Check out Big Trouble by Dave Berry, Berkley Books paperback (c) 1999, at p. 103 [Quote] For example, when a Jamaican Marxist group called People's United Front was looking to trade a large quantity of high grade marijuana for an attack submarine, Ivan was able to broker a complex deal involving -- in addition to the Soviet navy -- the government of Parguay, a Chicago street gang named the Cruds, and the Church (sic) of [$]cientology."

[End Quote] Ivan, Berry says, is a former maintenance technician in the Soviet army.

(c) Gerry Armstrong

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