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Claims (17)
Jake Sullivan carried_out_attack
Burma host_asserted
“it's a good question though wouldn't you think these guys were pretty close they're why i mean yeah all right so in in a nutshell he also some of his other wonderful successes is he's basically shaped the u.s foreign policy towards libya sy…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 40:32
Khamti Khamphan trafficked
Burma book_quoted
“in Riverside, California newspaper written by David Hendricks. In a three-hour videotape interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within the past week and given to Press Enterprise yesterday, Kung Sa said high-ranking American officials wer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 48:54
Richard Armitage trafficked
Burma book_quoted
“Five years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed and the time span since American forces had pulled out of Southeast Asia, the drug flow out of the region and the money flowed into certain clandestine bank accounts. The article went on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 49:24
CIA trafficked
Burma book_quoted
“and had done so for decades. Processed into laboratories, those poppies turned into opium and heroin, morphine, along with other dangerous drugs. The drug trade was lucrative and as pervasive in northern Laos as it had been in Burma and Tha…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 48:01
Chiang Kai-shek member_of
Burma host_asserted
“And he spent, you know, part of his time there. So we definitely have to do Burma. That'll be good. I know someone who went back home and was very afraid for her life and then left again. They sort of escaped from there to get back to where…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 1:51:25
United States carried_out_attack
Burma host_asserted
“formerly OSS's plan to reinsert Chiang Kai-shek into China. And so we began destabilizing it in the aftermath of World War II by trying to accommodate Chiang Kai-shek's opium KMT army there. And it has, you know, it's had its issues all alo…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 41:21
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Burma host_asserted
“South China with him and watching him fund his war against Mao with opium profits. And they took that model and basically extrapolated that model all over the world. So the kingpin of that model was Chiang Kai-shek. And he wanders around in…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 1:23:06
Li Mi carried_out_attack
Burma documented
“wartime chief of OSS and Eisenhower's appointment in 1953 to ambassador of Thailand. Why Thailand? Because that's where they're going to run all the drugs out of. Oversaw the attempt to clean up the Lee Mai mess. This repatriation of Chines…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:06
Kuomintang trafficked
Burma host_asserted
“that was protecting the drug route coming out of China into Burma. And Burma had a whole bunch of opium themselves. They're relocating a foreign military army onto the island of Taiwan that is massively involved in the drug trade. And your …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 25:19
Kuomintang kicked_out_of
Burma host_asserted
“American dependence on drug proxies can be traced to the CIA's decision in 49 and 50 to provide arms and logistical support for the KMT, both in China and then in 49 to Burma, which is where they got kicked out. That's where they went initi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 43:19
Khun Sa trafficked
Burma book_quoted
“an Asian warlord by the name of Kun Sa, S-A, who died this week. And he commanded an army of thousands and supplied as much as a quarter of the world's heroin. A quarter, 25% of the world's heroin. And this article was written in 2007. So i…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 16:12
James Bo Gritz carried_out_attack
Burma host_asserted
“Yes, that's true. In 1983, Grits' team managed to make their way through the jungle and virgin teak forest of northern Thailand to Burma to meet with Kung Sa. What they found was that once again, the POW-MIA situation was directly linked to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 44:21
China trafficked
Burma host_asserted
“no longer under CIA control. Yeah, don't believe that part. The nationalists maintain that these later grew to as many as 12,000 and continued their drug trafficking, which is why the author wants you to believe they weren't under CIA contr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 4:09
The Invisible Government exposed
Burma book_quoted
“It talks about Burma. Most books do not cover Burma at all. Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Guatemala. And then it talks about the NSA, DIA. You find very few books that actually address the DIA. Then it spends a couple of chapters talking about …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:49:24
Jake Sullivan carried_out_attack
Burma host_asserted
“It's a good question, though, wouldn't you think? These guys are pretty close. I mean, yeah. All right, so in a nutshell, he also, some of his other wonderful successes is he's basically shaped the U.S. foreign policy towards Libya, Syria, …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 40:16
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Burma guest_asserted
“He's dealing opium there. Then when they get kicked out of Burma, they move him to an island called Formosa and then just change the name to Taiwan.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 57:33
Chiang Kai-shek trafficked
Burma guest_asserted
“So Chiang Kai-shek sets up his opium operation out of Burma.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 48:50
