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Correspondent Charles Eisendrath journeyed to the opium-rich Afyon province of Turkey to talk with poppy farmers (see cut). Eisendrath also interviewed "Mehmet," a former Turkish smuggler who had turned informer for the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. "The sweat bubbled in the creases of his forehead whenever Mehmet told specific details about his job," Eisendrath recalls. Shortly afterward Mehmet disappeared mysteriously from the BNDD network-presumably a casualty. Says Eisendrath: "In a way the sickness-and attempted cure-of the U.S. drug problem had confused Mehmet, and quite possibly destroyed...
Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
...story line was the stuff of thrillers: $12 million worth of pure heroin, a former French spy turned smuggler, a conspiracy that reached from Paris to Le Havre to New York-all masterminded, American officials charged, by a top administrator in France's espionage organization, a man so mysterious that few knew his real name. The case was clearly reminiscent of the current film hit, The French Connection. But the federal indictments handed down last week in Newark concerned an affair as real as the one that inspired the film. It was an international smuggling scandal that, U.S. authorities...
...ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
This one starts out by recounting the rapacious career of one Thomas Oliver, who was born in an Ohio River town in 1870. At 13 he left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler. After another ten years of wandering, he winds up down the river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini...