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Subject: FILE: Committee of 300 - Part 5
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:50:28 GMT


--- Committee of 300 - Part 5 ----------------------------------------


Copyright (C) 1992 by Dr. John Coleman

"Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300", by
Dr. John Coleman, is reproduced here with the permission of the
publisher: America West Publishers.

               INSTITUTIONS THROUGH WHICH

                  CONTROL IS EXERCISED
                        (Cont.)

Yet we  successfully overcame all problems.  Why then is it
impossible  to  defeat a  well-defined enemy,  far  smaller  and
weaker than Germany, given the immensely improved weapons
and surveillance equipment we have today? The real reason that
the drug problem is not eradicated is because it is being run by
the highest families in the entire world as part of a coordinated
gigantic money-making machine.
   In 1930, British capital invested in South America greatly
exceeded capital investment in British "dominions." Graham, an
authority on British investments abroad, stated that British in-
vestment in  South America "exceeded one trillion pounds."
Remember, this was 1930, and one trillion pounds was a stagger-
ing sum of money in those days. What was the reason for such
heavy investment in South America? In a word it was drugs.
   The  plutocracy  controlling  British  banks  held  the  purse
strings and then, as now, put up a most respectable facade to
cover their true business. No one ever caught them with dirtied
hands. They always had front men, even as they do today,
willing to take the blame if things went awry. Then as now the
connections with the drug trade were tenuous at best. No one
was ever able to lay  a finger on the respectable and "noble"
banking families of Britain, whose members are on the Com-
mittee of 300.
   There  is  great  significance  in that only  15  members  of
Parliament were the controllers of that vast empire, of which the
most prominent were Sir Charles Barry and the Chamberlain
family.  These  overlords  of finance  were busy  in places like
Argentina, Jamaica and Trinidad, which became big money-
spinners for them through the drug trade. In these countries,
British plutocrats kept "the locals" as they were contemptuously
called,  at bare  subsistence  levels,  hardly  above  slavery.  The
fortunes extracted from the drug trade in the Caribbean were vast.
   The plutocrats hid behind faces like Trinidad Leaseholds
Limited, but the REAL MEAT, then as now, was drugs. This is
true of today where we find that Jamaica's Gross National

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Product (GNP) is made up almost entirely of sales of ganja, a
very potent form of marijuana. The mechanism for handling the
ganja trade was set up by David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger
under the title "Caribbean Basin Initiative."
   Up until a relatively short time ago, the true history of the
China opium trade was quite unknown, having been as well
covered up as it is possible to do. Many of my former students
in the days when I was lecturing, would come and ask me why
the Chinese were so fond of smoking opium? They were puzzled
as are many still today, over contradictory accounts of what had
actually taken place in China. Most thought it was merely a case
of the Chinese workers buying opium on an open market and
smoking it, or going to some of the thousands of opium dens and
forgetting their terrible existence for a while.
   The truth is that the supply of opium to China was a British
monopoly, an OFFICIAL monopoly of the British government
and  official  British policy.  The Indo-British opium trade in
China was one of the best kept secrets, around which many
misleading legends grew up, such as "Clive of India" and the
tales of derring-do by the British Army in India for the glory of
"the Empire," so well written by Rudyard Kipling, and tales of
"Tea Clippers" racing across the oceans with their cargoes of
China  tea  for the  high  society  drawing rooms  of Victorian
England. In reality, the history of British occupation of India
and Britain's Opium Wars are some of the most dastardly blots
on Western civilization.
   Almost 13% of the income of India under British rule was
derived from the sale of good quality Bengal opium to the
British-run opium distributors in China. "The Beatles" of the
day, the China Inland Mission, had done a great job in prolifer-
ating the use of opium among the poor Chinese laborers (coolies,
as they were called). These addicts did not suddenly materialize
out of thin air, any more than did teenager addicts in the U.S.
THE POINT TO REMEMBER IS THAT BOTH WERE CRE-
ATED. In China a market for opium was first created and then

