Illegal drug trade in Turkey trade with Iraq due to the U.N. embargo and the Gulf War. The biggest drug cartel was led by Kurdish drug trafficker Hüseyin Baybaşin. The U.K. National Crime Squad estimated that 90% of the heroin in the United Kingdom (25–35 tonnes annually in the late 1990s) was under their control until 2002, when it had a bloody falling-out with its partners in the PKK. He settled in the U.K. after becoming an informer for the HM Customs and Excise office to reveal what he knew, as someone who traveled with a diplomatic passport, about the involvement in heroin trafficking of
Theodore Bayer found Theodore Bayer to be a high level and important member of the CPUSA. Theodore Bayer cover name as assigend by the GRU and deciphered in Venona project transcripts is SIMON. Bayer is referenced in the following Venona project decryptions: Theodore Bayer Theodore Bayer was president of the "Russky Golos", or "Russian Voice" Publishing Company, which published an anti-capitalist Russian-language newspaper during the Great Depression and World War II. "Russky Golos" was funded by the Comintern and by advertising, commercial newsstand and subscription sales. Its editorial position was closely aligned with the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). Bayer