 card number 10 look at this look at this who's that scumbag in the middle who's that scumbag in the middle the great heroine coup the great heroine coup who are those two other guys oh trafficante that was the name of the card number 10 trafficante nixon gerini trafficante nixon trafficante nixon and gerini when Richard Nixon became president in 1969 the heroin trade was dominated by the Corsican mob which had been led by the gerini brothers until factionalism put the Francisce friend Francisce Venturi gang in power the new world division of this empire was headed by Auguste record a former Gestapo collaborator who operated from Paraguay but before Nixon left office the Corsicans had been sub supplanted by the Sicilian mafia this coup was achieved through Nixon's selective war on drugs by working to extradite record from Paraguay by securing Turkey's commitment to halt opium cultivation and by encouraging Francis cracked on on the Francisce Francisce Venturi gang Nixon helped destroy the Corsicans while leaving the Sicilian network intact Southeast Asia replaced Turkey as the main source of heroin and Santo trafficante junior unseated Richard a record as the Western hemispheres top drug lord from his Teamster Hall headquarters in Tampa Florida trafficante influence trafficante is influence spread widely in the landscape generated banks of southern Florida his fortunes were laundered alongside KMT drug money from Southeast Asia and CIA funds for secret wars against Castro the Tory Tory Torios government in Panama and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas trafficante even had connections in the White House when Watergate burst it was learned that four of Nixon's plumbers had worked for more controlled casinos and Batista's Cuba Nixon's drug war also employed CIA trained Bay of Pig veterans linked to trafficante's drug operations with heroin supplied by Hong Kong's KMT linked syndicates and with friends in high places trafficante had had by 1973 built the most powerful narcotics organization in the world in the world trafficante great heroin coup