Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, Vol. One (Book # 2 of 30 in Defrauding America series.)

by Rodney Stich

Drugging of blacks was also described to me over a period of years by a former New York City vice-squad detective, Jim Rothstein. He was a detective on the New York City police force from 1965 to 1980. (Rothstein was the detective who arrested CIA agent Frank Sturgis when Sturgis arrived in New York to kill Marita Lorenz, the former girl friend of Fidel Castro and also CIA asset.) Rothstein described to me over several years how he discovered and reported the drug sales by the CIA to the blacks in New York City, via Virgil Trip Stone. Rothstein said that Al Carone, a member of one of the New York City crime families was a CIA asset and involved in the drug sales, reporting directly to CIA Director William Casey. Rothstein said that the direct sales between the CIA and key blacks in the New York City area continued from approximately 1967 to 1973, at which time the CIA sold drugs to organized crime figures who then took over the drug sales to the blacks. These statements coincided with the testimony that Richard Brenneke gave to Congress in 1989, testifying that he frequently dealt with the Gotti crime family, including John Gotti himself, when drugs were turned over in Arkansas. As stated earlier, Brenneke described the details of how he, acting in his CIA capacity, laundered drug money for the Gotti family through specific CIA bank connections.