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But he was selling opium to fund his battle. And do you know who his aide was for the OSS while they were trying to kick the Japanese out of China? Paul Helliwell. Look up Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell was a CIA agent that created fake ban…
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He's dealing opium there. Then when they get kicked out of Burma, they move him to an island called Formosa and then just change the name to Taiwan. And his KMT army becomes the KMT political party. He then kills all of the Formosans that w…
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And so they were basically they had a drug operation going. Well, during World War Two, Paul Helliwell, who was a colonel in the military, is watching Chiang Kai-shek, who is the supplier in China. And of course, I told you he got kicked ou…
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Grebsky. Throughout the investigation, Mr. Forster had numerous conversations with DEA agent Horn, who at all times had a security clearance and was employed by the DEA. In order to learn more details and specifics from Horn and to field ne…
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by his attorney. Then chapter nine starts going in. That's the overview. Former DEA agent Richard Horn fought the U.S. government in court for years trying to prove the CIA illegally spied on him as part of an effort to thwart his anti-narc…
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After being removed from his post, Horn filed litigation in federal court in 1994, accusing top officials within the CIA and State Department in Burma of violating his Fourth Amendment rights. The protection against unreasonable searches an…
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after crucial evidence in the case was suppressed on the grounds of national security. Because the entire court record has been sealed by the judge, no one would have ever known that Horn's case was torpedoed if it was not for the fact of a…
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opium poppy producing countries in the world, which of course we know because we've covered all of that because that's where the OSS initially moved Chiang Kai-shek to infect Burma. As the highest ranking in-country DEA representative in Bu…
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From the start, Horn ran into problems, both with the CIA and the State Department. The State Department's charge de l'affaire is Franklin Huddle Jr., and the CIA station chief in Burma at the time was Arthur Brown. Horn's attorney, Layton,…
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what he was up against in Burma in a letter that he sent in 1997 to then U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama. In the letter, Layton claims Huddle and Brown were bent on portraying the State Law and Order Restoration Council, the oppressi…
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Horn wrote to Shelby saying that he had made inroads in gaining the assistance of this horrible government in helping to eradicate the poppy. So what he's saying is the State Department and the CIA are saying how bad the Burmese government …
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While it's actually working with the DEA to eradicate opium. Just to be clear. Horn's success in getting rid of the opium had set a series in motion of overt and clandestine efforts on the part of Huddle and Brown to undermine him. Gosh, th…
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was that if Horn's strategy was successful, it would undercut the State Department's vilification of the Burmese government. It would also undercut their ability to use that opium in their covert operations. CIA's motivation in the region w…
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Huddle managed to get Horn run out of Burma through the State Department. And his attorney contends, but only after Horn discovered the CIA had planted eavesdropping equipment in his private home in Burma. Horn's attorney claims the bug was…
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Horn's attorney in his letter to Senator Shelby contends the CIA's net is much bigger than Burma and that they regularly spy on DEA agents everywhere. And we know that to be true because we've read it before. Quote, my client has learned th…
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Even in sealed court rulings, that part of which was leaked to the author, all references to the alleged state secrets were redacted. So they don't even want you to know why they're doing it. In the sealed ruling, among the material redacte…
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is as it appears on the surface. An examination of Horn's specific charges against Huddle and Brown offers insight. Horn's attorney claims Huddle and Brown used the resources of the State Department and the CIA to sabotage a DEA plan to gai…
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Layton also claims that Huddle undermined Horn's efforts to provide Burma's prosecutors and police with U.S. assistance to implement its drug laws. Why? Well, we know why. In contrast, Layton pointed out in his letter to Senator Shelby, Mr.…
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Gosh, where have we seen that before? Like literally everywhere. Horne also said that according to the allegation outlined in Judge Lambert's ruling, the CIA station chief, Brown compromised a DEA informant. Brown turned over a copy of a DE…
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burned a source. Layton, in his 1997 letter to Senator Shelby, describes this event, quote, DEA's well-placed contact from the largest opium producing area in Burma provided DEA with a proposal to withdraw from opium production. The documen…
