1971

The Secret History of the United States

1971


On April 5, 1971, one of Barberot's employees and a Foccart operative, Roger Delouette, was arrested in Elizabeth, New Jersey, while picking up his car, which contained forty-nine kilos of heroin. According to an American agent, money from the African diamond traffic of the Foccart network was being reinvested in the heroin trade in America to make big profits and finance further dirty work in Africa.
Dirty Work : The CIA in Africa - Ed. by E.Ray. W. Scharp, K. van Meter and L. Wolf p.31

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... the memo recounted a 1971 conversation with John Mitchell in which the Attorney General supposedly agreed to drop three antitrust suits against ITT, in return for a pledge of up to $400,000 in cash and services to the 1972 Republican National Convention.
J. Edgar Hoover : The Man and the Secrets - Curt Gentry p.715

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On December 22, 1971 Hoffa's prison sentence was commuted by Nixon. Hoffa was released the following day.
Dark Victory - Dan E. Moldea p.260

The payoffs began in 1962, when Agnew became Baltimore County executive and continued when he became governor in 1967; even as late as 1971, when Agnew was vice-president, he received a payment in the basement of the White House.
Elite Deviance - David R. Simon & D. Stanley Eitzen p.215

Pentagon Papers published

How COINTELPRO Helped Destroy the Movements of the 60s is at CovertAction Quarterly

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