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			PART IV 
			 
			Creating the Market 
			The British Origins of the Counterculture
			
 
			The acts or gestures that accompany the incantations constitute 
			the rite (of Isis). In these dances, the beating of drums and the 
			rhythm of music and repetitive movements were helped by 
			hallucinatory substances like hashish or mescal; these were consumed 
			as adjuvants to create the trance and the hallucinations that were 
			taken to be the visitation of the god. The drugs were sacred, and 
			their knowledge was limited to the initiated; their preparation and 
			their gathering were surrounded with . . . secrecy. . , . In some 
			cases, like the harvesting of the mandrake, they remained secret 
			until the Middle Ages. 
 Possibly because they gave the illusion of satisfied desires, and 
			allowed the innermost feelings to escape, these rites acquired 
			during their execution a frenzied character that is conspicuous in 
			certain spells: "Retreat! Re is piercing thy head, slashing thy 
			face, dividing they head, crushing it in his hands; thy bones are 
			shattered, thy limbs are cut to pieces." The House of Life: Magic 
			and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, by Paul Ghalioungui (1)
 
 If this description of pagan cult ceremonies dating back to the 
			Egyptian Isis priesthood of the third millennium B.C. reads like a 
			journalistic account of a "hippy be-in" circa 1969 A.D., it should. 
			The counterculture that was foisted on the 1960s adolescent 
			population is not merely analogous to the ancient Cult of Isis. It 
			is a literal resurrection of the Isis cult  down to the 
			popularization of the Isis cross as the counterculture's most 
			frequently used symbol.
 
 As we shall show here, the drug-rock counterculture was the result 
			of Britain's 30-year Opium War against the United States, which 
			included not only chemical and psychological warfare but the hideous 
			military project called the Vietnam War.
 
 The British fostered the creation of the bestial rock and drug cult 
			for the same reason that their colonial policy enforced backwardness 
			throughout the empire and for the same reason that the pharaohs of 
			ancient Egypt and the Ptolemaic priests of the first century A.D. 
			Egypt fostered the practice. As long as a population is organized 
			around superstition, magic, hallucinogenic drugs, and animal-like 
			pursuit of immediate sensory gratification ("if it feels good, do 
			it"), it will remain incapable of acting on behalf of its own 
			interests. It was for this reason that the oligarchies of ancient 
			Egypt organized themselves into priesthoods and created dozens of 
			apparently contending pagan cults, all characterized by the same 
			bestialist outlook.
 
 True religion, as opposed to the worship of magically endowed 
			cult-gods, addresses man's capacity for reason, his "Godliness." 
			Unlike the lower beasts, the human species is uniquely capable of
			creative thought  the ability to break out of the bounds of sense
			certainty, develop new scientific knowledge, and socially apply 
			that knowledge through technological innovations that uplift the 
			material and cultural condition of man. Historically such true 
			religion has been associated with the development of urban 
			centers where science, culture, and commerce could flourish. Its 
			sworn enemy has been the oligarchy and its priesthoods and cults 
			which on countless occasions have mobilized to sack the cities, 
			murder the city-builders, and bring on the "dark ages" of plague 
			and ignorance.
 
 The gentlemen at the Royal Institute of International Affairs 
			responsible for charting Britain's global drug trafficking 
			recognized that no mass-scale drug epidemic could be produced in the 
			United States until the American people's fundamental commitment to 
			scientific and technological progress had first been significantly 
			undermined. The drug-rock counterculture was no mere "sociological 
			phenomenon."
 
 In his City of God, the great humanist St. Augustine described the 
			degeneration into cultism that brought on the destruction of Rome, 
			in terms that have direct bearing on the post-1963 degeneration of 
			the United States:
 
 The stage plays, those exhibitions of depravity and unbounded 
			license, were not introduced in Rome by men's vices, but by the 
			command of your gods. Far more justifiably might you have paid 
			divine honors to your Scipio than worship gods such as those, for 
			they were not more virtuous than their high priest.
 
 Are your minds bereft of reason? You are not merely mistaken; this 
			is madness. Here are people in the east bewailing Rome's 
			humiliation, and great states in remote regions of the earth holding 
			public mourning and lamentation  and you Romans are searching for 
			theaters, pouring into them, filling them, behaving more 
			irresponsibly than ever before. It is this spiritual disease, 
			degeneration, decline into immorality and indecency that Scipio 
			feared when he opposed the erection of theaters. He saw how easily 
			ease and plenty would soften and ruin you. He did not wish you to be 
			free from fear.
 
 He did not think that the republic could be happy while walls were 
			standing, yet morals were collapsing. But, you were more attached to 
			the seductions of foul spirits than to the wisdom of men with 
			foresight. That is why you take no blame for the evil you do, but 
			blame Christianity for the evil you suffer. Depraved by prosperity, 
			and unchastened by adversity, you desire, in your security, not the 
			peace of the State, but liberty for license. (2)
 
 
 The high priesthood
 
 The "case officer" for Britain's Opium War was Aldous Huxley, the 
			grandson of Thomas H. Huxley, a founder of the Rhodes Round Table 
			group and a lifelong collaborator of Arnold Toynbee. Toynbee himself 
			sat on the RIIA council for nearly 50 years, headed the Research 
			Division of British intelligence throughout World War II, and served 
			as wartime briefing officer to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
 
 Toynbee's "theory" of history, expounded in his 20-volume history of 
			Western civilization, was that its determining feature has always 
			been the rise and decline of grand imperial dynasties. At the very 
			point that these dynasties  the "thousand year Reich" of the 
			Egyptian pharaohs, the Roman Empire, and the British Empire  
			succeed in imposing their rule over the entire face of the earth, 
			they tend to decline. Toynbee argued that this decline could be 
			abated if the ruling oligarchy (like that of the British Round 
			Table) would devote itself to the recruitment and training of an 
			ever-expanding priesthood devoted to the principles of imperial 
			rule. (3)
 
 Trained at Toynbee's Oxford, Aldous Huxley was one of the initiates 
			in the "Children of the Sun," a dionysian cult comprised of the 
			children of Britain's Round Table elite. (4) Among the other 
			initiates were T.S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Sir Oswald Moseley, and D. 
			H. Lawrence, Huxley's homosexual lover. It was Huxley, furthermore, 
			who would launch the legal battle in the 1950s to have Lawrence's 
			pornographic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover allowed into the United 
			States on the ground that it was a misunderstood "work of art." (5)
 
 Aldous Huxley, along with his brother Julian, was tutored at Oxford 
			by H. G. Wells, the head of British foreign intelligence during 
			World War I. Wells's writings (Time Machine, etc.), along with those 
			of his protιgιs Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell 
			(1984, Animal Farm), were written as "mass appeal" organizing 
			documents on behalf of Britain's "en-lightened" world order. Only in 
			the United States are these "science fiction classics" taught in 
			grade school as attacks
			against fascism. (A contemporary British intelligence operative
			turned-author, Anthony Burgess, wrote Clockwork Orange in the 
			Wells-Orwell-Huxley tradition as a pornographic celebration of the 
			drug-rock counterculture.)
 
