It
proves for once and for all that Britain is in charge of our government and it will reveal
the utterly bankrupt ideology of the Bush Administration which ought to have as its
motto, “No Matter What, The End Always Justifies The Means. There Are Very Few
Moral Absolutes.” Like the majority of politicians, for Bush to have a standard of
ABSOLUTE MORALITY WOULD BE SUICIDAL. Only in this climate could we have
allowed President Bush to violate at least six United States laws and DOZENS OF
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS in going to war against Iraq.
What we are witnessing in Colombia and Washington is a complete revision of how the
cocaine trade is to be run; no more wild stuff, no more blazing guns. Let the gentlemen of
the Cali cartel in pin-stripe suits conduct the business in a gentlemanly way In short, the
Committee of 300 has taken a direct hand in the cocaine trade which henceforth will go
as smoothly as the heroin trade. The new government of Colombia is geared to the
change in tactics and direction. It is on notice to perform according to the Committee’s
game plan.
There is need to mention U.S. participation in the China opium trade which began in the
southern United States prior to the War Between The States. How can we tie the opium
trade in with the great cotton plantations of the South? To do that, we have to start in
Bengal, India, producers of the finest (if one can call such a foul substance fine) opium
which was much in demand. Cotton was THE biggest trade in England, after opium sales
through the BEIC.
Most of the cotton from Southern plantations was worked in the slave mills of Northern
England, where women and children earned a pittance for a 16-hour day’s work. The
cloth mills were owned by the wealthy socialites in London, the Barings, Palmerstons,
Keswicks and most of all the Jardine Mathesons who owned the Blue Star Shipping Line,
on which the finished cotton cloth goods were shipped to India. They could care less
about the hapless conditions endured by Her Majesty’s subject. After all, that is what they
were for, and their husbands and sons were useful for fighting wars to preserve Her
Majesty’s far-flung empire as they had done for centuries, and latterly, in the bloody Boer
War. That was British tradition, wasn’t it?
Cotton cloth finished goods exported to India undercut and destroyed the long-standing
Indian producers of cotton finished goods trade. Terrible privation was endured by
thousands of Indians thrown out of work as a result of cheaper British goods taking over
their markets. India then became utterly dependent upon Britain to earn enough currency
to pay for its railroads and finished cotton goods imports. There was only one solution to
India’s economic woes. Produce more opium and sell it for less to the British East India
Company. This was the rock upon which British trade grew and flourished. Without its
opium trade, Britain would have been as bankrupt.
Did the Southern plantation owners know about the ugly secret of opium-for-cotton
goods? It is unlikely that some of them didn’t know what was going on. Take, for
instance, the Sutherland family, one of the largest cotton plantation owners in the South.
The Sutherlands were closely related to the Matheson family– Jardine Matheson–who in
turn had as their business partners the Baring Brothers, founders of the famous Peninsular
and Orient Navigation Line (P&O), the largest of Britain’s many merchant shipping lines.
The Barings were big investors in Southern plantations as they were in the U.S. Clipper
ships which plowed through the seas between Chinese ports and all the important ports
along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Today the Barings run a number of very
substantial financial operations in the United States. All of those names mentioned were,
and their descen- dants still are, members of the Committee of 300.
The majority of families who go to make up the Eastern Liberal Establishment, among
whom are the wealthiest to be found in this country, derived their fortunes from either the
cotton trade or the opium trade and in some instances from both. Of these the Lehmans
are an outstanding example. When it comes to fortunes made solely from the China
opium trade, the first names that come to mind are the Astors and the Delanos. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wife was a Delano.
John Jacob Astor made a huge fortune out of the China opium trade and then he went
respectable by buying up large tracts of Manhattan real estate with his dirty money.
During his lifetime Astor played a big role in the Committee of 300s’ deliberations. In
fact, it was the Committee of 300 who chose who would be allowed to participate in the
fabulously lucrative China opium trade, through its monopolist BEIC, and the
beneficiaries of their largess remained forever wedded to the Committee of 300.
