Article: 33152 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 5, 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: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 09:41:53 GMT Lines: 130 Part 5, A NATION BETRAYED: CIA Sacrifices American POWs for Drug Profits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now I want to show you some things when I got back to Burma. (he shows some newspaper headlines) The United States government wanted Khun Sa killed quick and here's how they did it: US CALLS FOR NO MERCY IN DRUG WAR These are over-there newspapers... AIRSTRIKES AGAINST KHUN SA's HEADQUARTERS BURMESE AND THAI TROOPS MOVE ON KHUN SA Finally it says, and there is a picture of Burmese and Thai troops standing on top of a high mountain top: KHUN SA'S STRONGHOLD SEIZED Now many of you are soldiers, airmen, marines, sailors. You know that airstrikes, troops mean war. There's hair, eyes and teeth everywhere. When I went back into Burma in May I took two other Americans with me. It was the most peaceful area. It was exactly like we left it except for one big change. Remember I told you it took us three days to ride by horse to get there in November and come out in December. Well, when we went in May, we went by pickup truck. Straight from the Thai border all the way right to the General's front door. And on the other way coming back there were Thai military 10 ton trucks covered and loaded. There's only one thing that comes out of the Golden Triangle and that's heroin. When we got there General Khun Sa said, "What took you so long?" I said, "General, I was waiting for the war to die down. I didn't want to get caught in all of this 26,000 troops and airstrikes", and he just laughed. He said, "That was a newspaper war!" I said, "What do you mean newspaper war?" He said, "The Thai and Burmese came to me and said that if they don't make it look like there doing something, they stand to lose tens of millions of dollars this year in drug supression funds from American taxpayers." So Kuhn Sa said, "Make it look like anything you want to, but I want a rode built here." They used the newspapers and I want to show you something. This one here says, "US PROVIDES ANOTHER 1.8 MILLION TO FIGHT DRUGS" So it worked! And this guy is really smiling. This is a Thai receiving a check from the US Ambassador. Khun Sa got what he wanted. Now he began to assemble his officers. It took him a week to get them all together because he brought them from all over the place. And now I understand why. I thought I was just going to talk to him, but he said no and put me off for a week. He assembled officers from the entire Shan territory from all over the Golden Triangle. They came in. He sat everybody down. He brought his secretary out. He had his secretary read from their log. (Scene switches to Khun Sa's headquarters. All of Khun Sa' officers are here along with Khun Sa. I'd say around twenty in all. Bo and his companions are sitting with them. This is where it gets VERY interesting. The following conversation was in broken english from Khun Sa's end so some of the syntax may be a bit wierd.) Bo: I cannot ask the General to cut your throat by revealing any contact that would hurt your economy at this moment. But I pray that he will reveal any connections from the older time or that will not hurt you now. That if they are still in power, we might be free of them. Khun Sa: Some of the connections I can expose to you. Some were in Burma, some were in Thailand, some were in America. But I don't remember all of their names and my secretary remembers them so he will give you the information. Secretary: In 1965 to 1975 there is one CIA in Laos, his name was Shackley. He was involved the narcotics business. And we know that Shackley used one civilian to organize trafficking. His civilian name was Santos Trafficante. He was the organizer of trafficking for Shackley. This was financed by Richard Armitage who stayed in Vietnam. After the Vietnam war Richard Armitage was a prominent trafficker in Bangkok. This was between 1975 to 1979 he was a very active trafficker in Bangkok. He was one of the embassy employees. Then after that in 1979 he quit from embassy and then he established a company name the Far East Trading company. Then he used the name of his company under the table for drug trafficking. He then used the drug money to support the Lao anti-communist troops. Bo: So he used it in arms and munitions. Secretary: Yes. This Richard Armitage has a lot of friends in Laos and Thailand. There is a lot of CIA personnel in Laos. One of the CIA agents is named Daniel Arnold. This Arnold was a munitions trafficker. There is another one Jerry Daniels who organized trafficking for Richard Armitage. (Now back at the luncheon with Bo) One of the men named by Khun Sa, this is not me naming him. This is Khun Sa, the drug overlord reading from his records, named Richard Armitage as being a chief drug trafficker from 1965 through 1979. You know where Richard Armitage went in 1979? He went to Dole's staff, then to Reagan's campaign staff and now he is the Assistant Secretary of Defense right underneath Mr. Carlucci. Richard Armitage has been responsible for recovery of US prisoners of war way back before we actually got involved with H. Ross Perot. He is still responsible for them. What I'm trying to do is find you Khun Sa's letter because it will say it best. Here it is. Letter from Khun Sa written to the US Justice department dated 28 Jun 1987. I just want to read you a couple sentences. "During the period 1965 to 1975, CIA chief in Laos Theodore Shackley, was in the Drug Business." Now Theodore Shackley would have been director of intelligence of the CIA if George Bush had not been appointed to that post. Theodore Shackley was then posted as the deputy director for covert operations. It said, "Santos Trafficante acted as his buying and transporting agent while Richard Armitage handled the financial section with banks in Australia." (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Reposted by John DiNardo from an original post by Jim Burnes. Ordering information for this video can be gotten by phoning 1(702) 723-5266.