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Brown chose to deliver a signed copy of this document, which he serendipitously obtained without Horn's permission or knowledge, to a ranking figure in the central government, knowing full well it jeopardized his life. It held the overall p…
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and derailing the entire project all at once. It seemed a near miracle that Brown's plan failed. Horn and his agents still managed, after much work, to convince the central government of Burma not to arrest the informant and give the crop s…
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Horn reassigned out of Burma in September of 1993, a little more than a year after Horn had arrived. But about a month before his departure, Horn discovered that his house had been tampered with and that eavesdropping equipment had been ins…
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In a summary of a private telephone conversation Horn had from a telephone in his living room, this cable clearly demonstrated that the electronic intercept had been planted. As if that was not enough, Mr. Horn then learned about the techno…
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were likely located. Meanwhile, my client and I were threatened with prosecution if we told anyone the details of this technology designed specifically for use against other American diplomats. While at the same time, the government claimed…
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Quote, Horn's allegations regarding the handling of the DEA document was the subject of an IG report that the court determined on August 15, 2000, to be protected from disclosure by state secret privileges. Horn further argues that the purp…
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Horn alleges that Huddle sought his removal from Burma as retaliation for Horn sending reports to congressmen that conflicted with State Department reports prepared by Huddle. Horn supports his accusation of wiretapping with the contents of…
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telephone conversation. The alleged phone tapping incident is the subject of a second IG report that the court determined on August 15, 2000 to be protected by the same state secrets privilege, unquote. To understand the context of this sto…
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who was sick and tired of what was going on in this country. He rebelled, created the communist wave. And Chiang Kai-shek eventually gets kicked out with his army, which is the KMT army. And they move over to Burma, still growing opium, doi…
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I have a question. So the East Pakistan is now, but where it's located is so close to like Burma and, you know, the different Malaysian places or that other country.…
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They keep them like secret until they can gain control of countries. And then they start releasing them. And the only way you can actually track the resources is by looking at where the mining companies show up. And so because they just cou…
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to fight Mao under the guise of anti-communism. And Chiang Kai-shek gets kicked out of China eventually. They move him to Burma. So Chiang Kai-shek sets up his opium operation out of Burma. The Burmese government eventually kicks him out. S…
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and the first several CIA chiefs, you find them also involved in other Operation Gladio destabilization efforts. So, for example, the first station chief in 1949 assigned to Formosa, now called Taiwan, was Raymond Pierce. He was an OSS vete…
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that Southeast Asia area to set Chiang Kai-shek up with his own air force. Claire Chennault basically just managed it and flew the airplanes around. It was William Polly that was at the heart of that whole initiative. So through that effort…
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were becoming the rage on the jazz scene in Harlem, and the demand for heroin was increasing day by day among Black musicians in New York, where a hit could cost as much as $100. Hellywell, dealing with the drug lords of Burma, was keenly a…
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Bangkok around, going down, you've got Vietnam, you've got Bangkok, you've got Laos, Cambodia. So this is the southern part of China. You've got Vietnam, Laos, Burma, which is now Miramar. That's the major opium growing breadbasket of the w…
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South China with him and watching him fund his war against Mao with opium profits. And they took that model and basically extrapolated that model all over the world. So the kingpin of that model was Chiang Kai-shek. And he wanders around in…
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Chinese came to their assistance because the U.S. was driving the forces towards the Chinese border. And let me just say right here something else that's very important. This is the time when they were still, Chiang Kai-shek plays heavy in …
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resulted in the writing of the First Army Doctrine on Special Operations. Do you see why it's so important? The combat requirements of persons skilled in guerrilla operations at first filled by selected World War II veterans of the Philippi…
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I just wanted to ask if you're going to hit Myanmar, Burma, what's happening over there right now? Well, we are going to do Burma. And anytime that we do Burma, I check to see what is going on right now. Because you can't not do Burma when …
