Dope, Inc. Britain's Opium War Against The U.S.

Front Cover
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Short Title
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Title Page
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Printer's Imprint
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Dedication
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The world's biggest business
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PART I: History
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Introduction
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1. Britain's First Opium Wars
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Britain's opium diplomacy
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Protecting the opium market
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The assassination bureau
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The Elders of Zion
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Mazzini's mafia
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TheChinese entry
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The British Brahmins in the U.S.
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3. Britain's "Noble Experiment"
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Mounting the drug invasion
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Nixon's war on drugs
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Notes
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Part II: How the Drug Empire Works
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The basis of this investigation
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1. Banking and the World's Biggest Business
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Where does it go?
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How big an industry?
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Where does the money go?
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The laundering cycle
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2. From Opium to Dirty Money
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The HongShang
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The Chinese middleman
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The HongShang-Chinese deal
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4. Britain's Gold and Dirty Diamond Operations
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How illegal gold travels
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One big gold pool
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The diamond black market
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5. Hong Kong: The World's Drug Capital
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The illegal market
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Highest liquidity ratio
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Biggest bribe rate
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6. The Peking Connection
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"Communist fat cats"
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Peking's opium weapon
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The Ch'ao Chou connection
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Forging the Hong Kong-Peking link
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7. How the RIIA Runs Drugs and Dirty Money
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1949: The British-Peking deal
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Creation of the Hong Kong drug nexus
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8. Canada: North America's Hong Kong
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Three crucial cases
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Dope goes in, dirty money goes out
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The Canada-Peking connection
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Who rules Canada
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9. All in the Family: The Real Syndicate
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The beginning: the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
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The Family's Opium Wars
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The imperial cultists and opium
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Today's opium dynasty
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The Dynasty of Robert Bruce
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Notes
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Part III: Organized Crime
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Introduction
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The cutouts
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1. The Bronfman Gang
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Organized crime comes of age
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The Rothstein-Hong Kong connection
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Going legit ain't necessarily kosher
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Are they really clean?
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2. The Kennedys: Organized Crime in the Government
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The rise to power
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Why the British killed Kennedy
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3. Britain's Assassination Bureau: Permindex
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Who runs Permindex?
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The Bloomfield, Lansky, Rosenbaum circuit
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The Nazi connection
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4. Permindex Unveiled: Resorts International Intertel
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Permindex moves to Bay Street
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5. The Jacobs Family's Emprise: Sports and Crime
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The Steiger investigation
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Jacobs and Royal Crown
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Working for the HongShang
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Jacobs joins Intertel
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"Bagman" Max Fisher
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Dope, Inc. goes "legit"
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6. The Philadelphia Story
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Notes
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Part IV: Creating the Market: British Origins of the Counterculture
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The high priesthood
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LSD: "visitation from the gods"
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"The beating of drums . . ."
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The Vietnam war and the antiwar trap
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The LSD connection
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Notes
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Part V: The Drug Lobby
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Kennedy's drug-death Cult
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Jacob Javits and organized crime
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Kennedy's NORML
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Notes
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Epilogue
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Index
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Rear Cover
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