 Under Wells's tutelage Huxley was first introduced to Aleister 
			Crowley (see Part II, Section 9). Crowley was a product of the 
			cultist circle that developed in Britain from the 1860s under the 
			guiding influence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton  who, it will be 
			recalled, was the colonial minister under Lord Palmerston during the 
			Second Opium War. In 1886, Crowley, William Butler Yeats, and 
			several other Bulwer-Lytton protιgιs formed the IsisUrania Temple 
			of Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. This Isis Cult was 
			organized around the 1877 manuscript Isis Unveiled by Madame Helena 
			Blavatsky, in which the Russian occultist called for the British 
			aristocracy to organize itself into an Isis Priesthood. (6)
 
 Crowley in turn initiated Aldous Huxley into the Isis-Golden Dawn 
			Temple and introduced him to psychedelic drugs in 1929. (7)
 
 In 1937, Huxley moved to the United States, where he remained 
			throughout the period of World War II. Through a Los Angeles 
			contact, Jacob Zeitlin, Huxley and pederast Christopher Isherwood 
			were employed as script writers for MGM, Warner Brothers, and Walt 
			Disney studios. As we have seen, Hollywood was already dominated by 
			organized crime elements bankrolled and controlled through London. 
			Joseph Kennedy was the front man for a British consortium that 
			created RKO studios, and
			"Bugs" Siegel, the West Coast boss of the Lansky syndicate, was 
			heavily involved in Warner Brothers and MGM.
   
			Huxley was instrumental 
			in founding a nest of Isis cults in southern California and in a San 
			Francisco suburb called Ojai  which consisted exclusively of 
			several hundred deranged worshippers of Isis and other cult gods. 
			(8) Isherwood, during the California period, translated and 
			propagated a number of ancient Zen Buddhist documents, inspiring 
			Zen-mystical cults along the way. (9)    
			In effect, Huxley and 
			Isherwood (joined soon afterwards by Thomas Mann and his daughter 
			Elisabeth Mann Borghese) laid
			the foundation during the late 1930s and the 1940s for the later LSD 
			culture by recruiting a core of "initiates" into the Isis cults that 
			Huxley's mentors Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and Crowley, had 
			constituted while stationed in India. 
 
			LSD: "visitation from the gods"
 
 The next phase in the war involved the introduction of LSD for which 
			Aldous Huxley was the designated Crown agent.
 
 Lycergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was developed in 1943 by Albert 
			Hoffman, a chemist at Sandoz A.G.  a Swiss pharmaceutical house 
			owned by S. G. Warburg. While precise documentation is unavailable 
			as to the auspices under which the LSD research was commissioned, it 
			can be safely assumed that British intelligence and its subsidiary 
			U.S. Office of Strategic Services were directly involved. Allen 
			Dulles, the director of the
 
 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 when that agency began its 
			covert LSD experiment, MK-ULTRA, was the OSS station chief in Berne, 
			Switzerland throughout the early Sandoz research. One of his OSS 
			assistants was James Warburg, of the same Warburg family, who was 
			instrumental in the 1963 founding of the Institute for Policy 
			Studies, and worked with both Huxley and Robert Hutchins. (10)
 
 In 1952, Aldous Huxley returned to the United States from Britain, 
			accompanied by Dr. Humphrey Osmond, the Huxleys' private physician. 
			Osmond had been part of a discussion group Huxley had organized at 
			the National Hospital, Queens Square, London. Along with another 
			seminar participant, J. R. Smythies, Osmond wrote Schizophrenia: A 
			New Approach, in which he asserted that mescaline  a derivative of 
			peyote mushrooms used in ancient Egyptian and Indian pagan rites  
			produced a psychotic state identical in all clinical respects to 
			schizophrenia. On this basis, Osmond and Smythies advocated 
			experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs as a means of developing a 
			"cure" for mental disorders.
 
 Osmond was brought in by Allen Dulles to play a prominent role in 
			MK-ULTRA. At the same time, Osmond, Huxley, and the 
			University of Chicago's Robert Hutchins held a series of secret 
			planning sessions in 1952-53 for a second, private LSD-mescaline 
			project under the Ford Foundation funding. (11) Hutchins, it will be 
			recalled, was the program director of the Ford Foundation during 
			this period. His LSD proposal incited such rage in Henry Ford II 
			that Hutchins was fired from the foundation the following year.
 
 It was also in 1953 that Osmond gave Huxley a supply of mescaline 
			for his personal consumption. The next year, Huxley wrote The Doors 
			of Perception, the first public manifesto of the psychedelic drug 
			cult, which claimed that hallucinogenic drugs "expand 
			consciousness."
 
 Although, through the sane intervention of Henry Ford, the Ford 
			Foundation rejected the Hutchins-Huxley proposal for private 
			foundation sponsorship of LSD, it appears that the project was not 
			dropped. Beginning in 1962, the RAND Corporation of Santa Monica 
			California began a four-year experiment in LSD, peyote, and 
			marijuana. The RAND Corporation was established simultaneously with 
			the reorganization of the Ford Foundation during 1949-50. RAND was 
			an outgrowth of the wartime Strategic Bombing Survey, a "cost 
			analysis" study of the psychological effects of random bombings of 
			German population centers. It is well known that RAND has been 
			responsible for conduiting such patently insane policies as 
			"limited thermonuclear war" and the "insanity doctrine" into the 
			U.S. Pentagon  most notably through RAND's James Schlesinger.
 
 According to the 1962 RAND Abstract, W. H. McGlothlin conducted a 
			preparatory study on "The Long lasting Effects of LSD on Certain 
			Attitudes in Normals: An Experimental Proposal." The following year, 
			McGlothlin conducted a year-long experiment on 30 human guinea pigs, 
			called "Short-Term Effects of LSD on Anxiety, Attitudes and 
			Performance." The study incredibly concluded that LSD improved 
			emotional attitudes and resolved anxiety problems. (12)
 
 
			HUXLEY AT WORK
   
			Huxley expanded his own LSD-mescaline project in 
			California by recruiting several individuals who had been initially 
			drawn
			into the cult circles he helped establish during his 1937-45 stay. 
			The two most prominent individuals were Alan Watts and Dr. Gregory 
			Bateson (the former husband of Dame Margaret Mead). Mead). 
 Watts became a self-styled "guru" of a nationwide Zen Buddhist cult 
			built around a series of his well-publicized books. Bateson, an 
			anthropologist with the OSS, became the director of a hallucinogenic 
			drug experimental clinic at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration 
			Hospital. Under Bateson's auspices, the initiating "cadre" of the 
			LSD cult  the hippies  were programmed. (13)
 
 Watts at the same time founded the Pacifica Foundation, which 
			sponsored two radio stations  WKBW in San Francisco and
			WBAI-FM in New York City. The Pacifica stations were among
			the first to push the "Liverpool Sound"  the British-imported 
			hard rock twanging of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and the 
			Animals. They would later pioneer "acid rock" and eventually 
			the avowedly fascist-psychotic "punk rock."
 
