Pittsburgh Mafia Havana Hotel Casino Castro Arms Deal Barry Seal Nicaraguan Medellin Cocaine Cartel Golden Triangle Opium CIA Connection. Corruption, #102

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can force the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop charges against its criminal agents and assets that conduct such nefarious actions as drug trafficking and, likewise, American organized crime groups will engage in arms trafficking in an attempt to help attack and overthrow foreign dictator leaders that are interfering with these mobsters' overseas business interests such as gambling empires.
The Pittsburgh mob wanted to get rid of Cuban military dictator Fulgencio Batista because Batista had a controlling interest in Havana Cuba's San Souci Hotel and Gambling Casino and threw Pittsburgh mafia members, the Mannarino brothers out of this lucrative illicit gambling business, even though Batista formerly shared financial holdings in this establishment with the Mannarino brothers, Gabriel and Sam.
Such losses were just a fact of life for the Pittsburgh mob and Tampa crime boss Santo Trafficante, who also chose to do business with a foreign military dictator on this Latin American island and got ripped off. Read in this informative report how Pittsburgh mob members tried to retaliate against Batista for interfering with their gambling business at the Havana San Souci Hotel and Gambling Casino by running 121 M-1 Garand rifles and a 50 caliber machine gun to revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's rebels in Cuba from Pennsylvania using a mob controlled beer distributorship in Arnold Pennsylvania to hide the weapons.
These weapons, which were intercepted by authorities in West Virginia after the airplane the Pittsburgh mob rented was intercepted at a fuel stop, were stolen from a Canton Ohio armory in Oct. 1958.  Read about how, as part of an undercover sting operation legendary drug smuggler and ex-special forces DEA informant Barry Seal allowed the CIA to install hidden cameras on his aircraft to photograph Nicaraguan soldiers and a high level Managua official loading Medellin Cartel Colombian cocaine onto his airplane at Los Brasiles airfield in Nicaragua on June 25, 1984.
Then, find out how a CIA agent named Puttaporn Khramkhruan who smuggled $3.5 million of Golden Triangle region opium from Thailand to the United States was not charged with this crime by the Department of Justice because the CIA told the DOJ that this agency could not prosecute one of its agents. Before being discovered by U. S. Customs officials in New York, Puttaporn intended to send this opium hidden inside of film containers to a Chicago movie studio and have the opium refined into heroin in Berkeley.
Since this under-cover CIA agent that fought alongside guerrilla forces in Burma, and was a lieutenant in the Chinese Nationalist Army before joining the CIA, had a history of working in clandestine operations for the Central Intelligence Agency, he was allowed to leave the country despite being a dope smuggler.