Date: 12-15-90  21:32
 The following is a transcript of the video, "A NATION BETRAYED".  It
documents alleged CIA involvement in covert drug running activities and how
they supposedly interfered with the nation's attempts to recover POW/MIAs. It
is very long (around 75K bytes) so you may wish to save it and download it
from your network site for offline reading.  It is a document I promised I'd
upload to the net.  You may find it unbelievable.  You may not be surprised
at what it says.  I have several comments which I will append to end of the
document.  Sufficed to say that information of this type is its own shocking
kind of pornography.  As far as I can see Gritz's arguments are more or less
sound.  The evidence from three separate sources is even more compelling.  As
I watched this video I felt thoroughly violated.  It is not enjoyable
reading, but it may well be true.
Be careful when you seek the truth.  Upon finding it you may be forced to
change your view of the world.
(apologies to the original quote)
(Transcriber's note:  The following is a transcription of spoken english and
as such can be difficult to read, much less transcribe.  I have tried to
preserve exactly as was spoken except for a few places where I have organized
the language used to clarify meaning.  I am not an English major so don't
slam me for not using perfect english punctuation in the sometimes rather
strange usages.)
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Colonel Bo Gritz Addressing the American Liberty Lunch Club:
What I want to tell you very quickly is something that I feel is more heinous
than the Bataan death march. Certainly it is of more concern to you as
Americans than the Watergate.  What I'm talking about is something we found
out in Burma - May 1987.  We found it out from a man named Khun Sa. He is the
recognized overlord of heroin in the world.  Last year he sent 900 tons of
opiates and heroin into the free world.  This year it will be 1200 tons.
(video showing discussion at Khun Sa's headquarters -- some translation of
Burmese to English going on..Bo Gritz still talking to Lunch club in the
foreground)
On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: that US
government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have
been for the last twenty years.  I wouldn't believe him.  We fought a war in
Laos and Cambodia even as we fought whatever it was in Vietnam.  The point is
that there are as many bomb holes in those two other countries as there are
in Vietnam.  Five hundred and fifty plus Americans were lost in Laos. Not one
of them ever came home.  We heard a president say, "The war is over, we are
out with honor - all of the prisoners are home." and a few other lies.  Now
we got rid of that president, but we didn't get rid of the problem.  We ran
the war in Laos and Cambodia through drugs.  The money that would not be
appropriated by a liberal congress, was appropriated.  And you know who we
used for distribution?  Santos Trafficante, old friend of the CIA and mobster
out of Cuba and Florida.  We lost the war! Fifty-eight-thousand Americans
were killed.  Seventy-thousand became drug casualties.  In the sixties and
seventies you saw an infusion of drugs into America like never was before.
Where do you think the Mafia takes the heroin and opiates that it gets
through its arrangement with the US government?  It doesn't distribute them
in Africa or Europe.  This is the big money bag here.  We're Daddy Warbucks
for them.  So I submit to you that the CIA has been pressed for solutions.
Each time they have gone to the sewer to find it.  And you cant smell like a
rose when you've been playing in the cesspool.  We've been embracing
organized crime.  Now you've all looked and heard about Ollie North, about
the Contras, about nobody knowing anything.
(cut to part of Iran Contra hearings with Ollie North explaining the flow of
funds from Iran to the Contras)
North:
And Mr. Gorbanifar suggested several incentives to make that February
transaction work.  And the attractive incentive for me was the one he made
that residuals could flow to support the Nicaraguan resistance.
 Legislator:
Even Gorbanifar knew that you were supporting the Contras.
North:
Yes he did.  Isvestia knew it.  The name had been in the papers in Moscow. It
had been all over Danny Ortega's newscasts.  Radio Havana was broadcasting
it.  It had been in every newspaper in the land.
Legislator:
All our enemies knew it and you wanted to keep it from the United States
Congress.
North:
We wanted to be able to deny a covert operation.
 (back to Bo at the Luncheon Club)
 We have a constitution that says that the laws will be made by the Congress,
enforced by the executive branch, interpreted by the judicial branch.  But in
reality we have an executive branch that has for more than a twenty years
operated in what what Ollie North called a parallel government.  When the
Congress says no, it makes no difference.  They're gonna do it anyway.  And
it is special intelligence - top secret.  Why?  Not because the communists
don't know what were doing, its to keep it a secret from you. You're not
capable of making those kinds of  decisions according to those in parallel
government.  The reason I know ... I was there.  I've been a product of
parallel government myself.
