What happened to Evert Clark, co-author of "Contrabandisa?"

Subject: "Contrabandisa," rare book by Evert Clark & Nicholas Horrock
From: salvadorwriter@cs.com (Salvadorwriter)
Date: 7/10/02 8:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: <20020710114943.01759.00000168@mb-fy.news.cs.com>


I used a great resource in writing OPIUM LORDS. It’s a rare book
entitled "Contrabandista" (1973) by Evert Clark and Nicholas Horrock—both
journalists at Newsweek magazine’s Washington Bureau.

I discovered that Evert Clark died in 1988. His forte as a journalist was
science and aviation, but he apparently had other interests. Does anyone know
the circumstances of his death?

Post a serious response or send a private email.

I described to David Irving how "Contrabandista" was a major source in the
writing of OPIUM LORDS in the following excerpt from an exposé on Irving
(Zionist agent posing as a Hitler admirer and Holocaust Denier).

http://www.jfkmontreal.com/d_irving_emails.htm

Salvador

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[David Irving:]
What was your source?

[Salvador:]
My source? I used several books, many of them very rare ones. I followed the
research of Jim Garrison and his book, "On the Trail of the Assassins," because
I believe he uncovered a lot of important information that seems believable and
logical. Generally though, I tried to stay away from assassination books
because so many of the researchers are tainted and work for the same forces who
sponsored Kennedy’s murder. I mainly used history and biographical books. I
found a good rare book, "Israel Diary," by Bernard Bloomfield, brother of Louis
Bloomfield, the man I believe engineered the assassination--although he
didn’t issue the order to kill Kennedy. It was bigger than him. Israel Diary
provided a good profile of Louis Bloomfield.

I suppose the turning point in my research came from another rare book,
"Contrabandista," by Evert Clark and Nicholas Horrock. Another good book is
"The Great Heroin Coup" by Henrik Krüger. They both tell about the French
Corsican assassins who worked for heroin kingpin Auguste Joseph Ricord. They
also tell about Nixon’s war on drugs which was likely the real reason he was
driven from office. Of the two books, I think "Contrabandista" is a better
source, particularly regarding Nixon’s fate. Although "Contrabandista" was
written by two journalists--and I don’t trust journalists as a rule--it was
published in 1973, and Nixon was still in office at that time. A huge
anti-Nixon propaganda campaign began after Nixon left office in the summer of
1974. "The Great Heroin Coup" was written in 1976 and it is filled with
anti-Nixon rhetoric.

[Irving interjected:]
Yes, the Jews really did a number on Nixon.

[Salvador:]
Definitely. Anyway, "The Great Heroin Coup" is less reliable, in my view,
although it still has good information. But "Contrabandista" is a better source
because it was written while Nixon was still in office. Consequently, the
authors provided unbiased treatment of his war on drugs. Nixon was leading a
serious war on drugs which included the arrest, extradition from Paraguay,
trial, and conviction of Ricord. Under Nixon’s order, Lucien Sarti--the man
who shot Kennedy in the head--was tracked down by police in Mexico City and
shot and killed after resisting arrest for attempting to smuggle drugs into the
United States.

Nixon did other things to upset the powers that be, like opening relations with
China, establishing détente with the Soviet Union, withdrawing American forces
from Vietnam, and ending the draft.

Contrabandista, in particular, helped me identify the names of the assassins.
They were the bodyguards and lieutenants of Auguste Joseph Ricord (the heroin
kingpin). That book, combined with an interview with drug trafficker Christian
David--which appeared in Nigel Turner’s documentary, "The Men Who Killed
Kennedy"--really nailed down the identities of the assassins. Both sources
corroborated each other.

Once I realized Ricord’s heroin cartel was involved, then I read "The
Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" by Alfred McCoy. It gave me a good
background about opium smuggling in the Golden Triangle and the history of
Opium Wars against China by the Western powers.

Of course I used many other sources, which are listed in the bibliography and
endnotes, but those are the main ones.

------
Salvador Astucia, author of "Opium Lords" (416 pages), the book that solved the
JFK murder.

