Peter Dale Scott: Laos' Secret Drug War Lives On: Vang Pao and the CIA

Laos' Secret Drug War Lives On
Vang Pao and the CIA

by Peter Dale Scott, Posted: Jun 12, 2007

The recent arrests of General Vang Pao, the former leader of royalist forces in Laos, and a retired U.S. army lieutenant colonel, Harrison Jack, for plotting to inflict al-Qaeda like terror on the capital of Laos, may seem like no more than a curious anecdote about a distant country. But their plot has potential implications for America’s drug problems, mostly ignored in the mainstream press.

American newspapers have paid little attention to what the London Daily Telegraph pointed out on Wed., June 7, that during the CIA’s “secret war” in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s, “Vang Pao's forces, 40,000-strong at their peak, were largely funded by the heroin trade, with raw opium transported on the airplanes and helicopters of Air America, the private airline of his CIA supporters.”

During the Vietnam War Vang Pao trafficked with impunity through the CIA bases of Long Tieng, which eventually was home to a heroin lab, and Pakse in southern Laos. For years the American press turned a blind eye, until 1971, that is, when it was clear that his dope was reaching not just U.S. troops in Vietnam but the continental United States...

...U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Harrison Jack, who served as an Army Ranger during the Vietnam War, said that he had been working for Vang Pao for the past ten years. Will he eventually be cleared of any links to the last decade of Hmong terrorism in Laos? Once again, as in the past, reluctance to explore these questions involving the CIA and drugs could end up protecting and contributing to our national drug scourge.

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They told me this story in 1972. Once or twice a week, they would load gold and silver bars onto a plane which would return later full of opium bales.

They both returned from Laos very wealthy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

The Opium Wars , or the Anglo-Chinese Wars were two wars fought around the middle of the 19th century (1840-1843 and 1856-1860 respectively) that were the climax of a long dispute between China and Britain. In the second war, France fought alongside Britain. Britain was smuggling opium from British India into China, and when China attempted to enforce her laws against the trade, the conflict erupted.

China succumbed in both wars and was forced to tolerate the opium trade and sign unequal treaties opening several ports to foreign trade and yielding Hong Kong to Britain. Several countries followed Britain and forced unequal terms of trade onto China. This foreign influence led in part to the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) and to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty (1911).




The Elites controlling the masses and making a profit.


and you wonder why opium production in Afghanistan has soared since we 'liberated' it.

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Opium and Empire

The background to Skull and Bones is a story of Opium and Empire, and a bitter struggle for political control over the new U.S. republic.

Samuel Russell, second cousin to Bones founder William H., established Russell and Company in 1823. Its business was to acquire opium from Turkey and smuggle it into China, where it was strictly prohibited, under the armed protection of the British Empire.

The prior, predominant American gang in this field had been the syndicate created by Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Newburyport, Massachusetts, an aggregation of the self-styled "bluebloods" or Brahmins of Boston's north shore. Forced out of the lucrative African slave trade by U.S. law and Caribbean slave revolts, leaders of the Cabot, Lowell, Higginson, Forbes, Cushing, and Sturgis families had married Perkins siblings and children. The Perkins opium syndicate made the fortune and established the power of these families, under the direct protection of the British navy and British imperial finance. By the 1830s, the Russells had bought out the Perkins syndicate and made Connecticut the primary center of the U.S. opium racket. Massachusetts families (Coolidge, Sturgis, Forbes, and Delano) joined Connecticut (Alsop) and New York (Low) smuggler-millionaires under the Russell (and British) auspices....