The Opium Bankster / Thuggee Families 

the rise of western civilization
isn't exactly "christiaN"The media and popular culture often associates the rise of Western Civilization and of America in recent centuries with "Christian values" and "freedom." This is ANYTHING but the case. The rise of Western Civilization and of the U.S. has a lot more to do with slaving and drug hustling at the largest scale. Most of this story is completely unknown.

Addiction

The earliest use of this word was as an edict of Roman law. Addiction referred to a bond of slavery that lenders imposed upon delinquent debtors. The offending individual was mandated to be “addicted” to the service of the person to whom they owed restitution until the debt was satisfied. By the 1800’s it occasionally signified over consumption of alcohol or tobacco. In the late1800’s the current usage begin to take shape. This was due to the over prescribing of opium and morphine by doctors for ailing patients. Then “addict” came to mean “opium, heroin or morphine-eaters” that could not “kick” their habits. Opium was the first transglobal pharmaceutical agent in the history of medicine. The more potent morphine was chemically derived from poppy sap in 1803. Named after the Greek Morpheus, the god of dreams, morphine was first mass marketed in the 1820s. The development of the hypodermic needle-syringe in 1853 kicked off an explosion of prescribing and abusing opium, morphine and later codeine and heroin. Heroin was brought to the Bayer Company (Bayer aspirin) by a German scientist and was sold legally in the US from 1897 to 1913. When heroin addiction rates soared, it became an impetus for the creating of the Federal Drug Administration. In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $1.50. (Source: Cockburn, Alexander; Jeffrey St. Clair (1998). Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Verso). Drug laws were often used to keep “undesirables” out of the country. There were various mandates against opium to keep the Chinese out as well as mandates against marijuana to keep Mexicans out. Porter Narcotic Farm Act 1929. Established two narcotics hospitals for addicts in Federal prisons (Fort Worth, Texas and Lexington, Kentucky) in response to addicts crowding local prisons. 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover. The first prison for addicts was the Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1935 it operated for over 36 years before moving to Baltimore, Maryland and becoming the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in 1971.

Heroin was introduced in 1898 as a cure for morphine addiction. In the early 1900’s the philanthropic Saint James Society in the U.S. mounted a campaign to supply free samples of heroin through the mail to morphine addicts who are trying give up their habits.  Here are a few turn of the century products that were popular with consumers: Antique Advertising
– Bayer marketed heroin over-the-counter as a cough suppressant from 1898 to 1910. 
“Ayers Cherry Pectoral” made in Lowell, MA (1841-1945) distributed trade cards and posters that often featured young children. It was hawked as “curing colds, coughs and all diseases”. But depending what year you bought it, it contained either morphine or heroin.  
– “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup For Children” began production in Bangor, ME in 1849 and was hugely successful perhaps in part because it contained 1 grain (65 mg) of morphine per fluid ounce and alcohol. 
– Up until the 1914 Harrison Act was passed, cocaine was sold over the counter. Even Pope Leo XIII was endorsing “Vin Mariani Wine Tonic” in their advertising, which was oaded with cocaine at the time. He went as far as awarding Angelo Mariani, the producer, with a Vatican gold medal. “You just know with a name like “Wine of Coca” that it’s got to be good.”
– “Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant” descended from a line of clergymen in Philadelphia, PA in the mid-1800’s and contained opium right up until 1919. Praise the Lord!

Dope Inc. http://www.whale.to/b/dopeinc.html

In 1847 P&O entered the opium trade, shipping 642,000 chests of Bengal and Malwa opium in the next eleven years. They faced stiff competition from the incumbent shippers, Jardines and the Apcar Line. The present company, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, was incorporated in 1840 by a Royal Charter,

During the last century, British finance protected by British guns controlled the world narcotics traffic. The names of the families and institutions are known to the history student: Matheson, Keswick, Swire, Dent, Baring, and Rothschild; Jardine Matheson, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank, the Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Company [P&O]. Britain’s array of intelligence fronts ran a worldwide assassination bureau, operating through occult secret societies: the Order of Zion, Mazzini’s Mafia, the “Triads” or Societies of Heaven in China.

Paging back over the records of the narcotics traffic and its wake of corruption and murder, the most uncanny feature of the opium-based Pax Britannica is how shamelessly, how publicly the dope-runners operated. Opium trading, for the British, was not a sordid back street business, but an honored instrument of state policy, the mainstay of the Exchequer, the subject of encomia from Britain’s leading apostles of “Free Trade” — Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill. The poisoning of China, and later the post-Civil War United States, did not lead to prison but to peerages. Great sectors of the Far East became devoted to the growing of the opium poppy, to the exclusion of food crops, to the extent that scores of millions of people depended utterly on the growing, distribution and consumption of drugs.

the world isn't becoming freer or more democratic. the bankster FAMILIES still run the show.

