Over 100 on the American ‘Empire’ with the help of the declining British used heroin not only destabilizes governments in South East Asia, including Premier Gough Whittlam’s Labour government in Australia but in a crude battle of the Cold-War to defeat Communism.

In 1988 I interviewed President Carter’s former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner about the Iranian Hostages. But used the opportunity to ask why the ONI [Office of Naval Intelligence] had cut a deal in 1943 with the notorious Mafia gangster ‘Lucky’ Luciano who was serving 57 years in ‘Sing-Sing’ prison in up state New York for white slave trade [running prostitutes].

A deal was made secretly that if the Mafia used it’s ‘influence’ to defeat the Nazi filth columnists on the East Coast harbors which the Mafia controlled using trade unions he would be released.

In 1947 Lucky Luciano was released from an American jail and lived in exile, still running the New York Mafia, from his traditional home Sicily.

I asked Admiral Stan Turner was this deal a way that led to the post war explosion of narcotics? And today’s problems with narcotics can be directly related to this pernicious deal…he shrugged his shoulders. I again asked the the relationship with the KMT ‘Kuomintang’ the anti-communists of China who now dealt in opium and heroin?

His reply was chilling ‘In this business son we have to get into bed with some unsavory characters’ . I looked in amazement…’Heroin dealers?’ He again just shrugged his shoulders in acknowledgement.

Regards

Maria

Thanks for making a radio show about St Ives, I’m looking forward to it, we need all the publicity we can get these days ! In case it’s of any interest I made a video about my hometown – the link is above of Google ‘Slices of St Ives’.

All the best

Tony