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the Philippines. We talked about Vietnam and various other places in Asia. We'll spend some time on Taiwan a little later. But I just want you to see that you've got, and keep in mind, the current maps, anything that's labeled Miramar is ac…
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And then you have, so to the northwest of Indonesia, you have Burma, Thailand, Laos. And due north, you have like Vietnam. And Malaysia is connected to, basically, there's a peninsula that comes down out of Thailand that's half Thailand and…
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Myanmar or the former Burma. And then by the time it gets down and actually touches Malaysia, it is 100% Thailand. So Thailand and Malaysia share a border. And then literally right across the straits is Indonesia from Malaysia. So they're a…
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You can see on the one map Chiang Mai up at the very northern part of Thailand in between of Burma and Laos. That was one of their biggest, you know, cash areas. And then, of course, coming down to Malaysia, Indonesia and on into Australia.…
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It's a good question, though, wouldn't you think? These guys are pretty close. I mean, yeah. All right, so in a nutshell, he also, some of his other wonderful successes is he's basically shaped the U.S. foreign policy towards Libya, Syria, …
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I guess we shaped that. Do you want to give a little more background on that? Well, I mean, obviously for our audience, it used to be called Burma. It was obviously part of Chiang Kai-shek's, the CIA, formerly OSS's plan to reinsert Chiang …
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The Chiang Kai-shek guy has a really great idea. He's selling drugs in order to pay for covert operations in China. I think we need to do the same thing. So they set up an entire operation in China. Eventually, Chiang Kai-shek gets kicked o…
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zone for the Uyghur population. That was done officially in 1955. Okay, so Chiang Kai-shek's gone. He got kicked out as a result of this. That's when he went to Burma and then eventually to Formosa and renamed it Taiwan. And the people that…
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And they're working with these people. So you have a thing called Operation Passage to Freedom. Now, if I zoom out to the 30,000 foot look, we already know by this time that Chiang Kai-shek is doing his opium thing in China. He gets pushed …
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So Alan Dulles puts two and two together. Shit, I can get black market money, and I'm going to need black market money to do black market ops paramilitary for these Gladio units. Hey, it's a match made in heaven. So he takes Galen into the …
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We are directly responsible for the opium wars in China that happened through Burma. And as a matter of fact, Orwell, his father were opium dealers in Burma, which is why he's got like that different kind of slant to all his work. At least …
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When Chiang Kai-shek got in charge of the KMT army and they began basically doing exactly the same thing inside of China, when Mao kicked him out, basically all they did was relocate him to Burma. And the Burmese government tolerated that b…
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Putting all of this picture together, it's very important to go back to the origin. And Asia is the origin of this. So as you begin looking into this, you end up over in Burma. And Burma has some very interesting history.…
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plays host to Chiang Kai-shek for a while until the Burmese authorities gets tired of him. And then they push him out to a island off the coast of China, because he is, after all, Chinese, called Formosa. And when the China lobby, which we'…
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an Asian warlord by the name of Kun Sa, S-A, who died this week. And he commanded an army of thousands and supplied as much as a quarter of the world's heroin. A quarter, 25% of the world's heroin. And this article was written in 2007. So i…
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And they skim off weapons and put them into these black markets. That's the reason why we have trillions of dollars, quote unquote, missing from the Pentagon. They're not actually missing. They were stolen by the CIA to sell these weapons o…
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Being driven by political infighting, he managed to cut an extraordinary deal with his sworn enemy, the Burmese government. In exchange for his surrender, he was protected from extradition to the U.S. and reportedly given a concession to op…
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It was a staggering feat of self-preservation from a man whose U.S. officials had nicknamed the Prince of Death. Born in 1933 to a Chinese father and a mother from Burma. Growing up in the Burmese countryside, he had little education and ca…
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rapidly took over the expanding opium trade in the region. But this guy that we're talking about, his gang, gradually began exerting its own influence inside of Burma. This allowed the Burmese government, they thought, to have, because they…
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This guy basically sprang up as like one of Chiang Kai-shek's deputies to reassert the opium trade inside of Burma. The term Golden Triangle was coined during this period because of the drug-producing region of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. An…
