The History of the CIA: Mafia Allies and the Beginning of the Global Drug Connection
Did you know that on February 9, 1942, the S.S. Normandie, recently renamed the U.S.S. Lafayette, was set on fire in New York Harbor by mafia connected dock workers who then blamed it on Germany?
The Office of Naval Intelligence was embarrassed by this perceived security lapse so they approached the mob and asked them to protect the docks moving forward to ensure something like the S.S. Normandie “attack” didn’t happen again.
This deal gave birth to Operation Underworld and the thus started the close relationship between the US Security State and the mob, guaranteeing that Luciano and the mob would have complete control and flow of narcotics from Europe and Cuba into the US.
The drug money was then deposited into the coffers of “The General Development Corporation” a shell company created and owned by then OSS Official Paul Helliwell and mob boss Meyer Lansky. The money was then sent to the Sicilian mob in Italy by then run by Luciano who had reorganized it and would facilitate the distribution of the funds to the underground Gladio networks (secret stay behind armies) throughout Europe post WWII.
These Gladio networks would go on to perpetuate false flag terrorist attacks all over Europe to be blamed on left wing groups and communists. This is all justified under the pretense of “stopping the spread of communism” in Europe.
However, hundreds of innocent people were killed in these attacks with weapons that were obtained via the funds funneled to them from the drug trade, facilitated by the mob, the OSS/CIA, NATO and Vatican connected operatives. This also created a worldwide heroin addiction problem that still reverberates across the world today.