That is why, as we shall discover, most real estate in Manhattan belongs to various
Committee members, even as it has since the days when Astor began buying it up. With
the benefit of access to records that would be closed to others outside of British
intelligence, I discovered that Astor had long been an asset of British intelligence in the
United States. Astor’s financing of Aaron Burr, the murderer of Alexander Hamilton,
proves the point beyond any reasonable doubt. John Jacob Astor’s son, Waldorf Astor,
had the additional honor bestowed upon him of being appointed to the Royal Institute for
International Affairs (RIIA), through which organzation the Committee of 300 controls
every facet of our lives in the United States. The Astor family is believed to have selected
Owen Lattimore to carry on their association with the opium trade which he did through
the Laura Spelman-funded Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR). It was the IPR that
oversaw China’s entry into the opium trade as an equal partner and not merely as a
supplier. It was IPR that paved the way for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Attempts
to turn the Japanese into opium addicts met with dismal failure.
By the turn of the century the oligarchical plutocrats of Britain were like overgorged
vultures on the Serengeti Plain at the time of the annual Wildebeest march. Their income
from the China opium trade exceeded David Rockefeller’s income by SEVERAL
BILLION DOLLARS PER ANNUM. Historic records made available to me in the
British Museum in London and from India Office and other sources–former colleagues in
well-placed positions, proves this completely.
By 1905, the Chinese government, deeply concerned about the rise in the number of
opium addicts in China, tried to get help from the international community. Britain
pretended to cooperate, but made no move whatsoever to abide by the 1905 protocols it
had signed. Later Her Majesty’s government did an about-face after showing China that it
was better to join them in the opium business rather than to try and end it.
Even The Hague Convention was scoffed at by the British. Delegates to the convention
had agreed that Britain must abide by the protocols it had signed, which was to drastically
reduce the amount of opium sold in China and elsewhere. The British, while paying lip
service, had no intention of giving up their trade in human misery, which included the socalled
“pig trade.”
Their servant, President George Bush, in prosecution of the cruel war of genocide waged
against the Iraqi nation SOLELY for and on behalf of British interests, likewise showed
his contempt by flouting the Hague Agreement on Aerial Bombardment, and a whole
slew of international conventions to which the U.S. is a signatory, including ALL of the
Geneva Conventions.
When evidence was produced two years later, notably by the Japanese, who were
growing very concerned about British smuggling of opium into their country, that opium
sales had increased instead of decreased, then Her Majesty’s delegate to the Fifth Hague
Convention produced a set of statistics which were at variance with those provided by
Japan. The British delegate turned the tables by saying that it made a very strong case for
legalizing the sale of opium which would have the effect of doing away with what he
called “the black market.”
He suggested on behalf of Her Majesty’s government that the Japanese government
would then have a monopoly and full control of the trade. THIS IS PRECISELY THE
SAME ARGUMENT BEING ADVANCED BY THE FRONT MEN FOR THE
BRONFMANS AND OTHER BIG-TIME DOPE DEALERS–LEGALIZE COCAINE,
MARIJUANA AND HEROIN, LET THE U.S GOVERNMENT HAVE THE
MONOPOLY AND THEREBY STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE PHONY WAR
ON DRUGS AND SAVE THE TAXPAYERS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
In the period of 1791-1894, the number of licensed opium dens in the Shanghai
International Settlement rose from 87 to 663. Opium flowing into the United States was
also stepped up. Sensing that they might have some problems in China with the spotlight
of world concern shining upon them, the plutocrats of the Knights of St. John and the
Order of the Garter, transferred some of their attention to Persia (Iran).
Lord Inchcape, who founded the biggest steamship company in the world at the turn of
the 19th century, the legendary Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company, was
the principal mover and shaker in establishing the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which
remains the largest and least controlled clearinghouse bank for the opium trade, which
also financed the “pig trade” with the United States.
The British had set up a scam whereby Chinese “coolies” were sent to the U.S. as socalled
indentured laborers. The rapacious Harriman family’s railroad needed “coolies” to
push the rail connection westward to the California coast, or so they said. Strangely
enough, very few Negroes were given the manual labor jobs they were used to at that
time and could have done a better job than the emaciated opium addicts who arrived from
China.