(Narrator)
Lieutenant Colonel James 'Bo' Gritz is the most decorated Green Beret
commander of the Vietnam Era.  General William Westmoreland, in writing his
memoirs, singled out Bo Gritz as the "American Soldier" for his exemplary
courage in combat and outstanding ingenuity in recovering a highly secret
black-box the Viet-Cong had taken from a crashed U2 spy plane.  The feature
films "Rambo", "Uncommon Valor" and "Missing in Action" were based in part
upon his real-life military experiences.
(Back to Bo)
Dick Secord, General, United States Air Force, a man I know well, said it
best.  Before the senate investigating committee Dick Secord was asked - if
we were supporting the Contras, why were we selling them arms bought from a
communist block nation at exorbitant profit rates.
(skip to scene from hearings)
 Senator:
If the purpose of the enterprise was to help the contras, why did you charge
Colero a mark-up?
Secord:
We were in business to make a living, Senator.  We had to make a living. I
didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.  It was a commercial
enterprise.
Senator:
Oh..I thought the purpose of the enterprise was to aid Colero's cause.
Secord:
Can't I have two purposes?  I did.
Senator:
Oh..allright.
(back to Bo)
And then Dick Secord said in his playboy interview:  "I think I deserve the
eight million that we made from the Iran arms sale for all the hard work I
did."  If you've got to pay a patriot, you've got the wrong guy.
(applause from audience)
These are patriots for profit.  There has been a guise of patriotism that a
lot of people have been hiding behind.  War is their business.  Business has
been good.
 (fade to shots of the Vietnam 'conflict' - Narrator takes over again)
Bo Gritz risked his life a thousand times in combat in Vietnam before he was
sent by a national security council staffer Tom Harvey in the White House to
Burma in November of 1986 in search of American prisoners of war.  He
discovered instead a heroin highway and a nation betrayed by high level
American officials involved in narcotics trafficking.  Tom Harvey and his
superiors in the White House were not pleased with Bo's report.
(fade to scene of Bo - now with beard in a field obviously somewhere in
Southeast Asia - palm trees and oxen indigenous to the area abound - I assume
its in either Burma or Thailand)
The thing that I was most concerned about was - and I thought was fantastic -
was the general's offer to stop the flow of opium and heroin into the free
world.  When I asked him (assume he's talking about a conversation with Tom
Harvey now) he said "that's fantastic".  There was a pause, then he said,
"Bo, there's no one here that supports that." And I said, "What?!
Vice-President Bush has been appointed by president Reagan as the Number One
policeman to control drug entry into the United States.  How can you say
there's no interest and no support when we bring back a video tape with a
direct interview with a man who puts 900 tons of opium and heroin across into
the free world every year and is willing to stop it?"  And he said, "Bo, what
can I tell you?  All I can tell you is there is no interest in doing that
here."
Well that made me wonder.  Thats because it doesn't sound American and it
doesn't sound right.  Thats when we began to do our own investigation because
for about three years people had told me, both in Washington DC and,
interestingly enough, in Oklahoma city that the whole POW situation was being
undermined by US government officials involved in drug trafficking.  I
wouldn't believe it.  I said, "You guys aren't playing with a full deck...
you've got yourselves strung out too thin."  And they said, "Bo, you better
listen, because for three years we've had prisoners literally within our
grasp and something has happened at the last minute."  (I said), "Each time
I've made every effort to cooperate with government officials.  I can't
believe that people in the US government would actually, either overtly or
covertly, do anything to undermine a rescue operation. "
Well, we're still without Prisoners of War and there is no interest, we're
told at the White House, in stopping the flow of drugs coming in from the
Golden Triangle into the free world.
