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Marcello to coordinate the movement of service boats which were and income. Not wanting to lose a valuable long-term asset in the bringing large quantities of heroin into the city. The boats arrived Kurds, the CIA had then used Brown & Root—which operated in at Marcello-controlled docks, unmolested by even the New both countries and maintained port facilities in the Persian Gulf Orleans police she introduced me to, along with divers, military and near Shatt al'Arab—to rearm the Kurds. The whole operation men, former Green Berets and CIA personnel. The service boats had been financed with heroin. Paul was matter-of-fact about it. were retrieving the heroin from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, in In 1983, Paul Jabber left UCLA to become a Vice-President of international waters—oil rigs built and serviced by Brown & Banker's Trust and Chairman of the Middle East Department of Root. the Council on Foreign Relations. The guns which Teddy monitored, apparently Vietnam-era sur- plus AK47s and M16s, were being loaded onto ships also owned | THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FREE ENTERPRISE or leased by Brown & Root. And more than once during the eight If one is courageous enough to seek an "operating system" days I spent in New Orleans, I met and ate at restaurants with which theoretically explains what FTW has just described for you, Brown & Root employees who were boarding those ships and one need look no further than a fabulous two-part article pub- leaving for Iran within days. Once, while leaving a bar and appar- lished in Le Monde Diplomatique in April 2000. The stories, ently having asked the wrong question, I was shot at in an attempt —_ focusing heavily on drug capital, are titled "Crime, The World's to scare me off. Biggest Free Enterprise". The brilliant and penetrating words of Disgusted and heartbroken at witnessing my fiancée and my authors Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard do a better job of government smuggling drugs, I ended the relationship. Returning explaining the actual world economic and political situation than home to LA, I made a clean breast and anything I have ever read. reported all the activity I had seen, including De Brie writes: "By allowing capital to the connections to Brown & Root, to LAPD flow unchecked from one end of the world to intelligence officers. They promptly told me the other, globalisation and abandonment of that I was crazy. sovereignty have together fostered the explo- Forced out of LAPD under threat of death " . . sive growth of an outlaw financial market... at the end of 1978, I made complaints to B allowin ca ital "It is a coherent system closely linked to P. y y [A office ofthe FBlunder the command at | 0 flow unchecked | jcc on tn association of three partners: FBI SAC Ted Gunderson. I and my attorney from one end of the governments, transnational corporations and te to the politicians, the Department of afias. Business is business: financial json iam Demme | world fo the other, ee re Angeles Times. The FBI and the LAPD said globalisation and and structured, ruled by supply and demand. that I was crazy. "Big business complicity and political A 1981 two-part news story in the Los abandonment of laissez faire is the only way that large-scale Angeles Herald Examiner revealed that sovereignty have organised crime can launder and the FBI had taken Teddy into custody recycle the fabulous proceeds of its and then released her before classifying together fostered the activities. And the transnationals need their investigation without further explosive growth of the support of governments and the action. Former New Orleans Crime neutrality of regulatory authorities in Commissioner Aaron Cohen told an outlaw financial order to consolidate their positions, reporter Randall Sullivan that he found market..." increase their profits, withstand and my description of events perfectly crush the competition, pull off the 'deal plausible after his 30 years of studying of the century' and finance their illicit Louisiana's organised crime operations. operations. Politicians are directly To this day, a CIA report prepared as involved and their ability to intervene a result of my complaint remains clas- depends on the backing and the funding sified and exempt from release, pur- that keep them in power. This suant to executive order of the collusion of interests is an essential part President, in the interests of national of the world economy, the oil that security and because it would reveal the identities of CIA agents. keeps the wheels of capitalism turning." On October 26, 1981, in the basement of the West Wing of the After confronting CIA Director John Deutch on world televi- White House, I reported on what I had seen in New Orleans to my sion on November 15, 1996, I was interviewed by the staff of both friend and UCLA classmate, Craig Fuller. Fuller went on to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. I prepared written become Chief of Staff to Vice- President Bush from 1981 to 1985. testimony for Senate Intelligence which I submitted, although I In 1982, then UCLA political science professor Paul Jabber was never called to testify. In every one of those interviews and filled in many of the pieces in my quest to understand what I had in my written testimony and every lecture since that time, I have seen in New Orleans. He was qualified to do so because he had _ told the story of Brown & Root. served as a CIA and State Department consultant to the Carter Administration. IN GOD (GOLD, OIL, DRUGS) WE TRUST Paul explained that, after a 1975 treaty between the Shah of Make no mistake about it. The United States is preparing for Iran and Saddam Hussein of Iraq, the Shah had cut off all overt — war. Events immediately following the 2000 US election debacle military support for Kurdish rebels fighting Saddam from the are ominous predictors for the Bush-Cheney Administration. north of Iraq. In exchange, the Shah had gained access to the While not all of the cabinet posts are yet filled, the key posts of Shatt al'Arab waterway so that he could multiply his oil exports Treasury, Defense, Justice and National Security Advisor point to and income. Not wanting to lose a valuable long-term asset in the Kurds, the CIA had then used Brown & Root—which operated in both countries and maintained port facilities in the Persian Gulf and near Shatt al'Arab—to rearm the Kurds. The whole operation had been financed with heroin. Paul was matter-of-fact about it. In 1983, Paul Jabber left UCLA to become a Vice-President of Banker's Trust and Chairman of the Middle East Department of the Council on Foreign Relations. "By allowing capital to flow unchecked world to the other, globalisation and abandonment of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of an outlaw financial market..." IN GOD (GOLD, OIL, DRUGS) WE TRUST Make no mistake about it. The United States is preparing for war. Events immediately following the 2000 US election debacle are ominous predictors for the Bush-Cheney Administration. While not all of the cabinet posts are yet filled, the key posts of Treasury, Defense, Justice and National Security Advisor point to NEXUS © 15 from one end of the FEBRUARY — MARCH 2001