 During the fall of 1960, Huxley was appointed Visiting 
			Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 
			Boston. Around his stay in that city, Huxley created a circle at 
			Harvard parallel to his West Coast LSD team. The Harvard 
			group included Huxley, Osmond, and Watts (brought in from 
			California), Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert.
 
 The ostensible topic of the Harvard seminar was "Religion and 
			its Significance in the Modern Age." The seminar was actually a 
			planning session for the "acid rock" counterculture. Huxley 
			established contact during this Harvard period with the president
			of Sandoz, which at the time was working on a CIA contract to
			produce large quantities of LSD and psilocybin (another synthetic hallucinogenic drug) for MK-ULTRA, the CIA's official
			chemical warfare experiment. According to recently released 
			CIA documents, Allen Dulles, purchased over 100 million doses of 
			LSD  almost all of which flooded the streets of the U.S. during 
			the late 1960s. During the same period Leary began privately purchasing large quantities of LSD from Sandoz as well. (14)
 
 From the discussions of the Harvard seminar, Leary put 
			together the book The Psychedelic Experience, based on the ancient 
			cultist Tibetan Book of the Dead. It popularized Osmond's previously 
			coined mind expanding."
 
			Back in California, Gregory Bateson had maintained the Huxley 
			operation out of the Palo Alto VA hospital. Through LSD 
			experimentation on patients already hospitalized for psychological 
			problems, Bateson established a core of "initiates" into the 
			"psychedelic" Isis Cult. Foremost among his Palo Alto recruits was 
			Ken Kesey. In 1959, Bateson administered the first dose of LSD to 
			Kesey. By 1962, Kesey had completed a novel, One Flew Over the 
			Cuckoo's Nest, which popularized the notion that society is a prison 
			and the only truly "free" people are the insane. (15)
   
			Kesey 
			subsequently organized a circle of LSD initiates called "The Merry 
			Pranksters." They toured the country disseminating LSD (often 
			without forewarning the receiving parties), building up local 
			distribution connections, and establishing the pretext for a high 
			volume of publicity on behalf of the still miniscule 
			"counterculture." By 1967, the Kesey cult had disseminated such 
			quantities of LSD that a sizable drug population had emerged, 
			centered in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Here 
			Huxley collaborator Bateson set up a "free clinic." 
			   
			Among the 
			founders of the "free clinic" were: Dr. David Smith  now a "medical 
			advisor" for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana 
			Laws (NORML), an entity we shall discuss in Part V; Dr. Ernest 
			Dernberg  an active-duty military officer, probably on assignment 
			through MK-ULTRA; Roger Smith  a street gang organizer trained by 
			Saul Alinsky. During the Free Clinic period, Roger Smith was the 
			parole officer (and probable controller) of the cultist mass 
			murderer Charles Manson; Dr. Peter Bourne  formerly President 
			Carter's special
			assistant on drug abuse. Bourne did his psychiatric residency at the 
			clinic. He had previously conducted a profiling study of GI heroin 
			addicts in Vietnam. 
 The Free Clinic paralleled a project at the Tavistock Institute, the 
			psychological warfare agency for British Secret Intelligence 
			Service. Tavistock, founded as a clinic in London in the 1920s, had 
			become the Psychiatric Division of the British Army during World War 
			II under its director, Dr. John Rawlings Rees. (16)
 
 During the 1960s, the Tavistock Clinic fostered the notion that no 
			criteria for sanity exist and that psychedelic "mindexpanding" drugs 
			are valuable tools of psychoanalysis. In 1967, Tavistock sponsored a 
			Conference on the Dialectics of Liberation, chaired by Tavistock 
			psychoanalyst Dr. R. D. Laing, himself a popularized author and 
			advocate of drug use. That conference drew a number of people who 
			would soon play a prominent role in fostering terrorism; Angela 
			Davis and Stokely Carmichael were two prominent American delegates. 
			(17)
 
 Thus, by 1963, Huxley had recruited his core of "initiates." As 
			the general reader is well aware, all of them  Leary, Osmond, 
			Watts, Kesey, Alpert  were highly publicized promoters of the
			early LSD counterculture. By 1967, with the cult of "Flower 
			People" in Haight-Ashbury and the emergence of the antiwar 
			movement, the United States was ready for the inundation of 
			LSD, hashish, and marijuana that hit American college 
			campuses in the late 1960s.
 
 
			"The beating of drums ..."
 
 In 1963, the Beatles arrived in the United States, and with their 
			decisive airing on the Ed Sullivan Show, the "British sound" took 
			off in the USA. For their achievement, the four rocksters were 
			awarded the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen. 
			The Beatles and the Animals, Rolling Stones, and homicidal punk 
			rock maniacs who followed were, of course, no more a spontaneous 
			outpouring of alienated youth than was the acid culture they 
			accompanied.
 
 The social theory of rock was elaborated by British agent and 
			musicologist Theodor Adorno, who came to the United States in 1939 
			to head the Princeton University Radio Research Project
			(18)
   
			Adorno writes:  
				
				In an imaginary but psychologically emotion-laden domain, the 
			listener who remembers a hit song will turn into the song's ideal 
			subject, into the person for whom the song ideally speaks. At the 
			same time, as one of many who identify with that fictitious subject, 
			that musical I, he will feel his isolation ease as he himself feels 
			integrated into the community of "fans." In whistling such a song he 
			bows to a ritual of socialization, although beyond this 
			unarticulated subjective stirring of the moment his isolation 
			continues unchanged .... 
 The comparison with addiction is inescapable. Addicted conduct 
			generally has a social component: it is one possible reaction to the 
			atomization which, as sociologists have noticed, parallels the 
			compression of the social network. Addiction to music on the part of 
			a number of entertainment listeners would be a similar phenomenon 
			(emphasis added). (19)
 
			The Hit Parade is organized precisely on the same principles used by 
			Egypt's Isis priesthood and for the same purpose: the recruitment of 
			youth to the dionysiac counterculture. 
 In a report prepared for the University of Michigan's Institute of 
			Social Research, Paul Hirsch described the product of Adorno's Radio 
			Research Project. (20) According to Hirsch, the establishment of 
			postwar radio's Hit Parade "transformed the mass medium into an 
			agency of sub-cultural programming." Radio networks were converted 
			into round-the-clock recycling machines that repeated the top 40 
			"hits." Hirsch documents how all popular culture  movies, music, 
			books, and fashion  is now run on the same program of pre-selection.
   
			Today's mass culture operates like the opium trade: the supply 
			determines the demand. 
 
			The Vietnam war and the antiwar trap
 
 But without the Vietnam War and the British Secret Intelligence 
			Services' "antiwar" movement, the Isis Cult would have been 
			contained to a fringe phenomenon  no bigger than the beatnik cult 
			of the 1950s that was an outgrowth of the early Huxley ventures in 
			California. The Vietnam war created the climate of moral despair 
			that opened the educated elite of America's youth 
			 the first 20th-century generation raised in a climate free from 
			depression and war  to drugs.
 
