It’s the biggest story of our time… and the biggest taboo.
READ -Welcome to TerrorLand
Chapter One
“Just three weeks after Mohamed Atta arrived to attend flight school in Venice Florida, a Learjet belonging to the school’s owner was seized with 42 lbs. of heroin by DEA Agents at Orlando Executive Airport. It was the biggest seizure of heroin, authorities told the Orlando Sentinel, ever found in central Florida.”
It would have been big news… Except it was suppressed.
If you already know these facts it’s because I uncovered them more than a decade ago. If this is the first time you’re hearing it, be assured that it isn’t because I didn’t try my damndest to break the story.
This came after I published the now-famous photograph on the cover of “Barry & the boys” that was snapped by a nightclub photog in a club in Mexico City’s Zona Rosa on January 23, 1963.
Porter Goss, who will head the CIA under George W. Bush, is seated next to CIA pilot Barry Seal, who will later become, according to Federal prosecutors, the biggest drug smuggler in American history.
That would have been big news, too… Except it too, was suppressed.
You begin to see the problem.
Hi, my name is Daniel Hopsicker, author of “Barry & they boys: The CIA, the Mob, & America’s Secret History;” and “Welcome to TerrorLand: Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus.” Both were self-published, with the help of good friend Kris Millegan, publisher of the inestimable Trine Day Books.
I’ve also produced a half-dozen documentaries, all on subjects that are taboo in the mainstream media.
What I’ve learned, in a nutshell: The cocaine cowboys of the Iran Contra 1980’s were still around and relevant to the events leading up to the 9/11 attack. And of course it didn’t stop there either. In the words of a South Florida operative who’s been around for more than 30 years: “ It's The Never-Ending Scandal.”
If you want one of my books or DVD's, buy it from me.
A few weeks ago somebody wrote me that a new copy of ‘Barry & the boys’ is selling for something like $250. on Amazon. On the one hand, its kind of nice to have a book selling for $250 per copy. Of course, the money’s not going to be. What this really means is that the ‘powers that be’ have been successful in keeping me—through nuisance lawsuits, for example—from reaching a commercially-viable audience.
To continue to investigate, write books, and produce documentaries, I need to take in enough to keep going. Being deliberately “marginalized,” as I have, makes every month a challenge. And of course there are no foundations with high-minded names looking to support real authentic journalism in America. So I made a decision recently: If you want to buy one of my books, you’ll have to, from now on, buy it from me.
The amount of money a marginalized writer makes on Amazon is chicken feed. I'll lose some sales. But my audience already knows who I am. So, until my new book is published, or I figure out something better, “Barry & the boys,” “Welcome to TerrorLand,” and my six documentaries are only available through donations.
THE BONUS PACKAGE: Signed copies of “Barry & the boys”& “Welcome to TerrorLand” for a $100 donation (plus shipping, if you’re overseas.)
THE BIG BONUS PACKAGE: Signed copies of “Barry & the boys,” “Welcome to TerrorLand,” and ALL 6 DVDs for a $200 donation (again plus shipping, if you’re overseas.)
THE PACKAGE: 6 DVD’s. “The New American Drug Lords” and all FIVE of my other documentaries for a $100 donation.
If Prohibition never ended, Al Capone would rule the world.
The elephant in the living room has escaped exposure through the invocation of the big taboo. The word ‘taboo’ comes from the South Pacific island of Tonga, and originally meant a prohibition against speaking about something—the ‘taboo’—for fear of harm from a supernatural force.
Today we no longer fear supernatural forces near as much. But we’ve still got taboos. Because taboos don’t only exist in places like Borneo or in the pages of National Geographic.
They exist here, too. Right here. Right now… Especially when the subject is “The American Drug Lords.”
Memo to Bernie
“There is no campaign finance reform without drug reform.”
Drug money runs our bank, fuels our hedge funds, and provides the liquidity both political parties rely on. Barry Seal smuggled for the Democrats. Somebody should ask Republican Sheldon Adelson whose drug money is washed through his casinos in Macau.
The American Drug Lords don’t have Cuban accents, or look like Tony Montana in “Scarface.” They look like the Yale and Harvard-educated scions of America’s traditional political elite.
The illegal drug trade is a $400 billion a year industry in the U.S. alone. It distributes product to retail as efficiently as Procter & Gamble. So, just how does such a business behemoth escape exposure, in a country that can read the make of your golf ball from outer space?
It’s a good question. Thank you for your support in helping me expose it.
