Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

of the billion dollar Da Nang airport and the vast naval
facilities built in Viet Nam by Lyndon B. Johnson's
financial backers, Brown & Root.
One explanation of the fall of French Indo China was a
behind the scenes struggle to control the dope trade in
Asia. Alfred McCoy points out that during World War II,
Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky secretly worked for the
OSS. Through their influence, the OSS became deeply
involved in dope running. After the war, Lansky moved
the headquarters of the dope traffic to Miami, where Paul
Helliwell, OSS chief of special operations in Asia, was
his front man. Helliwell also operated a CIA front in
Miami called Sea Supply, Inc.; one of his agents was
Howard Hunt. Helliwell later served as paymaster for CIA
sponsorship of the Bay of Pigs operation. He opened
secret accounts for American mobsters in Miami banks,
working closely with Sandro Trafficante and Louis
Chesler. Chesler handled Meyer Lansky's real estate
investments.
The involvement of the Mob in dope running goes back
to well before the murder of Arnold Rothstein. Although
Rothstein was widely known as a gambler, this was a
cover for his rise to eminence as "Mr. Big" of the U.S.
drug trade. After he was shot in 1928, Louis Lepke, head
of Murder Inc., confiscated over $5 million worth of
heroin from Rothstein's hotel room.
Former OSS Col. Paul Helliwell became head of the
prestigious Miami law firm, Helliwell, Melrose and