 The reader has already been shown that the Kennedy Ad-ministration 
			installed in the White House by the 1960 elections was sponsored by 
			the British Round Table (see Part III). Under Kennedy, American 
			involvement in Vietnam  which had been vetoed by the Eisenhower 
			Administration  was initiated on a limited scale. Under Lyndon 
			Johnson, American military presence in Vietnam began in earnest. 
			Johnson's principal Vietnam advisor was not even American. He was a 
			British officer, Sir Robert Thompson, whose entire career had been 
			spent conducting counterinsurgency warfare in Southeast Asia.
   
			Playing on the President's "yahoo" anticommunist profile, Thompson 
			convinced President Johnson that communist insurgency had to be 
			stopped at all costs and that a strong U.S. military presence in 
			South Vietnam was necessary for that containment. Johnson, a 
			military and foreign policy incompetent whose other chief Vietnam 
			advisor, National Security Council Director Walt Rostow, held the 
			Cross of the Order of the British Empire, was dragged by the nose 
			into Vietnam by the British. 
 The British, to put it simply, had two reasons for manipulating the 
			United States into Vietnam. The first was to foster a "limited war" 
			confrontation in Southeast Asia between the United States and the 
			Soviet Union (through its North Vietnamese "surrogate") that would 
			both refuel the Cold War and effectively undercut the influence of 
			both powers in the region. The second and equally significant reason 
			was to demoralize the American people to such a degree that the 
			sense of national pride and 
			confidence in the future progress of the republic would be forever 
			shattered.
 
 Just as Aldous Huxley began the counterculture subversion of the 
			United States 30 years before its consequences became evident to the 
			public, Lord Bertrand Russell began laying the foundations for the 
			antiwar movement of the 1960s before the 1930s expired. Lord Russell 
			and Aldous Huxley co-founded the Peace Pledge Union in 1937  just 
			before both went to the United States for the duration of World War 
			II. (21)
 
 Russell's antiwar zeal, it should be noted, was a patent fraud. 
			During World War II, Lord Russell opposed British and American 
			warfare against the Nazis because he was a peripheral member of the 
			pro-Nazi Cliveden Set. In 1947, when the United States was in 
			possession of the atomic bomb and Russia was not, Russell loudly 
			advocated that the United States preemptively commence World War III 
			 against the Soviet Union. His 1950s "Ban the Bomb" 
			about-face was 
			fundamentally an anti-technology movement against the 
			peace-through-development potentials represented by President 
			Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative to the Soviets; 
			Eisenhower's 1954 proposal to the United Nations was predicated on 
			the development of thermonuclear fusion power and concomitant 
			city-building projects throughout the underdeveloped sector.
 
 From the mid-1950s on, Russell's principal assignment was to build 
			an international antiwar and anti-American movement. Coincident with 
			the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam under British 
			manipulation, Russell upgraded the old Peace Pledge Union (which had 
			been used in West Germany throughout the postwar period to promote 
			an anti-capitalist "new left" wing of the Social Democratic Party, 
			recruiting several future members of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist 
			gang in the process) into the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
 
 In the United States, New York's Our Crowd banks provided several 
			hundred thousand dollars to establish the Institute for Policy 
			Studies (IPS), as effectively the U.S. branch of the Russell Peace 
			Foundation. Among the founding trustees of the IPS was James 
			Warburg, directly representing the family's interests.
 
 
			IPS drew its most active operatives from a variety of British
			dominated institutions. IPS founding director Marcus Raskin was a 
			member of the Kennedy Administration's National Security Council and 
			also a fellow of the National Training Labs, a U.S. subsidiary of 
			the Tavistock Institute founded by Dr. Kurt Lewin.
 
 IPS in turn financed and ran the Students for a Democratic Society 
			(SDS)  the student antiwar movement  up through and beyond its 
			splintering into a number of terrorist and Maoist gangs in the late 
			1960s. (22) If one were to take the time to trace the pedigrees of 
			all of the leaders of the antiwar movement in the United States, an 
			almost unbroken pattern of either IPS or direct Russell Foundation 
			control would emerge. This is not to say that the majority of 
			antiwar protesters were paid, certified British agents. On the 
			contrary, the overwhelming majority of antiwar protesters went into 
			SDS on the basis of outrage at the developments in Vietnam and 
			subsequently got trapped.
   
			Once caught in the environment defined by 
			Russell and the Tavistock Institute's wartime psychological warfare 
			experts, their sense of values and their creative potential were 
			snatched up in a cloud of hashish smoke. 
 
			The LSD connection
 
 Who provided the drugs that swamped the antiwar movement and the 
			college campuses of the United States in the late 1960s? The 
			organized crime infrastructure  which had set up the Peking 
			Connection for the opium trade in 1928  provided the same services 
			in the 1960s and 1970s it had provided during Prohibition. This 
			was also the same network Huxley had established contact with in 
			Hollywood during the 1930s.
 
 The LSD Connection begins with one William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock. 
			Hitchcock was a graduate of the University of Vienna and a scion of 
			the millionaire Mellon banking family of Pittsburgh. (Andrew Mellon 
			of the same family had been the Treasury Secretary throughout 
			Prohibition.) In 1963, when Timothy Leary was thrown out of Harvard, 
			Hitchcock rented a 55-room mansion in Millbrook, New York where the 
			entire Leary Huxley circle of initiates was housed until its later 
			move back to California. (23)
 
 Hitchcock was also a broker for the Lansky syndicate and for the 
			Fiduciary Trust Co., Nassau, Grand Bahamas  a wholly owned 
			subsidiary of Investors Overseas Services. He was formally employed 
			by Delafield and Delafield Investments where he worked on buying and 
			selling vast quantities of stock in the Mary Carter Paint Co.  soon 
			to become Resorts International.
 
 In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus 
			Owsley Stanley III. As Owsley's agent, Hitchcock retained the law 
			firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin and Standard (24) to conduct a 
			feasibility study of several Caribbean countries to determine the 
			best location for the production and distribution of LSD and 
			hashish.
 
