From Red Cocaine, Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., 1990

Cuba and Czechoslovakia also developed joint [drugs] operations in Chile. Danislav Lhotsky, a Czechoslovak intelligence agent, was in Chile officially under an economic cover. His instructions were to develop in concert with the Cubans production and distribution networks in Chile first, and then to expand the network into Argentina and Brazil. When Lhotsky returned to Czechoslovakia in 1967, he was awarded the Order of Red Star for his successful work in building the drug network in Chile.

One of Cuba�s early contributions to the operation in Chile identified in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) intelligence report was the recruitment of the Marxist Senator Salvador Allende, who would later become president. Allende was also present at the Tri-Continental Conference. He proposed creation of OLAS — in Latin American Solidarity Organization — as a �united from advocating armed revolution� and was elected its first leader. During Allende�s presidency (1970-1973) drug trafficking flourished, In 1973, U.S. authorities seized $309 million worth of cocaine that had been produced in Chilean laboratories.¹⁶

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    16. Data on Chile in the early 1960s is contained in the study by Robert Workman on narcotics trafficking for the National Defense University. He writes that a March 31, 1982, DEA intelligence report describes a 1961 meeting of high-ranking Cuban officials, �including revolutionary leader and president of the National Bank of Cuba, Che Guevara, Captain Moises Crespo of the Cuban secret police, and Dr., Salvador Allende, a senator and future Marxist president from Chile, to discuss establishing a cocaine trafficking network.� The report is described in a Miami Herald newspaper report, and Workman writes that intelligence agents stated that the article is accurate. Robert B. Workman, International Drug Trafficking: A Threat to National Security (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, Research Publication Directorate, June 1984), unpublished.
    Also, as reported by James R. Whelan, �At the Tri-Continental Conference in Havana, then-Senator Salvador Allende proposed the creation of OLAS — the Latin American Solidarity Organization — as a �united front . . . advocating armed revolution.� Allende was then elected to head OLAS. Once in the Chilean presidency, he presided over a dramatic expansion in illicit drug activity in that country. According to one source, during the last year of Allende�s presidency (1973) U.S. authorities seized $309 million worth of cocaine from Chilean laboratories. The drug trade was said to yield $30,000 per month in payoffs to the Popular Unity political parties in Allende�s coalition. One of the first acts of the new military government headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet was to crack down on the drug trade, working closely with U.S. agencies to do s.� James R. Whelan Out of the Ashes: Life, Death and Transfiguration of Democracy in Chie, 1833-1988 (Washington, DC., Regnery-Gateway, 1989), pp. 227-228, 592.

Red Cocaine The Drugging of America
Atlanta, Georgia : Clarion House, 1990, pages 26-7 , note p. 231.

Whelan, James R. (James Robert), 1933- Uniform Title [ Out of the ashes. Spanish] Title Desde las cenizas : vida, muerte y transfiguraci�n de la democracia en Chile, 1833-1988 / James R. Whelan. Publisher Santiago de Chile : Zig-Zag, 1993. Description 1043 p. ; 26 cm. Series Colecci�n Temas de hoy ISBN 9561208059 Language Spanish Note Translation of: Out of the ashes : life, death and transfiguration of democracy in Chile, 1833-1988. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [1001]-1028) and index.

Whelan, James R. (James Robert), 1933- Title Out of the ashes : life, death, and transfiguration of democracy in Chile, 1833-1988 / James R. Whelan Publisher Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway, c1989 Description xx, 1120 p. ; 24 cm ISBN 0895265532 : Language English Note Includes bibliographical references

Whelan, James R. (James Robert), 1933- Title The Soviet assault on America's southern flank / by James R. Whelan and Franklin A. Jaeckle ; introduction by L. Francis Bouchey. Publisher Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway ; New York, NY : Distributed to the trade by Kampmann & Co., c1988. Description xi, 413 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0895265613 :$17.95 0895267721 (pbk.) Language English Note Includes index. Note Bibliography: p. 395-402.

Whelan, James R. (James Robert), 1933- Title Catastrophe in the Caribbean : the failure of America's human rights policy in Central America / James R. Whelan and Patricia B. Bozell ; introduction by Richard Allen. Publisher Ottawa, Ill. : Jameson Books, c1984. Description xvii, 134 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0915463067 :$14.95 Language English Note Bibliography: p. 116-134.

Whelan, James R. (James Robert), 1933- Title Allende, death of a Marxist dream / by James Whelan. Publisher Westport, CT : Arlington House, [1981] Description viii, 230 p. : maps ; 22 cm. ISBN 0870005030 : Language English Note Includes index. Note Bibliography: p. 213-221.