The problem was that there was no market for opium among the Negroes and, moreover,
Lord Inchcape, son of the founder of P and O needed the “coolies” to smuggle in
thousands of pounds of raw opium into North America, something the Negroes could not
do. It was the same Lord Inchcape who in 1923 warned that there must be no diminishing
of opium poppy cultivation in Bengal. “This most important source of revenue must be
safeguarded,” he told the commission allegedly investigating the production of opium
gum in India.
By 1846, some 120,000 “coolies” had already arrived in the U. S. to work on Harriman’s
railroad pushing westward. The “pig trade” was in full profitable swing because, of this
number, it was estimated by the U.S. government 115,000 were opium addicts. Once the
railroad was finished, the Chinese did not go back to where they came from, but settled in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Portland. They created a huge culture
problem that has never ceased to exist.
It is interesting to note that Cecil John Rhodes, a Committee of 300 member who fronted
for the Rothschilds in South Africa followed the Inchcape pattern, bringing hundreds of
thousand of Indian “coolies” to work on the sugar cane plantations in Natal province.
Among them was Mahatma Ghandi, a Communist agitator and troublemaker. Like the
Chinese coolies, they were not returned to their country of origin once their contracts
expired. They, too, went on to create a massive social program, and their descendants
became lawyers who spearheaded the drive to infiltrate the government on behalf of the
Africa National Congress.
By 1875 the Chinese “coolies” operating out of San Francisco had set up an opium
supply ring that resulted in 129,000 American opium addicts. What with the known
115,000 Chinese addicts, Lord Inchcape and his family were raking in hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year from this source alone which, in terms of today’s dollar would
represent at least a $100 million dollar income every year.
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian
textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade, and who brought African slaves to
the U.S. combined to make the “pig trade” a valuable source of revenue. Later they were
to combine to cause and promote the terrible War Between The States, also known as the
American Civil War.
The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and
wallowing in filthy lucre, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal
Establishmemt whose members, under the careful guidance and direction of the Crown
and subsequently its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA), ran this counry–and still does–from top to bottom through their secret
upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the
ULTIMATE secret society.
By 1923, voices were being raised against this menace that had been allowed to be
imported into the United States. Believ-ing the United States to be a free and sovereign
nation, Congressman Stephen Porter, Chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee, introduced a bill which called for the British to account for their
opium export-import business on a country-by-country basis. The resolution set up quotas
for each country, which if observed, would have reduced the opium made by lO%. The
resolution was passed into law and the bill accepted by the Congress of the United States.
But the Royal Institute of International Affairs had other ideas. Founded in 1919 in the
wake of the Paris Peace Conference held at Versailles, this was one of the earliest
“foreign policy” executors of the Committee of 300. Research I have done on the
Congressional Records, House, show that Porter was totally unaware of the powerful
forces he was up against. Porter was not even aware of the existence of the RIIA, much
less that its specific purpose was to control every facet of the United States.
Apparently Congressman Porter received some kind of an intimation from the Morgan
Bank on Wall Street that he should drop the whole affair. Instead, an enraged Porter took
his case to the League of Nations Opium Committee. Porter’s total unawareness of who
he was up against is demonstrated in some of his correspondence to colleagues on the
House Foreign Affairs Committee in response to open British opposition to his proposals.
Her Majesty’s representative chided Porter and then, acting like a father toward an errant
son, the British delegate–on instructions from the RIIA–presented Her Majesty’s
proposals to INCREASE opium quotas to account for an increase in the consumption of
opium for medicinal purposes. According to documents that I was able to find in The
Hague, Porter was at first confused, then amazed and then enraged. Joined by the Chinese
delegate, Porter stormed out of the plenipotentiary session of the Committee session,
leaving the field to the British.
In his absence, the British delegate got the League to rubber stamp Her Majesty’s
government proposals for a creation of a tame-tiger Central Narcotics Board, whose chief
function was information gathering, the terms of which were purposely vague. What was
to be done with the “information” was never made clear. Porter returned to the U.S. a
shaken and much wiser man.
Another British intelligence asset was the fabulously rich William Bingham, into which
family one of the Barings married. It was stated in papers and documents that I saw that
the Baring Brothers ran the Philadelphia Quakers and owned half of the real estate of that
city, all made possible because of the fortune the Baring Brothers had amassed from the
China opium trade. Another beneficiary of the Committee of 300’s largess was Stephen
Girard, whose descendants inherited the Girard Bank and Trust.
The names of the families, whose history is intertwined with that of Boston and who
would never give us ordinary folk the time of day, were wrapped in the arms of the
Committee of 300 and its vastly lucrative BEIC China opium trade. Many of the famous
families became associated with the notorious Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank which is
still the clearing house for billions of dollars that flow from the opium trade in China.
Such famous names as Forbes, Perkins and Hathaway appear in the records of the British
East India Company. These genuine American “bluebloods” created Russell and
Company, whose main trade was in opium, but also ran other shipping enterprises from
China to South America and all points in between. As a reward for their services to the
British Crown and the BEIC, the Committee of 300 granted them a monopoly in the slave
trade in 1833.
Boston owes its celebrated past to the cotton-opium-slave trade granted to it by the
Committee of 300 and it is stated in the records I was privileged to see in London that
Boston’s merchant families were the chief supporters of the British Crown in the United
States. John Murray Forbes is mentioned as the major-domo of the “Boston Blue Bloods”
in India House records and in bank records in Hong Kong.
Forbe’s son was the first American allowed by the Committee of 300 to sit on the board
of the most prestigious drug bank in the world–even today–the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank. When I was in Hong Kong in the early 1960’s as “an historian interested
in the British East India Company,” I was shown some old records, including past board
members of this notori-ous drug bank, and sure enough, Forbes’ name was among them.
The Perkins family, so illustrious that their name is still mentioned in awed whispers,
were deeply involved in the ne- farious filthy China opium trade. In fact Perkins the elder
was one of the first Americans to be elected to the Committee of 3OO. His son, Thomas
Nelson, was Morgan’s man in Boston, and as such also an agent for British intelligence.
His unsavory– I would say disgusting–past was not in question when he richly endowed
Harvard University. After all, Canton and Tientsin are a long way from Boston, and who
would have cared anyway?
What helped The Perkinses a lot was that Morgan was a powerful member of the
Committee of 300, which enabled Thomas N. Perkins to rapidly further his career in the
China opium trade. All the Morgans and Perkinses were Freemasons, which was another
tie that bound them together, for only Free-masons of highest rank have any hope of
being selected by the Committee of 300. Sir Robert Hart, who for almost three decades
was chief of the Imperial Chinese Customs Service (read the British Crown’s number one
agent in the opium trade in China was subsequently appointed to the board of Morgan
Guarantee Bank’s Far Eastern Division.
Through access to the historical records in London and Hong Kong, I was able to
establish that Sir Robert developed an intimate relationship with Morgan operations in
the United States. It is worthy of note that Morgan interests in the opium/ heroin trade
have continued in an unbroken line; witness the fact that David Newbigging is on the
advisory board of Morgan’s Hong Kong operation run in conjunction with Jardine
Matheson.
To those who know Hong Kong, the name of Newbigging will be familiar as the most
powerful name in Hong Kong. In addition to his membership of Morgan’s elite bank,
Newbigging doubles as an advisor to the Chinese government. Opium for missile
technology, opium for gold, opium for high-tech computers–it is all the same to
Newbigging. The way these banks financial houses, trading companies and the families
who run them are intertwined would perplex Sherlock Holmes, yet somehow they must
be unraveled and followed if we are to understand their connections with the drug trade
and their membership in the Committee of 300.
The two-track entry into the United States of alcohol and drugs were products of the
same stable occupied by the same thoroughbreds. First, prohibition had to be introduced
into the United States. This was done by the British East India Company heirs who,
acting upon experience gained through the well-documented China Inland Mission
records found in India House, set up the Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
supposedly to oppose consumption of alcohol in America.
We say that history repeats itself, and in a sense, this is true. except that it repeats itself in
an ever-upward spiral. Today we find that some of the largest companies, allegedly
“polluting” the earth, are the largest contributors of funds to the environ-mentalist
movement. The “big names” send forth their message. Prince Philip is one of their
heroes, yet his son Prince Charles owns a million acres of forested land in Wales from
which timber is regularly harvested and, in addition, Prince Charles is one of the largest
owners of slum housing in London, where pollution thrives.
In the case of those who railed against the “evils of drink,” we find they were financed by
the Astors, the Rockefellers, the Spelmans, the Vanderbilts and the Warburgs who had a
vested interest in the liquor trade. On the instructions of the Crown, Lord Beaverbrook
came over from England to tell these wealthy American families that they were to invest
in the WCTU. (It was the same Lord Beaverbrook who came to Washington in 1940 and
ORDERED Roosevelt to get involved in Britain’s war.)
Roosevelt complied by stationing a U.S. Navy flotilla in Greenland that spent the 9
months prior to Pearl Harbor hunting and attacking German U-Boats. Like his successor,
George Bush, Roosevelt thought the Congress a confounded nuisance so, acting like a
king– sense he felt strongly since he is related to the British royal family–FDR never
sought the permission of Congress for his illegal action. This is what the British are most
fond of referring to as their “special relationship with America.”
The drug trade has a connection with the murder of President John F. Kennedy, which
foul deed stains the national character and will continue to do so until the perpetrators are
found and brought to justice. There is proof that the Mafia was involved in this through
the CIA, which brings to mind that it all started with the old Meyer Lansky network
which evolved into the Irgun terrorist organization, and Lansky proved to be one of the
best vehicles for peddling cultural warfare against the West.
Lansky was, through more respectable fronts, associated with the British higher-ups in
bringing gambling and dope distribution to Paradise Island in the Bahamas under the
cover of The Mary Carter Paint Company–a joint Lansky-British M16 venture. Lord
Sassoon was later murdered because he was skimming money and was threatening to
blow the whistle if he was punished. Ray Wolfe was more presentable, representing the
Bronfmans of Canada. While the Bronfmans were not privy to Churchill’s massive Nova
Scotia Project, they were and still are nevertheless an important asset of the British royal
family in the business of dope peddling.
Sam Rothberg, close associate of Meyer Lansky, also worked with Tibor Rosenbaum and
Pinchas Sapir, all king pins in the Lansky drug ring. Rosenbaum ran a drug money
laundering operation out of Switzerland through a bank he established for this purpose;
Banque du Credite International. The bank quickly expanded its activities and became the
principal bank used by Lansky and his mobster associates for laundering money garnered
from prostitution, drugs and other Mafia rackets.
It is worthy of note that Tibor Rosenbaum’s bank was used by the shadowy chief of
British Intelligence, Sir William Stephenson, whose right hand man, Major John
Mortimer Bloomfield, a Canadian citizen, ran Division Five of the FBI throughout the
Second World War. Stephenson was an early member of the 2Oth century Committee of
300, although Bloomfield never made it that far. As I revealed in my series of
monographs on the Kennedy assassination, it was Stephenson who master-minded the
operation which was run as a hands-on project by Bloomfield. Fronting for the Kennedy
assassination was done through another drug-related front, Permanent Industrial
Expositions (PERMINDEX), created in 1957 and centered in the World Trade Mart
building in downtown New Orleans.
Bloomfield just happened to be the attorney for the Bronfman family. The World Trade
Mart was created by Colonel Clay Shaw and FBI Division Five station chief in New
Orleans, Guy Bannister. Shaw and Bannister were close associates of Lee Harvey
Oswald, accused of shooting Kennedy, who was mur-dered by CIA contract agent Jack
Ruby before he could prove that he was not the assassin who shot President Kennedy. In
spite of the Warren Commission and numerous official reports, it has NEVER been
established that Oswald owned the Mannlicher rifle said to be the murder weapon (it was
not) nor that he had ever fired it. The connection between the drug trade, Shaw, Bannister
and Bloomfield has been established several times, and need not concern us here.
In the immediate post-WW II period, one of the most com-mon methods used by Resorts
International and other drug related companies to clean money was by courier service to a
money laundering bank. Now all that has changed. Only the small fry still use such a
risky method. The “big fish” conduit their money via the CHIPS system, an acronym for
Clearing House International Payments System, run by a Burroughs computer system
centered at the New York Clearing House. Twelve of the largest banks use this system.
One of them is the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Another is Credite Suisse, that oh so
respectable paragon of virtue in banking–until the lid is lifted. Combined with the
SWIFT system based in Virginia, dirty drug money becomes invisible. Only wanton
carelessness results in the FBI getting lucky now and then, if and when it is told not to
look the other way.
