Article: 32942 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,soc.veterans Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 2, A NATION BETRAYED: CIA Sacrifices American POWs for Drug Profit Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 13:36:42 GMT Lines: 119 Part 2, A NATION BETRAYED: CIA Sacrifices American POWs for Drug Profits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (fade to shots of the Vietnam 'conflict' - Narrator takes over again) Bo Gritz risked his life a thousand times in combat in Vietnam before he was sent by a national security council staffer Tom Harvey in the White House to Burma in November of 1986 in search of American prisoners of war. He discovered instead a heroin highway and a nation betrayed by high level American officials involved in narcotics trafficking. Tom Harvey and his superiors in the White House were not pleased with Bo's report. (fade to scene of Bo - now with beard in a field obviously somewhere in Southeast Asia - palm trees and oxen indigenous to the area abound - I assume its in either Burma or Thailand) The thing that I was most concerned about was - and I thought was fantastic - was the general's offer to stop the flow of opium and heroin into the free world. When I asked him (assume he's talking about a conversation with Tom Harvey now) he said "that's fantastic". There was a pause, then he said, "Bo, there's no one here that supports that." And I said, "What?! Vice-President Bush has been appointed by president Reagan as the Number One policeman to control drug entry into the United States. How can you say there's no interest and no support when we bring back a video tape with a direct interview with a man who puts 900 tons of opium and heroin across into the free world every year and is willing to stop it?" And he said, "Bo, what can I tell you? All I can tell you is there is no interest in doing that here." Well that made me wonder. That's because it doesn't sound American and it doesn't sound right. Thats when we began to do our own investigation because for about three years people had told me, both in Washington DC and, interestingly enough, in Oklahoma city that the whole POW situation was being undermined by US government officials involved in drug trafficking. I wouldn't believe it. I said, "You guys aren't playing with a full deck... you've got yourselves strung out too thin." And they said, "Bo, you better listen, because for three years we've had prisoners literally within our grasp and something has happened at the last minute." (I said), "Each time I've made every effort to cooperate with government officials. I can't believe that people in the US government would actually, either overtly or covertly, do anything to undermine a rescue operation. " Well, we're still without Prisoners of War and there is no interest, we're told at the White House, in stopping the flow of drugs coming in from the Golden Triangle into the free world. (fade to front-page articles about Bo Gritz in Parade magazine and Soldier of Fortune...narrator picks up here) Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz is no stranger to controversy. In thirty years of devoted service to the US Army and to the recovery of American prisoners of war, he has encountered plenty. The making of this American warrior began early. He was five years old when his father, a B-17 pilot, was shot down over Europe during World War II. His mother, a pilot with the women's Air Force, would later marry a master sergeant and remain with the occupation forces in Germany after the war. Raised by his maternal grandparents in Oklahoma, young Bo Gritz began training at Fort Union Military Academy in Virginia. He was named Corps Commander in his senior year when he chanced upon a recruiting poster that changed his life. In short order, Gritz won his green beret in the Army Special forces by passing all courses in the unconventional warfare training. After graduating from officer's candidate school, the newly-commissioned second lieutenant then insisted on Ranger training. Assigned to the command of the first mobile South Vietnamese gorilla forces to be organized, Gritz also operated secretly in Cambodia and Laos with his force of Cambodian mercenaries, or "Bos", as he called them. By official body-count, over 450 of the enemy died as a result of Gritz's actions. His wartime records are replete with examples of Bo's concern for keeping Americans alive in a war gone mad. As recon chief of the supersecret delta-force, Bo was cited for Valor in saving the lives of 30 US Infantrymen from the BigRed-One division. More often than not, his valor was in placing himself between the enemy and his men. According to an official military report dated 31 July 1967 submitted on then Major Gritz, "His personal bravery is legendary exemplified by the fact that he has been awarded five silver stars and numerous other decorations for valor." In all Bo Gritz was awarded 62 citations for valor, five silver stars, eight bronze stars, two purple hearts and a presidential citation. Bo was ready to sign up for a fifth tour of duty when he had a talk with General Fred Weiyan (sp?), the "daddy-rabbit" in Vietnam. As Gritz described it, "I was a major and special operations chief. I'll never forget that day. I stood there and heard that man say. Bo, your not going to win the war and neither am I." That was the most disillusioning moment of my life. It meant that every man who had ever lost his finger or his life had lost it for nothing. I decided, on the spot, to leave Vietnam. I would not kill another enemy or risk another comrade's life." (back to Bo at the luncheon) I've had the opportunity to do a lot of things that other officers have not. I was the first recon chief and intelligence officer for delta-force. Commanded the first gorilla forces that went behind enemy lines. When I commanded special forces in Latin America, we did it exactly right. And we did exactly what men in camoflage are supposed to do. It was very natural that Harold R. Aaron (sp?) would single me out because, besides having a sixth-degree black belt in karate, I have established an ability to operate on my own. And I think when Aaron said, "Bo, we want you to do this", he understood that I'm also hard headed enough that I wouldn't cave in. He said, "I want you to consider retiring. It would only be temporary. We have overwhealming evidence now that people are still there, being held in communist prisons." Mr. H. Ross Perot had been asked by Eugene Tighe, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, to back a private mission that would look into the POW situation. Perot said, "Bo, I want you to go there. I want you to do everything you have to do. You come and tell me there aren't any prisoners of war left alive." (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Reposted for Jim Burnes by John DiNardo. Ordering information for this video can be gotten by phoning 1(702) 723-5266.