(fade to front-page articles about Bo Gritz in Parade magazine and
Soldier of Fortune...narrator picks up here)
Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz is no stranger to controversy.  In thirty
years of devoted service to the US Army and to the recovery of American
prisoners of war, he has encountered plenty.  The making of this
American warrior began early.  He was five years old when his father, a
B-17 pilot, was shot down over Europe during World War II.  His mother,
a pilot with the women's Air Force, would later marry a master sergeant
and remain with the occupation forces in Germany after the war.  Raised
by his maternal grandparents in Oklahoma, young Bo Gritz began training
at Fort Union Military Academy in Virginia.  He was named Corps
Commander in his senior year when he chanced upon a recruiting poster
that changed his life.  In short order, Gritz won his green beret in
the Army Special forces by passing all courses in the unconventional
warfare training. After graduating from officer's candidate school, the
newly-commissioned second lieutenant then insisted on Ranger training.
Assigned to the command of the first mobile South Vietnamese gorilla
forces to be organized, Gritz also operated secretly in Cambodia and
Laos with his force of Cambodian mercenaries, or "Bos", as he called
them.  By official body-count, over 450 of the enemy died as a result
of Gritz's actions.  His wartime records are replete with examples of
Bo's concern for keeping Americans alive in a war gone mad.
As recon chief of the supersecret delta-force, Bo was cited for Valor
in saving the lives of 30 US Infantrymen from the BigRed-One division.
More often than not,  his valor was in placing himself between the
enemy and his men.  According to an official military report dated 31
July 1967 submitted on then Major Gritz, "His personal bravery is
legendary exemplified by the fact that he has been awarded five silver
stars and numerous other decorations for valor."  In all Bo Gritz was
awarded 62 citations for valor, five silver stars, eight bronze stars,
two purple hearts and a presidential citation.
Bo was ready to sign up for a fifth tour of duty when he had a talk
with General Fred Weiyan (sp?), the "daddy-rabbit" in Vietnam.  As
Gritz described it,  "I was a major and special operations chief.  I'll
never forget that day.  I stood there and heard that man say.  Bo, your
not going to win the war and neither am I."  That was the most
disillusioning moment of my life.  It meant that every man who had ever
lost his finger or his life had lost it for nothing.  I decided, on the
spot, to leave Vietnam.  I would not kill another enemy or risk another
comrade's life."
(back to Bo at the luncheon)
I've had the opportunity to do a lot of things that other officers have
not.  I was the first recon chief and intelligence officer for
delta-force.  Commanded the first gorilla forces that went behind enemy
lines.  When I commanded special forces in Latin America, we did It
exactly right.  And we did exactly what men in camoflage are supposed
to do.  It was very natural that Harold R. Aaron (sp?) would single me
out because, besides having a sixth-degree black belt in karate, I have
established an ability to operate on my own.  And I think when Aaron
said, "Bo, we want you to do this",  he understood that I'm also hard
headed enough that I wouldn't cave in.  He said, "I want you to
consider retiring.  I would only be temporary.  We have overwhealming
evidence now that people are still there, being held in communist
prisons."  Mr. H. Ross Perot had been asked by Eugene Tighe, director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, to back a private mission that
would look into the POW situation.  Perot said, "Bo, I want you to go
there.  I want you to do everything you have to do.  You come and tell
me there aren't any prisoners of war left alive."
(narrator)
Bo returned from IndoChina with extensive evidence that there were
indeed American prisoners of war in captivity, including a solid report
of 47 at one particular camp.  Perot turned the project back over to
General Tighe who wrote to Secretary of Defense, Harold Brown asking
that the source, a Nguyen Dok Jong (sp?) be brought to the United
States for a polygraph test.  Brown repeated the request to Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance.  One month later, Vance finally responded that
the commissioner of immigration would not permit Jong into the United
States for further questioning.  As Bo puts it, "Think about it.  One
man, not a thousand and the defense intelligence agency chief and
secretary of state can't get him into the country.  That was a pretty
clear signal that the military was politically handcuffed on the
prisoner of war issue."
For eight years Gritz sought to find and free American POW's.  He
crossed five times behind enemy lines into communist Laos and Vietnam.
Three times he was within moments of embracing those American heroes
our government had declared dead.  Each time something unexplained
caused Gritz and his Operation Lazarus team to fall short with freedom
and victory in sight for the POWs.
There has never been a shortage of criticism from any number of
armchair generals such as Robert K. Brown of "Soldier of Fortune"
magazine who devoted an entire issue to condemning Gritz's efforts.