Only low echelon drug dealers get caught with drug money in their hands. The elite,
Drexel Burnham, Credite Suisse, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, escape detection. But
this, too, is changing with the collapse of Bank of Credit and Commerce International
(BCCI) which is likely to expose a great deal about the drug trade if ever a proper
investigation is carried out.
One of the largest assets in the portfolio of the Committee of 300 companies is American
Express (AMEX). Its presidents regularly occupy positions on the Committee of 300. I
first got interested in Amex when I was carrying out an on-the-spot investigation that led
me to the Trade Development Bank in Geneva. Later, this got me into a lot of trouble. I
discovered that Trade Development Bank, then run by Edmund Safra, key man in the
gold for opium trade, was supplying tons of gold to the Hong Kong market via Trade
Development Bank.
Before going to Switzerland, I went to Pretoria, South Africa, where I talked with Dr.
Chris Stals, at that time the deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank which
controls all bulk dealings in South African-produced gold. After several discussions over
a period of a week, I was told that the bank could not supply me with the ten tons of gold
that I was authorized to buy on behalf of clients I was supposed to be representing. My
friends in the right places knew how to produce the documentation which passed without
question.
The Reserve Bank referred me to a Swiss company whom I cannot name, because it
would blow cover. I was also given the address of Trade Development Bank in Geneva.
The purpose of my exercise was to find out the mechanics of how gold is moved and
traded, and secondly to test bogus documents which had been prepared for me by exintelligence
friends of mine who specialized in this kind of thing. Remember “M” in the
“James Bond” series? Let me assure you that “M” does exist, only his correct initial is
“C.” The documents I had consisted of “buying orders” from Liechtenstein companies
with supporting papers to match.
On approaching Trade Development Bank I was at first greeted cordially but, as
discussions progressed with more and more suspicion until, when I felt it was no longer
safe for me to visit the bank, without telling anyone at the bank I left Geneva. Later the
bank was sold to American Express. American Express was briefly investigated by
former Attorney General Edwin Meese, after which he was quickly removed from office
and labeled “corrupt.” What I found was that American Express was and still is a conduit
for laundering drug money and, thus far, no one has been able to explain to me why a
private company has the right to print dollars–aren’t American Express travelers checks
dollars? I subsequently exposed the Safra-Amex drug connections which upset a lot of
people, as can be imagined.
Committee of 300 member Japhet controls Charterhouse Japhet, which in turn controls
Jardine Matheson as a direct link to the Hong Kong opium trade. The Japhets are
reportedly English Quakers. The Matheson family, also members of the Committee of
300, were kingpins in the China opium trade, at least up until 1943. The Mathesons have
appeared in the Queen of England Honors List since the early 19th century.
The top controllers of the drug trade in the Committee of 300 have no conscience about
the millions of lives they ruin each year. They are Gnostics, Cathars, members of the cult
of Dionysus, Osiris, or worse. To them, “ordinary” people are there to be used for their
purposes. Their high-priests, Bulwer-Lytton and Aldous Huxley, preached the gospel of
drugs as a beneficial substance. To quote Huxley:
“And for private everyday use, there have always been chemical intoxicants. All the
vegetable sedatives and narcotics, all the euphorics that grow on trees, the hallucinogens
that ripen in berries, have been used by humans since time immemorial. And
to these modifiers of conscience, modern science has added its quota of synthetics. For
unrestricted use the West has permitted only alcohol and tobacco. All other chemical
Doors in the Wall are labeled DOPE.”
To the oligarches and plutocrats of the Committee of 300, drugs have a two-fold purpose,
firstly to bring in colossal sums of money and secondly, to eventually turn a major part of
the population into mindless drug zombies who will be easier to control than people who
don’t need drugs, as punishment for rebellion will mean withholding of supplies of
heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc. For this it is necessary to legalize drugs so that a
MONOPOLY SYSTEM, which has been readied for introduction once severe economic
conditions, of which the 1991 depression is the forerunner, cause drug usage to
proliferate as hundreds of thousands of permanently jobless workers turn to drugs for
solace.
and then