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    Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases. At his peak he claimed to have been smuggling consignments of the drug as large as 30 tons , [ 2 ] and was connected with groups as diverse as the CIA , the IRA , MI6 , and the Mafia .

  2. Apr 11, 2016 · Dennis Howard Marks was born on Aug. 13, 1945, in Kenfig Hill, a village in southern Wales. He was twice divorced; his second wife, Judy Marks, wrote her own memoir, “Mr. Nice and Mrs. Marks ...

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  3. Apr 11, 2016 · Why you can trust Sky News. Tributes have been paid to Howard Marks, the former drugs smuggler known as Mr Nice, who has reportedly died aged 70. The Guardian reported that the writer died at his ...

  4. Oct 20, 2023 · This is the story of Howard Marks, better known as ‘Mr. Nice’. The Welsh Elvis. Dennis Howard Marks was born on the 13th of August 1945, in Kenfig Hill, South Wales. His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father was a skipper of merchant ships. Young Howard would travel frequently on his father’s ships.

  5. Apr 11, 2016 · Dennis Howard Marks was born at the village of Kenfig Hill in Glamorganshire on August 13 1945, the son of Dennis Marks, a captain in the Merchant Navy, and his wife Edna, a primary schoolteacher.

  6. Apr 14, 2016 · Dennis Howard Marks was born in Kenfig Hill, a working-class community in South Wales, on Aug. 13 1945. His father was a merchant sailor, and his mother was a teacher. Advertisement

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  8. Apr 11, 2016 · Drug smuggler-turned-author Howard Marks shares the lessons he learned from a life on the run. They say the most important lessons you learn at university are the ones between the lines. And so it was for a boy from the Welsh valleys, Dennis Howard Marks, who went to Oxford to study Nuclear Physics and left to become one of the most prolific weed smugglers of all time.