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They were huge traffickers of Heroin from Southeast Asia. CIA shit.

Love those pictures NYM some serious guys lol.

Nice Chart NY...I've always been lnterested in the Trafficante family..read many books on Santos..& have a strong feel that he was in on the JFK assasination w/ Carlos M. over in Texas..

Thank you Hollander. Glad you enjoyed viewing the Trafficante chart. And yes, lol, those are some real "mugs" they got there.

Thanks Hoodlum. Glad you enjoyed this chart. I, myself, learned a lot while researching this crew out for their hierarchy chart. I agree that the Santo Trafficante Family was a very interesting bunch of mafiosi, especially Santo himself.

In 1975, the CIA declassified a report stating that Trafficante had been persuaded to poison Fidel Castro. His connections were confirmed by the CIA's 2007 declassification of the "Family Jewels" documents.

Yes, Santo was definitely one of the most "well connected" mafia bosses, not only with other mob guys which is not untypical of a boss, but he had deep and shadowy connections to top U.S. Government Officials, and top officials and political figures in other nations. CIA, FBI, etc. He was a dangerous guy in more ways than one.

In Havana Nocturne, TJ English talks about how active he was in Cuba pre-revolution. He would hang out at the casinos, spreading money around. In other words he was very shrewd and high up on the Cuba totem pool.

Also believe he spoke multiple languages.

Sunday, June 4, 1972

Viet Heroin Traffic Linked To Nation's Top Politicians

WASHINGTON (AP) --South Vietnam's heroin racket is run by three of that nation's top politicians, is linked to Corsican and U.S. Mafia gangsters and is virtually condoned by some U.S. officials, a narcotics researcher told a Senate Foreign Aid panel Friday.

Alfred W. McCoy, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, said South Vietnam's opium and heroin traffic is divided between the political organizations of President Nguyen Van Thieu and former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem.

He told a Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee Gen. Ky's sister, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ly, buys finished heroin in Vientiane, Laos, and arranges its shipment to Cambodia "where it is picked up by transport aircraft belonging to the Vietnamese Fifth Air Division and flown to Saigon."

In Saigon Thieu and Ky were not immediately available for comment Friday night.

Both have denied similar charges in the past.

McCoy, who said he spent 18 months in research and interviews preparing to write a book on heroin in Indochina, asserted that top military leaders in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand are also heavily involved in the illicit drug trade.

He said that until recently a person he identified as "an overseas Chinese racketeer named Huu Tim Heng" was a silent partner in the Vientiane bottling plant of the Pepsi Cola Co., using his position as a cover to import acetic anhydride, a chemical necessary for the manufacture of heroin.

He said Heng bought raw opium and morphine from Gen. Quane Rattikone, former chief of staff of the Royal Laotian Army.

McCoy claimed that in a three-hour interview Rattikone "admitted that he controlled the opium traffic in northwestern Laos since 1962."

"Most of the opium traffic in northeastern Laos is controlled by Vang Pao, the Laotian general who commands the CIA's mercenary army," McCoy claimed.

McCoy produced photostats of a document on the stationery of the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam, linking Vietnamese Lt. Gen. Ngo Dzu and his father to the heroin traffic. The document was stamped confidential.

He also said "overwhelming evidence of systematic corruption" extends all the way to the top of President Thieu's political apparatus and that some of his closest supporters inside the Vietnamese army "control the distribution and sale of heroin to American GIs fighting in Indochina."

A State Department spokesman said, "We are aware of these charges, but we have been unable to find any evidence to substantiate them, much less proof."

Beginning in 1965, he said, members of the Florida-based Trafficante family of the Mafia began appearing in Southeast Asia.

"Santo Trafficante Jr., heir to the international criminal syndicate established by Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, traveled to Saigon and Hong Kong in 1968," he said.

McCoy said sources in the U.S. Embassy in Saigon told him Trafficante met with prominent members of Saigon's Corsican syndicates with the result of increased quantities of Asian heroin being shipped to the United States.

This is a fabulous article Hollander.

It's funny that Trafficante means trafficker in Italian.

Thats true. That is funny!