 Marseille, Marseille, Marseille, Lisa, Doc Strikes. Marseille, is it Marseille? Is that how you pronounce it? Doc Strikes. Card number seven, the French connection, so Marseille. Marseille, Doc Strikes. The French connection, and there's a movie called the French connection, which is really good. Marseille, Marseille. Card number seven, the French connection. Having found the Sicilian mafia useful during World War II, the US government again turned to organized crime in its post-war battle against European communists. In November 1947, Wildcats strikes erupted all over France and in Marseille. The vital port city, which was the stronghold of French communists, 80,000 striking workers, paralyzed the city. The newly formed CIA sent agents of a psychological warfare team there to meet with Corsican underworld leaders such as Antonin and Barthelini. The CIA supplied money and arms to the dreamy brothers for assaults on picket lines and union leaders, finally breaking the strike a month later. In 1950, another strike was similarly defeated, leaving control of Marseille's dock to Corsican gangsters. Within a year, Marseille's heroin labs, run by the dreamies and others, were in full operation. By 1965, America's heroin addict population, largely supplied by these labs, had grown from 10,000 to 150,000. At first, most of the opium supply for Marseille labs came from Turkey, but as time passed, Southeast Asia's golden triangle became the main source. France had a colonial outpost there from 1890s until 1954, when it was replaced by the US. As the colonial power in the region, during the First Indochina War, 1946-1954, French intelligence, working closely with Corsican narcotics syndicates, took over the opium traffic to finance their operations. After the French left, the Corsicans remained, and until 1965, these syndicates, led by Bono Venture Rock Franceschi, who had ties with the dreamies and his airline Air Laus commercial, Air Opium, provided drug transport to markets in Bangkok and Saigon. Just a note regarding the US government shipping weapons and providing training to the mafia in France to prevent that region from unionizing further and getting adequate work and paying compensation for their workers and to fight against so-called communism that was prevalent at the time, rising at the time. These same operations are sort of going on in Mexico as well. They occurred under the Obama administration in a big way, looking to fast and furious, where the United States was shipping automatic and semi-automatic weapons, supplying automatic and semi-automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels during the Obama administration. So this practice still continues to this day, to this day.