Auguste Ricord

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Auguste Ricord, nicknamed Il Commandante, was one of the founding members of the French Connection, a mafiosi-type organisation involved in heroin trade, based in France in the 1950s and 1960s.

An agent of Henri Lafont, a member of the Carlingue (the French Gestapo), under the Vichy regime, he used part of the funds stolen by the Carlingue during the war to create drug laboratories near Marseille. Heroin was there refined before being exported to the US.

Auguste Ricord was arrested in 1972 in Asuncion Paraguay and then extradited to the US, where he was given 22 year jail sentence, he spent 10 years in jail then was pardoned.He then returned to Paraguay in 1983 and died in 1985

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• Lucien Sarti, quoted in The Men Who Killed Kennedy