 During this period, Hitchcock joined Leary and his circle in 
			California. Leary had established an LSD cult called the Brother
			hood of Eternal Love and several front companies, including Mystics 
			Art World, Inc. of Laguna Beach, California. These California-based 
			entities ran lucrative trafficking in Mexican marijuana and LSD 
			brought in from Switzerland and Britain. The British connection had 
			been established directly by Hitchcock, who contracted the Charles 
			Bruce chemical firm to import large quantities of the chemical 
			components of LSD. With financing from both Hitchcock and George 
			Grant Hoag, the heir to the J.C. Penney dry goods fortune, the 
			Brotherhood of Eternal Love set up LSD and hashish 
			production-marketing operations in Costa Rica in 1968. (25)
 
 Toward the end of 1968, Hitchcock expanded the LSD-hashish 
			production operations in the Caribbean with funds provided by the 
			Fiduciary Trust Co. (IOS). In conjunction with J. Vontobel and Co. 
			of Zurich, Hitchcock founded a corporation called 4-Star Anstalt in 
			Liechtenstein. This company, employing "investment funds" (i.e., 
			drug receipts) from Fiduciary Trust, bought up large tracts of land 
			in the Grand Bahamas as well as large quantities of ergotamine 
			tartrate, the basic chemical used in the production of LSD. (26)
 
 Hitchcock's personal hand in the LSD connection abruptly ended 
			several years later. Hitchcock had been working closely with Johann 
			F. Parravacini of the Parravacini Bank Ltd. in Berne, Switzerland. 
			From 1968, they had together funded even
			further expansion of the Caribbean-California LSD-hashish ventures. 
			In the early 1970s, as the result of a Securities and Exchange 
			Commission investigation, both Hitchcock and Parravacini were 
			indicted and convicted of a $40 million stock fraud. Parravacini had 
			registered a $40 million sale to Hitchcock for which Hitchcock had 
			not put down a penny of cash or collateral. This was one of the rare 
			instances in which federal investigators succeeded in getting inside 
			the $200 billion drug fund as it was making its way around the 
			"offshore" banking system.
 
 Another channel for laundering dirty drug money  a channel 
			yet to be compromised by federal investigative agencies  is 
			important to note here. This is the use of tax-exempt foundations
			to finance terrorism and environmentalism. One immediately 
			relevant case makes the point.
 
 In 1957, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins 
			established the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 
			(CSDI) in Santa Barbara, California. Knight Commander
			Hutchins drew in Aldous Huxley, Elisabeth Mann Borghese, and
			some Rhodes Scholars who had originally been brought into the 
			University of Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s.
 
 The CSDI was originally funded (1957-61) through a several 
			million-dollar fund that Hutchins managed to set up before his
			untimely departure from the Ford Foundation. From 1961 on, the 
			Center was principally financed by organized crime. The two 
			funding conduits were the Fund of Funds, a tax-exempt front for 
			Bernie Cornfeld's IOS, and the Parvin Foundation, a parallel
			front for the Parvin-Dohrman Co. of Nevada. IOS and Parvin
			Dohrman held controlling interests in the Desert Inn, the Aladdin,
			and the Dunes  all Las Vegas casinos associated with the 
			Lansky syndicate. IOS, as already documented, was a conduiting
			vehicle for LSD, hashish, and marijuana distribution throughout 
			the 1960s. (27)
   
			In 1967 alone, IOS channeled between $3-4 million
			to the center. Wherever there is dope, there is Dope, Inc. 
 
			Notes
 
				
				IV. CREATING THE MARKET: THE BRITISH ORIGINS OF THE COUNTERCULTURE
				 
				
				
				Paul Ghalioungui, The House of Life: Magic and Medical Science in 
			Ancient Egypt (New York: Schram Enterprises Ltd., 1974). 
				
				Saint Augustine, The City of God (New York: Oxford University Press, 
			1963). 
				
				Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (New York: Oxford University 
			Press, 1935). 
				
				Martin Green, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in 
			England After 1918 (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1976). 
				
				See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
				
				
				Helena P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, A Master Key to the Mysteries of 
			Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (Los Angeles: Theosophy Co., 
			1931). 
				
				Francis King, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion (New York: Citadel, 
			1974), p. 118. 
				
				Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. 
			Knopf and Harper & Row, 1974). 
				
				Ibid. 
				
				Institute for Policy Studies, "The First Ten Years, 1963-1973," 
			Washington, D.C., 1974. 
				
				Humphrey Osmond, Understanding Understanding (New York: Harper & 
			Row, 1974). 
				
				RAND Catalogue of Documents. 
				
				
				Gregory Bateson, Steps to the Ecology of the Mind (New York: 
			Chandler, 1972). 
				
				Ralph Metzner, The Ecstatic Adventure (New York: Macmillan, 1968).
				
				
				See Ronald William Clark, The Huxleys (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968).
				
				
				Michael Minnicino, "Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory of 
			War," The Campaigner (April, 1974). 
				
				R.D. Laing et al., The Dialectics of Liberation (London: Tavistock 
			Press, 1967). 
				
				Theodor Adorno was a leading professor at the Frankfurt School of 
			Social Research in Germany, founded by the British Fabian Society. A 
			collaborator of twelve-tone formalist and British intelligence 
			operative,
			Arnold Schonberg, Adorno was brough into the United States in 1939 
			to head up the Princeton Radio Research Project. The explicit aim of 
			this project, as stated in Adorno's Introduction to the Sociology of 
			Music, was to program a mass "musical" culture that would steadily 
			degrade its consumers. Punk rock is, in the most direct sense, the 
			ultimate result of Adorno's work. 
				
				Theodor Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music (New York: 
			Seabury Press, 1976). 
				
				Paul Hirsch, "The Structure of the Popular Music Industry: The 
			Filtering Process by Which Records are Pre-selected for Public 
			Consumption," Institute for Social Research's Survey Research 
			Center Monograph, 1969. 
				
				Ronald W. Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: Alfred A. 
			Knopf, 1976), p. 457. 
				
				Illinois Crime Commission Report, 1969. The Institute for Policy 
			Studies (IPS) was established in 1963 by Marcus Raskin, a former 
			National Security Advisor under NSC Director McGeorge Bundy, and 
			Richard Barnet, a former State Department Advisor on Arms Control 
			and Disarmament. Among the Board of Trustees of IPS were Thurmond 
			Arnold, James Warburg, Philip Stern, and Hans Morgenthau, with seed 
			money from the Ford Foundation (later to be headed by McGeorge 
			Bundy). IPS has functioned as the "New Left" think tank and control 
			center for local community control, community mental health centers 
			and direct terrorist organizations, In its report "The First Ten 
			Years," the Institute lists among its lecturers and fellows members 
			of the Weathermen group, known associates of the Japanese Red Army, 
			the Puerto Rican terrorist Armed Forces of National Liberation 
			(FALN), and the Black Liberation Army. See also Carter and the Party 
			of International Terrorism, Special Report by the U.S. Labor Party, 
			August, 1976. 
				
				Mary Jo Warth, "The Story of Acid Profiteers," Village Voice, August 
			22,1974. 
				
				Ibid. 
				
				Ibid. 
				
				Ibid. 
				
				Hutchinson, Vesco.  
			
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			PART V 
			 
			The Drug Lobby 
			The Criminals Come Out in the Open
			
 
			In California, laws are now before the state legislature that would 
			decriminalize all drug use on the grounds that this would free law 
			enforcement and judicial agencies to deal with "more serious crime." 
			The sponsor of that bill is State Representative Willie Brown, a 
			paid lobbyist for Resorts International. 
 That's the tip-off to the real nature of the Drug Lobby. Britain's 
			secret army of organized crime is now out in the open demanding the 
			expansion of its dope market.
 
