Li Mi person
also: General Li Mai, Lee Mai, Lee Mike, Lai Me, General Leamy, L-E, last name M-I, L-I-M-I, Leamy, Lee, Lee Me, Lee-Mi, Li Ming
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Claims (6)
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
Li Mi carried_out_attack
Mao Zedong documented
“Lee had not been above executing some of his subordinates that he didn't think minded him well enough. Very ruthless. Lee escaped in disguise when his army disintegrated in his campaign against Mao. He made his way to the Yunnan province wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 1:11:35
Li Mi carried_out_attack
China documented
“The first invasion into China was accompanied by CIA officers and regular supply drops in April 1951. The Nationalists advanced into the Yunnan province, but were driven right back out within a week. Li Mi sent his subordinate, Liu Kucheng,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 1:18:09
CIA supplied_arms_to
Li Mi documented
“all in on it. The new logistics support director, James Garrison, was brought in to manage the now substantial arms flow into Taiwan, Thailand, and Burma. The American engineers were sent in to supervise the reopening of a World War II airp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 1:19:40
Air America supplied_arms_to
Li Mi host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 47:16
Chiang Kai-shek ordered_assassination_of
Li Mi documented
“The U.S. persisted in its denials, and to lessen the visibility of the issue, Chiang Kai-shek prevailed upon Li Mi to return to Taiwan. To explain the nationalist ability to acquire arms, reports were leaked that Li Mi's men had been sellin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 1:22:06
Mentions (25)
▶ 47:16
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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was the CIA, and by May 1950, this was in full bloom. The true author of the plan, as noted previously, was General Claire Chenault, whose airline, Civil Air Transport, became OPC-LEMI Supply Line, and it's spelled L-E-M-I, so it's OPC-LEMI…
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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 …
▶ 27:53
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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decided to acquire the airline. So by June 28th of 1950, CIA Director Hillen Cotter formally approved the OPC CIA takeover of the airline. This was three days after the outbreak of the war that would generate 15,000 missions to be flown by …
▶ 34:14
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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This paramilitary effort was carried out in the face of the Burmese government and created an unnecessary international controversy. It also led to an organized nationalist Chinese involvement in heroin traffic that continues today. But tha…
▶ 1:11:35
Lee had not been above executing some of his subordinates that he didn't think minded him well enough. Very ruthless. Lee escaped in disguise when his army disintegrated in his campaign against Mao. He made his way to the Yunnan province wh…
▶ 1:12:01
When the provincial governor left the KMT area in December 1949, virtually handing over the administration to the communists, Li Mi called out his troops and took over the city. During the early months of 1950, he slowly retreated towards t…
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eaten. An entire tribe of Karens. That is just so freaking funny. Sorry. It is. A whole group of Karens. In these conditions, General Leamy was easily able to cross the Burmese border with an organized force of several thousand from the nat…
▶ 1:13:35
these disgruntled tribes people into their service. And that's how they ended up occupying Burma for a while as they're getting pushed out of China. Project Paper was intended to reinforce and re-equip Li Mi's band for a reinsertion into Ch…
▶ 1:14:35
So we're occupying the entire damn Asian theater at this point. The whole operation was coordinated by a man called Alfred Cox, C-O-X, who was the chief of station in Hong Kong, and Sherman Joost, J-O-O-S-T, who was chief of station in Bang…
▶ 1:16:38
Some 4,500 Thai soldiers had been trained and equipped to aid them in this operation. Whatever happened to Lee, me, the Thai came out with a bargain because they're going to get a crap load of money. And they ended up with $35 million in mo…
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The assistance of Lee Me and the existence of Sea Supply were open secrets in Bangkok. Sherman Joost, experienced as a team leader with the OSF in the same Burma area, loved the attention. Operation Paper began with three civil air transpor…
▶ 1:17:36
The Burmese government evidently first learned about this operation when its own intelligence officers were observing the Chinese dropping their own air supplies in response to the CIA's air supplies. Meanwhile, Li Mi began calling his forc…
▶ 1:18:09
The first invasion into China was accompanied by CIA officers and regular supply drops in April 1951. The Nationalists advanced into the Yunnan province, but were driven right back out within a week. Li Mi sent his subordinate, Liu Kucheng,…
▶ 1:21:12
In a statement by the American delegation to the UN, the Nationalists had simply failed to honor a pledge to remove their troops from Burma. The Burma UN delegate agreed with the charges that Lee Me was receiving outside support from the U.…
▶ 1:22:06
The U.S. persisted in its denials, and to lessen the visibility of the issue, Chiang Kai-shek prevailed upon Li Mi to return to Taiwan. To explain the nationalist ability to acquire arms, reports were leaked that Li Mi's men had been sellin…
▶ 1:23:07
Chester Bowles, B-O-W-L-E-S, asked for and received assurances that there was no American aid going to the Lee-Me or any nationalists, as Asian governments increasingly refused to accept these claims. Bowles was reduced to arguing that no A…
▶ 1:24:05
I have it cold. If I were you, I'd just keep quiet. Like, shut up, bitch. We know what you're doing. In the summer of 1952, Li Mi returned to Burma to lead a second invasion into China. This time, they have 2,100 nationalists that mark 60 m…
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any effective invasion from Burma. And they basically have, Li Ming's operation against the Chinese communists were ruled to be ineffective. It led to the ruin of the U.S. relations with Burma for most of the 1950s because, of course, we ha…
▶ 1:25:09
Inside of Burma and Leamy's operation had been dear to some of the CIA officers like Desmond Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was another member of the wartime Burma contingent. Having served there, he had been educated at private schools to include …
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This evaluation of the Lee-Mi operation was given to Chester Bowles by an Indonesian cabinet member in 1953. This is a quote. What could be more ridiculous than to allow American arms to be used to build up the power of a renegade group tot…
▶ 1:06
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…
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Lai Me returned to Taiwan in October of 52, but his soldiers stayed in Burma. A four-power conference in Bangkok among Burma, Thailand, Nationalist China, and the U.S. agreed to remove them. This led to Operation Repat, like repatriation. A…