CIA Drug And Narcotic Trade And Trafficking In Thailand. PART 6
In the 1950s to 1970s CIA threw its
full support behind the Thai General Phoa making him the strongest man
in Thailand. In return General Phoa allowed CIA two Thai paramilitary
organisations , The Police Aerial Reconnaisance Unit and the Border
Patrol Police. The training and equipment of the two units were under
the control of CIA specialists who organised front companies and
laundering funds for black operations operating out of Miami.
General
Phoa protected KMT supply equipments market their opium and helped to
garner support for KMT among Thailand's overseas Chinese.
USA
ambassador to Thailand William Donovan founder of the OSS was a senior
adviser to CIA. He hailed Phoa's state as the free world's strongest
bastion against the communist in South East Asia. In 1955 Phoa's
National Police Department had become the largest opium trafficking
syndicate in Thailand and was deeply involved with every aspect of the
narcotic trade.
Phua police guards would escort the KMT
opium caravans from the Thai-Burma border to police warehouses in
Chiengmai. From there police guards brought it to Bangkok by train or by
police aircraft. Then it was loaded into civilian coastal vessels to a
mid ocean rendezvous with freighters bound for Hongkong, Singapore or
Sydney.
CIA ripped in billions of dollars from the Thai
narcotic operations and the Thai military elite that ruled the country
became very rich from their drug monopoly and from ties with CIA. Much
of this smuggling network remains very active today and maintains close
ties to Thailand's military and paramilitary circles.
CIA
airlines, Civil Air Transport or Air America and Air Asia together with
CIA holding company , The Pacific Corporation provided air transport for
many of the drug operations in the Far East.
In the 1970s
and 1980s CIA hope to defeat the left wing Pathet Lao and North
Vietnamese. It supplied guns, money and training to the Hmong tribes who
were anti-communist monarchists. The Hmong's primary cash crop was
opium and CIA provided helicopters to collect opium for the Hmong
commander General Van Pao from his scattered highland villages and
transport it to distribution centres at Longtieng and Vientiane. The
processed heroin was ultimately bound for American GI addicts in Vietnam
and other South East Asian countries.
Southernglory1
Saturday, 19th November,2016
Saturday,19th November,2016
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