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Afghanistan is, as of March, 2010, the greatest illicit opium producer in the entire world, ahead of Burma (Myanmar) and the "Golden Triangle". Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in "Golden Crescent". Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001. Based on UNODC data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past four growing seasons (2004–2007) than in any one year during Taliban rule. Also, more land is now used for opium in Afghanistan than for coca cultivation in Latin America. In 2007, 92% of the opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan.[1] This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords, drug traffickers.[2] In the seven years (1994–2000) prior to a Taliban opium ban, the Afghan farmers' share of gross income from opium was divided among 200,000 families.[3] In addition to opiates, Afghanistan is also the largest producer of hashish in the world.[4][5]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/25/drugs-united-nations-afghanistan
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In 1989, the United States invaded Panama as part of Operation Just Cause, which involved 25,000 American troops. Gen. Manuel Noriega, head of government of Panama, had been giving military assistance to Contra groups in Nicaragua at the request of the U.S.—which, in exchange, allowed him to continue his drug-trafficking activities—which they had known about since the 1960s.[12][13] When the DEA tried to indict Noriega in 1971, the CIA prevented them from doing so.[12] The CIA, which was then directed by future president George H. W. Bush, provided Noriega with hundreds of thousands of dollars per year as payment for his work in Latin America.[12] However, when CIA pilot Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua by the Sandinistas, documents aboard the plane revealed many of the CIA's activities in Latin America, and the CIA's connections with Noriega became a public relations "liability" for the U.S. government, which finally allowed the DEA to indict him for drug trafficking, after decades of allowing his drug operations to proceed unchecked.[12] Operation Just Cause, whose ostensible purpose was to capture Noriega, pushed the former Panamanian leader back into the town asylum along with Papal Nuncio where he surrendered to U.S. authorities. His trial took place in Miami, where he was sentenced to 45 years in prison.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Hasenfus
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Hasenfus was a former Marine from Marinette, Wisconsin, who had been an unemployed construction worker, at the time when he secured work, alleged by Sandinistas to be as a cargo handler for the CIA. This was stated by Hasenfus himself,[1] who later retracted that statement.[2]
Hasenfus was aboard the Fairchild C-123 cargo plane, N4410F,[3] formerly USAF 54-679, (c/n 20128), shot down over Nicaragua on October 5, 1986, while delivering supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras. During the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, it was established that the aircraft was shot down in a covert operation devised and approved by elements of the United States government. The two pilots and a radio operator died in the crash, but Hasenfus was able to parachute to safety, having disobeyed orders by wearing a parachute on the mission. He was captured by Nicaraguan government forces, tried, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. In December 1986, at the request of U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, he was pardoned and released by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Hasenfus' capture and detention helped uncover and publicize the Iran-Contra Affair. A black book of phone numbers in the wreckage tied the plane to an operation run out of Ilopango airbase in El Salvador, supported by anti-Castro exile Felix Rodriguez. Press speculation focused on former general Jack Singlaub as the sponsor; this was encouraged by Oliver North to divert attention from the true head: Richard Secord.
Hasenfus subsequently sued Secord, Albert Hakim, Southern Air Transport and Corporate Air Services over issues relating to Hasenfus' capture and trial.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Singlaub
http://watch.pair.com/database2.html
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Major General John K. Singlaub(ret.)- CNP Board of Governors (1981); CNP Membership Roster (1981-98). CIA deputy chief in South Korea during the Korean War and served for two years in Vietnam during the 1960s. At that time, he was commander of the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force, known as MACSOG. In that role, he was one of the commanders of Operation Phoenix, although he denies having had a part in that program's infamous assassination and counterterror aspects. In 1978, as chief of staff of the United Nations Command in South Korea, he publicly condemned the decision of President Jimmy Carter to reduce the number of U.S. troops in the country. He was then forced to retire.
Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League after Nazi-collaborator Roger Pearson Major until mid-1986. The United States Council for World Freedom (USWCF), which became WACL's most active branch, was founded in 1981 by Singlaub with a $16,500 loan from the Taiwanese branch of WACL and generous support from beer baron Joseph Coors.(28,35) From 1984 through 1986, Singlaub was the chairman of WACL.(11) In 1984, Singlaub headed a Pentagon panel called to make recommendations on conducting military activities in Central America. The panel's report urged the U.S. to emphasize nonconventional, counterinsurgency warfare strategies.(9,10)
Under the Reagan administration, Singlaub received assistance and guidance from White House and National Security Council (NSC) officials for his "private" contra-supply activities. He identified former NSC aide Oliver North as his liaison to the White House. Columnist Jack Anderson wrote a series of exposes on WACL connecting the group with death squads operating in Latin America, and once again linking them with fascists, this time in Latin America. Singlaub engaged the services of J. Peter Grace and AmeriCares to supply arms to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua and was indicted in 1986 and 1988 over USCWF activities in support of the contras. Member of the national policy board of the American Freedom Coalition, a political organization with extensive ties to the Unification Church. [IRC: Western Goals]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Peter_Grace
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Joseph Peter Grace (May 25, 1913 - April 19, 1995 )[1] was a multimillionaire American industrialist and conglomerateur of Irish Catholic heritage. Born in Manhasset, New York, he succeeded his father, Joseph Peter Grace, Sr. (1872-1950), as President and CEO of W. R. Grace and Company in 1945 when his father suffered a stroke. The firm was founded by his grandfather William R. Grace, the first Roman Catholic to be elected Mayor of New York City.
His maternal grandfather was Charles B. Macdonald, a major figure in early American golf who built the first 18-hole course in the United States. [2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Macdonald
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Charles Blair Macdonald (November 14, 1855 – April 21, 1939) was a major figure in early American golf. He built the first 18-hole course in the United States, was a driving force in the founding of the United States Golf Association, won the first U.S. Amateur championship, and later built some of the most influential golf courses in the United States, to the extent that he is considered the father of American golf course architecture. He is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Peter_Grace
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The name J. Peter Grace (1913-1995) "is found in the Council for National Policy (CNP) Membership Directory for 1984-85 and 1988. Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University (1936). Grace "started in 1936 as Assistant Secretary at W. R. Grace, in 1945 became President and CEO. Grace is a member of the Newcomen Society, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Knights of Malta: American Chapter of the Board of Founders, Knights of Malta President, 114 Avenue of the Americas [Who's Who in America (1976-77, 1992-93)]. Grace was involved in Project Paperclip -- a post World War II CIA arrangement to remove classified information from dossiers so that former SS members and 900+ Nazi scientists could emigrate to the U. S. Hundreds of war criminals would find employment within government agencies and companies such as W.R. Grace chemical company whose president was J. Peter Grace."[1]
"From 1982-95, J. Peter Grace was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of AmeriCares."
J. Peter Grace founded in 1984 together with Jack Anderson the organization Citizens Against Government Waste. [2] This organization can be seen as a legacy of the 'President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control', also known as the 'Grace Commission'.
Chairman of the Board of AIFLD.
- Former President, W. R. Grace and Company
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J. Peter Grace - (incorrectly identified by Swanberg as Secretary of Treasury Douglas Dillion) Head, American Branch of the Knights of Malta; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; in charge of at least ten Knights of Malta involved in the assassination and cover-up including Frank Shakespeare of CBS (using Walter Cronkite), Francis Stankard of Chase-Manhattan Bank (using CFR member John J. McCloy on the Warren Commission), Lee Iacocca of Ford Motor Company (using Carl Renas, head of security for the Dearborn Division to drive the bullet-ridden Presidential limousine from Washington D.C. to a Ford dealership in Cincinnati for the purpose of removing all evidence of multiple gunshots) and John McCone, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who personally delivered National Security Memorandum 273 for President Johnson’s signature, thereby reversing President Kennedy’s decision to de-escalate “Spelly’s War” in Vietnam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spellman
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Spellman, following the death of John XXIII, participated in the conclave of 1963, which resulted in the election of Pope Paul VI. When The Deputy, a controversial play about Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust, opened on Broadway in 1964, Spellman condemned the play as "an outrageous desecration of the honor of a great and good man".[20] The play's producer, Herman Shumlin, responded by calling the Cardinal's words a "calculated threat to really drive a wedge between Christians and Jews".[1] He also worked with Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan in targeting comedian Lenny Bruce, who often satirized Spellman and was convicted of obscenity after a widely-publicized six-month trial in 1964.