Even to the extent of publishing documents stolen from Bo while he was
on the mission in Laos.  They have even belittled his prayer before
crossing enemy lines. (Gritz is a devout Mormon...Ed) His critics said
he should have looked more like the Rambo in the movies, who actually
avoided the draft in an all-girls school in Switzerland.
More debilitating than the hundreds of miles on foot within enemy
territory has been the disinformation propagated by those within our
government who have covered up the plight of our prisoners of war.
Gritz has been accused of being a media hound.  He insists he has never
sought the spotlight, but when confronted has always been a positive
voice for our prisoners of war and will continue to be until they are
home to speak for themselves.
Working as an agent for the Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) in the
CIA, it was fine for Gritz to travel at great peril using false
documents, as Ollie North and Bud McFarland did when they traveled to
Iran on phony Irish passports.  On one occasion he was stopped by US
customs at Seattle-Tacoma airport with four separate passports.  He was
quickly released when his intelligence contact in Washington confirmed
his mission.  It was quite acceptable with the US government for Bo
Gritz to travel at such great peril until he returned from Burma's
infamous Golden Triangle on December of 1986 with information
concerning with involvement of high-level US officials involved in
large-scale drug trafficking in Southeast Asia.  His tremendous courage
in refusing to back down to their threats has lead to his current
indictment for misuse of a passport in order to keep him from getting
this information to the American public.
(back to Bo at the luncheon)
There a book out now called Secret Warriors, I think.  Its about an
organization called the ISA.  Congress never knew about and everybody
gives me credit for exposing it, but that's not true.  When I was
called before congress in 1983, they said, "Bo, are you working as an
official agent for the US government?"  And I said, "Yes".  And they
said, "For what organization?"  And I said, "I will not identify that
organization, other than to call it the activity."  This is because
even the initials I-S-A were top secret.  Because it wasn't an
oversight.  It was created by Carter.  Can you imagine that?  He did
one good thing that I know of.  (laughter)  But it was parallel
government.  He created a secret organization to do things that the CIA
could not do and he didn't dare let congress know about it.
Now ISA got Dosier back, the general that was captured by terrorists in
Italy. And ISA did a lot of other things.  You can read about them now
because its in this book by some guy who write for the Wall Street
Journal.  The point is that Jerry King was the head of ISA.  Jerry King
called me on the telephone and said, "Bo, we have been ordered to put
operation Grand Eagle...", which was the governments name for the
prisoner of war rescue mission.  It certainly wasn't grand and it sure
wasn't an eagle 'cause it never got off the ground.  But he said,
"We've been ordered to put operation Grand Eagle on the shelf as if it
never existed."  Hand before God he said, "there are still too many
bureaucrats that don't want to see American prisoners of war come back
alive."  Now I didn't know what Jerry King meant then.  I thought he
was angry because there was a bureaucratic tug-of-war going on between
ISA, the CIA and defense intelligence and maybe he was losing.  But
remember Jerry King's words, 'cause they'll tie in here.  I'm wondering
why that the Vietnamese intercept Colonel Richard Walsh (a POW..Ed)
moments before the turnover and capture not only him, but the General
also (unclear who the General is here ... Ed.)  And I knew that we
still had him, because in the newspapers it appeared that, "The
Vietnamese and Lao delegations of the United Nations confirm that they
are holding an American citizen in custody."  And I said, "By golly, we
in our state department are going to press for an identity."  Because
doesn't it say that the president is required to safegaurd American
citizens in hostile hands.  And I knew when when we pressed what would
happen?  Richard Walsh would be identified.  Who is he?  A prisoner of
war.  Hooray!  Now the log jam is broken.  And who can Walsh testify
to?  The other men he was with.  And they can testify.  Were going to
get them all out now,  even though its going to cost us something.  Did
you ever see Richard Walsh's name identified?  I didn't.
Mrs. Walsh showed me a newspaper article that said where a Air Force
casualty officer came to her at this time and said, "Your husband is
alive.  He's a prisoner of war.  We have high hopes he'll be coming
home soon."  They put it in the newspaper there in Minneapolis.  She
was told that Air Force Two was spooling up...who's that belong
to?..George Bush...to go get her husband.  That's what she told me, but
it never happened and I thought again, "What rotten luck and what a
bunch of wimps in the state department for not going and demanding that
they identify that citizen."  They probably did.  They found out who he
was and they said, "lets forget it."  Because when I walked into the
state department shortly thereafter, a friend of mine said, "Bo, we
thought that you'd been captured.  Your passport turned up in a very
unlikely place."  And I said, "Yeah, I know all about it."  (not sure
what he's referring to here ... Ed.)