 Since 1973, when Watergate finished off Nixon's attempt to shut down 
			the drug trade, the Drug Lobby has succeeded in decriminalizing 
			marijuana in nine states. In every case, the result has been an 
			immediate outbreak of drug abuse of epidemic proportions. According 
			to Dr. Peter Bensinger, Director of the Drug Enforcement 
			Administration, the decriminalization of marijuana in the state of 
			Maine additionally opened the coastal area as a major smuggling 
			center for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.
 
 By the open admission of the Drug Lobbyists, legalized proliferation 
			of marijuana is just the foot-in-the-door for eventual 
			legal cocaine and heroin proliferation. Dr. Peter Bourne, who until 
			1978 was President Carter's special advisor on drug abuse, making 
			him the highest ranking federal drug enforcement officer, has 
			appeared on nationwide television to advocate national legalization 
			of cocaine.
 
 A systematic campaign to legalize heroin use has been underway since 
			1977. A bill was placed before the state legislature of Ohio and 
			narrowly defeated in committee in 1977 removing heroin from the list 
			of Category I drugs (those drugs outlawed for even medical use). New 
			Mexico and Florida  both states identified by the DEA as major 
			distribution points for heroin  have bills presently pending that 
			would, like the Ohio bill, legalize the use of heroin under medical 
			supervision in cases of terminal illness and for "experimental 
			purposes." When a similar bill was briefly enacted in New York (in 
			1919, coincident with Prohibition) , the widely documented 
			consequences were an immediate jump in heroin addiction, far in 
			excess of the number of "officially registered" patients.
 
 At present, two Zionist Lobby sponsored bills are before the 
			U.S. Congress that would nationally legalize marijuana: the 
			Javits-Koch bill and the Kennedy-authored S.1437 which thoroughly 
			overhauls the Federal Criminal Codes on a British "common law" 
			basis.
 
 
			Kennedy's drug-death Cult
 
 The U.S. Drug lobby is run out front by the Most Venerable 
			Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
 
 In the 11th century, the Knights-Hospitallers had organized hospices 
			as a "death cult" where the sick were administered hallucinogenic 
			drugs instead of medical treatment. The hospices became known as the 
			dissemination point for drugs and lethal poisons, often targeted at 
			the Knights' humanist adversaries.
 
 In 1967, the Order of St. John resurrected the 11th century hospice movement at St. Christopher's Hospice in London. Here,
			"patients" are administered a "pain-killer" called the Brompton
			Mixture. It consists of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, tranquilizers, and
			chloroform water. It is administered every three hours  until the 
			patient dies. (1)
 
 In 1977, the Order of St. John launched a hospice movement in the 
			United States. It advocates the decriminalization of heroin and 
			cocaine  on the "humanitarian" grounds that everyone has the human 
			right to die as he or she sees fit.
 
 To propagate the hospice movement here, the Order founded the 
			National Committee on the Treatment of Intractable Pain (NCTIP). Its 
			honorary chairman is Lady Mary Ward, a British specialist in the 
			hospice movement who founded Hospice, Inc. in Connecticut as the 
			first operating "death clinic" in the U.S. The director of the NCTIP 
			is another British national, Arthur Trebach. A professor at the 
			Center for the Administration of Justice at the American University 
			in Washington, D.C., Trebach is also the Director of the Institute 
			on Drugs, Crime and Justice in Britain. For the past five years, 
			Trebach has sponsored hundreds of U.S. medical students, 
			professional physicians, and others for special indoctrination 
			sessions at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 
			University of London. The theme of the session is the "success" of 
			Britain's policy of legalizing heroin in curbing the illegal drug 
			problem. (2)
 
 In the United States, the Hospice, Inc. is financed by the Kaiser 
			Foundation, which includes on its board Kingman Brewster, current 
			U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James and also a member of the 
			Order of St. John. The Kaiser Foundation's participation in 
			Britain's Opium War dates back to at least 1958, when Dr. Timothy 
			Leary conducted his first experiments with LSD at the Foundation's 
			Kaiser Experimental Hospital in San Francisco.
 
 The other institution currently involved in financing the hospice 
			project is the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute for the Study of 
			Human Reproduction and Bioethics at Georgetown University. (3)
 
 In October, 1978, the first annual National Hospice Organizing 
			Meeting took place in Washington, D.C.; the two keynote 
			speakers were Senator Edward Kennedy, now chairman of the 
			Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate 
			Public Health Committee, and Secretary of Health, Education 
			and Welfare Joseph Califano.
 
 The Order of St. John also maintains significant influence on the 
			board of directors of the Ford Foundation, the world's largest tax 
			exempt funding conduit for dionysian cults. On the board are John 
			Loudon, a Commander in the Knights of St. John, the chairman of 
			Royal Dutch Shell, and the present President of the World Wildlife 
			Fund (the funding conduit for the terrorist component of the 
			environmentalist movement worldwide) (4) and Eugene Black, another 
			Knight and former director of the World Bank. The foundation's 
			current policy thrust was charted during the 1951-54 period when its 
			associate director and policy formulator was Knights Commander 
			Robert M. Hutchins, whom we met earlier as a controller of the 
			Capone mob.
 
 The Ford Foundation gives multimillion dollar annual grants directly 
			to the Royal Institute of International Affairs; it is also the 
			principal funder of the Drug Lobby in the U.S. In 1972, the 
			Foundation established the Drug Abuse Council with a $1 million war 
			chest which has been refilled every year since. (5)
 
 As its first public act, the Drug Abuse Council issued a widely 
			circulated report advocating the decriminalization of marijuana, a 
			tenfold increase in methadone (synthetic heroin) clinics, and the 
			British system of legalized government-sponsored heroin addiction. 
			Following the release of that report, the Kaiser Foundation and 
			the Commonwealth Fund established a matching fund that more than 
			doubled the annual revenues available to the Drug Abuse Council to 
			push drug legalization.
 
 
			Jacob Javits and organized crime
 
 From this level down, the so-called "liberal" drug decriminalization 
			lobby is thoroughly interlocked with organized crime, by those 
			forces whose monetary interest lies in the expansion of the drug 
			market.
 
 The interlock is keyed around the Zionist Lobby, and more precisely 
			around the person of Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.). It has been 
			reported by several knowledgeable sources that Senator Javits gets 
			his orders several times a week at private
			planning briefing sessions at a number of exclusive New York City 
			apartments. Among those present are Arthur Ross of London's 
			International Institute for Strategic Studies and a subagent of 
			Rio Tinto Zinc's Mark Turner, Rio Tinto Zinc's Sam Harris, Nahum 
			Bernstein of the Jerusalem Foundation, and Warburg, Pincus's Henry 
			Simon Bloch. This, in turn, is the same circle that maintains 
			ownership of the Bronfman family.
 
 Startling evidence of this Bronfman-Javits relationship surfaced in 
			1977 when bribery and extortion were employed to pass a marijuana 
			decriminalization bill through the New York State Legislature and to 
			subsequently cover up the findings of a legislative investigating 
			committee that showed a 300 percent jump in adolescent marijuana 
			abuse in the state following decrim. As the sponsor since 1968 of 
			legislation to federally decriminalize marijuana, Javits (along with 
			cosponsor Edward Koch, now Mayor of New York City) was the most 
			outspoken organizer for the New York State marijuana legalization 
			bill.
 
