Nazi war criminal Claus Barby played a central role in the development of cocaine smuggling in Latin America, according to a large study by German magazine Der Spiegel. The magazine had access to the CIA and the American Congress records where the relationship of former Gestapo leader in Lyon with Roberto Suarez, the Bolivian “baron” of drugs. “Without him (Barbie), Suarez would definitely not have become so strong, Bolivia would not have become the cradle of the world cocaine industry, Pablo Escobar and Medellin’s cartel would not have developed so quickly,” Der Spiegel writes. The German, who used the nickname Claus Altman, met the “king of cocaine” in the late 1970s and became his security adviser. Claus Barbie, who was the leader of the Nazi police in Lyon between 1942-43, ordered the murder, torture and enclosure in concentration camps, thousands of French resistance and resistors and […]
Source: News Beast
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