Do you think that all of this has just been rotten luck.  Well, when
you wear the uniform of the United States you have this faith ... hope
that the system will do it.  Just like General Aaron said, "Let the
system do the rest."  Now comes truth...
We were training Afghan freedom fighters in the deserts of South Nevada
near where I live and I was proud to do so.  In cooperation with the US
State Department Office For Security Assistance.  We finished that
mission. A man by the name of Tom Harvey who is National Security
Council Ollie North look-alike.  Ollie comes from Annapolis, Harvey
comes from West Point.  Tom Harvey called me and said, "We have
information ...", and here is a copy of the letter that's why I brought
all these documents.  I hope some of you challenge them.  I hope the
White House, the Pentagon would challenge them.  Because if they would
publicly that would have to admit to the truth.  This letter was sent
to Vice-President Bush by an American citizen by the name of Aurthur
Soucheck, it is dated 29 August 1986.  It says that General Khun Sa has
American prisoners of war.  It says that Khun Sa tried to rescue four
of them.  It says his forces escorted the four to the Mekong river.
While attempting to cross the rain-swollen river, the four US
personnel, three of Khun Sa's soldiers and two horses were swept away
by the raging water and all drowned.  It goes on to say that Khun Sa
has repeated intelligence reports of location of US prisoners being
kept in Laos ... that he says that has seventy prisoners of war.  Tom
Harvey said, "This is getting TOP priority."
Now in G. Gordon Liddy's book, "Will", he says, "no American has ever
come out of the Golden Triangle alive."  But that's what we were being
asked to do.  Tom Harvey said, "Bo, do you think you would be able to
infiltrate into Khun Sa's inner sanctum and determine if this report is
true or not?"  Do you think maybe somebody is trying to get me bumped
off? (laughter)  It didn't make any difference.  Brothers and sisters,
you and I are small compared to this nation and the risk that we take
if there is one American there is worth it.  God's will they'll be home
while they're still alive.  I told Harvey, "We didn't fight a war in
Burma, why should there be prisoners of war there?"  But you know a guy
like Khun Sa has got connections all over.  And I said, "We'll try."
I speak Chinese.  Khun Sa speaks Chinese.  He's right along the
southern China border.  Surrounded by communists, he's fighting the
communists.  He has a forty-thousand man army.  About eight-million
Shan people that make up the minority Shan state.  Burma is communist.
Every one of his weapons are M16s and M60 machine guns.  All the latest
stuff that we have.  I found out why later.  Too make a long story
short, we got in to see Khun Sa and he didn't have any prisoners of
war.  And let me caveat it by saying this.  We traveled three days
going and three days coming by horse over mountains that were literally
vertical up and down.  I made the comment at that time to Scott Weekly
(sp?)  who was Ollie North's classmate at Annapolis and went with me.
I said, "I would hate to be an engineer that had to build a highway
through these mountains because they're virgin teak forests ... rain
forests .. tremendously beautiful."
Six days coming and going. Khun Sa didn't have any prisoners of war.  We gave
Khun Sa the letter from the White House that I had.  Thats the only thing
that let me get in there.  You don't walk in because the CIA has a seven
digit figure on Khun Sa's head and they haven't been able to collect. You
think they're gonna let somebody like me in there.  Say, "Hi! I wanna go
visit Khun Sa!"  Doesn't work!  But I guess they thought this guy is crazy
enough because I gave this letter ... I told Harvey, "We got to have a
credential, guy."  He said, "We can't do that, Bo.  We never do that."  I
said, "Harvey, has anyone ever gone to the Golden Triangle and come out
alive?  I need something that will convince Khun Sa were not there to kill
him, we're there for humanitarian purposes." So Harvey said, "Well, this will
be the language.  'You are operating in cooperation with the White House ..
etc .. etc.'"  It worked!  Khun Sa didn't have one single prisoner of war,
didn't know anything about prisoners of war.