 During the 1977 legislative session, the bill was defeated. In an 
			unprecedented move pushed by the senior U.S. Senator, Governor 
			Carey personally conducted a pressure campaign on behalf of a 
			reintroduced version of the same bill, which passed by one vote in 
			June, 1977. The decisive vote was cast by a severely ill 
			hospitalized member of the legislature who was helicoptered back and 
			forth from his sickbed by state police on personal orders from the 
			Governor.
 
 These extraordinary measures were perhaps clarified several weeks 
			later when Edgar Bronfman made a personal "loan" to Carey of 
			$350,000 to pay off the Governor's outstanding 1974 campaign debts. 
			The loan was in violation of state and federal campaign financing 
			laws.
 
 Like the Bronfman family itself, Javits's direct connections to 
			organized crime and drug trafficking run deep. According to 
			affidavits on file from the Internal Revenue Service and the 
			Securities and Exchange Commission, Javits functions as a listening 
			post and conduit of classified government information for the Lansky 
			syndicate.
 
 In one recently publicized incident, Javits provided Lansky and 
			other crime figures with information on IRS moves to secretly
			shut down a multibillion dollar tax loophole that enabled mob investors in the domestic coal industry to claim 500 percent tax 
			write-offs on their investments. Through Javits's "tip" Lansky and 
			Co. made a huge, final move to take over the independent coal 
			operators 24 hours before the new codes went into effect. Another 
			crime figure implicated in the coal industry killing was Richard
			L. Herring, a Georgia-based intermediary of Robert Vesco. In ad
			dition to his involvement in the creation of the offshore Caribbean 
			"dirty money" apparatus through Investors Overseas Services, Vesco 
			is a known collaborator of Lansky's in running the Caribbean Silver 
			Triangle drug traffic in heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. (6)
 
 Javits's links to Lansky and Vesco surfaced in yet another context 
			in October, 1978. After a several ton marijuana bust off the coast 
			of Massachusetts, the defendants were represented in court by James 
			Lawson, the head of the state chapter of the National Organization 
			for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). NORML is the principal 
			public lobby for the decriminalization of marijuana and addictive 
			drugs in the U.S. Sitting on its Advisory Board is Sen. Jacob 
			Javits. Evidence surfaced in the course of the trial that the front 
			money for the captured marijuana shipment had been provided by 
			Meyer Lansky and Robert Vesco. (7)
 
 Should there be any lingering doubt in the reader's mind that Javits 
			is a witting conspirator in the campaign to poison the country 
			through drugs, the following should be considered. From 1940 to 1942 
			Javits was the Assistant to the Chief of Chemical Warfare, Office of 
			Strategic Services. From 1954 to 1956, as New York State Attorney 
			General, Javits administered a clandestine experiment on the effects 
			of LSD in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency. At least 
			one active duty military officer died as the result of being given 
			an unsolicited dose of LSD  an incident which Javits covered up and 
			which only came to light through recent Freedom of Information Act 
			disclosures. (8)
 
 Javits is, of course, the unofficial public head of the Zionist 
			Lobby in the United States. He is the National Chairman of the 
			Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and a board member of the 
			American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, and 
			the Amer-Israel Cultural Foundation.
 
 
			Kennedy's NORML
 
 Next to Jacob Javits, the most outspoken drug lobbyist in 
			Washington, D.C. is Senator Edward Kennedy, the sponsor of the other 
			pending marijuana decriminalization bill. As the new chairman of the 
			Senate Judiciary Committee, Kennedy has necessarily steered away 
			from Javits's open lobbying posture on behalf of drugs in order to 
			maintain a modicum of credibility among the powerful law enforcement 
			lobby. Yet the Kennedy family is directly represented on NORML's 
			advisory board by ex-brother-in-law Peter Lawford.
 
 Like Javits, Kennedy too is up to his neck in Lansky-Vesco offshore 
			criminal activities. At the top of Kennedy's 1976 campaign 
			contributors list is Joseph Linsey, a leading Zionist Lobby 
			"philanthropist," who is also known as the kingpin of organized 
			crime in New England. Linsey is a business partner of Meyer Lansky 
			in the International Airport Hotel Distributing, Inc.
 
 The Kennedy fortunes are even more directly linked to Lansky through 
			the already documented Resorts International-Intertel interface. 
			Nowhere is this interface more evident than in New Jersey, where a 
			combination of Justice Department "water-gating specialists" teamed 
			with a $1 million Resorts International lobbying and payoff 
			campaign to legalize casino gambling.
 
 New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne, who was recruited out of the 
			Essex County Prosecutor's office by the Kennedy Justice hands and 
			installed in the Governor's mansion, is a nationally prominent 
			spokesman for drug decriminalization. As Chairman of the Law 
			Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) National Advisory 
			Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, Byrne 
			commissioned a series of studies supporting decriminalization of 
			marijuana and casino gambling.
 
 NORML, the clearinghouse organization for the various local 
			dionysian cults and Zionist Lobby "liberal" legislators, is itself a 
			thinly veiled cover through which the poisoning influence of organized crime is extended into the high schools and neighborhoods 
			of the country. NORML is virtually indistinguishable from the drug 
			cult-pornographic magazine High Times, which boasts a
			several hundred thousand circulation predominantly among high school 
			age drug users.
   
			The magazine features dozens of pages of 
			advertisements for drug paraphernalia, instructions on the 
			production and use of legal and illicit drugs, and pornographic 
			photographs and interviews with various "high priests" of the drugrock cult. Through the revenues of High Times, through an 
			average of $100,000 per year in tax exempt grants from the Playboy 
			Foundation, and through "frequent anonymous contributions from drug 
			dealers," NORML is financed. (9) 
 The Advisory Board of NORML includes (in addition to Javits and 
			Peter Lawford): Max Palevsky, chairman of the board of the Xerox 
			Corporation; Hugh Hefner, owner of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.; 
			William F. Buckley Jr.; Burton Joseph, Director of the Playboy 
			Foundation; Canon Walter D. Dennis of the Cathedral of St. John the 
			Divine in New York City, the " temple and headquarters" of the Order 
			of St. John of Jerusalem in the United States; and Stewart Mott, 
			heir to the General Motors fortune.
 
 NORML's general counsels Michael Kennedy and Gerald Lefcourt, are 
			also connected to terrorism through their defense of the Puerto 
			Rican FALN (Armed Forces for National Liberation) and 
			Weather underground leader Mark Rudd.
 
 
			Notes
 
				
				V. THE DRUG LOBBY  
				
				
				Karen Steinherz and Marie Mendez, "The Hospice Movement -Taking the 
			Pain Out of Genocide," New Solidarity, Vol. IX, No. 62, October 6, 
			1978. See also Sandol Stoddard, The Hospice Movement (Briarcliff 
			Manor, New York: Stein & Day, 1978). 
				
