HI all,
    Hey, anyone ever heard of Kaliningrad? Where the Soviet's had their main
fleet I think? Apparently this is the biggest route of drugs into Europe, as
they transit this port through the Russian mob's hands. The Balkans route is
the one that gets attention, but what about the Russians? (other than for you
Mike)

Here are some clips from a couple notes to me from a friend on this issue, on
the FARC getting their arms from the Russians, then washing their money
through the NY banks, as I recently quoted Mike saying in an article for HT.
Peace,
    Preston

"Virtually all the Russian ordnance that moves into Colombia goes
across the docks at Turbo in Uraba State on the Caribbean, and Uraba State
is run entirely, lock, stock and gunbarrel, by the rightwing Autodefensas
militias of Carlos Castano. Which means that the initial coke-for-arms
exchanges in Colombia are necessarily brokered originally by thugs under
Castano's effective jurisdiction. The FARC actually gets most of its
ordnance smuggled in the back way, through Ecuador and Peru, I understand,
and they pay for all this snuff stuff with money, not directly with
cocaine. Which means that when it comes to DIRECT dope-for-arms
transactions, it's Castano's rightwingers who rightfully ought to get
lambasted and finger-pointed in print for it. Whereas the poor FARC has to
take its cocaine money and wash it a couple times before they pay for guns
with it. Of course, they're paying it to exactly the same Russian thugs who
are moving arms through Turbo to Castano's people, so it all gets horribly
complicated and economically incestuous, and I don't believe it makes
enough of a difference that we have to bother elucidating the difference
here--as long as we're aware of the difference ourselves, anyhow."

"When it comes to dope moving from Colombia to Russia, the
one place which the US State Department has NOT made a big deal of
fingering is this little patch of Russian territory between Latvia and
Poland that used to be called Ekaterinberg, or Ykaterinberg, I forget the
spelling exactly. (note-This is Kaliningrad he means here, as he wrote me to
correct himself later-Preston) It's a little chunk of property on the Baltic
Sea (or
maybe the North Sea), all to itself, unconnected to Russia, which the
Russians have controlled as sovereign territory since the late 1800s or
thereabouts. All it really is, see, is the home port of the main Russian
naval fleet. And as soon as the USSR broke up ten years ago, the Russian
naval commanders there went straight into business with the old Medellin
cartel, it seems. So when you hear about Colombian cocaine being moved by
submarines, that's where the subs came from. And so on. Anyhow, this little
far-flung chunk of Russia has its own congressfolk in Moscow, its own
governor, and its own protectors tight with the Kremlin inner
circle--Voloshin and Berezovsky and those thugs. And NOBODY makes a big
deal about it, including the high and mighty US Department of State. I got
the impression that if somebody in the Alternative Press were to look into
Ekaterinberg (or whatever it's called nowadays) (Kaliningrad-Preston) and
start drawing attention
to it, the bowels of the Mighty here in the US government might be
disturbed exceedingly.

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