 (switch to a scene with Bo and Khun Sa talking at Khun Sa's camp with Khun
Sa's troops doing practice drills in the background.  Bo is discussing the
letter from Soucheck with Khun Sa.  It is nearly impossible to decipher what
is specifically being discussed because Khun Sa's troops are incredibly loud
and drown out the conversation, so I will proceed to the next scene.  Don't
worry...there are more Khun Sa meetings to come.  The long and short of it is
Khun Sa says he will decrease or stop the drug shipments and Gritz gets it on
videotape. Now back to Bo at the luncheon.)
 Now with Nancy Reagan saying no to drugs and Judge Ginsberg not allowed to
sit on the supreme court because he smoked marijuana .. and you're an
accessory to murder if you ever smoke marijuana, according to Nancy Reagan. I
figured we'd get an 'attaboy'.  We didn't have prisoners, but we had three
video tapes showing Khun Sa himself.  And I thought, "Boy, is George Bush
gonna be thrilled about this!"  (much laughter)  We delivered those tapes to
Tom Harvey just before Christmas.  You try to call Tom Harvey now, because
some news people did, and he doesn't return your calls.  We delivered those
tapes just before Christmas, Tom Harvey called me back and said, "Bo,
Fantastic!  You guys actually got in to see Khun Sa.  The CIA said he had
been assasinated."  Somebody needed some pocket change.  "And there he is
talking."  And I said, "That's right, Tom.  Harvey, what about the 900 tons?"
 I figured they were just bubbling over.  They were all right, they were
dripping in their knickers.  But it wasn't from joy.  Harvey said, "Bo..",
these are quotes ... hand on the square .. he said, "Bo, there's no interest
here in that."  You be on the other end of the phone.  You've just come out
of Burma.  You've brought what you consider to be a way to stop 900 tons of
heroin, not marijuana and get rid of the cancer that has infected the
bureaucracy and there's "no interest."  I challenged Harvey because I'm
pretty hard-headed.  I said, "Tom, didn't President Reagan appoint George
Bush the number one cop to stop drugs before they come into the United
States?"  I wanted to remind him of these little things.  And he said, "Bo,
what can I tell you? There is NO INTEREST here in doing that."  Now that is
White-House-ese for saying, "Get of this subject, leave us alone."  I knew
that we had trod upon some very sensitive toes.  I still didn't have a clue
to what was going on, but I knew that we were getting close to finding out
and I took off and went to Burma again.
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 Shakley.  He was
involved the narcotics business.  And we know that Shakley used one civilian
to organize trafficking.  His civilian name was Santos Trafficante.  He was
the organizer of trafficking for Shakley.  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 he 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 Shakley, was in the Drug Business."  Now Theodore Shakley would have
been director of intelligence of the CIA if George Bush had not been
appointed to that post.  Theodore Shakley was then posted as the deputy
director for covert operations.  It said, "Santo Trafficante acted as his
buying and transporting agent while Richard Armitage handled the financial
section with banks in Australia."
All of a sudden the words from Jerry King came back, "Too many bureaucrats
don't want to see American prisoners returned alive."  Why?  Couldn't figure
it out.  Gunboat at midnight in the middle of the Mekong with Voice of
America saying were there to abort our attack.  Walsh and the General
recaptured before turnover.  Why?  Now I'll tell you why.  If this is true it
means Richard Armitage and a lot of other people that are named here are the
least men in the world that want to see Americans come home.  Because when
American prisoners of war do come home, whether we bring them home or they
drag themselves across that Mekong river somehow, and report to the US
Embassy and aren't destroyed there.  When they do come home, because they
will, there will be one hell of an investigation as to what took the greatest
nation in the world so long to bring home heroes that have been waiting for
more than fifteen years. When that investigation is conducted it will show as
Khun Sa says that these men, these bureaucrats, appointed not elected,
appointed, have broken the faith with you and this country and its law.  Have
used their office as a cover to run drugs and arms to promote covert
operations that the United States Congress did not approve of.  Its the
parallel government.  Now that may be allright, but I'll tell you something.
It's not allright to leave hundreds of Americans to die alone in the hands of
the enemy to a bunch of wimps that were never there.