The CIA, Nugan Hand, Drugs, And An Australian Killer Cop

[Magda Hassan]

The CIA, Drugs, And An Australian Killer Cop

by Michael Barker

"Most well-developed heroin networks very quickly move towards a complementation of interests between the narcotics traffickers and corrupt elements of the enforcement agencies responsible for the suppression of the illicit drug trade."
� Alfred McCoy, 1980. (1)

"INFORMATION."
�Norman Finkelstein, 2008.

(Swans - October 5, 2009) For decades, police forces worldwide have worked in cahoots with drug traffickers and government intelligence agencies; such deceitful capitalist enterprises rarely obtain sustained public attention. This injustice owes much to the fact that when evidence of institutionalized corruption, what Peter Dale Scott refers to as deep politics, cannot be contained from the broader populous, capitalist elites jump into damage control to protect the status quo. In this manner, official commissions can be relied upon to provide the requisite scapegoats so that the mainstream mass media can manufacture consent for capitalist prerogatives. However, for those wishing to delve beneath the mass media's obscurations of the politics of drug trafficking, Australian-based researcher John Jiggens provides a breath of fresh air in his recent book, The Killer Cop and the Murder of Donald Mackay (Network to Investigate the Mackay Murder, 2009). (2) In his book, Jiggens weaves an enthralling story that links institutionalized police corruption to the infamous CIA front-group the Nugan Hand Bank and in turn to the controversial murder of Donald Mackay. Given the media blackout surrounding the publication of this critical book, this article will review its main thesis in an attempt to undermine elite support for the widely publicized and officially sanctioned version of Mackay's murder: a murder that Jiggens suggests "most surely announced the criminal takeover of the Australian drug scene." (3)
Murdered in 1977, former Liberal Party local candidate Donald Mackay was a well-respected businessman from the town of Griffith, a farming community situated 600 km southwest of Sydney, Australia. Jiggens argues that Mackay was assassinated after helping bring about a police investigation that led to the largest cannabis seizure in Australian history, and Mackay was one of the few people who would have been able to link the Griffith drug smuggling networks to the CIA's global drug trafficking network.



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There is much that is of interest, particularly to Australians who may be more familiar with the various players than non-Australians. For one Frank Nugan's brother, Ken, was also in the Liberal party branch that Donald MacKay was in and was one reason why MacKay never went through those channels. Another is the connection of the MacKay murder with Nugan Hand events. All previous 'investigations' has blamed the local Italian mafia for the MacKay murder. Echos of Dealy Plaza and the 'mafia did it' theory. No doubt the local Italian criminals were involved to a point. Dr. John Jiggens, whose book Michael Barker is reviewing, suggests that MacKay was murdered because he was one of the few people who could connect the Griffith marijuana growers to the CIA global drug distribution network and Nugan Hand. The likely assassin was former policeman Fred Krahe. Another point of interest is the 'export theory'. For the most part Australia was never considered a point of export by the police or the media or by those overseas countries customs/police who received the shipments. Some suspected it and the evidence shows that it was so. Huge busts of marijuana and heroin made no impact on the local availability indicating that it was never for domestic consumption.



Please find below a link to John Jiggen's PhD thesis which is the basis of his book. Worth a read for the information on Nugan Hand and CIA connections alone. Also touches on the role of Nugan Hand in the destabilisation of the Whitlam government and the manufacture of fake documents for the 'Loans Affair'

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15949/

His book available here:
http://drjiggens.com/books.html