The Keswicks, Dents, Swires and Barings still control the world flow of opiates from their stronghold in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 

Jardine Matheson, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Company still control the channels of production and distribution of the drugs from the Far East, through the British dominion of Canada, into the United States.

See Banks Launder Money

HSBC: The World’s Dirtiest Bank​ (excerpted from Chapter 2: Hong Kong Shanghaied: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)​ 
According to Global Finance, the UK-headquartered HSBC Holdings is the world’s 3rd largest bank with $2.36 trillion in assets. [2] Formerly known as Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation, HSBC has served as the world’s #1 drug money laundry since its inception as a repository for British Crown opium proceeds accrued during the Chinese Opium Wars. During the Vietnam War HSBC laundered CIA heroin proceeds.

JARDINE BANK

 

 

 ​ The Jardine Matheson and  Keswick family control over Opium Smuggling.​

See Chatham House:  Banks Sell Drugs 

The Keswick family have had practically continuous and direct association with the Far East and conglomerate Jardine Matheson and are still on the stock exchange.

Jardine House (Scottish Dope Runners)
33-35 Reid Street, Hamilton, HM EX, Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 292-0515
Fax: (441) 292-4072
Web: http://www.jardines.com
Employees: 240,000
Sales: $27.14 billion (2006)
Stock Exchanges: London Bermuda Singapore Ticker Symbols: JAR (London); JARD (Singapore)
Founded: 1832 as Jardine, Matheson & Company
Incorporated: 1984

​Jardin Bank in Shanghai - Keswick Family

'BANKDOMS'...LIKE KINGDOMS, OR DICTATORSHIPS

​'Bankdoms,' (much like) kingdoms, republics, (or) dictatorships ~ Hans Schicht

Keswick was responsible for opening the Japan office of the firm in 1859 and also expanding the Shanghai office. James Matheson returned to England to fill up the Parliament seat left vacant by Jardine and to head up the firm Matheson & Co., previously known as Magniac, Jardine & Co., in London, a merchant bank and Jardines' agent in England. In 1912, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Keswicks would eventually buy out the shares of the Matheson family in the firm although the name is still retained. The company was managed by several family members of William Jardine and their descendants throughout the decades, including the Keswicks, Buchanan-Jardines, Landales, Bell-Irvings, Patersons, Newbiggings and Weatheralls.  

An arrangement was made that the management setup of the firm was that a senior partner or proprietor was based in London who had power to appoint senior managers in the firm but had little operational control while a managing director or 'Tai-pan' was stationed in the Far East, either in Shanghai or Hong Kong, who dealt with everyday affairs of the firm. This arrangement had been in practice since the early years of the firm up to the present.  Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone "Tony" Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison. There was a point in time in the early 20th century that the firm had two 'Tai-pans' at the same time, one in Hong Kong and one in Shanghai, to effectively manage the firm's extensive affairs in both locations. Both tai-pans were responsible only to the senior partner or proprietor in London who was normally a retired former tai-pan and an elder member of the Jardine family.  

Today, the Jardine Matheson Group is still very much active in Hong Kong, being one of the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong and its largest employer, second only to the government. Several landmarks in present day Hong Kong are named after the firm and the founders Jardine and Matheson like Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon Day Gun. Jardines is also active in China, North America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and parts of Africa. It went through several major internal changes throughout the 19th and 20th century. In 1947, a secret Trust was formed by members of the family to retain effective control over the company. Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 56 times.

$ KA- CHING

The Keswick family, in consortium with several London-based banks and financial institutions, bought out the controlling shares of the Buchanan-Jardine family in 1959, but subsequently sold most of the shares during the 1961 public offering, retaining only about 10% of the company. The company had its head office redomiciled to Bermuda in 1984 under the tenure of Simon Keswick to maintain control after nearly being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong after a hostile raid in 1980. Li, who bought nearly 20% of the company at that time the largest shareholding in the company, agreed to sell his shares to Hongkong Land, a sister company of Jardines, at a premium.

Another reason for the move was fear of the Chinese take-over of Hong Kong and the threat of Chinese retaliation for Jardines drug smuggling past. Subsequent events led to the cross-shareholding structure between Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong Land which was first instigated in 1980 by then taipan David Newbigging. In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies. The firm delisted from the Hong Kong Stock exchange (Hang Seng Index) in 1994 under the tenure of Alasdair Morrison and placed its primary listing in London and its secondary listing in Singapore. The present Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. is Sir Henry Keswick, who is based in the UK, was the company's tai-pan from 1970 (aged 31) to 1975 and was the 6th Keswick to be tai-pan of the company. His brother, Simon, was the company's taipan from 1983 to 1988 and is the 7th Keswick to be tai-pan. Both brothers are the 4th generation of Keswicks in the company. The firm's present managing director or tai-pan is Anthony Nightingale who is based in Hong Kong.

The organizational structure of Jardines has changed almost totally, but the members of the family of Dr. William Jardine still control the firm through a complex cross-shareholding structure, several allied shareholders and a secretive 1947 TRUST.

 

Three paintings of the Chinese hong merchants Peabody Essex Museum

1) Howqua, by George Chinnery, 1830  2) Mowqua, by Lam Qua, 1840s  3) Tenqua, by Lam Qua, ca. 1840s

THE FIRST OPIUM WAR

Barings Bank, which had been the banker to the British royal family.

"The Pilgrims Society is a cluster of intermarried old-line rich, royals and robber barons who created the world’s financial structure."

Pilgrims Society Sir Evelyn Baring - A relative, John Francis Harcourt Baring (7th Baron Ashburton): "trustee Rhodes Trust, 1970—1999, chairman, 1987—1999" (digital Who's Who).
John was chairman of Barings Bank from 1974 to 1989, director of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1991, and chair of BP from 1992 to 1995. He spent a year working at J. P. Morgan in New York. Knight of the Garter. Baring rose to lead Barings Brothers after Lord Cromer left the bank in 1970.  Barings Bank was bought after the collapse by ING, a Dutch financial institution, for £1 in 1995.

Barings Bank was an English merchant bank based in London, and one of the world's oldest merchant banks. It was founded in 1762 and was owned by the German - origin Baring family. Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, was the Chancellor of the Exchequer (26 August 1839 – 30 August 1841) during the First Opium War. Francis Thornhill Baring was the grandson of of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, the founder of Barings Bank. British Politicians During the 1st Opium War Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (later Lord Palmerston) was the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (18 April 1835 – 2 September 1841, 6 July 1846 – 26 December 1851) William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, was the Prime Minister of Great Britain (16 July 1834 – 14 November 1834,18 April 1835-30 August 1841)

In 1762, Francis Baring, in partnership with his brother John, established the London merchant house of John and Francis Baring Company, which by 1807 had evolved into Baring Brothers & Co.. Despite being partially deaf from an early age, Francis did very well and, by the mid-1790s, had the full confidence of the British Parliament, with a solid "connection," a strong family framework and firm financial backing Perkins & Company became the leader in the American pack. It was a family affair. Thomas H. was brother-in-law of Russell Sturgis, an uncle to J.P. Cushing and brothers John M. and Robert B. Forbes. Joshua Bates, a partner in Baring Brothers Bank, handled the family business in London. He was married to a Sturgis. Russell Sturgis's grandson later became Chairman of the Board of Barings.

Lord Ashburton in the robes of a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter

John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, KG KCVO DL (born 2 November 1928) is a British merchant banker He was the oldest son of Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton. His maternal grandparents were Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt and Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of Walter Hayes Burns of New York City. Baring received his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford.

He was Chairman of the Board of the Barings Bank from 1974 to 1989.
The Bank had been founded by his ancestor Francis Baring in 1762. 

In the late 1700s England was involved in trade with China through the British East India Company.

Britains Jardine Mathieson & Co. Well before the 1800s arrived, the British had noticed that the Chinese were not buying British trade as rapidly as England was buying Chinese trade, which consisted primarily of silk and tea. British silver was draining from England to China for tea and silk, and not being compensated by a similar return flow of silver for British goods. The Brits had to pay for the tea and silk with silver from the treasury of the British Empire, the Throne's purse, which itself was levered by the privately-held, centralized, fractional-reserve-practicing Bank of England, the Baring Bank, and others.

1783 Baring Brothers become premier merchant of the opium trade. 

AMERICAN
BOSTON BRAHMIN
OPIUM CONNECTIONS

 

See OPIUM DRUG SMUGGLING PIRATES--THE BOSTON BRAHMINS

THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS Son of Colonel Perkins, was a partner of Baring Brothers in London.

The Honorable East India Company during this period was controlled by the Baring Brothers Bank
Toward the closing decades of the 17th century, the British House of Rothschild would supplant the Baring Brothers as the controlling financial interests in the China opium trade.