View online at http://www.jfkmontreal.com

or purchase book for $29.00 in USA (includes shipping).

http://www.jfkmontreal.com/order_hardcopy.htm

Subject: Re: "Contrabandisa," rare book by Evert Clark & Nicholas Horrock
From: salvadorwriter@cs.com (Salvadorwriter)
Date: 7/11/02 3:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id: <20020711182547.05599.00000027@mb-mr.news.cs.com>

Lone Gunner wrote:
> [...] Do you really expect anyone [...] to believe that Israelis
> or Zionists plotted to off JFK, hired Corsican hitmen, and then
> *ALLOWED THEM TO LIVE"? […If] such killers had been hired,
> they would have been killed in no time, most likely in Dallas, as
> the patsy LHO was to have been killed running out the back door
> of the Texas theater. They would not be running around is South
> America, and certainly would not be telling of their involvement
> to characters like Christian David. [...]

Regarding allowing the French Corsican hitmen to live, why not? Meyer Lansky
probably had a lot to do with hiring the Corsicans, so the Jewish string
pullers had lots of deniability. Lansky was head of the American Mafia in 1963
so the murder could be blamed on the Mafia, but the Sicilian crime figures
became the primary patsies in that regard. Lansky was Jewish and loyal to the
Zionist cause, but he was an overt hood. If the assassination was linked to
him, the "respectable" Jews involved could condemn his actions as being those
of a hoodlum who happened to be Jewish, not a Jewish conspiracy. Again, what
has been done is to muddy the waters by blaming the assassination on Sicilian
mobsters, even though a Jewish mobster—Lansky—was calling the shots.

But efficient hitmen are hard to find. Why kill them? In addition, WHO would
kill them? These are very tough guys. They’re not that easy to kill. And who kills
the hit men who kill the hit men? Where does it end?

What happened was the assassins—Lucien Sarti, Jean-Paul Angeletti, and Francisco
"Francois" Chiappe—probably acquired celebrity status within the underworld
and espionage communities. These were the guys who did the dirty work for the
Western powers. They were untouchable. When Lucien Sarti was gunned down in
Mexico City as part of Nixon’s war on drugs, that was a big mistake for Nixon.

Who knows, maybe the same Corsicans were used to kill Martin Luther King and
Bobby Kennedy as well.

Regarding the French Corsican hitmen residing in South America, I have since
gotten a better idea of the timeline (I’ll add it to the next edition). They
didn’t go directly to South America after the assassination. The remained in
Europe for about five years. They were recruited to kill Kennedy by Antoine
Guerini, of the Guerini crime family, but that family fell apart in around
1968. Then the hitmen migrated to Argentina where Auguste Ricord (a Frenchman
convicted of collaborating with the Nazis when the Germans occupied France
during WWII) gave them refuge and made them his personal bodyguards and
lieutenants. So the killers remained in Europe (Marseilles) until around 1968
under the auspices of the Guerini family, then they migrated to South America
and took up with Ricord when the Guerini family fell apart.

Regarding the assassins talking to Christian David, this seems highly logical.
They were all in the same business. The main difference (and I’m sure there were
several) was that David refused to kill Kennedy. He was a fugitive and a
convicted killer as well, plus he had a long history with French espionage.

He claims he was offered the contract to kill Kennedy by Antoine Guerini

in 1963, but turned it down. David and Jo Attia were both involved in the

1965 kidnapping and murder of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka.
David was in a Paris prison for shooting and killing a French policeman,
Lieutenant Maurice Galibert in 1966, although he vehemently protested his
innocence. Galibert had been investigating the Ben Barka case.

In addition, writer Henrik Krüger stated that David and Attia were closely
associated with the men who killed Patrice Lumumba of the Congo.

From 1968 until 1972, David worked directly with the assassins Lucien Sarti,
Jean-Paul Angeletti, and Francisco "Francois" Chiappe. All four men were
bodyguards/lieutenants of heroin kingpin Auguste Ricord.

So there is every reason imaginable why the killers would confide in Christian
David. They were all in the same line of work: heroin trafficking and
espionage.

I can provide detailed cites if you wish, but here are the general sources for
what I just stated:

"Contrabandista," by Evert Clark and Nicholas Horrock
"The Great Heroin Coup" by Henrik Krüger
"The Men Who Killed Kennedy," (documentary) by Nigel Turner

Of course, I am trying to learn what happened to Evert Clark. That is the
intent of this thread.

Best regards,

Salvador