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._- Continued from page 18 ---- - ~ - - A State of Terror September 1995, p. 15. enforcement personnel are on the alert and expect 40. McCarthie, ibid. New Zealand to be increasingly used as a transient Donovan's plans to initiate a postwar intelligence 41. Considering the Legion's history of connection port in the narcotics industry. A combiflati'on of agency (the CIA), set up on the same designs and with the OAS and its past as a source of refuge for DEA campaigns against cocaine in the US, and the principles as the Gestapo (whom Donovan had been post-WWII SS soldiers, this is not contradietory, increased puriry of the heroin available, i.ndicate a called upon to investigate and study)-"an agency 42. !Likewise, this period also marked a sudden move away from cocaine to heroin by US con quite willing to use psychological warfare and dirty transformation in relations between New Zealand sumers. Sporadic media reports of police heroin tricks". In, 1949, CIA Director Allen Dulles entered and the White Hoose. After years of New Zealand busts, as well as severe increases in hard-drug usage into a writ,ten contract with fOliffier German military bein'g shunlied by Washington, following New and in addicts awaiting methadone treatment in New intelligence head, General Reinhard Gehler. The Zealand's nuclear-free policy (at least that is what Zealand's major urban ceAtres, point to New contract pemritted Gehler to conducl operations surface media reports indicated), relations suddenly Zealand's use as a heroin-trafficking point. Bosnian which 4ncJuded "political, economic and tcchnologi thawed. Jim Bolger was given close aeeess to Bill and Somalian visirors have reported locals' beliefs cal espionage" on behalf of the CtA. Gehler, in his CLinton, i,e., the Seattle meeting of 1994, the June that the US and UN forces have been involVed ,in the memoirs, went so far as to say he taught the CIA all 1995 VE Parade, and even a Disneyland-style 1995 heroin trade. it knows. (Source: Jeffrey-Jones, Rhodri, The CIA White House tour. In tum, the year before saw the 45. Pop Will Eat Itself, "XYZ", Care!orSaniry and American Democracy, Yale University Press, US central bank as guarantor of New Zealand's album, BMG Records, 1990. Newhaven, USA, 1989, pp. 103-104.) unsecured debts-a move which catapulted New 28. Jl Gladio, BBC expose, aired in New Zealand at Zealand's long-term credit rating upwards to AA About the Author" 4.00 am in early June 1995. (cid:1) standard. B;enC.~ 29, Aarons, Mark and John Loftons, Ratlines, (cid:1) 43. His known both by New Zealand Army Heinemann, London, UK, 1991"p. 89. (cid:1) Intelligenco and by the Security Intelligence Service 30. Yallop, David, In God's Name, Corgi Books, (cid:1) (SIS) that a large illegal automatic weapons trade London, UK, 1985 (reprinted 1993), p. 172. (cid:1) does exist in New Zealand. Sources plaee the 3I Ibid. (cid:1) importation of automatic weapons as high as 33,000 32. Ebid (cid:1) annually, though the majority of these are headed for 33. Yallop, ibid. (in regard to Barbie); Aarons and marke.lS in Africa. However, a senior NZ intelli Loftons, Ratlines, p. 85 (in regard to Pavlic). gence investigation into the local trade was can 34. Jl Gladio, BBC expose. celled by the Prime Minister's Office in 1989. This 35. Yallop, ibid., p. lSI was despite the SIS having sufficient evidence to 36 Jl Gladio, BBC expose. arrange for the arrest of racist militants (advocates of 37. Yallop, ibid., p. 446. both white and black power). The offieer in charge 38. Yallop, ibid. of the case ,is said to have resigned in disgust. 39. McCarthie, Andrew, "Germans Fear Croatian 44. Numerous police statements made in New Nest of Nazis", The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Zealand have indicated that customs and law- 'v'iJ,g~~., Jl.AIt~ ~ ~ N.e~. Zealanq7bom.freelandi lqumallst and r~~tc~_~rr. Wtt~ 5ey'~n y~ars oC~pe~ iallsiltIO'l'l"ln IT'lteiligeflce,and J~®r ism studfes: He has a 8at:hel<1r oJ. ArtsJA Histbry al)d Political Sd~nce; Ben' Vi;dgen 1$ 'ti f:qtfh~r NeW Zealand Army Rest!TVrsf:Whbs~rvea with.Artillery~.lnfantry<}s a RaQlo ~nd AI1iHe!y tni~l!Jg~'!,S~ 9R~r9-tor. H.~ II has, iflso b.~ef1 atta-ched to Resel'Vfsl 'dutlter~jl1t~l i~enie-{)perafkms1 62 • NEXUS FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996