Reply #7: MKULTRA and Latin American CIA activity

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J.C. KING> GARLAND "DEE" WILLIAMS> MIKE TSALICKIS> MKULTRA

First let me note again that this book argues that the assassination of JFK and his replacement by LBJ marked a significant turning point for
Latin America. Under LBJ the, the book argues, the US was much more tolerant of dictators, and even helped install them. Also, urged
Nelson Rockefeller and his many business contracts in South America and its governments and by his many contacts inside virtually every
agency of the US government, LBJ was much friendlier to direct US investment concerns in South America as compared with JFK.

After the coup of 1964, the CIA and the Brazilian Intelligence did a many things to unify South American governments with US Cold War
ideology, which meant that anyone suggesting nationalization of natural resources must be a stooge of Moscow.

Who here has heard of Mike Tsalickis? He was promoted in National Geographic as The Tarzan of The Amazon and his career smells of
other things besides the Rosewood he exported. He began as an exporter of exotica animals in 1946, with his business based in Tarpon
Springs, Florida, just north of Tampa. Next he became involved with the new St. Petersburg airline Aerovias Sud Americana (ASA)

* Then in 1953 he convinced ASA to try a freight line between Leticia, Bogata and Panama
* After being faced with new competition Mike T. made two "fateful business decisions in 1957": he went into the business of
shipping research animals, "especially the white -lipped marmoset and the squirrel monkey"
* He also set up a Rosewood exporting company that worked closely with an ex-Nazi who had escaped to Argentina through
the ratline in 1946, when JC King was on the receiving end. This ex Nazi went by the name of Von Steinbeck and he was
involved in exporting cocaine. Later Mike T. would be arrested in a scheme involving the shipping of lots of cocaine inside
hollowed-out rosewood logs.

OK let me now quote this:

That year(1966) King opened shop in Iquitos and hired Mike Tsalickis as ANDCO's supply agent in Leticia. In May
the State Department also opened shop in Leticia, setting up a U.S. consulate with some fanfare and appointing
Tsilickis as unofficial U.S. Consul...... Tsalickis's involvement with ANDCO's notorious Dee Williams, however, raised
some eyebrows. Williams hired Tsalickis just as the Amazon's Tarzan was expanding the research side of his animal
export business. In 1967, Tsalickis bought an island in one of the Amazon's remote tributaries between Leticia and
Iquitos.......Yet the extraordinary security measures Tsalickis took inspired rumors. A staff of eighteen men armed with
walkie-talkies partoled the island, keeping out intruders and maintaining the island's isolation. Tsalickis's customers
inside the US included the US Naval Toxicology Unit, the US Army, and many research institutions where scientists had
been involved in MKULTRA experiments. The monkeys were used in a wide range of experiments,including tests for
cancer viruses, brain tumors, poisons, and psychoactive drugs.... But it was the 1975 arrest that revealed that more
was at stake than drug smuggling. Between the arrival of Dee Williams in 1967 and Tsalickis's first arrest eight years
later, the CIA's counterinsurgency operations in Bolivia, particularly-- but also in Peru and Ecuador-- greatly enhanced
the power of drug-smuggling uniformed warlords and Nazi refugees. The Springboard for these operations and their
onerous result was the search for J.C. King's old prey, Che Guevara. (pp. 519-523, Thy Will Be Done)

Is this the same Garland Williams who played such an important role for the Federal Bureau of narcotics? Douglas Valentine writes
in his FBN history:

Curiously, a CIA officer named Garland "Dee " Wlliams arrived in Peru in 1967 as ANDCO'S Director of Operations. THis
is intriguing, first because Garland H. Williams is such an important figure in FBN history, and because he retired from
government service in May, 1964, which left him available for a secret assignment in South America. Our Garland Williams
was a career narcotic agent, and Garland "Dee" Williams "knew the way of drug smugglers" Our Garland was a professional
soldier and dedicated anti-communist, and "Dee" Williams and J.C. King used ANDCO as a cover to advise Peru's special
forces in jungle warfare operations, so they could combat the indigenous people and their Cuban advisers. Furthermore,
our Garland had a background in Chemical warfare, and may have helped George White set up the MKUTRA pad in San
Francisco, while Garland "Dee" Williams was involved in MKULTRA research. To this end he hired exotic animal exporter
Mike Tsalickis as his guide. Tsalickis based his operation in Leticia on the Amazon River, where Peru and Columbia rub
shoulders. While serving as the government's consular officer in the region, Tsalickis helped Williams and King obtain
plant specimens for use in post-MKULTRA projects.

Arrested for smuggling over a ton oc cocaine into Florida in 1988, Tsalickis was still in prison in 1996 when the author
sent him a photo of former FBN agent Garland H. Williams and asked if the man in the phot was Dee Williams from ANDCO.
Tsalickis said he was not. garland Williams's family insists that after leaving Africa in 1963 and retiring in 1964, he married
and settled down near Memphis Tennessee.

Despite this curious case of the name "Garland Williams" appearing in regard to an espionage affair with a drug angle--for
there was also the "Colonel Williams" who funded the Pawley-Cook public relations blitz in Taiwan in 1950-- it seems more
than more coincidence that the CIA was present at the hub of world cocaine production in 1966, just as Ricord's Group
France, with Mafia financing through Tom Buscetta was organizing the business into a global industry. (Douglas Valentine,
The Strengnth of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War On Drugs, p. 385)

Colby and Dennett's book make abundantly clear the J.C. Kings "retirement" was about as Semi as conceivable. There is probably no other
book with as much on J.C. King.