-Caveat Lector- "To this day American defense contractors are the biggest drug-money launderers in the world." Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Dan Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: Nationalist Chinese Chiang Kai shek and US gold >From my upcoming book: Drug War:Covert Money,Power & Policy: Helliwell founded SEA Supply of Bangkok in 1950 specifically to transport cargo, such as arms from Okinawa, to his Civil Air Transport for the Burma KMT operation. The 1950 idea was to use the Kuomintang troops in Burma to threaten "China’s soft underbelly." But, since the underbelly didn’t turn out to be so soft, the entrepreneurial KMT settled into the opium business instead, sending CAT’s arms supply planes back to Bangkok and Taiwan loaded with opium or morphine from Burma’s Shan states of Kokang, Wa and Kengtung.55 In fact, with military control of the richest opium-producing area in the world, the KMT was no longer dependent on even the pretense of political legitimacy, since it now had the tactical support of the Thai and Taiwanese armies. The CIA’s KMT operation, therefore, became self-sustaining, an enlightening object lesson for all intelligence professionals in achieving complete independence from civilian policy control. As DCI William Casey, who worked under Helliwell, later put it, "a completely self-funding, off-the-shelf operation." Even Gen. Bill Donovan, the wartime head of the OSS and 1953 ambassador to Thailand, had lost political control of the CIA’s covert operations. Burma had protested in the U.N. that the Kuomintang was conquering northeastern Burma with CIA help. But Donovan found that his strong demands for a complete KMT withdrawal were met with a transparent charade that left the situation unchanged. The KMT’s main Bangkok connection, Gen. Phao, the commander of the Thai police who coordinated CAT air traffic with Gen. Li Mi’s 5,000 Shan State KMT, was also the commander of the Thai government’s relationship with the CIA. Explained KMT Gen. Tuan Shi-wen, "To fight you must have an army, and an army must have guns, and to buy guns you must have money. In these mountains, the only money is opium."56 So the KMT went into the business of enslaving the Karen hill tribes of the Shan States as opium sharecroppers. According to Professor McCoy, the first snow-white #4 heroin lab was opened by KMT-affiliated Hong Kong chemists on the Thai-Burma border in the late 60 ’s.57 The KMT are also known, fittingly, as the "White Chinese." Covert government by defense contractor means corrupt wars of conquest, government by dope dealer. When the world’s traditional inebriative herbs become illegal commodities, they become worth as much as precious metal, precious metal that can be farmed. That makes them, by definition, the preferred medium of exchange for armaments. Illegal drugs, solely because of the artificial value given them by Prohibition, have become the basis of military power anywhere they can be grown and delivered in quantity. That’s why Paul Helliwell, OSS chief of special intelligence in China during the war, helped run SACO’s KMT opium and heroin. He was arming the KMT. To this day American defense contractors are the biggest drug-money launderers in the world. Dan Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kalyx.com P.O. Box 417 Camden, NY 13316 http://www.kalyx.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