				Seminar listings for the Fifth Institute on Drugs, Crime and Justice 
			in Britain, held in London in July 1978. The Institute has held five 
			such annual conferences at the Imperial College of the University of 
			London, bringing American university students and American public 
			health officials to study drug abuse in Britain and the "British 
			Model" of treatment. 
				
				Steinherz and Mendez, op. cit.
				
				
				Who's Who in America (Chicago: Marquis, 1974); Annual Reports of the 
			World Wildlife Fund of America, 1976 and 1977; see also, The 
			Foundation Directory, 5th Edition (New York: The Foundation Center).
				
				
				Ford Foundation Annual Reports, 1972-78, and The Drug Abuse Council 
			Annual Reports, 1972-77. 
				
				NBC-TV News broadcast transcript, "Coal Fraud," Reporters Ross and 
			Silverman, September, 1978. 
				
				Federal District Court Records of the First Circuit Court, Boston, 
			Massachusetts. Additional information was provided on drug charges 
			by New England-based officials of the Drug Enforcement 
			Administration in September, 1978. 
				
				In 1976, following Congressional hearings into the intelligences 
			community, the files pertaining to the Central Intelligence Agency's 
			MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE programs were released to the 
			public. The FOIA documents reveal extensive details of the CIA and 
			Army's experiments with mind control techniques including LSD. In 
			1977, Renee J. Roberts, the daughter of Harold Bauer who died as the 
			result of a dosage of a hallucinogenic drug administered to him at 
			the New York State Psychiatric Institute as part of an 
			Army-contracted experiment, began a civil damages suit against 
			offiicials responsible for failing to investigate the circumstances 
			of her father's death. Sen. Jacob Javits is a defendant in that 
			suit, stemming from his position as New York State Attorney General 
			at the time of Bauer's death. 
				
				Interview with Keith Stroup, Playboy Magazine, 1978; see also issues 
			of NORML Newsletter describing anonymous contributions. 
 
			
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			Epilogue
 
 On October 18,1978, the authors of this book met in Washington, 
			D.C., with eight officials of the Federal Reserve Board of 
			Governors, including Mr. John E. Ryan, director of Banking 
			Supervision and Regulation, and Mr. Robert Mannion, director of the 
			Board of Governors' legal department. Present were two lawyers for 
			the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, including the HongShang's chief 
			legal counsel in the United States, Mr. Steuart
 
 L. Pittman. At this meeting, the authors presented evidence 
			incriminating the HongShang in the international narcotics traffic 
			and argued that the Federal Reserve should block HongShang's 
			proposed acquisition of 51 percent of the shares of the $20 billion 
			Marine Midland Bank of New York. On October 25, a similar meeting 
			was held with officials of the New York State Banking Authority, 
			including New York State Deputy Superintendent of Banking William 
			Heany.
 
 Also, portions of the manuscript have circulated in photostat form 
			for several weeks prior to publication through the State Department, 
			Treasury Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and related 
			enforcement and regulatory agencies.
 
 In public meetings and radio and television appearances in a dozen 
			cities in the United States, the authors have outlined the contents 
			of this book before a broad and diverse audience. Through these 
			various channels, word has gotten out.
 
 Most readers will have asked themselves the question that the 
			authors have been asked often in the course of this report's 
			preparation: "How will the powerful men who stand behind the 
			narcotics traffic react to this exposure?" The answer is already 
			evident, at least in part. On November 11, European collaborators of the U.S. Labor Party team conducted a public meeting in 
			Paris to present the results of the investigation. The meeting was 
			attacked by 20 hooded and armed members of the fascist organization, 
			Betar. French police were on guard and prevented injuries to members 
			of the audience, but one policeman was injured by the assault. The 
			French authorities believe that the attack was ordered by the 
			Mossad, Israel's foreign secret service. The Betar was founded in 
			the 1930s by Yakob Jabotinsky, a Polish Zionist who modeled himself 
			on Benito Mussolini, and who was the mentor of present Israeli Prime 
			Minister Menachem Begin. Undoubtedly, the decision to launch an 
			attack against not only the collaborators of the authors, but the 
			French police  who know well how to deal with such matters  
			indicates a great fear in the perpetrators of the narcotics traffic.
 
 What this report has intersected, however, goes far beyond the petty 
			thuggery of the Mossad. Discreetly, officials of the HongShang 
			warned the authors shortly after the cited meetings in Washington 
			what would happen to the United States if they persisted: "You know, 
			of course," an official said, "that the British government has made 
			representations to the American authorities on behalf of the 
			HongShang, which is after all a British bank. American banks have 
			had pretty much a free run of it all in London, and we British 
			rather feel that we should have the same privileges here. If the 
			American authorities give us any trouble, the Bank of England will 
			start exhuming skeletons from the closets of the American banks."
 
 In fact, the British had already surfaced an undercover agent in New 
			York's Citibank in mid-July, a junior official named David Edwards, 
			who sued the bank for $14 million and made numerous allegations of 
			illegal money transfer operations. Recently, after the HongShang 
			official made the statement quoted above, the Edwards case has taken 
			a new turn. On November 5, Katharin Graham's Washington Post added 
			major new expose material to Edwards's original allegations, citing 
			its own sources inside Citibank. The authors have learned that 
			Katharin Graham is personally directing Edwards's appearances before 
			one Senate and three House of Representatives committees.
 
 Coming at a time when the British banks are making a massed bid to 
			acquire American banking assets, the inside-outside job against 
			Citibank is ominous. Apart from the HongShang's cited plan to 
			acquire Marine Midland, the Canadian Bank of Montreal wants to buy 
			out 81 retail branches of New York's Bankers Trust; Standard and 
			Chartered Bank wants to buy up the $3 billion Union Bank of 
			Caliornia; and buy-out attempts or branch office openings are in the 
			works involving Barclays Bank, National Westminster Bank, Bank 
			Leumi, Bank Hapoalim, and other financial institutions implicated in 
			the world narcotics traffic. An invasion is on against the already 
			weakened American monetary system, and the evidence suggests that 
			the British dope-runners are deliberately seeking to destabilize 
			American banks to further this invasion.
 
 Apart from the dirty tricks operations aimed at American banks, 
			numerous other attempts will emerge from the dope-traffickers to 
			cushion themselves from the impact of this report. Lower-level 
			operatives, expendable portions of the network may be sacrificed, 
			the way that assassins like Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan were 
			sacrificed by their masters.
 
 But the enemy cannot recoup what it has lost. The $200 billion dope 
			trade cannot be hidden; it can only be protected through 
			misdirection. The web of lies now hangs in tatters. If the American 
			public forces its legislators and law enforcement officials to act, 
			Dope, Inc.'s defense will no longer avail. The first blood has 
			already been drawn from a group of gentlemen who have been long 
			accustomed to working at a distance from the combat zone. The terms 
			of the battle have been redrawn to make an American victory 
			possible.
 
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			Konstandinos Kalimtgis
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			David Goldman
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			Jeffrey Steinberg
 New York City
 
			November 17,1978
 
			
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