-Caveat Lector- forwarded.. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Richard Arnholt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] What? Does anyone have any information regarding the recent Iranian investment in a meat processing plant in Farclandia (Colombia) that Stratfor recently mentioned? The growing terrorism/narcotics nexus is of particular interest to me. Groups around the world are waking up to the fact that they can get better return in the cocaine market that in the stock market, with considerably less regulatory hassle (though recent evidence of stock manipulation by Russian groups in NYC shows that not even that is safe). Campaigns by sub-national groups will be increasing funded in the same way we helped the Taliban fund their efforts against the Soviets and the IRA funded a large part of their operation against the British - drugs. The revolution in information technologies has been taken advantage of by criminal interests. They are the real winners in the "global economy". Continuing advances in "digi-cash" in an attempt to eradicate transaction costs are doing nothing but enabling the people that we claim to be trying to fighting. An article in today's Financial Times - US: Russian mafia link to campaign funds by Thomas Cat�n in New York - http://ft.com/hippocampus/q30efea.htm shows that the press is finally picking up on the obvious: mafia money has impacted our political system directly. There are no far fetched conspiracy theories necessary to support this. Once money is laundered, it's clean and the bad guys can do whatever they want with it. That includes piling cash into our political system. If you hadn't seen, this is a good article detailing the severity of the impact that "dirty money" is having on the economy. http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,111990,00.html Excerpt from the Guardian: Mafia money vanishes into black hole of cyberspace Rory Carroll in Rome and Dan Atkinson Wednesday December 8, 1999 The Sicilian mafia is convulsing world stock markets by laundering hundreds of millions of pounds undetected through the internet, Italian police have revealed. Vast sums are dissolving into cyberspace and reappearing as stocks and shares in a criminal hijacking of electronic commerce. Surges in stock markets and even the euro's rollercoaster ride are being attributed to the mafia's mastery of online trading and banking. If anyone knows where I might find a translation of the Italian police report in which this information was "revealed", I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Richard Arnholt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