• He was invited several times [2] to the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group.
• He was a director of Dunlop Holdings from 1981 to 1984.
• He was a director of BP from 1982 to 1992.
• He was a director of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1991.
• He was a director of the Barings public limited company from 1985 to 1989.
• He was Chairman of the Board of BP from 1992 to 1995.

Augustine Heard

Augustine Heard (1785-1868): ship captain and pioneer U.S. opium smuggler.
John Cleve Green (1800-75): married to Sarah Griswold; gave a fortune in opium profits to Princeton University, financing three Princeton buildings and four professorships; trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary for 25 years.
Abiel Abbott Low (1811-93): his opium fortune financed the construction of the Columbia University New York City campus; father of Columbia's president Seth Low.
John Murray Forbes (1813-98): his opium millions financed the career of author Ralph Waldo Emerson, who married Forbes's daughter, and bankrolled the establishment of the Bell Telephone Company, whose first president was Forbes's son.
Joseph Coolidge: his Augustine Heard agency got $10 million yearly as surrogates for the Scottish dope-runners Jardine Matheson during the fighting in China; his son organized the United Fruit Company; his grandson, Archibald Cary Coolidge, was the founding executive officer of the Anglo-Americans' Council on Foreign Relations.
Warren Delano, Jr.: chief of Russell and Co. in Canton; grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Russell Sturgis: his grandson by the same name was chairman of the Baring Bank in England, financiers of the Far East opium trade. Such persons as John C. Green and A.A. Low, whose names adorn various buildings at Princeton and Columbia Universities, made little attempt to hide the criminal origin of their influential money. Similarly with the Cabots, the Higginsons and the Welds for Harvard. The secret groups at other colleges are analogous and closely related to Yale's Skull and Bones.

The Russell family became thereby a benefactor for Yale University, and W. H. Russell founded the Russell Trust at Yale in 1832. The Russell Trust established the secret order of Skull and Bones, who's initiates, fifteen of them each graduation year, must take oaths of fealty to European powers and to European secret societies.

The Skull and Bones secret society at Yale was established in part by profits made in the opium trade for English banking. This was an outcome of the Tory resistance to the American Revolution, realized by the exercise of international banking.

 

RUSSELL STURGIS

One of the best known merchants of his time. He was partner of Russell & Sturgis, and of Russell, Sturgis & Co.; of Russell & Co., after the consolidation of the two latter firms. He was later partner and, finally, head of Baring Brothers of London.

THE BARING ARCHIVE SERIES HC2 STATISTICS OF GENERAL TRADE
1828 6 Mar, London: Charles Roberts. Statement of stock of opium in the principal warehouses [London?]; and prices of opium in bond, 1814-28
http://www.baringarchive.org.uk/materials/the_baring_archive_hc2.pdf

Russell & Company Records 1820 -1891 Harvard Cite as: Russell and Co./Perkins and Co. Collection. Baker Library Historical Collections. Harvard Business School.

The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million ($1.3 billion) resulting from poor speculative investments, primarily in futures contracts, conducted by an employee named Nick Leeson working at its office in Singapore.

Example: The Peerage Pedigree
John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton

SEE THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 

SEE JEKYLL ISLAND

SEE NETWORKS

Abiel Abbott Low's son, Abbott Augustus Low (~1843-1912) was with A.A. Low Brothers
Four children survived him: J.C. Low of Albany, A.A. Low Jr. of Manhattan, <strong>Seth Low 2d of Brooklyn, and Mrs. William Raymond. (Abbott Augustus Low Dies. New York Times, Sep. 26, 1912.)
His wife, Marian W. Low, was the daughter of George Cabot Ward, a founder of S.G. and G.C. Ward, and Ward, Campbell &amp; Co., the U.S. agents for Baring Brothers & Co., also a charter member of the Union League Club and a longtime Governor of the New York Hospital. Mrs. Low's brother, Samuel Gray Ward Jr., was with Kidder, Peabody & Co., which became Baring's agent. (An Old Firm Retiring. New York Times, Dec. 1, 1885; Death of George Cabot Ward. New York Times, May 5, 1887.) Her uncle, Samuel Gray Ward Sr., was the auditor of Porto Rico.

Other related firms were the London Company,
chartered in 1606 to establish The Virginian Plantation on a communistic basis, and the Plymouth Company, whose descendants control the New England business world.