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filled by opium for Bengal. In the same way, a market for
marijuana and LSD was first created in the United States by
methods already described, and then filled by British plutocrats
and their American cousins with the help of the overlords of the
British banking establishment.
   The lucrative drug trade is one of the worst examples of
making money out of human misery; the other being the legal
drug  trade  run  by  the  pharmaceutical  drug  houses  under
Rockefeller ownership, in the U.S. for the most part, but with
substantial  companies  operating  in  Switzerland,  France  and
Britain and fully backed by the American Medical Association
(AMA). The dirty dope transactions and the money it generates
flows through the City of London, together with Hong Kong,
Dubai  and  latterly, Lebanon, thanks to the invasion of that
country by Israel.
   There will be those who doubt this statement. "Look at this
business columns of the Financial Times," they will tell us. "Don't
tell me that this is all related to drug money"? OF COURSE IT
IS, but don't imagine for one minute that the noble lords and
ladies of England are going to advertise the fact. Remember the
British East India Company? Officially, its business was trading
in tea!
    The London "Times" never dared tell the British public the
it was impossible to make VAST PROFITS from tea, nor did the
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 derived 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,

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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 them-
selves 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  their  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 1960's by such "legal" drug death mer-

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chants 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.
   Remember this the next time you see those lovely advertise-
ments 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 car-
ried 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 ne-
farious 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.

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    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 decided
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 1960's 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

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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 knowl-
edge 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 paper used in the manufacture of
cigarettes is first impregnated with opium, which is why smok-
ers become so addicted to their habit.

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   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 at 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 prolifer-
ate 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 TECH-
NOLOGY 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 deindustrialize 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 con-
   demned 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 de-
   generated, sickly and decadent people, who have vol-

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   untarily,  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

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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 Chi-
nese 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
n 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

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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 expen-
sive 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 Stephen 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.)
   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

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passports were required to land in China. When a few busybod-
ies arrived in China to investigate the British Crown's involve-
ment 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  Cheny Edict of  1729,
forbidding 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
when 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

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proved to be remarkably accurate.
   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 cooperat-
ing instead of fighting with Britain--and this held good during
the bloody rule of Mao Tse 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 pro-
gression 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 dur-
ing 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

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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 trade in the
Hong Kong exchange.
   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. 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.
   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 refining process.
   It is also a major supplier of acetic anhydride For the Golden
Crescent and the Golden Triangle, Pakistan, Turkey and Leba-
non. 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 cat-
egory us 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

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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 19th 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.
   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 Ambassa-
dor 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-
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    lem of national security, because it strikes at the indepen-
    dence of a nation. Drugs in all their manifestations of
    production,  commercialization  and  consumption,  de-
    naturalizes us by injuring our ethical, religious and politi-
    cal life, our historic, economic, and republican values."

    This is precisely the way the Bank of International Settle-
ments 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
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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 machin-
ery 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 replace-
ments 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
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routing of heroin are Hong Kong, Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy, Mo-
naco, 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 pre-
cisely  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 hold-
ing 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

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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 pota-
toes,"  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
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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
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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, in-
cluding 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 dis-
covered? 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 anhy-
dride, THE most essential chemical component needed by labo-
ratories 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 en-
forcement 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.

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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 dirt-
ied 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 ship-
ments 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
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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 Co-
lombian 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 ig-
nored 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

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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 forbid-
den 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 opera-
tive 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 expla-
nation 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, espe-
cially in the banking business.
   Several former intelligence agents have given me their opin-
ions  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

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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 estab-
lishment. He frequently hob-knobbed 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 intel-
ligence 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 interna-
tional 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 de-
struction of property. Nothing to implicate Noriega as a "drug

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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" lo 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 im-
peachable offenses committed by President Bush when he or-
dered 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 con-artists 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 con-
spicuous 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

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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.

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