Latin American Cartels Backed by Russia and Israel
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Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America: Internet Archive
BBC NEWS | 1998 | How Russia's mafia is taking over Israel's underworld
Commander Meir Gilboa, chief of the Israeli Serious Crime Unit, has noticed the increasing activity of Russian gangsters. He says: "They come here because in Israel it's easy to carry out their illegal activities. "There is no law against money laundering or belonging to an illegal organisation. "It's easy for Jews to receive Israeli citizenship. If they are not Jews they are smart enough to forge documents in order to become citizens. They feel much safer here than in Russia."
Red Cocaine, The Soviet Drugging of America and the West (lander.odessa.ua)
Ex-agent of the Mossad Implicated in Drug Deals with Panamanian - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org) April 14, 1988
Origin of Drug Warfare Operations Against the United States (substack.com)
Israel and China a ‘Marriage Made in Heaven,’ Says Netanyahu – The Diplomat
Deported from Colombia, alleged Israeli kingpin arrested at Ben Gurion airport | The Times of Israel 28 November 2017
The Israeli had allegedly been running a resort hotel near the northern Colombian town of Santa Marta, where he had set up a drug and sex crime ring. The Hotel Benjamin, in the fishing village of Taganga, was an attraction for many Israelis on their post-army travels but was unpopular with local residents due to the activities associated with it. His operations also extended into Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico, local media reported.
Ben-Mosh and his partners were suspected of drug dealing, forcing minors into prostitution, and tax evasion, Hebrew media reported over the weekend when the expulsion order against him was issued. Ben-Mosh had tried unsuccessfully to prevent his deportation from Columbia, including by applying to become a resident.
Portugal releases Israeli wanted for murder of compatriot in Colombia | The Times of Israel 26 July 2019
A Portuguese judge has released an Israeli man who is wanted in Colombia for the murder of another Israeli and the sexual exploitation of underage girls.
The Lisbon Appeals Tribunal ordered Assi Ben-Mosh released from jail on June 28 after more than a month in custody…
According to the Israeli site Posta, Colombia failed to present any evidence linking Mosh to the disappearance and suspected murder in Colombia of Ofer Hazan, who was Mosh’s competitor as a party organizer in the Colombian resort town of Taganga. Hazan went missing in February 2018.
Drug Smuggling Into Israel Is at an All-time High. Good News for Terrorists - Israel News - Haaretz.com Jan 9, 2023
Former Mossad agent arrested for dealing marijuana - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
How Opioids Were Used as Weapons During the Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis | HISTORY
14 Israelis suspected of running child sex trafficking ring in Colombia | The Times of Israel
Narcos' secret weapon is WhatsApp: it is difficult to tap (mexiconewsdaily.com)
Israel Becomes Major Hub in the International Cocaine Trade, Abuse Rising - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com Oct 19, 2013
How Israel helped Latin America’s death squads – part 1 – Middle East Monitor June 21, 2018
How Israel armed the drugs cartels – part 1 – Middle East Monitor July 11, 2018
High Times in Zion: An Israeli History of Drugs - Israel News - Haaretz.com Nov 22, 2020
In May 1955, Zena Harman, who was at the time a member of the Israeli mission to the United Nations in New York, sent a coded, secret cable to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. The diplomat immediately alerted the ministry to the fact that she had learned from reliable sources that the Arab League was preparing a report, to be submitted to the 10th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, alleging that Israel was deeply complicit in the Levant drug trade in Egypt.
Harman’s information was correct. Shortly afterward, Brig. Abdel Aziz Safwat, who headed the Arab League’s anti-narcotics bureau, did in fact submit the report to the UN commission, in time for its meeting. As expected, the report was scathingly damning of Israel, accusing it of two interrelated methods of “drug poisoning” the Arabs in general and the Egyptians in particular, as well as Europeans and Americans. The first alleged method was ambitious and expensive, requiring unusual infrastructure and expertise, but also highly cunning in nature; the second was simpler and more economical.
Safwat described the first method as follows: “It seems certain that there are small factories in Israel for manufacturing cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs, and that it has been arranged to smuggle these drugs to certain countries in the Middle East and to certain European countries, using false labels bearing names of respectable firms. It has also arranged to smuggle ‘white’ drugs to the United States of America by sea via Cyprus, Genoa and Marseille, and by air by means usually arriving from Israel.”