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So they could say that they were in a country, not one of the drug countries, Thailand, Burma, and Laos. They were in Vietnam. But what they were actually doing is operations inside of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. All of the Raven flights wer…
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With a group called Shan Nationalist. So in in Burma, there were in Burma, by the way, is modern day Miramar where, you know, we just had that one president arrested for election corruption by the military. And they basically deposed her an…
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superior in strength tribes in order to kind of buy their allegiance. So the government ends up throwing him in jail for doing this. He is in jail for five years. And then he changes his name to Kunsa, which is a Shan name. And he allies hi…
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nationalist version crowd in Burma. An already devoted band of fighters was consolidated on the Thai border and eventually became the Mak Thai Army, a fighting force of over 20,000 troops. By the 1980s, officials estimated that Khun Sa cont…
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against the Burmese government, kind of heightened in 1994. And there was also infighting with a rival by the name of Wah Hill tribe. And that was beginning to take its toll on the Shan separatist movement. With the situation increasingly d…
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This CIA gradual takeover of policy from all aspects of the State Department. And it's just so worth reading if you get a chance. Hilsman's book. I'll check the title on it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's interesting from the perspective that he wa…
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Oh, sure. Yeah. So it says he was with he was in Burma, which means he would have been there with Paul Helliwell because Paul Helliwell was the leading OSS guy hanging around with Chiang Kai-shek. So, yeah, right. They all kind of have. And…
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It was never about a long-term win. This was all about situating initially with Chiang Kai-shek in the North before Ho Chi Minh kicked him out, situating him to be the opium controller. They never wanted him in Taiwan. They always wanted hi…
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And let's see. All right. So one of the maps is a map like we've seen before that shows South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and where the DMZ is, the 17th parallel. It shows you in relationship to that where Laos is in the Plain of Jars, where Ch…
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And we're not going to let them hide anymore. So now let me just go one step further because I have to make this point. Chiang Kai-shek, while he said he wanted those 10 things, when he was kicked out of China by Mao, then he was kicked out…
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Chiang Kai-shek did when he was in southern China, when he was in Burma, and when he was in Taiwan. That is exactly what has happened. As a matter of fact, and I've said this, and I'm going to say it every single day that we're in Asia, Pau…
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phoned his longtime friend, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau's government agreed to allow thousands of these Ismaili to immigrate to Canada. Aga Khan also undertook urgent steps to facilitate a resettlement.…
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And the author notes that World War II was crucial in many different ways, which is kind of the point that I've been making the entire time. It changed everything. The U.S. found its British allies to be avid practitioners of secret warfare…
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were found in Burma and the Balkans and northern Italy. So we can definitely confirm that. He goes on to talk about the armies. This is an expeditionary temporary army unit. It was called 5307th Composite Unit. It was also known as Morel's …
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and played an important part in the Burma campaign alongside the OSS. The OSS unit with the same name, with the same mission, sorry, was called Detachment 101. They were originally sent to India and infiltrated the Burmese hill country and …
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And that they also had 10,000 other forces, which if you read other accounts is basically KMT army that was relocated there. And it says that they worked first to evict the Japanese from those locations and then were used in Burma as an occ…
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It talks about Burma. Most books do not cover Burma at all. Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Guatemala. And then it talks about the NSA, DIA. You find very few books that actually address the DIA. Then it spends a couple of chapters talking about …
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to be used for the CIA training location. Oh, you mean where they moved the School of Americas? Yeah, that same Fort Benning. One of the OPC men at the conference was Richard G. Stilwell, who had served in the Detachment 101 with the OSS in…
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continuation of the rule violence that preceded Plan Lazo in the 1960s. But a broader glance at how the U.S. has intervened in other countries would see Colombia as yet another example of how the U.S., with local drug proxy forces, to incre…