SEE THE PURPOSE OF THE SENATE IS TO PROTECT THEIR OPIUM DRUG SMUGGLING MONEY

The Aldrich machine controls the legislature, the election boards, the courts − the entire machinery of the "republican form of government." In 1904, when Aldrich needed a legislature to reelect him for his fifth consecutive term, it is estimated that carrying the state cost about two hundred thousand dollars − a small sum, easily to be got back by a few minutes of industrious pocket-picking in Wall Street; but a very large sum for Rhode Island politics, and a happy augury of a future day, remote, perhaps, but inevitable, when the people shall rule in Rhode Island. Despite the bribery, despite the swindling on registration lists and all the chicane which the statute book of the state makes easy for "the interests," Aldrich elected his governor by a scant eight hundred on the face of the returns. His legislature was, of course, got without the least difficulty − the majority for "the interests" is on joint ballot seventy-five out of a total of one hundred and seventeen. The only reason Aldrich disturbed himself about the governorship was that, through the anger of the people and the carelessness of the machine, a people's governor had been elected in 1903 and was up for reelection; this people's governor, while without any power whatever under the Constitution, still could make disagreeable demands on the legislature, demands which did not sound well in the ears of the country and roused the people everywhere to just what was the source of the most respectable politician's security. So, Aldrich, contrary to his habit in recent years, took personal charge of the campaign and tried to show the people of Rhode Island that they were helpless and might as well quiet down, accept their destiny and spare his henchmen the expense and labor of wholesale bribery and fraud.

But, as a rule, Aldrich no longer concerns himself with Rhode Island's petty local affairs. "Not until about a year or so before it comes time for him to be elected again, does he get active," says his chief henchman, Gen. Charles R. Brayton, the state's boss. "He doesn't pay much attention to details." Why should he?

Politically, the state is securely "the interests'" and his; financially, "the interests" and he have incorporated and assured to themselves in perpetuity about all the graft − the Rhode Island Securities Company, capitalized at and paying excellent dividends upon thirty-nine million dollars, representing an actual value of less than nine million dollars, owns, thanks to the munificence of the legislature, the state's street and trolley lines, gas and electric franchises, etc., etc.

It began in a street railway company of Providence in which Aldrich, president of the Providence council and afterwards member of the legislature, acquired an interest. The sugar trust's Searles put in a million and a half shortly after the sugar trust got its license to loot through Aldrich at Washington; the legislature passed the necessary laws and gave the necessary franchises; Senator Steve Elkins and his crowd were invited in; more legislation; more franchises, more stocks and bonds, the right to loot the people of the state in perpetuity. Yes, Aldrich is rich, enormously rich, and his mind is wholly free for the schemes he plots and executes at Washington. And, like all the Other senators who own large blocks of stocks and bonds in the great drainage companies fastened upon America's prosperity his service is not the less diligent or adroit because he himself draws huge dividends from the people.

The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, The Head of It All by David Graham Phillips - Cosmopolitan - March 1906

In 1952, Eisenhower — an avid golfer — was running for President, having beaten Robert Alphonso Taft (S&B 1910) for the Republican nomination amidst fisticuffs and the first fully televised convention. Prescott a past president of the United States Golf Association was one of Ike's favorite golfing partners. Prescott's father-in-law, Bert, had also served as president of the USGA and in 1922, initiated an amateur golf tournament between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. Walker donated the trophy and the newspapers christened it the "Walker Cup."
Prescott Bush won a special election—with Ike's help—in 1952, and became the senior US Senator from Connecticut. He served on the Armed Services Committee and helped to keep Connecticut’s huge defense contractors busy. Roland Harriman, Prescott Bush, Knight Woolley and R. Lovett - all S&B and senior Partners at Brown Brothers Harriman - 1964

Prescott Bush had been an operative for Army Intelligence during World War I. He was a liaison to the British and some say he was trained by famous Stewart Menzies, WWII head of the British secret service. Gordon Gray (another one of Prescott's golfing partners) was the first director of the Psychological Strategy Board, having been installed by the "Harriman security regime" in the early 50's. Gray and his four elite Jupiter Island, Florida, neighbors Prescott Bush, Robert A. Lovett, C. Douglas Dillion and "Jock" Whitney, are, along the Dulles and Harriman brothers considered by some historians to be the "fathers of this permanent covert action monolith". The "secret government" in the shadowy realms of intelligence operations that cloaks its actions with cries of national security.
They created this modern wall of deniality for Eisenhower deep within the government-military-industrial complex—that Ike was later to regret. One of Gray's jobs, as Ike's National Security advisor, was "under the guise of 'oversight' on all US covert action, to protect and hide" the "cryptocracy."

In 1962, Prescott founded the National Strategy Information Center, with his son, Prescott Bush, Jr. and William Casey, investment banker, OSS veteran —and future CIA director. The center, among other things, laundered funds for the dissemination of "CIA authored 'news stories' to some 300 newspapers."