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How Wall Street gave birth to the CIA and US national security state (with historian Aaron Good)

Geopolitical Economy Report

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The World Commerce Corporation and the Aramaic Drug Connection in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia, for example, you have what eventually becomes Operation Paper. It reas helps to reestablish the Golden Triangle drug connection after the war. The Kuomintang is the nationalist Chinese and they get financing from the World Commerce Corporation. And this illustrates the way that private power and organized crime and the intelligence agencies were like ex-spooks because the CIA didn't exist yet.

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