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Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert …
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And the mafias in Italy preeminence in this drug trafficking cycle because they were under the control of the CIA. Okay. The State Department and the CIA maintain that any buyout of the Burmese opium crop would find insurgencies against the…
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The CIA's airline, Civil Air Transport, later known as Air America, flew weapons and supplies from its base in Hong Kong to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the mountain camps of Burma. 10,000 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiw…
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The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secre…
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that the failure to invade China in the fight against communism forced the CIA to move its covert drug operations westward. The CIA's new focus on the fight against the Vietnamese, meaning Ho Chi Minh, as opium production in Burma, Thailand…
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Who's trafficking drugs? You can guarantee it's not them. An internal CIA survey revealed that 60% of the world's opium came from the Golden Triangle under the control of the CIA. With the four largest heroin labs in Laos, Burma, and Thaila…
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According to the UN Drug Control Program, the biggest heroin and cocaine trafficking institutions in the world were the militaries of Burma, Pakistan, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, all armed and trained by the U.S. military intelligence in th…
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of a relationship to the CIA and Hasenfuss. And for those of you who haven't listened to the earlier versions, Hasenfuss was the sole survivor of the CIA aircraft shot down over Nicaragua. And the exportation of explosives to the countries.…
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Federal Judge Ralph Thompson said it was not routine that people be released on bail in this kind of case. But he did it anyway. The hearing was over in a matter of minutes and Weakley was soon on his way back home. Then Bo Gritz began shou…
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that had began encroaching into China through multiple venues. And again, remember, when they say nationalist Chinese, they're talking about the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek's army that the CIA set up on Taiwan. By March, and in Burma at this po…
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i.e. Chiang Kai-shek's troops, were operating in Shan states of neighboring Burma, had crossed over into Laotian territory and were being supplied by an airlift of quote-unquote unknown planes, meaning CIA planes. Matters escalated in May w…
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to redirect imports and exports through Burmese opium, which, again, is Chiang Kai-shek, which is, again, the CIA. So no matter how you get to it, it's still the CIA. Fumi delegated responsibility for the Burmese opium connection to Raffa C…
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which had fronted for General Chennault's Flying Tigers in 1941. The capital came from government sources, but profits, if there were any, got to be kept. Thus, William Ray Peers, P-E-E-R-S, an OSS hand of the Burma China Group, was later t…
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that were set up to attack mainland China and all of the other surrounding areas. Willis Byrd, B-I-R-D, who also was in the OSS in China with Paul Helliwell, headed a Bangkok quote-unquote trading company called Sea Supply. Sea Supply was s…
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The most questionable of Civil Air Transport's activities was its sustained supply of arms and other material to the KMT's General Lee Me and his successors in Burma and North Thailand from 1949 to 1961. Lee Me is probably the most major op…
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to a drug lord. It makes you want to spit. Nonetheless, the bulk of the troops refused to move and the civil air transport continued to supply them, possibly using some of the same planes chartered under the civil air, then Air America. And…
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China, they had temporarily moved most of his forces to Burma, but then they were getting kicked out of Burma. And that's basically, you know, the setting up of Taiwan and all of that. But a lot of the drug people stayed in Burma and just b…
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Resistance showed every willingness to cooperate with the KMT Chinese in the campaigns against quote unquote communism, even though communism has nothing to do with this. At the same time, his police, which was funded completely by the Unit…
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became obvious in 1961 when Feng Chi, C-H-I-H, a member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency, admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot d…
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and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state o…
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followed a crackdown in the summer of 1959 by the Burmese government after Pei Sengen and some 2,000 KMT troops had been driven out of Burma. In March of 1959, according to Bernard Fall, some of the nationalists, meaning Chiang Kai-shek's g…
