Dope, Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against The U.S.

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Front Cover ......Page 1 Short Title ......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 5 Printer's Imprint ......Page 6 Contents ......Page 7 Illustrations ......Page 8 Dedication ......Page 9 Acknowledgments ......Page 11 Introduction ......Page 13 The world's biggest business ......Page 15 PART I: History ......Page 19 Introduction ......Page 21 1. Britain's First Opium Wars ......Page 24 Britain's opium diplomacy ......Page 29 Protecting the opium market ......Page 32 The assassination bureau ......Page 37 The Elders of Zion ......Page 43 Mazzini's mafia ......Page 46 TheChinese entry ......Page 49 The British Brahmins in the U.S. ......Page 50 3. Britain's "Noble Experiment" ......Page 55 Mounting the drug invasion ......Page 61 Nixon's war on drugs ......Page 63 Notes ......Page 64 Part II: How the Drug Empire Works ......Page 69 The basis of this investigation ......Page 71 1. Banking and the World's Biggest Business ......Page 75 Where does it go? ......Page 77 How big an industry? ......Page 79 Where does the money go? ......Page 80 The laundering cycle ......Page 88 2. From Opium to Dirty Money ......Page 90 The HongShang ......Page 95 The Chinese middleman ......Page 96 The HongShang-Chinese deal ......Page 98 4. Britain's Gold and Dirty Diamond Operations ......Page 104 How illegal gold travels ......Page 105 One big gold pool ......Page 111 The diamond black market ......Page 115 5. Hong Kong: The World's Drug Capital ......Page 118 The illegal market ......Page 120 Highest liquidity ratio ......Page 122 Biggest bribe rate ......Page 123 6. The Peking Connection ......Page 125 "Communist fat cats" ......Page 129 Peking's opium weapon ......Page 135 The Ch'ao Chou connection ......Page 141 Forging the Hong Kong-Peking link ......Page 146 7. How the RIIA Runs Drugs and Dirty Money ......Page 151 1949: The British-Peking deal ......Page 155 Creation of the Hong Kong drug nexus ......Page 161 8. Canada: North America's Hong Kong ......Page 172 Three crucial cases ......Page 173 Dope goes in, dirty money goes out ......Page 177 The Canada-Peking connection ......Page 180 Who rules Canada ......Page 181 9. All in the Family: The Real Syndicate ......Page 187 The beginning: the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem ......Page 190 The Family's Opium Wars ......Page 192 The imperial cultists and opium ......Page 194 Today's opium dynasty ......Page 229 The Dynasty of Robert Bruce ......Page 235 Notes ......Page 253 Part III: Organized Crime ......Page 273 Introduction ......Page 275 The cutouts ......Page 276 1. The Bronfman Gang ......Page 281 Organized crime comes of age ......Page 285 The Rothstein-Hong Kong connection ......Page 288 Going legit ain't necessarily kosher ......Page 292 Are they really clean? ......Page 296 2. The Kennedys: Organized Crime in the Government ......Page 301 The rise to power ......Page 302 Why the British killed Kennedy ......Page 308 3. Britain's Assassination Bureau: Permindex ......Page 313 Who runs Permindex? ......Page 315 The Bloomfield, Lansky, Rosenbaum circuit ......Page 320 The Nazi connection ......Page 325 4. Permindex Unveiled: Resorts International Intertel ......Page 333 Permindex moves to Bay Street ......Page 338 5. The Jacobs Family's Emprise: Sports and Crime ......Page 342 The Steiger investigation ......Page 346 Jacobs and Royal Crown ......Page 347 Working for the HongShang ......Page 349 Jacobs joins Intertel ......Page 351 "Bagman" Max Fisher ......Page 352 Dope, Inc. goes "legit" ......Page 354 6. The Philadelphia Story ......Page 356 Notes ......Page 362 Part IV: Creating the Market: British Origins of the Counterculture ......Page 373 The high priesthood ......Page 378 LSD: "visitation from the gods" ......Page 380 "The beating of drums . . ." ......Page 384 The Vietnam war and the antiwar trap ......Page 386 The LSD connection ......Page 388 Notes ......Page 391 Part V: The Drug Lobby ......Page 393 Kennedy's drug-death Cult ......Page 396 Jacob Javits and organized crime ......Page 398 Kennedy's NORML ......Page 401 Notes ......Page 403 Epilogue ......Page 405 Index ......Page 408 Rear Cover ......Page 420