Similar accusations were made in the years that followed, and they resonated in the Egyptian press. The important daily Al Ahram wrote that during the Sinai Campaign (1956), hashish smugglers, probably Bedouin from the Negev who were seized by the Egyptian army, had told their interrogators that soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces had given them permission to continue to Egypt with the smuggled drugs. According to the newspaper, “the Jews used military vehicles to transfer [hashish] to the desert during the period of [Sinai’s] occupation.”
Although in 1954 Israeli police did discover that cannabis was grown in various transit camps around the country, the claim that hashish was not smuggled abroad was a lie – part of the propaganda war that was conducted between Israel and Egypt. Hashish in large, not negligible, quantities was smuggled from Lebanon via Israel into Egypt, which was then the Jewish state’s largest and most dangerous enemy…
A 1947 report of the Palestine Police found that “hashish and opium are the main drugs illegally transported through Palestine for the onward passage to Egypt, in the majority of cases . . . hashish arriving from Syria and the Lebanon.”
Besides having no regard for borders, the smugglers were also not confined by religion or nationality. Not only Arabs but also Greeks, Italians, Bulgarians and Cypriots, to name but a few, were involved in transporting the contraband, and occasionally also British soldiers and officers stationed in bases in Palestine and Egypt.
From time to time, as official and press reports attest, names with a Jewish ring to them were involved in drug-smuggling operations – for example, David Shamai, Theodor Shamit and Alexander Rudintzki. Some of them joined up with Arab gangs and cooperated with them.
Who were the consumers in Palestine?
“One result of the new trade route from Lebanon and Syria to Egypt was a considerable rise in the drug’s consumption among the urban working class of Arabs in Palestine – confirming that proximity, familiarity and availability often played a part.
The Zionist aversion to hashish, writes Ram, drawing also on a study by Dr. Ofri Ilany, was also bound up with a perceived threat to the masculine conception of the “New Jew.” For this reason, hashish dens, cafés and brothels, where Arabs could connect with one another and intermingle socially while smoking hashish, were considered a national and political threat.
According to documents of Shai, the intelligence unit of the Haganah, the pre-independence army of the Yishuv, the breakaway militant organizations – the Irgun and Lehi – which did not heed the policy of the official leadership, were involved in drug-smuggling operations.
A report in the newspaper Maariv on May 11, 1948, three days before Israel declared its independence, stated that “Zionist organizations smuggled arms from Lebanon and Syria” with the aid of money acquired from hashish transactions. Three years earlier, Hatzofeh, the newspaper of the national-religious movement, reported that a “Jewish military gang” (a reference to the Irgun or Lehi) had been arrested in Egypt for “smuggling hashish and opium on a large scale.”
According to other information, to underwrite the Jewish war effort of the underground organizations in 1945, hashish was smuggled in a plane flying between Egypt and Palestine. In 1964, journalist Aviezer Golan reported in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth about “rumors” that “the Irgun was engaged in hashish smuggling to Egypt to finance its war.”
But the declared disgust with drug abuse did not prevent Israel’s security services from using drugs for their purposes. The connection between intelligence communities and drugs is global in nature. There are testimonies in the media and from official documents that the American CIA, the British MI6, the Soviet KGB, Syrian generals in Lebanon, military personnel in Burma and other intelligence agencies traded in drugs or ignored the existence of such commerce when they thought it would serve their purposes. Terrorist and underground organizations, such as Taliban in Afghanistan, the IRA in Northern Ireland and Hezbollah in Lebanon grow, process, distill and disseminate drugs to underwrite their activity.
IDF Officer Arrested Over NIS 2.5 Million Drug-trafficking Scandal - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com
Soviet spies infiltrate Mossad, sources say - UPI Archives
One analyst said Israel's 'right-wing' Jews are involved with spying for the Soviets and called it 'ironic,' noting that left-wing elements were responsible for similar scandals in the past…
Asked to describe the Israeli-Sovet spies, an administration intelligence source said: 'They are highly placed agents in the top echelon of Mossad.' The source also said the infiltration has occurred at 'very significant levels…'
Israel apparently was first used as a base for Soviet agents in the early 1960s, when Professor Kurt Sitte, a nuclear physicist at the Institute of Technology at Haifa, was exposed as a Soviet agent.