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visited KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's camps, in Laos, Burma, and Thailand, as he had done in 1960. In August 1959, five days before the arrival of two civil air transport planes into the Laos capital, and 12 days before the alleged quote-unquote f…
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American dependence on drug proxies can be traced to the CIA's decision in 49 and 50 to provide arms and logistical support for the KMT, both in China and then in 49 to Burma, which is where they got kicked out. That's where they went initi…
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in Cambodia. Millions with Pol Pot. By overthrowing their government, installing Pol Pot, millions died for oil. Okay, when the CIA began its covert involvement in Burma in 1950s, local opium production was in the order of 80 tons a year. T…
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reversible. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics reported in 1970 that the illicit opium production at that time was between 1,250 and 1,400 tons, more than half of it coming from the Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, which before World…
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And he goes, hey, you know what? You know that Gladio program that we wanted to set up, that stay behind unit? We could pay for it by selling opium. And Alan Dulles says, that's a great idea. OK, here's how we're going to do it. We're going…
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from Burma and from Thailand for the KMT Southeast Asia Golden Triangle. But the Thai border police became a problem, which is why we ended up spending $35 million to buy them off. So, and he goes through the details. We've already talked a…
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A member of the KMT Central Advisory Committee and Secretary General of the Free China Relief Agency admitted responsibility for an unlisted civil air transport plane that had just been shot down over Thailand by the Burmese Air Force. The …
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And I used it as key sources of other books to buy that we've already went through. So just FYI, it's not a very expensive book and it's not a very big book, but it does have extensive footnotes that's very, very important to the additional…
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And therefore, you would have thought that there would have been a significant decrease, except for that's not what they wanted to have happen. But even before the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, there was support in Washington for stre…
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space MI supply line. General Li Mai, who it's named after, army soon proved itself to be no threat for the new Chinese People's Republic. Its two attempted invasions in 1951 and 1952 were easily repulsed by their militia after advances of …
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Lee Mai and his army were so successful that Burma's total annual harvest of opium increased from fewer than 40 tons before World War II to between 300 and 400 tons by 1962. By the end of the 50s, Burma, Laos, and Thailand together had beco…
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Civil Air Transport supplied the troops with arms from another CIA proprietary, Sea Supply, and Sea Supply was set up by Paul Helliwell. At an OPC-built airbase in, I think that was Thailand, after delivering the arms to the KMT in Burma, a…
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and other secret societies that had traditionally been involved in the opium traffic. Thus, the restoration of an opium supply in Burma to replace what was lost in mainland China had the result of sustaining a social fabric that was traditi…
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Chenault and others helped lead the Korean War and the Civil Air Transport role in it. This in turn led the Civil Air Patrol airlift to the KMT troops in Burma. These events were marked by extraordinary intrigue that drew at the time multip…
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whose survival in Burma would depend on that same airline, was reportedly already working for the CIA by that time. Meanwhile, in June of 1950, a debate arose in Washington, much like that after the events of 9-11, as to whether or not ther…
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and supposedly owner of C Supply, at least legal counsel, because he's a lawyer by trade. The proprietary, which supplied arms to Chiang Kai-shek, even though the official Washington position is we didn't do that. After 1949, C Supply shipp…
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While representing Thailand, and I just mentioned that he was the official Thai consul in Miami, at a time when KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong to be washed through Meyer Lansky's properties. Money laundering. Still lat…
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the cocaine production goes up because we're there to guard it and not destroy it. More than 10 years ago, the author, Peter Del Scott, noted how opium production had soared over two decades of the CIA-KMT meddling in Burma and Laos, then p…
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The 1959 RAN-sponsored conference on the role of the military in underdeveloped countries attended by military officers from nations such as Brazil, Burma, and Indonesia. At this conference, CIA-backed U.S. academians challenged the Western…
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This leads U.S. to the conclusion that the military in the underdeveloped countries can make a major contribution to strengthening essential administrative functions, unquote. Basically, they're going in position is they're going to use the…