Although he once expressed his personal opposition to civil rights demonstrations,[1] Spellman declined J. Edgar Hoover's requests to condemn Martin Luther King, Jr., and funded the trip of a group of New York priests and nuns to the Selma to Montgomery marches. He opposed racial discrimination in public housing[12] but also the social activism of such priests as David Kirk and the Jesuit brothers, Daniel and Philip Berrigan.[1]
Spellman was an outspoken supporter of the Vietnam War, to the extent that the conflict became known as "Spelly's War" and the Cardinal as the "Bob Hope of the clergy".[1] He met Ngo Dinh Diem in 1950 and, favorably impressed by his strongly Catholic and anti-Communist views, promoted his career; however, he disassociated from Diem before the latter's assassination in 1963.[1] Fearful of Communist gains in Vietnam, Spellman had urged American intervention since late 1954,[1] but by the 1960s his views were strongly criticized by antiwar activists and even his fellow religious leaders.
http://www.biotechprofiles.com/companyprofile/Monsanto.aspx
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http://revoltnow.wetpaint.com/page/J.+Peter+Grace+-+CEO+of+W.R.Grace+and+Company%3B+Head+of+the+American+branch+of+SMOM
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He was president of the chemical company, W. R. Grace & Co. for 48 years, making him the longest reigning CEO of a public company. He was responsible for the Grace Commission Report, and co-founded Citizens Against Government Waste with Jack Anderson in 1984.
"There is nothing I dislike more than being a loser in anything," he said in an interview in Fortune magazine.
In 1984, Mr. Grace received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."
He was devoutly Catholic, and was a Knight of Malta.
http://www.biotechprofiles.com/madisonCompanies/legacy/default.aspx
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._Grace_and_Company
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Spellman
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Spellman, following the death of John XXIII, participated in the conclave of 1963, which resulted in the election of Pope Paul VI. When The Deputy, a controversial play about Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust, opened on Broadway in 1964, Spellman condemned the play as "an outrageous desecration of the honor of a great and good man".[20] The play's producer, Herman Shumlin, responded by calling the Cardinal's words a "calculated threat to really drive a wedge between Christians and Jews".[1] He also worked with Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan in targeting comedian Lenny Bruce, who often satirized Spellman and was convicted of obscenity after a widely-publicized six-month trial in 1964.
Although he once expressed his personal opposition to civil rights demonstrations,[1] Spellman declined J. Edgar Hoover's requests to condemn Martin Luther King, Jr., and funded the trip of a group of New York priests and nuns to the Selma to Montgomery marches. He opposed racial discrimination in public housing[12] but also the social activism of such priests as David Kirk and the Jesuit brothers, Daniel and Philip Berrigan.[1]
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During the 1964 presidential election, Spellman supported Lyndon B. Johnson, whose Higher Education Facilities Act and Economic Opportunity Act had greatly benefited the Church.[1] The Cardinal later agreed to Johnson's requests to send priests to the Dominican Republic to defuse anti-American sentiments following the invasion of 1965.[1]Spellman was an outspoken supporter of the Vietnam War, to the extent that the conflict became known as "Spelly's War" and the Cardinal as the "Bob Hope of the clergy".[1] He met Ngo Dinh Diem in 1950 and, favorably impressed by his strongly Catholic and anti-Communist views, promoted his career; however, he disassociated from Diem before the latter's assassination in 1963.[1] Fearful of Communist gains in Vietnam, Spellman had urged American intervention since late 1954,[1] but by the 1960s his views were strongly criticized by antiwar activists and even his fellow religious leaders.
http://www.biotechprofiles.com/companyprofile/Monsanto.aspx
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Company Profile
http://revoltnow.wetpaint.com/page/J.+Peter+Grace+-+CEO+of+W.R.Grace+and+Company%3B+Head+of+the+American+branch+of+SMOM
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He was president of the chemical company, W. R. Grace & Co. for 48 years, making him the longest reigning CEO of a public company. He was responsible for the Grace Commission Report, and co-founded Citizens Against Government Waste with Jack Anderson in 1984.
"There is nothing I dislike more than being a loser in anything," he said in an interview in Fortune magazine.
In 1984, Mr. Grace received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."
He was devoutly Catholic, and was a Knight of Malta.
http://www.biotechprofiles.com/madisonCompanies/legacy/default.aspx
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Agracetus Inc.
- Agracetus was originally founded as Cetus Madison Inc. in 1981, a subsidiary of Cetus Corporation, to develop transgenic plants.
- In 1984, WR Grace & Co. purchased a half interest and the joint venture was rebranded as Agracetus.
- In 1990, WR Grace purchased Cetus Corp's half interest in 1990 to become sole owner. Programs in DNA vaccines and gene therapy were added.
- Owner WR Grace & Co. sold all transgenic plant related assets to Monsanto in 1996 for $150 million. [See Monsanto Profile]
- DNA vaccine portfolio was operated as Auragen Inc. for <1 year, and then merged with PowderJect Pharmaceuticals plc, based in the UK. The local unit was renamed PowderJect Vaccines Inc. (Note: PowderJect's name at time of merger was Oxford BioSciences) [See PowderJect Vaccines history in this table]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._Grace_and_Company
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