Sitte, a specialist in cosmic radiation working with the U.S. Air Force, was convicted in 1961. A subsequent case was uncovered the following year. Dr. Israel Beer, a former aide to the chief of staff of the Israeli army, was arrested after he became liaison officer on intelligence to then Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion…
U.S. intelligence analysts said the latest penetration by Soviet agents occurred in the early 1980s under the administration of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.
The sources said they were aware of 'reports' of meetings between Israeli and Soviet officials on Cyprus, a well-known base for Soviet espionage operations against Israel.
Administration officials confirmed that the island nation's capital, Nicosia, is animportant KGB base and a meeting place for Soviet agents operating in Middle Eastern countries such as Israel.
A U.S. intelligence analyst said he was not surprised that the Soviets had placed agents in the Sharon government because Sharon 'surrounded himself with people who were extraordinarily vulnerable to penetration.'
Top Israeli officials were part of KGB spy ring -- report | The Times of Israel 26 October 2016
KGB Infiltrated Highest Echelons of Israel’s Army, Business, and Political Leadership – Tikun Olam (richardsilverstein.com)
Former Israeli double agent shot dead near Putin's office (telegraph.co.uk) 03 November 2009
Kalmanovich, who later became a prominent businessman and allegedly had links with the Russian mafia, died after an unidentified gunman fired at least 20 shots into his chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benz. Mr Kalmanovich's driver was seriously wounded in the incident…
After becoming an Israeli citizen, he joined the Israeli Labour Party, was appointed to a position in the government press office and became a mole for the KGB.
Lieberman Appointed Israeli KGB Agent to Senior Government Role, Then He Disappeared – Tikun Olam (richardsilverstein.com) October 29, 2016
Condolences on the death of Ariel Sharon • President of Russia (kremlin.ru)
Mr Putin stressed that Ariel Sharon will be remembered in Russia as a consistent supporter of friendly relations between Russia and Israel, who made a significant contribution to expanding mutually beneficial cooperation.
Israel's former Soviet immigrants transform adopted country | Israel | The Guardian
Strictly speaking not all of them are Jewish. In traditional Judaism only someone whose mother is Jewish or who has undergone a formal conversion to Judaism is a Jew. But from 1990 anyone from the former Soviet Union who had a Jewish father or grandparent, or who was married to someone meeting those criteria, was granted Israeli citizenship under the country's law of return…
"It was a very different type of immigration," said Lily Galili, an Israeli journalist writing a book about the impact of the tidal wave from the former Soviet Union. "They didn't want to integrate. They wanted to lead. They changed the nature of the country…"
Lieberman and his party have pursued a relentlessly rightwing agenda, opposing concessions in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, supporting settlement expansion, seeking to curb the rights of Israel's 20% Arab population and attacking leftist NGOs and campaigners.
"Unfortunately they [immigrants from former Soviet states] have changed the nature of democracy in Israel," said Galili. "There's a certain amount of exaggeration – many things may have changed without them. But they have a different concept of democracy. And they have strengthened and given confidence to the [homegrown] secular rightwing."
A year ago the former US president Bill Clinton caused a furore when he said Russian-speaking Israelis were "an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians".
Russian immigrants were among "the hardest-core people against a division of the land ... They've just got there, it's their country, they've made a commitment to the future there. They can't imagine any historical or other claims that would justify dividing it," Clinton was quoted in Foreign Policy magazine as saying.
Galili pointed to "some sense of alienation between Russian immigrants and native-born Israelis. There is not much social interaction. There are still places for 'Russians' that 'Israelis' don't go and aren't wanted – and vice versa."
IDF Officer Arrested Over NIS 2.5 Million Drug-trafficking Scandal - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com Oct 23, 2011
Two Israelis Held in NY's Biggest Ever Ecstasy Bust - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com
Central Asia: Charges Link Russian Military To Drug Trade (rferl.org)
2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Israel, West Bank and Gaza - United States Department of State
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